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Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man.
— Sinclair Lewis • Arrowsmith
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The narrator wryly claims that committed agnostics are, in their own way, religious. The paradox is gently ironic: someone so devoted to questioning belief shows the same seriousness, intensity and preoccupation with ultimate questions as believers do, only aimed at doubt instead of faith.
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