(May 3, 2014 at 4:40 am)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote: I want to hear your thoughts on this and tell me where iam wrong if you find flaws.Becoming an atheist doesn't change the mental and psychological needs we have developed over our lives and which affect pretty much everyone in some way. Above all we have a desire to fit in and be accepted by the group, as would be expected of creatures who thrive in social groups and community settings. Freeing yourself from religion doesn't free you from the desire to act religious, that is, to seek out a tribe to belong to.
I'm not defending or attacking Atheism+, as I know very little about it and have not been exposed to whatever it is they are doing right or wrong. They may simply be drawing the same boundary lines we tend to draw as social creatures, without realizing it (or for marketing purposes, perhaps they do realize it). It might even be beneficial in helping those who are having a hard time dealing with their new-found atheism make the transition to a more self-confident view of themselves, I dunno.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
