“One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.”

In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. I think that generally ... an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Comte denies metaphysics in favor of a reliance on sense experience as the source of human knowledge and denies the existence of a personal God.