I'm agnostic too, and I respect your beliefs as much as I do Christian/Muslim/Buddhist concepts that motivate a better world and can't be proven otherwise.
This works two ways. I'd say that you're equally 'right' compared to Christians. After all, both are belief structures, which by their very nature can't be proven. Of course, there's the additional difficulty that Christianity insists that it's possible to definitely know that it's valid - but only when you believe it, anyway. That makes it kind of difficult to debate the issue to any length.
Secondly, it kind of places your belief on shaky ground because it's also equally valid to somebody's belief that aliens colonised the Earth. So in that sense, I find it difficulty to believe in something unless there's a fairly convincing argument that it's possible. And based on my understandings and experience, I'd have to see I don't follow your sets of beliefs. But that's partly because we haven't shared the same experiences, which could make all the difference.
* I do have a big problem with people following their beliefs in a way that's detrimental to the lives of others. Either they should recognise that their beliefs are not facts, or confess that any superior being condoning such actions is somewhat despotic and unworthy of praise.
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