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Agnosticism

By The Daily Dish
Jun 12 2007, 8:16 AM ET

It's the category that can get lost in the faith-non-faith debate that is now raging. John Wilkins tries to revive it by re-posting Bertrand Russell's classic, "What is an Agnostic?" Money quote:

I think also that all who called themselves Christians in an earlier time, and a great majority of those who do so at the present day, would consider that belief in God and immortality is essential to a Christian. On these grounds, I should not call myself a Christian, and I should say that an agnostic cannot be a Christian. But, if the word "Christianity" comes to be generally used to mean merely a kind of morality, then it will certainly be possible for an agnostic to be a Christian.

Larry Moran insists he can be both an atheist and an agnostic. Moran's ammunition? More Russell.



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