Notable Quotes #4 Sunday, June 24, 2007
Posted by h3nry in David Eller, Eller, God, Natural Atheism, Notable Quotes Series, anthropology, atheism, rationality, reason, religion, science.trackback
This is a quote extracted from the book Natural Atheism which I reviewed earlier:
Virtually all of human history and thought has been grounded on the premise of gods. Atheism alone has not been responsible for the gradual disintegration of this ground; rather, Atheism is the finished product, not the process. Reason, natural investigation (i.e. science), cultural comparison (i.e. anthropology), religious diversity, and other world-shaking and world-dissolving forces and discoveries have slowly but inexorably chipped away at the ground of god(s).
Eller has certainly express the simple truth well!
As I like to say: atheism is a conclusion, not a premiss.
Interesting review, it certainly sound like a book I should be adding to my wishlist.
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