{"id":3879,"date":"2010-02-28T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2010-02-28T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:59:45","slug":"amen-sort-of-and-if-thats-not-an-inappropriate-word-to-use-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/amen-sort-of-and-if-thats-not-an-inappropriate-word-to-use-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amen (Sort Of, And If That’s Not An Inappropriate Word To Use)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to say that I rather liked this by Freddie, the blogger at L\u2019H\u00f4te<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2026Atheism is not a project.It has no purpose. It proceeds towards no end. It has no meaning beyond the simplicity of absence. It has as little negative presence as positive and demands no philosophy. Sam Harris’s life is dominated by religion. It’s what he thinks about; it’s what he writes about; it’s how he pays the bills. He speaks all over the country about religion, he opines on it constantly, denying it is his constant endeavor. His intellectual and philosophical life could hardly be more centered around religion if he were a monk.<\/p>\n

Me? I go weeks without thinking about religion or God. And why would I?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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With the important\u00a0qualification that I do spend quite a bit of time\u00a0pondering the implications<\/em> of religious belief (to start with, there\u2019s that whole rise of militant Islam business to think about), I have some sympathy for what Freddie is saying, even if I suspect that many of those who have taken the trouble to\u00a0define themselves as atheists have already spent far more time on this topic than it deserves.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I did, however, note with concern this passage from the same post\u00a0(the whole post<\/a>\u00a0is incidentally well worth reading in full):<\/p>\n

I once listened to a recording of a lecture by the New Age guru Ram Dass\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0Oh dear, I hope that\u2019s not a sign of some quest for \u201cmeaning\u201d.<\/p>\n

H\/t: The Daily Dish<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to say that I rather liked this by Freddie, the blogger at L\u2019H\u00f4te: \u00a0\u2026Atheism is not a project.It has no purpose. It proceeds towards no end. It has no meaning beyond the simplicity of absence. It has as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}