Ghost Rider

About me:

I am a Free Thinker and believe that knowledge and fact is infinitely more important than dogmatic beliefs, faith and talking points.

Because of this, I love to talk about the important issues in life. I like to call it 'debate' while others say that I like to argue. To me, an argument implies emotional or irrational outbursts, while debate means comparing the ideas held between people or groups and see which makes for a more rational point of view in the hopes of reaching a compromise or winning converts.

If you hold an idea or world view as true, asking you to defend or explain your views isn't asking you to move mountains. However, if you cannot explain the how and why of your world view, or you feel that examining or challenging your world view is grounds for an irrational outburst, then you KNOW your point of view is wrong or based on a questionable foundation.

Because of that outlook on reality, I am a recovering Christian and an Agnostic Atheist.

Yes, you can be both...

The word Agnostic comes to us from Thomas H. Huxley who coined the term adding the prefix 'a' (meaning without or not) to the word Gnostic which comes from the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge.

As an Agnostic, I cannot claim absolute knowledge about the possible existence of a god or an afterlife. However I can say that no one has that knowledge and anyone or anything capable of creating reality would be so far beyond the human capacity for knowledge that it flies in the face of reason that primitive Bronze Age nomads somehow figured it all out.

While I am agnostic and don't know enough to accept or dismiss the possible existence of a god, I am 100% atheist in regards to all of the man-made gods of this world as I simply DO NOT BELIEVE in any of them.

Politically I'm a Classical Liberal/Libertarian with Anarcho-Capitalist leanings. I long for the day when we can get the Imperial Federal Government out of as much of everyone's lives as humanly possible, restore the original Federalist Government as envisioned by the founding Fathers, and bring TRUE freedom to this nation by getting our noses out of everyone elses business.

Because of my belief that government is a necessary evil that needs to be limited by the people, I cannot truely call myself an anarchist, but I also cannot vote for the average 'big government' Democrat even though I'm very liberal when it comes to social issues.

But I have real problems with the Republicans too, as they tend to swing too far to the right and into trying to impose the religious ideals of the Christian Church on the entire nation while expanding the government just like the liberals, but only in their own corporatist/fascist image.