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The reverse of what you'd expect...
From my own personal experience, which includes a fair amount of reading and posting on TFP boards, those who have adopted an agnostic or atheistic worldview are just as fervent about their belief that there is no God (and its various permutations) as those who are completely defined by a faith in a personal God.
It would seem that if someone argued that something exists that I thought absurd, pink elephants for example, I would shrug their comment off and give it no more thought. But many who do not believe in a God devote their lives to proclaiming that fact and belittling those who disagree.
I'm not saying that all who are agnostic or atheistic react this way, nor am I saying that those same people do not have their counterparts on the other side of the spectrum. I'm just confused why some people are as passionate about the absence of something as others are about its presence.
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~ Winston Churchill
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