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What’s A Nice Atheist Like Me Doing At Gods & Radicals?
"The Sources” by Emy Blesio (oil on canvas)
John Halstead
August 30, 2016
Recently, some criticisms of the Gods & Radicals community have included condemnation of the inclusion of a self-proclaimed atheist — me — among the contributors.
What’s an atheist doing at Gods & Radicals? It’s a fair question.
The truth is, while I am an atheist, I am also a non-theistic humanist, a Gaian pantheist, an archetypal polytheist, a naturalistic animist. And which one I answer to really depends on how you ask the question or what aspect I am choosing to emphasize at the time.
My worldview does not accommodate supernatural beings that exist separately and independently of human beings — and in that sense I am an atheist.
https://godsandradicals.org/2016/08/30/whats-a-nice-atheist-like-me-doing-at-gods-radicals/
