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  2. List of agnostics - Wikipedia

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    Andy Rooney (1919–2011): American broadcast personality; specified that he was an agnostic and not an atheist, [176] but also called himself an atheist [177] [178] Tim Rice (born 1944): Wrote the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar about Jesus. The opera was controversial with conservative Christians. [149]

  3. Theological noncognitivism - Wikipedia

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    Paul Kurtz finds the view to be compatible with both weak atheism and agnosticism. [7] However, Theodore Drange distinguishes noncognitivism and agnosticism, describing the latter as accepting that theological language is meaningful but being noncommittal about its truth or falsity on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

  4. Religious views of Charles Darwin - Wikipedia

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    As a child, Darwin attended Shrewsbury Unitarian Church.. Charles Darwin was born during the Napoleonic Wars and grew up in their aftermath, a conservative time when Tory-dominated government closely associated with the established Anglican Church of England repressed Radicalism, but when family memories recalled the 18th-century Enlightenment and a multitude of Non-conformist churches held ...

  5. Agnosticism - Wikipedia

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    No. An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. Later in the essay, Russell adds: [67]

  6. Nontheism - Wikipedia

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    Some agnostics, however, are not nontheists but rather agnostic theists. [4] Other related philosophical opinions about the existence of deities are ignosticism and skepticism. Because of the various definitions of the term God, a person could be an atheist in terms of certain conceptions of gods, while remaining agnostic in terms of others.

  7. List of former atheists and agnostics - Wikipedia

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    That stated he remains skeptical of "the church" and does not belong to any religion. [15] Dave Sim - comics writer and anti-feminist. He converted to, or created, his own mixture of Abrahamic religions. [16] [17] Ted Turner - media mogul who stated that he is no longer an atheist or an agnostic. He has not embraced any specific religion. [18]

  8. List of countries by irreligion - Wikipedia

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    According to reports from the WIN/Gallup International's (WIN/GIA) four global polls: in 2005, 77% were a religious person and 4% were "convinced atheists"; in 2012, 23% were not a religious person and 13% were "convinced atheists"; [2] in 2015, 22% were not a religious person and 11% were "convinced atheists"; [3] and in 2017, 25% were not a ...

  9. Secular humanism - Wikipedia

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    In the book, they quote from Kristen Bell's advocacy of moral particularism as developed by Jonathan Dancy. [39] Humanism is compatible with atheism, and by definition usually entails at least a form of weak or agnostic atheism, [40] and agnosticism, [41] but being atheist or agnostic