what is a "devout" atheist?
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:29:31 -0400
Anybody claiming to be a rational being in pursuit of a central set of
"values" of any sort (truth, beauty, reason, "universality," human
rights, etc.) coupled with a sense of obligation to other people has a
"god" in the back of his or her mind somewhere. Whether you mobilize
these concerns in a particular figure (God, milk, J.D. Salinger) or
religious tradition, you are still operating by virture of the
transcendental signified.
"one always inhabits [a structure], and all the more when one does not
suspect it."
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu