Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: League Of Militant Atheists, Secular Humanism, Theism
16 May 2019
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Religious people and people without religion often claim to have basically the same convictions and experiences. We have a responsibility to live well. Sense of natural wonder is profound, real, fundamental. Beautify fundamental laws we imperfectly grasp at. The experience of religious atheism the notion of fundamentality (both atheists and theists have this notion that there are things which are basic, and on which everything else rests). Legally, secular humanism" is treated as a religion in the us (for example, secular humanists can conscientiously object to military service on basis of their moral convictions). It"s thought of as a religion without a belief in god. Given how we use the term religion", there can be religious atheism". Applying the term religion" to both atheism and theism, as opposed to applying the term spiritual" makes explicit what is in fact common between the two.
