Existentialism

[Belacqua]

I've been all over the atheist blogosphere and it seems like a whole lot of folks don't realize that they've been fed a warmed-over positivism by folks like Dawkins and Harris. The party line seems to be that science tells us how reality is in a completely objective way, our perception-consciousness-free will-yadda yadda are all illusions, all our joys and passions are mere squirts of neurochemicals, and anyone who thinks there's anything but atoms and the void must be a religious nut. I don't consider it unreasonable to question this nostalgic reductionism.

Yes, this has been very frustrating. There are people posting here who take it for granted that religion is just some sort of remnant -- a worthless crust obscuring people's view of a clear and obvious truth, revealed by Science. Which means of course that once the evil crust has been burned away, we will have peace and a steady happy progress toward unquestionable Truth and luxury living. "Reductionism" is a kind word for this. 

People who think they have no ideology generally have the strongest ideology.

(I like your Giacometti, by the way. A wonderful pure artist, and nicely in keeping with the Existentialist vibe.)