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Francis Collins, the director of the NEH and well-known Christian, has said that agnosticism is a bit of a cop-out. Either be a Christian or be an atheism, but have the guts to make up your mind. I shall argue in a positive way for agnosticism, showing that it can be as vibrant a position as belief or non-belief. It gives you a renewed appreciation of life and the world in which we live.
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Quakers are not enthusiasts for sola scriptura. They come from the radical end of the Reformation. The Sermon on the Mount notwithstanding, Bible reading is not a major part of worship or general practice. It is the inner light that guides you. However, there are exceptions to every rule, and, for me, Paul’s paeon to love, I Corinthians 13, is just such an exception. While, elsewhere in this essay, I quote the New Revised Standard Version, I would violate all I hold sacred if here I were to quote other than the King James Version.
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Ruse, M. Confessions of an Agnostic: Apologia Pro Vita Sua. SOPHIA 60, 575–591 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00851-7
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