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  • He was born Jewish, but became an agnostic when he was a teenager, partly because of all that had happened to him as a child.  (source)
    agnostic = a person who believes they lack true knowledge about the existence of God (but believes that God might exist)
  • David, a lifelong agnostic, had always seemed to be hungry for something more meaningful in his life.  (source)
    agnostic = person who believes they lack true knowledge about the existence of God (but believes that God might exist)
  • "Were growing an odd crop of agnostics this year!"  (source)
    agnostics = people who believe they lack true knowledge about the existence of God
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  • Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.†  (source)
    agnostic = someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something -- especially belief in God
  • In the High Explosives Sheds they object to the presence of Agnostics as unsafe.†  (source)
  • I would never find someone who would understand my peculiar mix of Catholicism and agnosticism, Hispanic and American styles.†  (source)
  • Overall, I guess that still makes me agnostic.†  (source)
  • He had joined an Artizans' Mutual Improvement Society established in the town about the time of his arrival there; its members being young men of all creeds and denominations, including Churchmen, Congregationalists, Baptists, Unitarians, Positivists, and others—agnostics had scarcely been heard of at this time—their one common wish to enlarge their minds forming a sufficiently close bond of union.†  (source)
  • Samuel wrote to Joe, saying, "I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach.†  (source)
  • He had explained to his mother, when she asked him to say grace, that like his father before him he was an incorrigible agnostic and suspected God was a hoax.†  (source)
  • It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.†  (source)
  • He was setting now full sail towards Agnosticism, but such a religious Agnosticism that Miriam did not suffer so badly.†  (source)
  • A person who is unable to say categorically whether or not the gods or God exists is called an agnostic.†  (source)
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