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  • Putting 'Good' and 'Evil' into Perspective through the eyes of a 'Political Agnostic' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Putting \'Good\' and \'Evil\ 'into Perspective through the eyes of a \'Political Agnostic\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: As is often the case with money, the mind is mishandled, and abused.

    Putting 'Good' and 'Evil' into Perspective through the eyes of a 'Political Agnostic' 2006

  • The best argument for the use of the name Agnostic is simply that the word Atheist has been so long covered with all manner of ignorant calumny that it is expedient to use a new term which though in some respects faulty, has a fair start, and will in time have a recognised meaning.

    Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

  • I don't think ignoring a +95% scientific consensus in an age of computer-modelled algorithms makes you an "Agnostic" - it makes you a mystic.

    marklynas.org - home 2010

  • Someone once told me that I shouldn’t use the word Agnostic to describe myself in terms of religion because I wasn’t “really” an agnostic.

    Hits « Climate Audit 2005

  • I never know whether I should say "Agnostic" or whether I should say "Atheist".

    Approaches Determine Outcomes 2009

  • "Agnostic," retorted Aveling, "was simply atheist writ respectable, and atheist was simply agnostic writ aggressive."

    Richard Dawkins on militant atheism 2002

  • "Agnostic," retorted Aveling, "was simply atheist writ respectable, and atheist was simply agnostic writ aggressive."

    Richard Dawkins on militant atheism 2002

  • "Agnostic," retorted Aveling, "was simply atheist writ respectable, and atheist was simply agnostic writ aggressive."

    Richard Dawkins on militant atheism 2002

  • 'Agnostic' is too long and too pretentious a word.

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • So that, on the best showing, we are to take "Agnostic" on the professed ground that it is more exact than "Atheism," but on the real ground that it is less unpopular, waiting meanwhile for the time when it shall have become more exact than it is by becoming accepted in the same sense as the Atheism that has previously been rejected.

    Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

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  • Why is this not defined??

    July 11, 2015

  • hi, it's defined as agnostic

    July 11, 2015