RE: Just WHAT defines an atheist....
April 14, 2011 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2011 at 1:02 pm by everythingafter.)
(April 14, 2011 at 7:30 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Existentialist had a great wind up of this on atheistsheaven.com here: http://www.atheistsheaven.com/showthread.php?tid=681
"Exploring atheism"? What is there to explore? Seems to me if this guy replaced "atheism" with "secularism," he might be on a more tenable track. His statement:
Quote:Therefore atheism for me is a statement of intent, a direction that we are moving in ...
would make more sense with the word secularism, for societies can move toward a more secular foundation, which could include a polity of agnostics, atheists, free thinkers and some (and increasingly fewer) believers.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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