Word: agnosticism
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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...
"It's nowhere written in the Bible that youshould get a tree and decorate it," said Kamarei,an agnostic of Muslim origins. "There are lots ofMuslim celebrations not written in the Koran.They're part of popular religion."
Margaret Mead argued that "war is only an invention." She refused to regard it as an inevitable part of human baggage, the curse of the reptilian brain. John Keegan is agnostic in the nature-nurture argument. "All we need to accept," he writes in A History of Warfare (Knopf; 432...
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...
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...