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Where are you on the bridge? What are YOU doing there?

For many years I have thought of agnosticism as a bridge - a metaphor for the means of completing the journey from the delusions of religion to the safe uplands of secular freethinking.

Are you?

A) someone who has found that there may be a way out the stranglehold of religion and tentatively tries just a few steps to ‘test out’ the strength of the bridge.
B) someone who is firmly on the bridge and is quite happy to stay there for ever and has given up testing because it “seems fine at the moment”.
C) Someone who has crossed the bridge , seen the benefits of freethinking and is willing to go back over it to help as many people as possible cross over.

I make no apologies for using metaphors because that is the method the prophets have used quite successfully and certain people can only think in this way.

The only answer I really want is “Is the metaphor useful? ”

Mcflewster 8 Sep 13
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