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Agnosticism vs Monotheism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between agnosticism and monotheism

is that agnosticism is the view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena while monotheism is the belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

agnosticism

Noun

(-)
  • The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
  • The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
  • Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.
  • * 1956, January 31st: ; quoted in:
  • * 1988 : James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations , ? 4,393] ([[w:Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin], ISBN 0395430852)
  • The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism , disbelief?—?call it what you will?—?than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
  • (label) Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year = 2009 , title = Climate change agnosticism - its meaning and implications , author = B. Pontin , journal = Environmental Law and Management , volume = 21 , issue = 2 , pages = 55-57 , issn = 1067-6058 , url = http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/19752/ }}

    Derived terms

    * agnostic * agnostically * agnostics

    Coordinate terms

    * deism

    monotheism

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Monotheism, mono-theism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
  • Derived terms

    * alethomonotheism, Alethomonotheism * aletho-monotheism, Aletho-monotheism * postmonotheism, Postmonotheism * post-monotheism, Post-monotheism * premonotheism, Premonotheism * pre-monotheism, Pre-monotheism * protomonotheism, Protomonotheism * proto-monotheism, Proto-monotheism * pseudomonotheism, Pseudomonotheism * pseudo-monotheism, Pseudo-monotheism

    See also

    * binitarianism, Binitarianism * bitheism, Bitheism * deism, Deism * ditheism, Ditheism * duotheism, Duotheism * henotheism, Henotheism * polytheism, Polytheism * quadrinitarianism, Quadrinitarianism * septarianism, Septarianism * septenarianism, Septenarianism * theism, Theism * trinitarianism, Trinitarianism * tritheism, Tritheism * triunitarianism, Triunitarianism * unitarianism, Unitarianism