Doesn't it make some sense to consider yourself "atheist and [x]"? Like, an atheist and a secular humanist, or an atheist and a liberal, or an atheist and an Objectivist, or an atheist and a phenomenologist?
I mean, don't most people here have a worldview that isn't just limited to "I reject the existence of all gods"? Some notion of value, meaning, morality, ethics, etc.?
Of course, even if that's all true, the "atheism+" grouping still doesn't make much sense to me. If I'm an "atheist plus an Objectivist" and you're an "atheist plus an Objectivist", then we're already included together in the group "Objectivists". So the "atheism+" doesn't really add much.
Or if I'm an "atheist + scientism (not used pejoratively)" and you're an "atheist + scientism", then we're already grouped together under "scientism". So like members aren't 'more' together by way of "atheism +."
Conversely, if I'm "atheist + (scientism and liberal)" and you're "atheism + (scientism and conservative)", then we're already together under "scientism" and we're in separate political categories. The "atheism+" doesn't unify us any more than the scientism already has.
It seems like a superfluous association.
I mean, don't most people here have a worldview that isn't just limited to "I reject the existence of all gods"? Some notion of value, meaning, morality, ethics, etc.?
Of course, even if that's all true, the "atheism+" grouping still doesn't make much sense to me. If I'm an "atheist plus an Objectivist" and you're an "atheist plus an Objectivist", then we're already included together in the group "Objectivists". So the "atheism+" doesn't really add much.
Or if I'm an "atheist + scientism (not used pejoratively)" and you're an "atheist + scientism", then we're already grouped together under "scientism". So like members aren't 'more' together by way of "atheism +."
Conversely, if I'm "atheist + (scientism and liberal)" and you're "atheism + (scientism and conservative)", then we're already together under "scientism" and we're in separate political categories. The "atheism+" doesn't unify us any more than the scientism already has.
It seems like a superfluous association.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
