Religious writers and audiences

John Watkins · 06 Jun 2010, 20:09 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:09:17 -0400
Subject: (urth) Religious writers and audiences
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I don't know that I accept that...there's a word for the position of
rejecting belief in a divinity but accepting the possibility that a divinity
exists, and that word is "agnosticism."

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Tony Ellis <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com>wrote:

> John Watkins wrote:
> > Atheists by definition reject the existence of a
> > deity.
>
> Well, no. Atheists by definition reject *belief* in the existence of a
> deity. Not the same thing.
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