Agnostic

Analytic Thinking Erodes Religious Belief

Rob Brooks | Posted 05.01.2012

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Although there is considerable disagreement about whether education kills religious faith, people's chances of identifying as religious believers declines with scientific education and education in rational thinking.

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Science, Religion Incompatible? Scientist, Skeptic Join Debate

Posted 03.09.2012

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Do you believe in God? Or do you put your faith in science? Some argue that it has to be one or the other--that either you accept scientific dogma...

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Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.01.2012

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That Hitchens took a glass-half-full approach to agnostics is notable because it's sharply at odds with the line of his compatriot, Richard Dawkins, whose thoughts on agnostics are almost uniformly negative.

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Debates About Agnosticism Are As Old As The Concept Itself

Christopher Lane | Posted 02.20.2012

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For science as for religion, the unknowable therefore remains a quandary. It serves as a reminder, Spencer says, of what is "utterly inscrutable" to us and likely to remain so.

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Doing Justice To Agnosticism

Christopher Lane | Posted 02.02.2012

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Standing capably and forcefully for the benefit and necessity of doubt, it dealt a blow to dogma and certainty, whether about faith or unbelief.

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Notes From A Black Agnostic: 'Like Being A Foreigner In Your Own Homeland'

The Loop21 | William Jelani Cobb | Posted 11.08.2011

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To be a black agnostic is almost akin to being a foreigner in your homeland.Last fall, not long after I returned from a family trip to Jerusalem, we r...

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Dear Religious Americans: How Many Atheists Do You Know?

Chris Stedman | Posted 09.20.2011

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Because we represent such a small sliver of the American population and are often seen in a negative light, I believe that it is imperative that atheists make themselves known.

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Has Atheism Become A Religion?

David Lose | Posted 07.26.2011

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These four elements suggest that Atheists regularly demonstrate attributes usually exhibited by religious folk of all persuasions.

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"The Lord is My Shepherd" Blues

Susan Orlins | Posted 07.16.2011

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I'm a pretty high-functioning agnostic in that I do ask God for things. But I find the Twenty-third Psalm unsettling. When I think of dwelling in the House of the Lord, I envision the dark mansion from Beauty and the Beast but without Mrs. Potts, the singing teapot.

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Divinity of Doubt

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.12.2011

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Divinity of Doubt will have no friends of the kind who want to be comfortable in a group, no ready-made groups looking to be further validated by the one-way bias that passes for communication these days.

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Living A Good Life

Steven Nereo | Posted 06.04.2011

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The most frustrating idea is that I truly believe we all feel the same thing and are only arguing the words to describe it.

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Passing Through Times Of Confusion On The Path To God

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011

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They may pray from time to time, particularly in dire need, and they may go to services on key holidays. But for this group, finding God is a mystery, a worry or a problem.

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A Rabbi Responds To His Atheist Critics

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 05.26.2011

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While I continue to suspect, based on my own experience, that there are more agnostics than 'pure' atheists, it seems, based on these responses, that there are more 'true' atheists than I'd thought.

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Celebrating Love And Light: 10 Holiday Tips For The Post-Religious

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Does the cherubic little Jesus-in-a-Manger fail to flood your body with sweetness? Do you feel mixed about participating in a religious holiday now that you're not religious? Get the scrooge out with these ten tips.

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The Big Strange Party

Omar Baddar | Posted 05.25.2011

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She opens her eyes, not quite sure where she is, shocked to find herself at a strange party full of strange people. She's overwhelmed by the confusion...

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Judge Rules Against Agnostic Dad In Custody Dispute

Huffington Post | Ashley Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Scarberry, a divorced father from Indiana, claims he's lost custody of his three children because he is agnostic. Scarberry shared equal custod...

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An Atheist's Thanksgiving Confessions

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanksgiving was a religious holiday for me just as it was for generations of American Christians. But God is no more at the heart of Thanksgiving than brutality is -- meaning both were, and both can be, but neither must be.

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Agnostic Michael Krasny's New Book About 'Spiritual Envy'

npr.org | Michael Krasny | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his memoir, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest, the public radio host writes that he has longed for a God he could believe in....

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The Case for Christian Agnosticism

Kent Hayden, M.Div. | Posted 05.25.2011

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To change one's thinking is to admit one's ignorance. But at some point along the way to modern theology, we bought into the idea that ignorance is a sign of weakness. Agnosticism became conflated with indifference, or worse.

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The Fat Line Between Free Speech and Defamation

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

When the religious response to ridicule moves from condemning a rhetorical tactic to condemning the very act of criticism itself, fair discourse is halted before it can even begin.

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Why Are Some People Atheists?

New Scientist | Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivant | Posted 05.25.2011

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If religion comes so naturally to us, why are so many people, especially in western Europe, apparently resistant to it? New Scientist calls for scient...

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Non-Believers Take Religion Fight To Billboard

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group of Chicago atheists, agnostics and humanists who believe society is inundated with religious messages has decided to push back with a billboar...

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Religion As A State Of Mind

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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When a dogma or belief system is fixed as the explanation for this unknown, there is a closing off, a blocking off of experimentation to discover or relate to it.

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Why I Failed As an Atheist

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.17.2011

I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.

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Q&A with Robert Wright (Part 1): There Is Some Larger Purpose At Work in the Universe

Terrence McNally | Posted 11.17.2011

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In his new book, The Evolution of God, Robert Wright follows God's changing moods in ancient scripture, to see what circumstances brought out the best and worst in religions.

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