
Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Isn't Atheism an Absolute Conviction?
We've had much too narrow an understanding of what it means to be non religious, says the author. But isn't atheismas an absolute conviction as intellectually presumptuous and unprovable as faith as an absolute conviction? Are you ever tempted to convert to agnosticism? I think the moment that er, that i feel like it, i would an otherwrds. It's just that i really don't feel a belief in divine being is something that rings bells with me.
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