(September 22, 2016 at 6:37 am)Thena323 Wrote: Going by your description, it sounds as though this man was simply "unrefined". Drank excessively, had a short fuse.No , he did not and he had the option of returning to his First American spiritual traditions but did not. He was funny as hell and witty . I guess his skepticism was of the " Show Me" type.
And was likely un- or undereducated.
Perhaps he just didn't fit the model of the "intellectual atheist". That wouldn't necessarily mean that he wasn't prone to skepticism, though.
Did he have any other particularly nutty beliefs?
A lot of tinfoil lying around, perhaps?
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!