Not knowing may end up being a permanent fact of their existence. It's not as if plenty of people haven't gone to their deaths uncertain of what, if any, future awaited them.
I think that you should probably ask people directly why they reject your religion, their reasons may surprise you, given what you determine to be the common reasons in practice. Had you asked me, for example, I'd have told to that I reject islam for reasons completely unrelated to my old religion..because I don't have one. I don't reject islam because I'm an atheist, either. I couldn't be a muslim even if the moongod were real.
None of this is going to give you a window into the mind of an agnostic, though. I'm not an agnostic.
I think that you should probably ask people directly why they reject your religion, their reasons may surprise you, given what you determine to be the common reasons in practice. Had you asked me, for example, I'd have told to that I reject islam for reasons completely unrelated to my old religion..because I don't have one. I don't reject islam because I'm an atheist, either. I couldn't be a muslim even if the moongod were real.
None of this is going to give you a window into the mind of an agnostic, though. I'm not an agnostic.
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