Seven Types of Atheism

Il était universaliste. Il espérait une disparition des religions traditionnelles au fur et à mesure que les hommes se voueraient plus nombreux à une exhaustive compréhension du cosmos. Nous avons abordé ce sujet il y a quelques années. Spinoza est le rationaliste par excellence. Il voit dans le monde un courant ininterrompu de causalités.

What I call religious faith is any form of belief in an eternal being or an eternity beyond being, either in the form of a timeless repose (such as nirvana), a transcendent God, or an immanent, divine Nature.

The only fully consistent alternative to belief in God, properly understood, is some version of “materialism” or “physicalism” or (to use the term most widely preferred at present) “naturalism”; and naturalism—the doctrine that there is nothing apart from the physical order, and certainly nothing supernatural—is an incorrigibly incoherent concept,

Basically, they argue that belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics. You see less education among women, less hedonism and individualism. And to a large degree, this belief in transcendence