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This I Believe, November 2013: Doug Green

ā€œFor once, then, somethingā€: Reflections of a Judeo-Christian Agnostic

Douglas E. Green is a professor in the English Department

headshot of Douglas E. GreenOn a spring faculty-staff retreat, about fifteen years ago, the late Dean Marie McNeff, who knew my complicated Judeo-Christian (specifically Jewish-Catholic) background, asked me what I believed.Ā  I told her, ā€œI’m an agnostic who prays.ā€

I thought I was being very clever, but in fact I was exhibiting a trait shared by a growing number of Americans. According to reports on a recent Pew poll,[1] agnostics and atheists—the ā€œnonesā€ā€”have become more and more common in the U.S.Ā  And a lot of us non-believers pray.

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