(July 2, 2012 at 6:57 pm)Tempus Wrote:FallentoReason Wrote:One can't wish for something to be so and simultaneously be relieved that it isn't so. If anything, that's a false sense of humility towards the truth, if that makes sense.
I think you missed the 'but' in the original quote
"A noted critic of religion and a self described "anti-theist", he [Hitchens] said that a person [i.e., someone other than Hitchens] "could be an atheist and wish that belief in external gods were correct", but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion."
Atheist = someone who could want theism to be true.
Antitheist = is glad theism isn't true.
I think that's what it's getting at.
Wow... What's happened to my reading comprehension?!
You're right, it's two different people he's talking about.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
