I'm agnostic because I know that by the rules of logic I cannot prove OR disprove the existence of any diety. Thereby, it'd be silly for me to adamantly hold either position.
It's too much of an inconvenience on my life to adhere to the rules of any religion, as it is too much cognitive dissonance to believe in something I cannot see, feel, hear, touch, or know.
On my deathbed, I'll probably "convert" to as many religions as I can, in the "just in case" sense of it. Presumably some that allow this type of "deathbed confessional" (Catholicism), and probably one of the Judeo-Christian variants (because I'm more familiar with them).
I won't be converting because I actually believe them, but more because it doesn't hurt to try, in the event that I really was wrong about my disbelief in deities. And for ONCE in my life, I might actually "need" that comfort that Christians so love - the comfort of knowing people will be happy in Heaven, etc. In my daily life, I've never 'needed' that comfort.
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"I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel
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