Most Of Us Are Agnostics. Even Preachers.

First, there were two types of readers who seemed absolutely certain about God: fundamentalists and atheists. It was eerie, kind of. 

Thanks Jim!

Excerpt: "The fundamentalists believed absolutely in the existence of God and the unerring rightness of their doctrines. The other group believed just as devoutly in God’s non-existence. To them, nobody but a fool could think there was some invisible “sky daddy” out there in the cosmos watching over us.

Yet their responses were practically interchangeable. They were two sides of the same coin. They entertained no doubts. They brooked no dissent. They mocked those of other persuasions. They tended to be, for want of a better description, smug — and bellicose.

Second, the great majority of readers weren’t like that. In between the fundamentalists and atheists lived lots of folks who possessed more questions than answers. Their spiritual worldview was made up less of blacks and whites than shades of gray. 

They didn’t strike me as wishy washy so much as humble. And humility was a cardinal virtue, I thought, not a damning sin."