Word: agnosticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The conversation bumped along between bites of food until John interjected, "Hey, what religious interests do you have?" Disconcerted by this surge of enthusiasm, Chris and I made agnostic evasions. "See," he continued, "I'm involved in a Bible Discussion Group and we're trying to..." The loose friendliness of...
The desired end of this film was to argue for the presence of mystery in the modern world. Instead, the film demonstrates how modern man, and modern film, often chooses to answer real worldly and spiritual questions by taking a cowardly agnostic duck. To paraphrase the Good Lord, I'll...
Falwell grew up in a family that had considerable land and money but little standing in the Lynchburg community. Longtime associates see this early rejection as a key to Falwell's energy and driving ambition. His father Carey, whom Falwell describes as an agnostic, had several servants, and the young...
Ishmael Jaffree had had enough. Throughout the 1981-82 school year, three of his children had been confronted with vocal prayer sessions at their grade schools in Mobile. Jaffree, an agnostic and a lawyer, had objected to the prayers, but got nowhere. Finally he sued, and won rulings that suspended...
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...