Reading this helps me make more sense of the conversation we're having below.
Yes, if an atheist in this conversation is someone who believes they need make no allowance for unknown rules or mystery, then I think I agree with you that no translation between the atheist and the theist is possible. But I wonder if the definition you're using here actually describes the people we started out calling "atheist Friends".
I also find that definition of atheist amusing, in that it is very similar to the definition I think many atheists have of theists -- that is, the same attribution of complacency is made. I'm not sure it's entirely fair in either sense.
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Re: Faith
Date: Sunday, 26 February 2006 12:51 am (UTC)Reading this helps me make more sense of the conversation we're having below.
Yes, if an atheist in this conversation is someone who believes they need make no allowance for unknown rules or mystery, then I think I agree with you that no translation between the atheist and the theist is possible. But I wonder if the definition you're using here actually describes the people we started out calling "atheist Friends".
I also find that definition of atheist amusing, in that it is very similar to the definition I think many atheists have of theists -- that is, the same attribution of complacency is made. I'm not sure it's entirely fair in either sense.