Purchasing One's Atheism Cheaply

[pocaracas]

He says they are not skeptics at all.

And what he means is that most atheists are the very opposite of the essence of what _xenu_ describes. There is no intellectual burden for the new atheists to carry. No pensivity. They are hardly ever deep in thought, troubled by one aspect of the world or another.

There is ONE very important aspect that always troubles me... the low value in my bank account.
I guess I could turn professional thinker if that detail of the world was taken for granted...

Most atheists nowadays call themselves skeptics. But they are not real skeptics. They are not skeptics of their own skepticism. They are not skeptics of atheism, of the beliefs, views and positions they cherish. It doesn't even occur to many people here that skepticism applied consistently involves skepticism of one's own skepticism, and that unless one has a good criteria for their own skepticism.

Don't forget skepticism of the skepticism of the skepticism.
And keep in mind the skepticism of the skepticism of the skepticism of the skepticism.
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skpeticism^∞

Who has the time? You must truncate at some point... most people just apply a first order reasoning on it, because that's enough.