Atheism 17 - Why NOT Atheism?
I completed my original goal quite some while back and, having received no terribly quantitative questions or comments, have since moved on to answering those questions I would have expected to receive had this blog actually piqued anyone's interest. I now move on to trying to amplify some of the points I merely touched on in the original posts. As stated way back in the beginning of all this, I was originally an atheist. In a previous post, I explained the discoveries I made about atheism once I had started to question myself, but I never really explained why I became dissatisfied with atheism in the first place. With this post, I aim to correct this oversight. Since about the 1910's - certainly by the time Jean Paul Sartre was being widely read - atheism had become inextricably tied to humanism and rationalism, as indeed it still is today. I began to question my atheism when I began finding flaws i...