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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]You can be agnostic AND atheist at the same time.[/b]  Nearly all atheists are.  And, you can be both and attend a Unitarian church - or any other church.  You just don't believe and attend for social reasons, or to keep familial peace. I wouldn't do that, but it is possible.[/quote]

Right.  Agnostic is "I don't know" and Atheist is "I don't believe".  Many people are both, but may feel more comfortable describing themselves with one word or the other.[/quote]

These are mutually exclusive — you can’t not believe and yet not know. They are different. A dictionary is your friend, or agnostic writers like Richard Dawkins. [/quote]

It would be hard for you to be more wrong about those things.

They are not mutually exclusive.  The PP is correct.  Dawkins calls himself Atheist.  Nearly every Atheist also calls themselves agnostic as they cannot prove there are no gods.[/quote]

Nope. Dawkins has said he prefers to be called agnostic.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html

The philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny, who chaired the discussion, interjected: “Why don’t you call yourself an agnostic?” Prof Dawkins answered that he did.
An incredulous Sir Anthony replied: “You are described as the world’s most famous atheist.” Prof Dawkins said that he was “6.9 out of seven” sure of his beliefs. “I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,” he added.

For Dawkins, it’s that 0.1/7% possibility of a creator that makes difference between agnostic and atheist. [/quote]

OK, well the fact that he thinks God is a supernatural "creature" is just silly. How can he be taken seriously?[/quote]

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