My conversation with Chutney

Fellow blogger Chutney wrote a post against recent atheist writers such as R. Dawkins. I wrote a couple of comments there stating my opinions. Since Chutney has closed that thread in his blog, I publish here my last comment on it that could not get published originally. Please follow the link above to know more about the background to this conversation.

Thanks for your clarification, I got the wrong impression from your previous post. I still think that these outspoken atheists are right in many aspects and that there is good reason to blame organized religion for many problems of the past and present.

The idea that every human being has faith is a typically Christian one. I hear it every time when the Catholic bishops want to impose their morals and worldview on schools and society in general. I am sorry when I read UUs stating the same positions.

I do not think that every human being has faith. It may be that people have some kind of faith in some stages in their lives, but there are times (for some people, most of their adult life) that people have no faith. You cannot understand existentialism, nihilism, and other Western philosophies, or even some religions such as Buddhism (if taken seriously and not the Western way of understanding it) if you deny that there are people who have chosen to leave faith in the vault of history or as a groundless dream.