Comments on: Religion for Atheists https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/religion-for-atheists/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Tatyana https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/religion-for-atheists/comment-page-1/#comment-729208 Tatyana Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:30:44 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30853#comment-729208 Zac,
no, I didn’t said that at all.
no “just”, and no “divide between communities”.

I meant what I said, and said what I mean.

cooperation and coexistence are very small and often temporary functions where an individualist would want the collectives of various stripes to stop – but they don’t.

]]> By: Zac https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/religion-for-atheists/comment-page-1/#comment-718678 Zac Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:24:03 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30853#comment-718678 Tatyana, I agree and disagree. First, you are right that the divide is not just between atheists and believers (nor just between believers in A religion and believers in B-Z religions). But the divide is between the community we want, the community we can’t have, and the community we’re afraid of. The text says church is a place where we can talk to our neighbor openly; we can do that everywhere, but our upbringing teaches us not to. Also, I don’t think you can overvalue community in the sense that it encompasses cooperation and coexistence (no connotations intended behind “coexistence”).

]]> By: Tatyana https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/religion-for-atheists/comment-page-1/#comment-716408 Tatyana Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:58:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30853#comment-716408 The religiously inclined often overestimate the value of community, communal spirit and similar ties of repression. The divide is not between atheists and believers; it’s between individualists and collectivists.

]]> By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/religion-for-atheists/comment-page-1/#comment-716260 David Foster Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:47:27 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30853#comment-716260 Arthur Koestler, himself by no means a conventionally religious person, wrote about the social impact of declining religiousness in his novel of ideas The Age of Longing. I reviewed it at length here.

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