Category Archives: Atheism

I don’t want to change your beliefs, I want to help you believe them

A prob­lem I fre­quently expe­ri­ence when in con­ver­sa­tion with oth­ers is that I am often seen as the adver­sar­ial char­ac­ter. Part of this is because I use the label “atheist-christian,” which often leads oth­ers to imme­di­ately focus on only one part of the hyphen­ated label—when talk­ing to a chris­t­ian, I am labeled an athe­ist, whereas

Brief Thoughts: Responding to Dawkins

We have brains: it’s brains that do the think­ing, our brains are going to decay, that’ll be that. But when you say, “Is this it?” Well, how much more do you want? This is won­der­ful.”- Richard Dawkins I saw this Dawkins’ quote yes­ter­day (the quote is from a panel dis­cus­sion, video here). I wanted to agree