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To: jpmac who wrote (30024)	6/25/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

jp, did you ever read William James'The Varieties of Religious Experience? If you haven't, let me just say that James examines a number of different varieties, and comes to the conclusion, basically, that you should believe what makes you feel good to believe. "What works for you..." in other words. A very widespread attitude these days. It is one I completely reject. Just because believing something would make me feel good does not mean it is true. And seems to me that is the position of any agnostic worth his or her salt; otherwise, s/he would not be an agnostic in the first place! True agnostics question everything, even what they would most like to be true. (This is not quite the same thing as skepticism.) Clearer now? Joan