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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (38462)	11/23/2001 11:40:51 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

The only "atheism" that is not philosophically nihilistic is the kind that acknowledges an underlying order to the universe, along the lines of Buddhism, Taoism, or Stoicism, and, as I have explained, I do not consider them to be atheistic in the strict sense, because they functionally believe in a deity, even if impersonal. From that perspective, a number of self- professed atheists are not really atheists, because they believe in Nature in a quasi- pantheistic way. On the question of aptness: when ordinary belief is being treated unsympathetically, I think it is very apt to remind people why it is preferable to real atheism, which is, in fact, nihilistic........