RE: Not All Demand Evidence
September 22, 2016 at 6:40 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 6:45 am by Faith No More.)
I have a friend that is an atheist because religion is absurd and there's no evidence, but he also believes in crazy shit like the universe is alive, spirit/ghost-like thingys exist and gluten causes autism, the latter of which he actually cited Jenny McCarthy when I asked him for evidence. I think he's mostly an atheist because he was raised in a fundamentalist Wesleyian sect that was absolutely batshit, and he came to realize it was crap through pure experience. He's definitely very selective about his critical thinking.
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