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The Meaning of Belief
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View | Tim Crane
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Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but they make no impact on believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. Noting that religion is not what atheists think it is, Tim Crane offers a way out of this stalemate.
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Crane argues that atheists need to understand two basic issues about the meaning of religious belief: 1) religious impulse: the sense of something that transcends the ordinary; and 2) identification: belonging to a specific group and performing specific rituals that cement social bonds. #TBRtemptation

mcipher Oooh, interesting! I like to live and let live as long as someone‘s religion isn‘t infringing on me, but it‘d be neat to see his thoughts. 7y
minkyb He has a valid point. 7y
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