Seven Types of Atheism
There is no such thing as ‘the atheist worldview’. Atheism simply excludes the idea that the world is the work of a creator-god, which is not found in most religions.
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
time, a sort of mystic illumination possessed me …18
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
impersonal process of cause and effect
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
What is the difference?
It is commonly assumed that science will someday yield a single unchanging view of things.
John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism
bring redemption to all of humankind.
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.