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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

"AGNOSTIC"



AGNOSTIC (Noun)
Meaning;
  1. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
    One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
  2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
  3. a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
  4. a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Etymology: Greek agnOstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnOstos known, from gignOskein to know