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"You are putting all atheists in a little box with a label on it. I have already said there are different kinds of atheists. I am an agnostic about the existence of gods, but I am an atheist about the Abrahamic god. I see no reason for believing in…"

"Megan, I can relate to everything you said, including your definitions of agnosticism. As a young Catholic, I used to pray to "Jesus, Mary and Joseph" quite often. Now I have problems relating to any supernatural entity. I sometimes talk…"

"Benjamin, I have a checkered history when it comes to religion/philosophy. I was raised as a Southern Baptist, converted to Catholicism as an adolescent, and even spent several months in a monastery. Yet by the time I was 25 I was an…"

"I have no wish to become embroiled in arguments about definitions. Atheists are variously defined by many people, for example, but I like to say that there are "soft" atheists, who simply say that they find no reasons to believe in a god,…"

"Benjamin, I know what you speak of. I reached that point some time ago. I think if we are to have meaning or purpose in our lives, we have to create it for ourselves by the career we embrace, the relationships we form, or the actions we do. I…"

"Agnostic, as I define it, is a person who simply admits that the existence of some deity can neither be proved or disproved. Hence the "I don't know." But this agnostic can also be considered an atheist about certain concepts of…"