Atheism as a religion

Atheism as a religion

 

Great French Catholic philosopher
Jacques Maritain, 1882-1973
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

Jacques Maritain

 

 


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