religion, US vs UK

[Brad De Long]

>  >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
>
>     Doug> Jim heartfield wrote:
>     >> This is the original home of agnosticism, and more than a few
>     >> CofE theologians will happily tell you that they do not believe
>     >> in God, other than as a metaphor for man's wonder.
>
>     Doug> A friend of mine who spent some time in an Episcopal
>     Doug> seminary said pretty much the same thing of the faculty
>     Doug> there, and at most other such places.
>
>I am, by formal training anyway, a liberal Protestant theologian (of
>the United Methodist type), and I can confirm this general view. At
>any rate, it's fairly safe to assume that a liberal theologian's
>conception of God is a substantive revision of the classical
>conception of God, substantive enough that most 'ordinary' Christian
>believers classify us as agnostics at best, more typically, as
>atheists.
>
>However, most liberal Protestant theologians do not, in my experience,
>self-identify as 'atheist' or 'agnostic'. The idea being that not
>assenting to the classic conception of God doesn't make one an atheist
>in any but the most vulgar way, i.e., only in the estimation of those
>who do assent to, and insist on, the classical conception.
>
>Best,
>Kendall Clark
>--

I.e., only an "agnostic" in the estimation of Moses... Samuel... 
David... Solomon... Isaiah... Ezra... Yeshua... Peter... Luke... 
Mark... Matthew... Paul... John... Muhammed...