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Monday, May 30, 2011
Anything wrong with being atheist
After seeing Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, 2010) a few weeks back, and more recently (although I'd seen them before) Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004) and Gran Turino (Clint Eastwood, 2008) I am wondering whether Eastwood's frailty (he is 80 years old) is showing and whether that vulnerability is revealed in these film through his obvious obsession with questioning the existence of God or the place of God in our society. I'm an atheist, but because of my religious childhood, I have a nagging suspicion that we humans are pre-programmed in some way to believe in something greater than ourselves. Is there anything wrong with being an atheist - why have some of us evolved to be religious and others not?
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I misread the slugline as anything wrong with being a theist? :)
ReplyDeleteWell, theists believe in a deity, athiests don't believe in any at all.
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