Word: agnosticism
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Robert Green Ingersoll was born in Dresden, N. Y., in 1833. To awaken faith in God, his father, a Congregational minister, taught him to reason, with the unhappy result that Ingersoll became an agnostic, and all his life continued to champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was...
Mrs. Rheinstrom makes a very poor and illogical comparison when she says that Christians are not ordinarily spoken of as "young Catholics" or "young Methodists" or "young Presbyterians" in newspaper accounts. Judaism is much more than a religious denomination, and a Jew is a Jew not necessarily by virtue of...
It is anomalous that the pedagogs now swelter on hot June days in gowns that their clerical predecessors wore for warmth in the chill Middle Ages. Down the back of the agnostic philosopher hangs a cowl that the friar invented to warm his ears after paternosters.
An unkiddable Lord Mayor with agnostic proclivities. (P. 8.)
Next--would the church be justified in changing the Creeds? Now the Anglican Catholic Church (commonly known in this country as the Episcopal Church) bases its whole Catholic claim on two facts; its acceptance of the Creeds, and its Apostolic Succession. It would scarcely be reverent to pull down this...