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unweird

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16. There but for the grace of the godless...
Sun Feb 12, 2023, 11:14 AM
Feb 2023

I considered myself an agnostic for twenty plus years but after considerable consideration now disavow such a stance. My epiphany was the inability to square the legitimacy of a claim to faith as the basis of belief in an unproven god with the logic of true skepticism of such. They just didn’t balance and for me to continue an equivocating stance in the middle granting credence to both views was untenable.
But then we are talking personal belief/disbelief philosophies here so there is room for us to coexist.
Carry on and thanks for the Sunday morning chat.

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