鈥淔or once, then, something鈥�: Reflections of a Judeo-Christian Agnostic
Douglas E. Green is a professor in the English Department
On 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.聽 I told her, 鈥淚鈥檓 an agnostic who prays.鈥�
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鈥攖he 鈥渘ones鈥濃�攈ave become more and more common in the U.S.聽 And a lot of us non-believers pray.
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