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What some folks at Wikipedia think a nontheist Friend is
Posted by Nontheist Friends on Feb 02 2008 | Tagged as: Definitions
What is a Nontheist?
Posted by James Riemermann on Sep 20 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Definitions
Both within and outside the informal association of Friends who call themselves nontheists, there is little common understanding of what the word nontheist means. There is also little common understanding of related words such as atheist, agnostic, humanist, and materialist, but believers and unbelievers alike have at least a sense of what they mean by […]
One God at Most, or Two Gods at Least?
Posted by James Riemermann on Jul 15 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Definitions
If I am to speak of God at all, even metaphorically, I find I must speak of two gods. This may be the reason I tend not to speak of God. Both gods speak to me as metaphors, but I have difficulty calling them by the same name.
What is “God” anyway…
Posted by Lorcan Otway on Apr 17 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Definitions
I was reading a post here, a lovely and painful description of convincement and felt called to write a few lines.
It seems to be it all comes down to the Quaker practice of openness. God is only a word. We live in a universe that is following some sort of order, balance, cooperative motion, a […]