RE: Atheists don't exist
July 24, 2014 at 8:25 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2014 at 8:26 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(July 24, 2014 at 8:20 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I found the Nature article but you have to login or pay for it to actually read it. The link proves that it exists, though.
Being human: Religion: Bound to believe?
Not all atheists are critical thinkers or interested in how the human brain works. If they get vague feelings of things like a higher power, karma or life after death they aren't going to analyse them and ask what's going on in their unconscious mind.
It's all too easy for humans to substitute an ideology for religion and a cult of personality for a cult of a deity. It's the same drive with a different focus.
I don't think you need to be logged into an institution to read it? I'm not logged into my university proxy at the moment and I could gain access:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v45...51038a.pdf
Also, it's not a peer reviewed article. It's an editorial/opinion piece or 'review' published in every journal edition. There is no research cited.