List of agnostics

[Joe Allonby]

When asked, I say that I'm an atheist. It's just easier than getting
into a long theological discussion with theists, many of whom have an
impossible time grasping non-theistic cosmological views. It's
infuriating to listen to a Christian attempt to tell me what I
believe, so I just say I believe nothing and end the conversation
before I have to start cruelly ridiculing them.

I have an experience of someTHING that I call god. It in no way
resembles the deity that I was taught to believe in as a child in the
Catholic Church. I simply acknowledge that I am a small
inconsequential being in a vast, complex, and immensely powerful
universe. I actually find that comforting and reassuring.





On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:14 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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!
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> Laura
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> -----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."
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agnostics#Authors
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