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Religion

Bretton Garcia

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7. So conversely?

Reply to grumpyduck (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 30, 2019, 01:16 AM

Jul 2019

Maybe all these gods are very different. Enough that to lump them together is misleading.

Sometimes it's hard to say.

Many "nones" might believe, say, in the partly determining role of Nature, physical causation, as described by science, say.

Is that a "higher power"?

It's an interesting, complicated subject.

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