(March 15, 2018 at 8:27 pm)wheatpenny Wrote: My position is kind of difficult to explain. I have always believed in a spark of the Divine inherent in everyone (a leftover belief from when I was a Quaker), what George Fox - the founder of Quakerism - called "That of God in every man". This divine spark may well be the closest thing to an actual god you're ever going to find.
What I'm "agnostic" about is the existence of a personal God, i.e., a "guy-in-the-sky" named God (or Jehovah, Allah, or whatever).
As to tyhe afterlife, I lean in favour of reincarnation, but I've adopted a wait-and-see attitude. If there is an afterlife, so much the better, but if there isn't, well it won't matter because by the time I get that far I will have ceased to exist and will therefore never know I was wrong.
I have actually been going to Quaker meetings the last few months. I kind of like them actually, though I'm still learning about it. If you don't mind my asking, what caused you to renounce Quakerism? You can be an atheist or agnostic Quaker, right? So how come you left the movement?
