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Atheists & Agnostics

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Brainstormy

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Fri Aug 25, 2017, 12:44 PM Aug 2017

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Ran across this quote from Asimov, which I love because it eliminates all the pointless word-mincing.

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

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This works for me [View all] Brainstormy Aug 2017 OP
We are all born atheists, like racism and misogyny and the rest Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1
If facts be harsh, so be it. There's nothing insulting defacto7 Aug 2017 #2
Me too. defacto7 Aug 2017 #3
I've often thought of myself as an "apathist". Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #4
According to Wikiquote, Asimov said this in the Spring of 1982. Towlie Aug 2017 #5
"I don't want to waste my time" progressoid Aug 2017 #6
I should be an agnostic HAB911 Aug 2017 #7
Reality oppressedproletarian Aug 2017 #8
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