This will be no ordinary skeptical diatribe. The message I mean to convey does not rely on criticizing the flaws of religion. The value of a perspective untethered from divinity can be well attested on its own merits, without any need to denigrate alternative views (of which I’ve done plenty elsewhere). It is crucial to begin by explaining what Atheism is and is not, as I encounter a great deal of confusion on this point.
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Today’s political landscape in the United States is in many ways more fraught and divided than it has been since the days of the Union and Confederacy. Diametrically opposed factions vie for supremacy, pursuing rigid partisan agendas at seemingly any cost, defaming one another and becoming increasingly prone to outrage at the opponent’s slightest rebuke; and the schism expands ever wider with the passage of each 24-hour news cycle.
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