The author reviews John Gray’s book, Seven Types of Atheism (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2018)
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Breaking the Last Taboo
An oldie-but-goodie from self-proclaimed skeptic and agnostic James A. Haught, who’s written several books on atrocities and injustices wreaked in the name of religion. The subject of taboos wouldn’t be complete without this quintessential jeremiad originally published in the Winter 1996/97 issue of Free Inquiry (a journal of secular humanist opinion and commentary founded in 1980 by Paul Kurtz).
Why I am an Agnostic and Neither an Atheist Nor a Believer
The mystery of existence is the greatest of all mysteries and the most basic of the big questions. It is mainly what has kept me an agnostic rather than an atheist. (It should be acknowledged that regarding Abrahamic concepts of God I’m more of an atheist.) The immensity of the universe (or a multiverse cosmos) is incredible; impossible to fathom. Thinking about this sometimes makes me wonder if perhaps almost anything might be possible. However, it doesn’t make me a believer. I‘m in agreement with physicist Richard Feynman who once said in an interview: “I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it’s much more interesting to live NOT knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” I truly don’t know how there happens to be any existence.
