what does george soros believe?
Atheism
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 Theistic critics claim that agnosticism is impossible in practice , since a person can live only either as if God did not exist ( etsi deus non @-@ daretur ) , or as if God did exist ( etsi deus daretur ) . 

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 It was largely confirmed by an account provided by Aldo Lampredi and the " classical " narrative of the story was set out in books written in the 1960s by Bellini delle Stelle and Urbano Lazzaro , and the journalist Franco Bandini . Although each of these accounts vary in detail , they are consistent on the main facts . 

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 Claims of association with Hellenism continued and increased throughout the Palaiologan dynasty . The scholar , teacher , and translator , John Argyropoulos , addressed Emperor John VIII Palaiologos ( r . 1425 – 1448 ) as " Sun King of Hellas " and urged the last Byzantine emperor , Constantine XI Palaiologos ( r . 1449 – 1453 ) , to proclaim himself " King of the Hellenes " . During the same period , the neo @-@ platonic philosopher George Gemistos Plethon boasted " We are Hellenes by race and culture , " and proposed a reborn Byzantine Empire following a utopian Hellenic system of government centered in Mystras . According to the historian George Sphrantzes , on the eve of the Fall of Constantinople , the last Byzantine emperor urged his soldiers to remember that they were the descendants of Greeks and Romans . 

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 For the French Byzantinologist Gilbert Dagron , Philip 's Christianity is a legend - albeit a very old one - that intended , in a Late Roman / Early Byzantine context , to foster the idea of a Roman Empire that was Christian almost from the beginning , thereby melding Roman Imperial ideology and Christianism , and therefore offering a base for other later legends showing Roman emperors , beginning with Augustus , to be aware and / or sympathetic to Christian revelation , forming a legendary corpus that was brought together during the 6th century by the chronicler John Malalas . 

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 The abstentionist position is held by many Baptists , Pentecostals , Nazarene , Methodists , and other evangelical and Protestant groups including the Salvation Army . Prominent proponents of abstentionism include Billy Graham , John F. MacArthur , R. Albert Mohler , Jr . , and John Piper . 
