Atheism as an Identity
James Lindsay's lecture "Ending Atheism: There Is No God But 'God'" makes many good points. What I miss, however, is an acknowledgment that atheism can and ought to be more than simply the lack of a kind of belief, namely, in a supernatural creator of the universe. As I've argued many times on this blog, the very term supernatural is incoherent and a misuse of language. God as a term, in other words, is fatally and conceptually flawed. Ayn Rand called such a term an "anti-concept." Nevertheless, Lindsay's lecture is worth hearing.