Saturday, 17 November 2007

Social Construct

The idea that religion is a social construct has been around for awhile. Feuerbach, Marx and Freud I think promoted the idea. Today we have Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens saying the same type of things. But what is there to say that Atheism isn't a social construct? After all if Atheism says that all our knowledge is just from man's senses, then by definition Atheism is thought up by man.

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1 comment:

  1. Steve CarlisleSaturday, November 17, 2007

    Nice one

    I guess the presuppositions are different and that we talk past each other at one level, even though we are talking about the same things.

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