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Mon 02/02/09 06:19 PM
I just found this quotation again from Yann Martel's "Life of Pi". It pretty much sums up my view of the atheism/agnosticism rift:

"I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

What do you guys think? Is there virtue in the uncertainty of agnosticism?

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Mon 01/26/09 11:21 PM
It doesn't really help that there are 140000+ posts in the religion category and something on the order of a hundred or so in here. Doesn't lead me to believe there's much hope for Athiests on this site =/