”You believe in you, Sigrid and I believe in me”, hit one of my daughter’s friends fixed when the girls were about seven years old and had heard that one could believe in God.
I thought it sounded healthy and when I’m in the magazine Response (no 6, 2018) read John Heumans excellent interview with the british philosopher John Gray and his criticism of today’s atheism, it feels as if this is where he wants to end up. Not in anything ”new secular substitute for religion”, faith in humanity, science or technology, without an acceptance of life as it is.
the author, Joseph Conrad as an example of a person with strong atheism, which has replaced religion with the worship of anything else. Atheists have also missed the point of religion when you see it as ”failed science,” says Gray. ”Religion is primarily an attempt to find meaning in existence and not a theory which shall explain everything.”
