Friday, November 24, 2006

Truth and reconciliation

These two posts do a pretty good job of elucidating the point I've been trying to make (badly apparently) about what is wrong with the confrontational style of atheism promulgated by Richard Dawkins et al.

3 comments:

Ron said...

By the most useful definition of atheism, (lack of belief in any deity), if you claim you're not an atheist, then you're a theist.

You'd think. Unforunately, much like the word "liberal", the term "atheist" has acquired quite a load of baggage. I am not a theist, but I am not an atheist of the Dawkinsian stripe either. I would rather identify myself with e.g. Michael Lerner than with many self-proclaimed atheists just because those who self-proclaim themselves to be atheists tend in my experience to be a bunch of arrogant pricks.

I really wish I could preview using this web ui.

You'll have to take that up with Google.

Ron said...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sV6Lh_gtD8o

Ron said...

Sorry I've been so quiet lately. I've gotten sucked into a new startup company which has been taking up a lot of my time. No excuse for not blogging though. I will try to get some more posts out soon.

I think the jury is out on the dems. I am cautiously optimistic, but I harbor no illusions that everything is now hunky dory. Still, I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude, and looking forward to seeing if Henry Waxman really is going to start slinging subpoenas around. Fingers crossed.