Tag: atheism

Recently I’ve been preparing for the inevitable. Last month, I reached an age at which I can say, “Four score and seven years ago, my mother brought forth on this continent a new baby ...” That was me. I’ve never been 87 before, never dreamed I’d make it this far. I’d wondered whether I’d see the turn of this century! But I did, so what’s next?

There is evil in this world. I have seen it. And I have experienced it.

There are no sacred texts in my life. As I have written here before, I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

In a philosophical sense atheism is at ground a rejection of supernatural entities as informative principles

Which leads us to the modern usage of the term, which has broadened to mean those who do not hold belief in any gods at all.

Nothing. Dying is not unlike going to sleep, when our consciousness shuts down, only this time no waking up.

What is it about some religious believers who are not content merely to faithfully profess their assorted beliefs, but insist on jumping the shark by arguing that those beliefs are somehow provable in a way no one but a recalcitrant blockhead could deny?