This autumn I will be presenting a qualified defense of apatheism at a conference. This is a draft of the paper I plan to deliver. It is in response to Jonathan Rauch’s important essay “Let it Be” in which he develops the concept of apatheism. The link between 9/11 and the new atheism is well-established, […]
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On Defending Apatheism
My paper proposal offering a modest and qualified defense of apatheism has been accepted for the Evangelical Philosophical Society meeting this November at the annual AAR/SBL conference in Denver. Here’s the precis: In the Back Pew: A Defense of Christian Apatheism Apatheism can be defined as a lack of interest in so-called existence questions, i.e. questions […]
On those who loathe God
Frank writes: I an NOT an apatheist. I would be very concerned about god’s existence, as I would loath him for his abominable cruelty.” That’s right. In addition to atheists and apatheists we have antitheists. An antitheist is an individual who believes that God does not exist but also would reject God if God did […]
Should you care if God exists?
In 2003 Jonathan Rauch hit a cultural nerve when, in an article in Atlantic Monthly, he declared himself an “apatheist”. With this neologism Rauch sought to convey the point that he didn’t fall into either of the traditional theist/atheist camps. He certainly wasn’t a theist, but neither was he an atheist of the traditional sort because traditional […]
