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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not agnostic if you attending church and want t o study the bible.[/quote]

Not true at all. Besides the fact that there are plenty of atheists and agnostics (often closeted) who attend church regularly (to meet some kind of expectation--family, social, etc), besides the fact that the UU church has NO doctrinal requirements at all BUT does have the "Six Sources" which include Judeo-Christian sources AND a hymnal which includes hymns about God as well as readings from the Bible (among other books), there can be plenty of reasons for an agnostic to want to read and explore the Bible--possibly to challenge one's own current belief or lack thereof, to explore it in the sense of literature or history or in comparison to what other religions say.

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This isn’t it. OP is not atheist. She’s agnostic if she’s in between atheist and the possibility of something there. [/quote]

If you mean me who posted about UU, didn't say she's an atheist. Although even then I'm sure there are atheists who (even AS atheists) have been involved in a deep stufy of the Bible. There's differet ways to go about that. Most Christian platforms (online or not) will build in their own doctrine, but when you read sources that look deeply at linguistics and culture of the times various portions were written, and which also look at how certain scriptures were censored in the early Christian Era and what they have to say, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on.

If I read Ovid does that mean I believe in Zeus? [/quote]

We should let OP speak for herself. But if she’s doing this voluntarily because she “wants to explore spirituality and religion,” then she seems to be thinking there’s at least a possibility of something. Otherwise, just write, “I want to educate myself about this for whatever reason.” Why does it bother you that she’s interested in exploring? 
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