Seven Types of Atheism
bring redemption to all of humankind.
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
time, a sort of mystic illumination possessed me …18
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
The story of Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge is a mythical imagining of the ambiguous impact of knowledge on human freedom.
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
Belief and unbelief are poses the mind adopts in the face of an unimaginable reality. A godless world is as mysterious as one suffused with divinity, and the difference between the two may be less than you think.
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
The notion that religions are creeds – lists of propositions or doctrines that everyone must accept or reject – emerged only with Christianity. Belief was never as important as observance in Jewish religion. In its earliest biblical forms, the religion practised by the Jewish people was a type not of monotheism – the assertion that there is only on... See more
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
telling contrast here with ancient Greek sceptics, who instead cultivated detachment from the world. A ‘scientific philosophy’, Russell wrote in 1928, could fashion a ‘new morality’ that would ‘turn our earth into a paradise’.20 How this remarkable metamorphosis would come about he did not explain. He believed that reason did not move human beings
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In most religions, debates about belief are unimportant.
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
It is commonly assumed that science will someday yield a single unchanging view of things.