(August 20, 2010 at 2:00 am)everythingafter Wrote:(August 17, 2010 at 2:32 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote:
Entertaining. I thought atheism was the disbelief in god, not a god who apparently existed at some point and then died. That would be a sad affair. lol
Atheism is merely a disbelief in god(s) there are no conditions.
There's an old joke beloved of apologists:
God is dead (Sartre)
Sartre is dead (God)
There was indeed a popular 'God is dead' school of thought in the 1960's. A natural progression of existential philosophy for some.(Hence the Sartre joke) I think was it was actually Neitzsche who made the claim,viz that God was killed by the enlightenment. Sartre simply accepted the claim. I think that's about right; it's about 35 year since I read any philosophy. (I don't count Dawkins or Hitchens)