Benjamin Cain
May 3, 2023

--

You're mistaking me for the garden variety, scientistic secular humanist. Instead, I'm an old school existential atheist. I've argued that the proofs for and against God are irrelevant because the choice between theism and atheism is essentially existential, ethical, aesthetic, or "faith-based." It's a question of character, such as whether we want to belong to some social group, or how we manage our dread of death.

I've also critiqued modern secular culture, including the concept of social progress, and the modern Promethean, Faustian, Luciferian ethos. And I agree that science doesn't explain all mysteries. Specifically, I've argued that science can't explain the rise of the property of naturalness.

https://medium.com/@benjamincain8/the-irrelevance-of-all-philosophical-proofs-of-god-1ad36a72aa82?source=friends_link&sk=c4104aa9eaf25227bd86969d17e6e460

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/why-religion-shouldnt-be-rational-2901e281caca?sk=aebb3577744fd12fdfbbd00d0568179f

https://medium.com/the-apeiron-blog/atheism-and-the-endlessness-of-explanation-22e72f89d509?source=friends_link&sk=cdc78c5a20c7678da120f27b2fbd897b

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/can-naturalness-be-naturalized-334b2b33f1bb?sk=eb5471a2031d76d7382e0b5b4f7e180d

--

--

Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

No responses yet