found Holloway's brand of belief very close to unbelief... Not surprised. I've just been reading this and it's clarified quite a few things that I only inchoately knew, especially about how it is that you can be a Quaker and, er, not actually believe in god. Or not much. The Liberal strand of Quakerism (which is pretty much the British strand) prioritises your own experience and feelings above everything and reckons that no one group even *can* come up with definite answers to things that apply to everyone and are true. The author refers to it as 'the absolute perhaps' - a dogma of uncertainty in religion and therefore the ability to look for answers anywhere and everywhere - so long as they're not absolutist answers that is... which actually rules out quite a lot but lets in the possibility for a hella lot of individual agnosticism, atheism, and different faiths.