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Atheists & Agnostics

Martin68

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15. I'm puzzled how someone who is an agnostic could be anti-religion. My understanding is that an agnostic believes

Reply to msfiddlestix (Reply #14)

Mon Mar 4, 2024, 04:28 PM

Mar 2024

there may or there may not be a God, but they believe no one can ever know with 100% certainty. How could you be against something that you acknowledge might be true?

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What is an Athiest Church? [View all] NJCher Jan 2024 OP

The Unitarian Universalist chuch here is very into conservvation and doing good works Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #1

Where is this? It sounds just like the small UU congregation... 3catwoman3 Jan 2024 #2

Fort Myers FL Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #7

Sure but Unitarianism is a Christian Protestant Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #5

I have never heard them talk about any God. Maybe others are like that but the one in my town isn't. Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #6

There are no 'Atheist Churches'... NeoGreen Jan 2024 #3

Eh. If some atheists want to congregate and call Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #4

True... NeoGreen Jan 2024 #8

While I agree for the most part that what other people do is none of my business Warpy Jan 2024 #9

'St.' Paul (Saul of Tarsus) used the Greek word ekklesia for church. pandr32 Jan 2024 #10

An oxymoron? niyad Jan 2024 #11

A contradiction in terms. DavidDvorkin Jan 2024 #12

Spending the year dead for tax reasons? SomewhereInTheMiddle Feb 2024 #13

The term :"Church" translates to a place of worship for organized religion. msfiddlestix Feb 2024 #14

I'm puzzled how someone who is an agnostic could be anti-religion. My understanding is that an agnostic believes Martin68 Mar 2024 #15

I'm anti-religion, not "anti-god". A HUGE distinction with a significant difference msfiddlestix Mar 2024 #16

OK, I get it, and agree with you, although I've always added "organized" before the religion part because religion Martin68 Mar 2024 #17

If they had psychedelic churches Mr.Bill Mar 2024 #18