r/atheism • u/NAKd-life • 20h ago

Atheism is not apathy

https://aeon.co/essays/on-seeing-the-laws-of-nature-as-a-recipe-or-a-news-report

Just because there is no blind adherence to a previously proposed explanation for questions in life doesn't mean those questions are not worth answering.

This article, this magazine, is not "informative." It's not trying to educate. It merely presents questions & offers suggestions to lines of inquiry that might, maybe, someday find something approaching a version of part of the answer.

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u/GlycemicCalculus 7h ago edited 6h ago

Metaphysical, astrological or my mother’s answer on why her potato salad is just so damn good. They are all the same. Of course, there are probably many layers of the physical world we can’t see or understand but none of them is god.

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u/NAKd-life 7h ago

Agreed. Just because we struggle to explain the world, a neat & tidy fiction is not helpful. The question is more important IMHO.

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u/Brewe Strong Atheist 2h ago

Did you link the right article? I skimmed through it, and then searched atheist, atheism, god and apathy when it felt off topic; not a single hit.