List of agnostics

[Phillip Greenlief]

On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:49 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

I'm an atheist.  The idea that there's a supernatural diety who created the universe and also listens personally to everyone's prayers -- that people believe this ... I can't understand it.  It's the thinking of primitive people trying haplessly to explain the unknown to themselves and yet it persists.


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your analysis of faith seems crude at best, but ok ... do your thing.



-----Original Message-----
From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 11:14 am
Subject: Re: List of agnostics

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

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