Poetic Atheism

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Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 11:44 pm, Tue Oct 18, 2011.

By Daniel Garber

Bringing out a less technical side of atheism, author Jennifer Michael Hecht spoke to University students about her research on the idea of “Poetic Atheism.”

This version is an alternative to New Atheism, which Hecht believes is overly materialistic and based in science.

“Throughout most of history, atheism has not been materialist and scientific — it has been based in the humanities,” she said at a discussion sponsored by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University.

Hecht began studying the history of atheism when she encountered a 19th century French organization called the Society of Mutual Autopsy, whose members dissected each other after death and held an atheistic view.

http://www.dailytargum.com/news/university/humanist-focuses-on-atheist-expression/article_c87a0c3a-fa03-11e0-89aa-0019bb30f31a.html

[darkstar3]

1. You sure post a lot of articles about a topic you've said doesn't really belong in R/T.

Strange, that.

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2. I thought of you when I read this.

[Jim__]

3. I'm curious as to what she means by atheism wasn't materialist.

I can understand a basis for atheism in the humanities; but I don't see the alternative to materialism.