11:00am June 26th, 2009The All That Remains

Well, I finally finished the Comte-Sponville book. It took me a while; it was hard to read more than a short section of a chapter without stopping to reflect on whether (and why) I agreed or disagreed with whatever I’d just read. Comte-Sponville’s grew up in a Christian household, but has in adulthood come to describe himself as an atheist: one who doesn’t believe there is no God, but who si...

4:17pm June 16th, 2009Of Mice and Me

Stewart caught a mouse today. He popped through the cat door that leads up from the basement with his mouth full of something, which usually means that someone has made the mistake of leaving something appealing lying out in the open down on the tool bench—a bag of wire nuts, say, or (his favorite) a styrofoam peanut. But this time he looked more… furtive… than usual; as I approache...

11:05am June 4th, 2009Faith and Fidelity

One of the items I picked up on the Second Annual Glasgow Sibling Christmas Shopping Trip was this small volume by André Compte-Sponville, titled (quite appropriately) The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. I’m not very far into it, but that’s not because I’m not finding it engaging.  On the contrary, I find myself frequently having to pause to reflect on sections I’ve read.  This is...