Tag: atheist

The Inland Northwest Freethought Society and the Spokane Secular Society will join forces again this summer and host a booth at the Kootenai County Fair in Idaho (Aug. 21 - 25) and the Spokane County Interstate Fair (Sept.6-15).  This will be our second year at the Idaho Fair and the third for the Spokane shindig. I heartily invite any of the Spokane Faith & Values contributors and readers who may be visiting either fair to stop by our table and say hi.

If you could sit and talk for an hour to any atheist living or dead for an evening, who would it be?

Find out who our atheist writer picks!

The first issue is "which god did you have in mind"?  If it is a Pascal's Wager choice between only one contender and nothing, that is a somewhat simpler issue. But the truth is that there are not only a variety of competing tables even at the Christian Casino, there are also many other religion casinos just down the block, all operating with their own proprietary (and generally conflicting) house rules.

Why do you suppose those with a belief in God are so concerned by the fact that you don't?

Q. Tell me about an experience of awe and take me to its source....

A. It is hard to pick a quick example, as I feel awe at so many great physical spaces, such as Brice Canyon, and with music and art (listening to Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" does it there).

With the passage of some weeks the History Channel’s miniseries “The Bible” begins to fade from the public eye and embark perhaps on a gentle migration (as so many fleetingly popular titles do) to the bargain price video bin at Walmart. I have already delved into some of those aspects of the series that catches the eye of this feisty non-Christian (focusing on Genesis, the Samson Tale and the Exodus), and will conclude with the transition the story took from Old to New Testaments.

Atheism comes in as many flavors, just as their are Christians who range from literalist Young Earth creationism believers all the way to those who don't accept biblical miracles or even the divinity of Jesus.  But just as one could argue that a "Christian" who doesn't accept the divinity of Jesus is a pretty wishi-washy Christian, so too an "atheist" who has a hankering for some gods is an odd bird indeed.