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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present time, with which of the following religious traditions are you formally affiliated? 20 Roman Catholicism; 1 Eastern Orthodoxy; 135 Protestantism; 55 Judaism; 2 other; 90 None...
...Would you say at the present time that you: 98 are in substantial agreement with the religious tradition in which you were raised; 157 partially agree with it but have important reservations; 44 wholly reject the religious tradition in which you were raised...
...atheist or an agnostic, which of the following factors do you regard as having contributed most to your present attitude toward religion? (Check no more than two or three most important, or one if you prefer...
...these views present a God whose substance is so tenuous and vague that, like certain very rare gases, it becomes highly enigmatic to say that He is "there" at all. Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect on human life than the normal inhalation of argon. Most of these notions come close enough to Tillich's to be intellectually "shoe," however, and their conformity to the negative doctrines of some of the authorized Judaeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West's religious tradition to appear superficially unbroken...
...them will not deny His existence, either--that is, they are predominantly agnostics who look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic. "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical...