Tag: atheism

Summa Atheologica: Why I Am An Atheist
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the worldwithout once mentioning the author of the universe.*Laplace*: Sire, Ihad no need of that hypothesis. Quoted in Budget of Paradoxes Like most atheists in my part of the world, I grew up Christian. Mymother was a traditionalist conservative Christian, bordering onfundamentalist. My father was more loose with his Biblical so, somewhere inthe general vicinity of Jordan Peterson, although he had his theologicalviews long before ol' L...
Thoughts on meaning-making: don't force it
Many people struggle to find meaning in their lives. They worry about their purpose in life, they worry about the overarching narrative of their life and how it fits into the grand narrative of the world, they worry about the purpose and meaning of the things that happen to them and how they fit into all those narratives. They also worry about trying to assign some kind of meaning to the things that they do, the objects in the world around them, and the people in their life. Importantly, in all ...
My thoughts on religion and society
What if our commitment to religious tolerance is built on a contradiction? Secular liberal democracy asks believers to treat their deepest convictions as private hobbies --- true enough to live by, but not true enough to act on; and it asks those who do not share those beliefs to treat them, which lead to actions in the real world, as too sacred to question. This isn't to suggest that religion is unique in this memetic will to power, this desire societal influence --- but rather that it is uniqu...