http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/06/17/tract-18-isn%e2%80%99t-atheism-depressing/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/06/17/tract-18-isn%e2%80%99t-atheism-depressing/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Sesoron Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:43:01 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1183#comment-439 Excellent. Though I would posit that this doesn’t necessarily apply to all atheists: rather, I think there’s a continuity between humanistic and nihilistic atheism. What you describe here is humanistic atheism, to which I happily subscribe. What a lot of Christians assume is that we would tend to be nihilistic atheists who believe that, since there is no god, there is no meaning to life. Such people surely exist, but nihilism and humanism are not necessarily connected to a particular belief system.

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