06.30.10
An Agnostic Manifesto
An Agnostic Manifesto
At least we know what we don’t know.
By Ron Rosenbaum
Posted Monday, June 28, 2010, at 2:03 PM ET
Let’s get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition to the unwarranted certainties that atheism and theism offer.
We have been endorsing agnosticism repeatedly here, so it is good see this article on an ‘agnostic manifesto’.
One problem with the New Atheism is the simplistic view of almost everything that goes with it.
Starting with Darwinian pseudo-science, reductionist scientism, and not least a refusal to study the history of religion, where the prescence of atheist religion is clear.
The New Atheism is doomed sooner or later to turn fanatic.