(April 4, 2011 at 12:06 pm)corndog36 Wrote: It sounds like this guy is suggesting that if we are going to take away the crutch of religion, we need to be able to offer an atheist crutch. I'm not sure that is the best approach. I am an atheist because I, eventually, learned that I don't need a crutch.Agreed. This is coming dangerously close to turning atheism into another religion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell