Original sentence: "  Paraphrasing Mr.A different source for Apatheism is given at this web site, Apatheism, Allognosticism, and the American Religious Landscape.A less ambiguious way to describe his stand might be assertive - theism.A longer quote from "Let it be", which supports and extends the above definition:.Apatheism, Allognosticism, and the American Religious Landscape.Because -- and this is an essential point -- many apatheists are believers.Combining apathy with theism is more in line with the way Jonathan Rauch uses the neologism.Early on he characterize himself, an atheist, as also being an apatheist.However this does not roll off the tongue like Apatheism.In order to maintain  the dynamic stand of an apateist, Rauch says we are controlling our normally zealous nature.Later in Let It Be he writes, "And agnostics.Rauch, this also support his statement that Apatheism is not about what you believe, but about how.This points to Apatheism being more than apathetic.To be in the grip of religious zeal is the natural state of human beings, or at least of a great many human beings; that is how much of the species seems to be wired.True, most of them are apatheists, but most apatheists are not agnostics
Edited sentence: "To be in the grip of religious zeal is the natural state of human beings, or at least of a great many human beings; that is how much of the species seems to be wired.A longer quote from "Let it be" By Jonathan Rauch, which supports the above definition: