Seven Types of Atheism

bring redemption to all of humankind.

Adamism

Another

time, a sort of mystic illumination possessed me …18

telling contrast here with ancient Greek sceptics, who instead cultivated detachment from the world. A ‘scientific philosophy’, Russell wrote in 1928, could fashion a ‘new morality’ that would ‘turn our earth into a paradise’.20 How this remarkable metamorphosis would come about he did not explain. He believed that reason did not move human beings

The story of Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge is a mythical imagining of the ambiguous impact of knowledge on human freedom.

It is commonly assumed that science will someday yield a single unchanging view of things.

animal, cycles of this kind

In most religions, debates about belief are unimportant.