LIFE AS A “NONE”Susanna Schrobsdorff’s
Sept. 26 essay on being one of the growing
number of religiously unaffiliated and agnostic
Americans struck a chord with people of all faiths.
“She’s right that longing for faith proves there
is a reason to have it,” wrote Diane Lowrey of
Houston, urging the columnist to give religion more
of a chance so as not do “to her children what
her atheist father did to her.” Nicholas Longo of
Racine, Wisc., meanwhile,
invited Schrobsdorff
to attend a Unitarian
Universalist service,
where “the majority of us
are agnostics or atheists.”
Sally Oey of Ann Arbor,
Mich., praised the writer
as“brave to share the
story of her own and her
mother’s agnosticism,”
but expressed frustration
that the essay ended with
the idea of God’s possible
existence. “Why don’t
we ever hear the other
version,” she asked, “the
one which starts with
the pious believer who
finally has a story-worthy epiphany that God really
doesn’t exist?”Conversation
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