# People Who May/May Have Been Agnostics/Atheists

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-may-may-have-been-agnostics-atheists/551801>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 28, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-may-may-have-been-agnostics-atheists/551801 "2010-08-28T16:51:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-may-may-have-been-agnostics-atheists/551801/61 "2010-09-01T15:01:39Z")

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> [@Mijin](#):
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> (There was a poster campaign, aimed at countering a series of religious poster campaigns, that headlined with: “There probably is no God”. After the fact a number of TV pundits came out saying “How can they be so arrogant as to claim to KNOW there is no God?!”)

That whole thing was comedy gold. There was more political controversy in Tony Blair’s stealth Catholicism, known to everyone but kept unofficial until he was out of office.

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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-may-may-have-been-agnostics-atheists/551801/62 "2010-09-01T23:36:01Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> I have no interest in the actual question here, but I want to ask what the OP was intending to ask with the construction “People Who May/May Have Been”. That makes no sense as written. “People Who May Be/May Have Been” would work, but I don’t know if that was a mistake or what.

Yes, I see its a mistake.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-may-may-have-been-agnostics-atheists/551801/63 "2010-09-03T11:45:50Z")

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> [@phaemon](#):
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> [sup]1[/sup]UK gameshow where you aim to give the most obscure, yet correct, answer to the question. The best answer is one which none of the 100 people surveyed gave (hence “pointless”).

From what I’ve seen, I thought that was QI

[sub]at least, the part about finding answers technically correct.[/sub]

Also, to address the OP, I assume all those letters used in Church in which Washington refers to God and prayer are fake? That’s not sarcasm, I’m actually curious.

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