Benjamin Cain
1 min readJun 16, 2022

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Your comment here strawmans the article. I'm not just "making it up" when I criticize atheists' commitments to reason, to secular humanism, and to technoscientific progress. I also don't say that all atheists subscribe to that positive worldview. I say most athiests do. Lots do even if they don't recognize that that's what they're doing.

For instance, you say you don't reject theism for violating principles of reason. But then you say you reject it because of the lack of evidence for God's existence. But it's a principle of reason that compels you to base your beliefs on evidence. So that's not a counterexample after all.

Anyway, your kind of atheism might not be subject to these "top" criticisms of mine. But as I understand the matter, most Western atheists, at least, do fall into this category.

The point is that there's atheism in the narrow, negative sense (the rejection of theism), and then there are the positive worldviews shared by many atheists. Those worldviews are subject to criticism too.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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