Word: agnosticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a resonant baritone voice that rumbles out of a burly figure topped off by a scraggly helmet of gray hair and an untidy beard, Bork commands attention by sound and sight. After 34 years as lawyer, professor, author and judge, this bear of a man has a professional reputation...
"I was an agnostic Protestant leaning toward atheism. My father was a doctor; my upbringing was very scientific, and I couldn't see any scientific reason for believing in God," says Coggins, now known by his spiritual name Dhananjaya Pandita Dasa.
His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal...
Constance M. Chen '90, a Baha'i who lives in Canaday Hall, joined the religion with no previous family background in the faith after learning about it from friends. "I started learning more about their beliefs," she says, "and it all seemed so obvious, but I didn't really believe...
There's more truth in that than the critic himself may have realized. For Mia, her faith in God is what drives her career. "I play to glorify God," she says, and she believes that her talent is a gift from God to be used to serve Him. In a...