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And there is at least one important reason to allow for this possibility. Specific answers to the basic religious question, like specific answers to all of the other basic questions that human beings ask and try to answer, are always only more or less adequate; and under certain life-conditions, anyone interested in pursuing the religious question honestly and with integrity may have no alternative but to give up the particular answer that she or he has theretofore given to it, along with the corresponding determinate commitment. In that event, she or he would no longer be "reHgiousreligious" in the sense of understanding her-or himse1f himself in a certain religious way and by means of its particular concepts/ symbols. But does this mean that she or he would have given up being "religious" altogether? Not necessarily. Provided that she or he was still interested in pursuing the basic religious question, and thus still made the same open religious commitment, she or he would still be significantly different from everyone else not so interested and committed; and it is entirely reasonable to mark this difference by calling her or him "religious." 

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