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Letter: Divine deduction

Published 11 March 2015

From Keith Macpherson

I have been agnostic for as long as I can remember, and atheist for most of that time. I’m aware of the supposedly untenable position this puts me in, but I prefer the term a-theist: I am without god.

Even if the ether is swirling with all the deities we have invented over the millennia, I subscribe to none of them. I know that if just one of them turns out to be real I am in a bad position, but on balance, I’ll take my chances.
Houston, Renfrewshire, UK

Issue no. 3012 published 14 March 2015

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