Wednesday, October 3, 2007  The Problem with Atheism  The
Problem with Atheism - 10/02/07  Another great read from Sam
Harris. I believe this actually caused a stir amongst some "free
thinkers" at the Atheist Alliance conference. It's dead on in my
opinion.  "Another problem with calling ourselves "atheists" is
that every religious person thinks he has a knockdown argument
against atheism. We've all heard these arguments, and we are
going to keep hearing them as long as we insist upon calling
ourselves "atheists. Arguments like: atheists can't prove that
God doesn't exist; atheists are claiming to know there is no
God, and this is the most arrogant claim of all. As Rick Warren
put it, when he and I debated for Newsweek—a reasonable man like
himself "doesn't have enough faith to be an atheist." The idea
that the universe could arise without a creator is, on his
account, the most extravagant faith claim of all.    "My concern
is that atheism can easily become the position of not being
interested in certain poss