RE: Books regarding atheism
November 21, 2019 at 3:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2019 at 3:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC. We all disagree with each other, strongly, on a variety of other positions. It's far more likely that agreement between atheists on some other and additional position lines up with their demographics outside of the question of their beliefs. Things like their age, the countries they were born in, their placement on a political spectrum (which also differs place by place in the specifics) etc. We may even find that atheists and theists agree and disagree, respectively, as a bloc, based on those things, about those other issues.
Judging by our creationists posts, for example, a high value is placed on scientific evidence by both sets. Regardless of whether the two groups agree that "science is on their side" - both clearly desire the credibility that science can afford any position, on any issue. Humanism, another fine example. There are more believing humanists, than non believing humanists, by brute force of demographics alone. What this demonstrates, is that neither position is foundational or exclusive...to either atheism, or theism. Further, that neither atheism or theism can claim to possess ownership of either such that the other group must be borrowing from them in order to hold those positions.
Judging by our creationists posts, for example, a high value is placed on scientific evidence by both sets. Regardless of whether the two groups agree that "science is on their side" - both clearly desire the credibility that science can afford any position, on any issue. Humanism, another fine example. There are more believing humanists, than non believing humanists, by brute force of demographics alone. What this demonstrates, is that neither position is foundational or exclusive...to either atheism, or theism. Further, that neither atheism or theism can claim to possess ownership of either such that the other group must be borrowing from them in order to hold those positions.
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