Truth Claim of the Day

"More often when you strip away adherence to theology you do not get atheism, you get animism."
Please, discuss. The context is here. Via Arnold Kling at EconLog.

2 comments:

12/28/2009 11:51 AM Jessie said...

I suppose this makes sense. In my experience, atheism is not a disbelief in God, but an intense hatred of God or His people. So atheism is certainly not an absence of religious belief. And animism is fairly common in people groups without formal theology, right?

12/30/2009 11:38 AM Anonymous said...

Indeed. Like Sicily, or any other place where Catholicism goes to seed.

 

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