An atheist,
in disbelieving in gods, spirits, and devils, is doing nothing
more controversial than the Christian does in regard to Allah,
the Muslim does in regard to Ganesh, or the Hindu does in regard
to Zeus. So there's nothing audacious about atheism. And atheism
encompasses a broad range of political, cultural, and personal
viewpoints. So there's little very little that one can say about
an atheist other than he or she lacks belief in a deity. Is atheism
more than the absence of what is elsewhere a terrifically common
kind of mistake? Read
on...
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