I was asked how I can be absolutely certain that there is no eternally, immutably self-existent first cause. But this is not my position at all. So, I decided to explain what my atheism actually does and does not entail.
Clarifying The Relationships Between Dogmatism, Skepticism, And Properly Proportioned Belief
February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In a post last weekend entitled ”Evangelical Atheism?“ I explored the ways in which some atheists may both be called “evangelical” with some justification and yet deserve to be spared the moral approbation aimed at the most notorious kinds of theistic proselytizers. In reply Greg Teed suggested to me that atheists could not be “evangelical” in any [...]
The “A” Word
February 8, 2011 By 20 Comments
Yesterday, Eric Steinhart pointed out that “Much entails atheism but atheism entails little”, which inspired F.O. to write to me, Now I just think about how much it took me to really admit to myself that I was an atheist, using that word and not any other alternative, and I found that funny somehow. Why [...]
Agnostics Or Apistics?
October 27, 2010 By 26 Comments
In the past, I have defended the idea that rather than classifying people simply as atheists, agnostics, and theists that we should separate the questions of the contents of beliefs (whether they are atheistic or theistic) from whether one’s atheism or theism is held as a matter of knowledge or not. If one’s theism is [...]
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