Word: agnosticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given this record of double-dealing, why do Americans admire Lincoln? He is not admirable because he was "Honest Abe" but because he was devious. He knew there were only minimal gains that could be made at each stage of his course in checking and then reversing the slave power...
A. I was brought up a Catholic. I left the church and was an apostate for most of my life. I called myself an agnostic, which simply means I was too lazy to figure it out. I returned to the church, luckily enough, about six months before I was kidnapped...
His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. Best 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...
But for every true believer in the power of vitamins -- and the U.S. has more devotees than any other country -- there is an agnostic, a skeptic who insists that vitamins are the opiate of the people. Among the doubters are many doctors. They have been persuaded by decades of public...
Now, I don't know anything about ballistics or magic bullets or grassy knolls. I have no idea whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Maybe the Warren Commission botched its report, and maybe it didn't (I'm certainly not going to read the thing). I am an assassination agnostic...