Comments on: The Fundamentalist Atheist http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/ Using transparency and other management techniques to change who I am and what I'm about Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: finch http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-1333 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:47:29 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-1333 that’s a good one

]]> By: Art Clarke http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-185 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:12:21 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-185 oh, so do I…

]]> By: anonymous http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-184 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:03:38 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-184 I like the term ‘Ambiguous Agnistic’. Just because you personally do/don’t believe in something dosen’t mean it does/dosen’t exist or didn’t happen.

]]> By: fadingad http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-178 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:16:55 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-178 Art-

Thank you so much for commenting on my blog. Love your article. Personally, I’m dogmatically against dogma. But seriously, as a skeptic my whole life, I was constantly turned off to religion- especially growing up gay. But when I started believing in science with the same faith as a religious person, I started to wonder about my own dogma and stopped scoffing at faith.

No one can prove or disprove scientifically the existence of a supreme being, whomever she may be- so why not just open to the endless possibilities. I don’t see the need for a creator in a universe that is so remarkably weird and beautiful and chaotic and ordered at the same time – but I honor others who do have this need – as long as it doesn’t impede on my personal freedoms.

As a child I called myself an atheist but when I met other atheists, they treated it like a religion and that turned me off. Agnostics always had a wishy-washy (flip-flop Presidential candidate) impression. But I am much more comfortable with that label since I don’t have a belief system built around it. The afterlife, ESP, UFOs- all have fallen under my category of the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus while growing up. My current faith in science’s claims of parallel and infinite universes is also tinged with skepticism. Fundamentally, I’m anti-fundamentalist. Sorry. I can’t help joking.

Best,
Frank

http://fadingad.wordpress.com

]]> By: Art Clarke http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-155 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:28:47 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-155 Hi Brad & writeitoutplease :)
Brad, I agree that there are limits to what science can show us (as there are limits to what spirituality can show us). it’s really a balance — it’s just taken me a long time to realize that.

And writeitoutplease, you’re spot on.

]]> By: Brad http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-145 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:59:04 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-145 Your scientific approach in your blogs is as refreshing as it is uncommon. After reading this blog, I was wondering if the scientific method can actually be considered capable of explaining something as elusive as god or religion. Even if it could, how long would the explanation last considering that science is ever-changing and even things that have been ‘proven’ change over time?

]]> By: writeitoutplease http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-144 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:29:13 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-144 I was going to say that rationale and science cannot explain everything, but you’ve said it already. Fundamentalist Atheists and Fundamentalist Christians could learn lots from each other if they didn’t look at human minds as territory to war over (especially Fundamentalist Christians).

]]> By: Lola http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-142 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:02:34 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-142 hi nice post, i enjoyed it

]]> By: GNP http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-141 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:29:34 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-141 Really enjoying this series of posts.

]]> By: Art Clarke http://blog.abclarke.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-136 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:45:20 +0000 http://abclarke.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-fundamentalist-atheist/#comment-136 Interesting thought. I wonder (and I suspect you’re right) if that question does have predictabive qualities for spiritualism.

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