The Blaatschapen wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:Atheism has no unified expression. You have atheists that are nihilists, egoists, but you also have atheists who essentially follow the basic precepts of Christian behavior due to the influence of Christianity on Western thought.
Indeed, there is no shared dogma, rituals, or set of beliefs among atheists, except a rejection of the concept of God.
In many way, I'm closer to Angela Merkel (a Christian democrat) than to Joseph Stalin (authoritarian atheist).
Literally too, Angela is only a few km away usually
There's an interesting book on the subject, by Theologian David Bentley Hart. It goes by the unfortunate title of Atheist Delusions (the author didn't choose the title, his publisher did because they wanted it as a callout to Dawkins), but the book itself is about how modern Secular Humanism actually owes a great deal to Christian thought on universal human dignity.