List of agnostics

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It's hard to believe that all the people on this list would identify themselves as agnostics, rather than atheists (though it's possible that Pynchon might be an agnostic - there's no way of knowing, which, I guess, makes us all Pynchon-agnostics).  Lots of people I know say things such as "I'm not religious, but I still think there's some sort of intelligence out there."  I don't think they mean it in the Arthur C. Clarke sense, but more in a spiritual-lite fear of there not being some sort of overriding moral force guiding all that we do.  Personally, I'm an atheist:  there's no god, but if you want to be religious, shut the fuck up about it!

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 27, 2012 10:41 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: List of agnostics
>
>Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937): Catholic-raised author of The Crying of
>Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. According to former friend, Jules
>Siegel, "he went to mass and confessed, though to what would be a
>mystery."
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agnostics#Authors