My transition from the taken-for-granted God as the creator of the universe to a more agnostic position came through Rastafari. |
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One of the most annoying common linguistic mix-ups is the confusion between atheist and agnostic. |
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I never believed in God, not even between the ages of six and ten, when I was an agnostic. |
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After wading through the shallow molasses of the agnostic gospel slop, I was in need of a true church catharsis. |
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But the story by now has become a rollercoaster, and I am an agnostic until someone nails it down. |
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His intention to become ordained was thwarted when he was exposed as an agnostic and his religious scepticism caused suspicion in the university. |
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Writer Kushner spares no-one with his agnostic approach to his subjects who are gay, straight, asexual and omnisexual. |
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I'm bowled over by a Pentecostal preacher who is honest to the extent that I, an avowed agnostic, am prepared to sing hosannas to him. |
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Having grown up an agnostic, in the later years of her life she became a Swedenborgian. |
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How does an apathetic agnostic even begin to redress a quarter-century of token gestures and guest appearances at church? |
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Recent years have seen the mass conversion to religion of hitherto agnostic parents. |
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That could also mean that high art is agnostic or that it crosses over to all faiths. |
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Sagan himself routinely described himself as an agnostic, and believed that the question of God's existence is inherently outside science. |
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It was my father who drew my attention to the beauty of its message of redemption in the days when I was an agnostic. |
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Casebolt offered 20 labels, including pagan, atheist and agnostic in his Midwestern survey. |
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Although not all Skeptics are agnostics, as an agnostic himself Dr Groves sees no evidence for accepting or rejecting the idea of any belief. |
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It is certainly possible for a rational agnostic to be a highly moral and responsible person. |
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The law must be agnostic about the motivations of the parties to be effective. |
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I've become very agnostic politically anyway, but it's based on a sheer lack of respect for the political classes. |
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This rudeness came from both agnostic intellectuals and religious fundamentalists. |
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I'm writing, in a sense, from a kind of agnostic outsider's academic perspective rather than from an inside perspective. |
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Further, the state must remain agnostic if it is to treat all citizens equally. |
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Most religions and agnostic philosophies agree that individuals have the right to kill in self-defense when faced with immediate mortal danger. |
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I'm quite agnostic about synchronicity unless it seems really powerfully relevant to me. |
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So that wrestling is characteristic of my religious or agnostic poetry, but not necessarily everything else I do. |
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We hear, too, what a Buddhist and an agnostic anthropologist make of it all. |
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Among these famous quotes, however, are also many skeptical and agnostic ones. |
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But, for the sake of my own sanity and my place in society, I remain somewhat agnostic about it all. |
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This is the proposition that I hoped the government would deny, or at least remain agnostic about. |
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Alone, free from the fearful burden of the faithful, I felt myself slip back into my natural agnostic relationship with the world. |
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The heads of various presidential councils are not expected to be agnostic about the issues their council deals with. |
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The manufacturers of the phone may care a little, although most seem fairly agnostic. |
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No political system is agnostic on the question of who owns various resources. |
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Hence, we remain agnostic regarding phylogenetic relationships among basal angiosperm lineages. |
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This ability to share across the divide means that solutions can be built that are agnostic. |
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The more Christmases I experience, despite being an agnostic, the more I appreciate the more traditional version. |
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We wanted to look at a more agnostic tool because we're not likely to use EMC hardware everywhere. |
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As a lapsed protestant agnostic with Buddhist tendencies I cannot overly mourn his passing. |
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At any rate, wikipedia is agnostic about the weight of cows. |
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We are agnostic with regard to hardware platforms and software components. |
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According to Pew, close to two-thirds of those who identify as atheist or agnostic are men. |
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Street savvy but compassionate, mystical but agnostic and above all, brilliantly idiosyncratic, Fly is a rambling poet of sorts. |
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In no nation did the proportion of the religiously affiliated who endorsed either an agnostic or atheist religious position exceed more than six percentage points. |
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Ruttledge is an agnostic who once apparently considered the priesthood. |
