Here is an interesting article about Apatheism -
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/apatheism_beyond_religion/index.html
I have always contended that reason contradicts the existence of God.
However, I have also noted that most people I knew of were pretty reasonable, pragmatic people that, for some reason, believed in God. Thus, I made every attempt to understand the reasoning behind their beliefs.
This was where I hit a stone wall. All of them were absolutely sure about their belief in God; yet, somehow, they found it difficult to expound upon their beliefs.
This frustrated me.
Don't get me wrong, I was not frustrated by their beliefs; rather, I was flummoxed by my own understanding, or lack thereof, of them.
I found "apatheism" interesting because it helped pigeonhole a lot of people around me (at least better than any other previous denomination that I knew of) and because it helped in bettering my understanding of their beliefs
Although I didn't agree with some of the author's claims, I found the article to be, on the whole, an interesting read.
P.S. There is also a good article about introversion in the same site - actually that's how I got to that blog.
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/caring_for_your_introvert/index.html
1 comment:
Good post. I will comment on apatheism a little later :)
I came across Jonathan's blog on introversion a while ago. I was somewhat surprised to find that many qualities he attributed to introverts apply to me. While it is undesirable to pigeonhole any individual (we are all too complex to be pigeonholed) into any particular category, I would cautiously describe myself as an introvert. In fact, that explains many of the conf
Too often in the past, I tended to explain (and continue to do so now because of years of habit) away my own introversion as mere "selfishness." I always felt a little guilty about it as well. I can now relax because it's not all mere selfishness, but mostly something else (introversion) altogether :)
Quite a few of the choices I've made in life, and seem to be making even now, are dragging me more and more away from my natural/happpier state of introvertedness. If there's any resolution that I would make for the year 2006, it would be to try to swing the pendulum a little bit the other way :)
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