Religious writers and audiences

Tony Ellis · 06 Jun 2010, 21:14 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:14:20 +0100
Subject: (urth) Religious writers and audiences
Message-ID: <AANLkTimj9SQ9w0TBWRpkmzy0tV4c2nkpmO63C3HsV2VM at mail.gmail.com>

John Watkins wrote:
>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.

Agnosticism is the word for being without *knowledge* of divinity. It
is not a rejection of belief.

I am agnostic about whether ancient civilisations were contacted by
aliens. I have to be: I wasn't there. But, separately to that, I don't
believe that it happened, because the alternative arguments are more
convincing to me.

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