So what does \u201catheist\u201d mean to you? And is the solution to the confusion simply to point out that just as \u201cChristian\u201d and \u201cGod\u201d do not refer to single positions, concepts or definitions, so too there are different brands of atheism, and different understandings of what it means to be an atheist?<\/p>\n
This post is largely a response to a post on EvolutionBlog entitled \u201cSaving Religion from Religion Scholars<\/a>\u201d (see also The Bad Idea Blog<\/a> and Unreasonable Faith<\/a>, as well as Liberal Pastor<\/a> and Threads from Henry\u2019s Web<\/a>). I\u2019m not sure Jason Rosenhouse is concerned with saving religion from scholars so much as saving atheism<\/em> from scholars like me who raise this issue about what it in fact means. Take a look!<\/p>\n It is certainly true that much contemporary discussion between (and about) atheists and religious believers suffers from the tendency to assume that \u201cGod\u201d means (and can only mean) one thing, usually the classic theism of Christianity as reduced into the understanding of popular Christianity today. Equally problematic, however, is a lack of clarity about what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-178562920990050954?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")