My best friend is a devout atheist and he likes to quote dawkins and hitchens and other high priests of his religion. I use these terms purposefully. He&#x27;s every bit as fervent as any hell fire and brimstone Baptist.<p>We are&#x2F;were both raised in, and still live in, the &quot;Bible Belt&quot; as well. I&#x27;ve studied most world religions, have read quite a bit in that arena from the esoteric like &quot;A Course in Miracles&quot;, &quot;The Book of Urantia&quot;, Meister Eckhart, much of Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Tao Te Ching, etc etc to formalized things like William James&#x27;s the variety of religious experience.<p>I&#x27;ve had my own, I would say spiritual rather than religious, experiences that are deeply personal and beyond the rationale of atheists. I have seen firsthand how introspection and quiet-minded observation can provide insight and intuition.<p>However, I also I went to science magnet schools starting in pre-school, work in IT, and am quite a rational pragmatic individual.<p>I consider myself to be an agnostic at the moment mostly due to a lack of options. I don&#x27;t consider it to be a &quot;weasel term&quot;. Uncertainty is ubiquitous in life. How is this topic any different? There&#x27;s always Pascal&#x27;s Wager ;)