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It may be that this is the reason why his disciples were so very angry with some obscure people called Agnostics, whose views, if we may judge by the account left in the works of a great Positivist controversial writer, were very absurd.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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We have no disposition to arraign the American and European "Agnostics," as they are pleased to call themselves, for using the term "Nature" instead of God, in their philosophical writings.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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The people who call themselves "Agnostics" have been charged with doing so because they have not the courage to declare themselves
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The people who call themselves "Agnostics" have been charged with doing so because they have not the courage to declare themselves "Infidels."
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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'Agnostics' or even total Atheists, or even full-on 'believers' of God, in other religions...
CNN.com 2010
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Their number one team is one called: "Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious".
Valerie Tarico: Atheists, Humanists Resolve to Give More Valerie Tarico 2011
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Their number one team is one called: "Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious".
Valerie Tarico: Atheists, Humanists Resolve to Give More Valerie Tarico 2011
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As Susan Budd put it in her excellent study "Varieties of Unbelief: Atheists and Agnostics in English Society, 1850-1960," "the conversion to atheism" in those years "usually followed two distinct phases: the conversion from Christianity to unbelief or uncertainty ... and the move from unbelief to positive commitment to secularism."
Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012
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Agnostics, while claiming that we cannot know anything with certainty beyond the reach of our sensual perception, generally proceed to assert that there is 'probably' no reality beyond.
Asad Khan: Islam At the Cross Roads: 'Submitting One's Intellect' Asad Khan 2011
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But I am a big fan of God (sorry Atheists and Agnostics) and The United States Constitution (sorry Theocrats).
Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Rick Perry's Revival as a Soccer Match? Joe The Nerd Ferraro 2011
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