Faith, Good and Evil

In The Atlantic, Crispin Sartwell writes refreshingly about his atheism as a faith position. Atheism embodies a whole picture of the world, offering explanations about its most general organization to the character of individual events. Ironically, this is similar to the totalizing worldview of religion—neither can be shown to be true or false by science, or indeed by any rational technique. Whether theistic or atheistic, they are all matters of faith, stances taken up by tiny creatures in an infinitely rich … →