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To: Melas

Are you REALLY an atheist; or could you be an agnostic instead?


44 posted on 12/03/2004 4:38:14 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
Are you REALLY an atheist; or could you be an agnostic instead?

That's really a difficult question to answer. I often say that I'm a soft atheist. Meaning that I don't claim to have all the answers, I don't. I don't claim to understand the origins of the universe, the origins of life, and plenty of other things. Yet, I still call myself an atheist.

However, I avoid the term agnostic, because it gives the impression to christians (in particular) that I admit the possibility that their religion might turn out to be true. I don't. The personofied, anthropormorphized religions with their plethora of god-men possessed of human emotion and foilables are all false.

I want to be so clear on that, that I would never call myself an agnostic. I hope that clears things up.

56 posted on 12/03/2004 6:12:27 AM PST by Melas
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