Word: agnosticism
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When an agnostic Californian father, Michael A. Newdow, won a case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in June 2002, the San Francisco court guaranteed that his 9-year-old daughter would not be subjected to the daily ritual of reciting “under...
The Catholics around me, afflicted by disease and sadness, have faces full of hope. While they clutch the wheelchairs of elderly, infirm parents in one hand and their rosaries in the other, they are thinking only of the good that religion might do. Only I am moved to cryâ?...
"Henry" and "Sarah" practice a kind of evangelism that might satisfy the staunchest agnostic. In the early 1980s they arrived in the North African country where they serve as missionary-team leaders. "We didn't want to run through, do our thing and preach," says Sarah. "We wanted to live...
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?...
Cardinale and Keel face their political differences head-on, often erupting into fiery, drawn-out arguments over issues ranging from abortion to the existence of God. “To believe that there’s no God takes just as much faith as believing there is a God,?...