
Originally Posted by
Politesse

Originally Posted by
ruby sparks
Notgraspingthenettleism is not currently a widely recognised philosophical position, but who knows, maybe one day.......

No, but agnosticism - the belief that one
cannot know what is fundamentally true of the universe, and that wisdom lies in not speaking as though one does - has quite a history. Believe it or not, I did not invent the concept.
The problem is that while philosophers and theologians have wallowed in their ignorance to the point of declaring it a virtue, physicists have been busily finding out what is fundamentally true of the universe, and have been so successful in this endeavour as to determine that many of the assumptions of theology are certainly and unequivocally false.
The soul, an afterlife, the effectiveness of prayer, divine intervention in human affairs, and the performing of miracles (including the Christ story) have all been shown to be incompatible with reality.
Agnosticism on these matters is therefore just another form of ignorance.
You needn't know Quantum Field Theory in order to hold a belief; But if you don't know QFT, you can't claim that your beliefs are fully informed, or in any way reasonable.
If you don't at least have a basic grasp of fundamental physics, you are incapable of having a useful opinion about the nature of reality - just as a person who believes that the Earth may be flat is incapable of having a useful opinion about geography or navigation.