> Bingo. Religeon is a system of beliefs. In many instances culture and > religeon are indistinguishable(ie:the jewish faith not eating pork. > Religeous? Cultural? Both.). Keep in mind that philosophy and religeon are > two sides of the same coin. Nihilism, belief, faith, philosophy-----religeon > in a different form. > I love it when you make my point for me. :) I wasn't making it *for* you, per se. I was simply making the same argument that I hear about the subject >from others. However, what difference do you give for, say, belief in a god/religion, and belief that the sky is blue? Personaly, I usualy define religion in terms of faith, not belief. A system of beliefs? Possible, yes. But that only describes the nihilism part, not the agnostisism. I don't "believe" that I don't know; I just don't know, and am not so arrogant (geesh, did *I* say that?!?) to think that I know, hands down, what's going on. I like nihilism because, ultimately, I think the human race doesn't matter diddly-squat to the universe at large, and only our own mortality dictates we believe otherwise. However, I'm still in the Militant Agnostic camp, and until I can't find anyone with whom I can debate such topics in a calm, rationalized manner, I'll stick with that, and only be partialy nihilistic... (and I won't get into my ex's view of "Every thought, feeling, idea, concept, sense, etc., is all a product of chemical reactions in our brain, and it's perfectly possible that no one is in the universe except me"... It's a little too much...:) Chris