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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am still unsure about my self-identity. I am an atheist insofar as I do not believe in god, but I am agnostic as to the possibility of a "god"—whatever that means. It's a matter of evidence, and I have seen none.
I am a methodological naturalist. I can only test truth claims in the real world with the tools at my own disposal. For this reason I cannot be a solipsist: while I concede it is possible that the entire universe is an invention of my own mind somehow, it is not something that I can ever know—even if this is the reality of my own making, it is the reality that I have no choice but to deal with.
I am open to the possibility of a "spiritual" plane of existence, but again, insofar as it continues to exist outside of our grasp of the natural world, I have no way of investigating it.
I struggle with being dishonest about it. That, and I crave having an open and honest conversation about what I believe and why I believe the things that I do. I am worried that that conversation will not play out like it often does in my imagination.
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As an aside, is it ironic that we are having a discussion about coming out in a thread about Catholicism persecuting the traditional set of people who deal with difficult coming out conversations?