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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
Ah. So you think agnosticism is worse than atheism, which is itself worse than religion. OK, why didn't you say so? And what's your basis for such a claim?
And considering the prevalence of religion in the world, I'd question the pertinence of putting the 0 on agnosticism, but whatever.
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Why is agnosticism 0? Agnosticism, like atheism, has it's own non-strict set of beliefs, and so would fall somewhere between the 0-100. Again, the 0 is a complete absence of anything remotely resembling a belief structure. To put it bluntly; 0 is humans as hunter-gatherers, simply doing only what is absolutely necessary each day to perpetuate their survival for another day, and nothing more. No beliefs of any kind. They simply do what is necessary to survive.
Anything that you can label (Agnosticism, Atheism, Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, etc.) has a set of beliefs that accompany it. Be they clearly defined, or open to interpretation, they still carry with them that set of beliefs.
As a side note, Atheism is an absolute non-belief in God, whereas Agnosticism is a belief in the possibility of God, should someone be able to present proof with merit. As such, Atheism would fall below Agnosticism on the 0-100 scale, according to your reasoning, as Agnosticism affords religion some territory of leniency, where Atheism does not.