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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The fastest growing belief


Many are reluctant to leave the closet of conformist faith, esp. in the southern and rural U.S., for fear of being ostracized by friends and family, or dismissed by employers. But students in my "Atheism and Philosophy" course tell me their discovery of like-minded freethinkers on the Internet emboldened them to come out.

Is non-belief a belief? Yes. "I do not believe X" can be stated affirmatively: "I believe not-X." Penn Jillette: "I believe there is no god." And most god non-believers do believe in, for instance, the potential goodness of human beings.

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