Richard Dawkins to atheist rally: 'Show contempt' for faith

[villager]

33. This Sunday school teacher likes the cut of your jib, longship

The way I teach scripture (the Hebrew side of the book, in this case), is as a "myth cycle," where "belief" isn't required to investigate where these stories came from, and what they might mean to us today. (As metaphors, many of these stories are still quite compelling).

My own "theism" is simply that the sum is greater than the whole of the parts, and in that differential lies The Great Mystery, which we still haven't figured out.

But in my own walking around life, it just seems that those who identify as "religiously liberal" seem to be more open to capital-Q "Questions" about the Meaning of It All than those who self-identify as atheists.

that said, obviously atheists are to be preferred over fascist fundamentalists, in these desperate times.

It's a lively discussion, and probably atheism is as necessary in the "ecosystem of belief" as devotion, for ideas to be defined, make sense, etc.