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Perhaps we should leave well enough alone with that agnostic comment. |
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It has brought greater understanding and even some agreement among people of diverse backgrounds and concerns, ranging from agnostic seekers to people of traditional faith. |
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But on specific questions, like why we experience red, I'm agnostic. |
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Because virtualized storage is agnostic with respect to vendors and technology, IT administrators are given the freedom to choose the best solution for their organization. |
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You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist. |
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So the starting point of the law is an essentially agnostic view of religious beliefs and a tolerant indulgence to religious and cultural diversity. |
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He recommends focusing policies on information and people, not technologies or platforms, embracing platform agnostic tools, and deduplicating cloud data. |
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He is an agnostic and not currently affiliated with any political party. |
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To the agnostic mind, it all seems, erm, damnably unfair, especially as Enrico is equipped with a redemptive soft spot for his crippled dad. |
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For largely agnostic nations such as Britain to hound Nigeria and others with threats to withhold aid smacks of cultural imperialism. |
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A confirmed agnostic, he enjoyed the life of the mind, and would plough through English, Dutch and French literature with equal enthusiasm. |
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Service is network agnostic and leverages leading reach of the Sybase 365 messaging network. |
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This does not say though that this policy should be administered by Quebec, something that at this point we are agnostic about. |
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It is agnostic on the question of whether or not diversity, by itself, is worth preserving. |
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Are we doing it for agnostic reasons, because it's better, or both? |
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In general, MBAs are agnostic about how cost cutting can be achieved. |
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Would you recommend that the government be agnostic regarding these acquisitions, and simply accommodate them as part of the quid pro quo exchange of the development of a strategic relationship? |
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Wittgenstein was said by some commentators to be agnostic, in a qualified sense. |
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Maugham was a nonbeliever having stated that he remained agnostic to the questions concerning the existence of God. |
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He became an agnostic, though this did not strain his relationship with his father. |
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Working with a company who has extensive experience and who is technology agnostic and able to undertake a thorough analysis at the evaluation stage will help to avoid this. |
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We preach the gospel of change, but it seems that once something is implemented, the government goes back to being an agnostic on actually dealing with it. |
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The question of whether there should be takeovers or mergers of stock exchanges in different parts of the world is entirely a matter for the market players and one about which I am entirely agnostic. |
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Regarding the relationship with the EU after the Grexit he remains agnostic. |
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Thus, we are agnostic as to organizational and proprietary regimens through which content or technology should be produced and managed, be it through a market, state or commons-based property regime. |
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Elements from these works show up in her fiction, much of which is written with her trademark sense of agnostic humanism. |
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Where we are left agnostic is just on the question of whether output volatility should matter more or less than can be attributed just to risk aversion. |
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It put forward a radical nationalism, it aspired to the restoration of the monarchy and, among some of its ideologues, these aspirations mingled with agnostic, atheist and anti-christian positions. |
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Because of this, we need to take a somewhat agnostic view about the production potential of the Canadian economy and about the lowest unemployment rate that can be sustained over time. |
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She is agnostic and a firm supporter for gay rights and birth control. |
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A cornerstone of the Directory Service Platform is its flexibility, in that it is both query and protocol agnostic. |
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Multi-disciplinary, polymorphous and media agnostic, the company is versatile at strategic planning and brand development. |
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He was also an agnostic and a supporter of the Rationalist Press Association. |
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A little ways into it, I came upon a passage where he mentioned how as a teenager he had become an agnostic upon realizing the fallaciousness of one of the classic arguments for the existence of God. |
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Many evolutionists have now chosen to remain agnostic on the actual origin of life, and will frequently try to dodge the issue by claiming that abiogenesis is not part of the theory of evolution. |
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The vendor agnostic solution could be implemented with any off the shelf hardware. |
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But the comparative method is agnostic on this point and indeed its practitioners frequently focus on nation-states. |
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For the record, I believe in God but am an agnostic about therapy. |
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Today, a sizable proportion of Mongolic peoples are atheist or agnostic. |
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