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To: epicure who wrote (33062)	10/15/2001 4:13:05 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

The survey says, "No strong arm agnostics!" I consider Atheists true believers in a negative sense. 'Not believing' that strongly is unsupportable by the evidence as is believing strongly, at least IMO. A true agnostic says, let's look at the data and see. Currently, there is less data in the absolute truth camp, and more data in the relative truth camp, but God could appear tomorrow in unequivocal form and change that for me. I find it ironic that atheists and believers have more in common than they know.

To: epicure who wrote (33062)	10/15/2001 5:53:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

X, I can agree with you at least to this extent. While agnostics can get violent or abusive about other issues they are very unlikely to get violent or abusive over agnosticism. Most people don't get violent or abusive about ideas about which they claim to have no answers. Nothing stops an agnostic from having strong views about other topics besides religion and even from getting violent about these strong views but any violent movement they join would be very unlikely to be an agnostic movement. It would be a movement about something else, that just happens to have agnostics, and probably non agnostics as well. Tim Edit- But I'm not really sure I would call the communist Chinese government religious. I wouldn't apply the term religious to anything that people have very strong views about or devotion to.