Atheism

I was excited to read Religion for Atheists—really I was. Here’s a confessed atheist, pop philosopher Alain de Botton, who nonetheless actually believes that religion is worth looking at, unlike his more militant friends in the New Atheist camp. .

For folks who are unorthodox but aren’t atheists, who care about metaphysics but who aren’t mystics, perhaps the good old-fashioned term “heretic” will satisfy.

And “The Clergy Project” is there to serve as safe haven.

Is the faith-talking, centrist, “new breed” of Democrat like Heath Shuler on its way out?

Grayling’s New College of the Humanities “is not an atheist institution,” he and other spokespeople for the university have stated repeatedly. But it’s hard to imagine Richard Dawkins soft-pedaling on the topic of religion. Grayling insists that he’s not as vehement as his colleague. “I’m the velvet version,” he likes to say.

The latest bloggingheads.

Faith is completely redundant. It may take a long time for people to figure out it’s redundant, but given what we know about psychology and the way the brain works and the way evolution has taught us not to just battle each other into submission, but to cooperate and help each other, there will come a time when people see it as unnecessary, a philosophical distortion of reality.

New anti-evolution legislation reiterates this odd agreement.

Our religious traditions remind us that it’s often those at the edges who speak the truth most clearly.

An evangelical former debating partner claims the self-proclaimed antitheist is “lost forever.”