Reply #57: Religion as art.

[trotsky]

I can easily accept that. Fits right in with the unicorn/ideas analogy. Art is real, but what it represents may or may not be real. It might not even represent anything. Hmm, need to explore that analogy a little bit more. Tricky, I'm sure, since religion has inspired art, but then again, early art has inspired later art. (Andy Warhol, anyone?)

Anyway, I need to find out what social circles I can find these "conservative fundie atheists" in, because I still have yet to meet one. I belong to atheist organizations, know many atheists online, but haven't met anyone like the people you describe. Sure, I've met a few "pouty" atheists, the types who declare themselves an atheist because they're trying to show their god how mad they are, but they still really do believe.

I gotta wonder, though, how someone could be "anti-evolutionist" for non-religious reasons.