Comments on: Atheism is intellectual emptiness

By: Richard_Collins

Richard_Collins — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:36:15 +0000

Great post James, I have a young fundy Canadian who keeps showering me with questions and I am going to point him to this post since his basic argument comes down to the emptiness of atheism. Your rebuttal is one of the best I have ever encountered.

By: James Tracy

James Tracy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:40:28 +0000

Yes, indeed, the question of the intellectualism of atheists is separate from the intellectual content of atheism. Atheism is better thought of as a critique or rejection of theism than as a philosophical system.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:14:28 +0000

I believe that some atheists are more intellectual than those who believe in gods. An atheist does not have a comfortable, albeit false, mechanism to fall back on when things happen. The atheist must actually think and understand whatever has come their way without an aid. When one looks through the long, and bloody, history of humans doing things in the name of their gods, it feels more spiritual to just act in a good manner because one believes it is right. Having a keen interest in history and pre-history, I don't find that the belief in gods has been helpful to humans in coming face to face with themselves.

By: Numerous

Numerous — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:26:04 +0000

So, basically, the idea is that [believing that whatever created the universe is sentient] is required for intellectual fulfillment.
And that is because…