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>>124602 >one typically doesn't need to remain agnostic to the existence of other supernatural things in order to be objective, so why remain agnostic in respect to the Abrahamic god.
I'd argue one does. We can't *prove* anything absolutely; hell, it's even possible to pull a Descartes and wank about whether anything exists except oneself or not.
All models of reality (all scientific theories, all religions, etc.) are just that: models. We adopt or discard them in accordance with how well they fit with our empirical senses. That's why you've got (for instance) Christopher Hitchens (Church of England to secularist) and Adin Steinsaltz (secular to Orthodox Jew): two awesomely brilliant and learned men with different experiences adopting different ways of filtering reality, going the opposite direction over their lives. Same reason why scientists disagree on what theory best explains some things.
That doesn't mean one can't/shouldn't commit in practice to a religion or theory, but it's all provisional.
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