This is a follow-up to my last post, Four Columns, or The Sermon That Made Me An Agnostic, where I refer to myself as an “agnostic.” This label, like “atheist” or “Christian,” comes with certain social connotations. And while labels can help people gather with other like-minded people, a label doesn’t give the whole picture of what an individual believes.
Like I said in Four Columns, I went from Christian minister to agnostic to atheist back to agnostic. And by that I mean those were the labels I used for myself. I found myself part of the secularist / humanist / freethinker / atheist community during the height of “New Atheism” in the early 2000s and the “Four Horsemen” who stood as the rockstars of the movement: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
Honestly, it was a fun time to be an atheist. This was before Hitchens died and Dawkins was shown to be an out of touch boomer we’re all better off ignoring.
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