Santorum - Rightwing evangelicalism is the founding of our country

[reverendjeremiah]

Well he is probably right about knowledge turning people away from the idea of god.

The facts will do hat.

Of course he is correct that proper knowledge of the facts turns people away from LITERAL translations of the bible. If anything colleges tend to make people less evangleical instead of less religious. As far as colleges creating atheists, I doubt that... agnostic types maybe, but open atheists I doubt it.

Atheist is but an agnostic with a more incisive mind and a degree of consistent intellectual integrity. Let's hope our colleges still attempt to incocate incisiveness and moral integrity.

Sorry, but I dont differentiate between agnostic and atheist. I consider both to be the same thing.

You took pains to differentiate themselves with the bolded part of the quote.

For me, agnostic is a person who can't make up his mind inspite of evidence, atheist is a person who can.

Allow me to clarify. I personally dont see the difference in myself. I do see that other people claim a difference. That people who consider themselves "agnostics" tend to be a bit more sheepish about religion, and even then that isnt 100% accurate, as many people who considered themselves agnostic (such as Carl Sagan) spoke out strongly against religion. Atheists tend to be a bit more vocal, but even that isnt 100% true either.

I just personally dont care much for this type of differentiation. Thats why I say "agnostic TYPES"...meh, I just really dont see the need to seperate them.

When I am asked, I usually say "What religion am I? i dont have one. Im non-religious, atheist, agnostic, freethinker...whatever term you prefer to use. Im not picky"

I hope I cleared it up. Its a bit of a non-issue to me, but I know that freethinkers will get into hour long discussions over the differences that I find trivial at best between them. One is supposed to be more outspoken, the other more reserved, but even THEN that isnt written in stone either.