Comments on: Published in the New Statesman online!

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:32:31 +0000

I found your blog through the New Statesman, and my only complaint is that you don’t update it quite enough. As an American Atheist, I enjoy reading blogs of atheists across the sea.

Agnosticism, I am not so hard on it. I have often said that I am willing to allow a .03% level of probability that a supreme being exists although I have no idea what form it would take. On the larger part that would make me an agnostic, while I am a functional atheist. For good measure, I call myself an atheist, because as Richard Dawkins has said “Unlikely is unlikely is unlikely. How far are we expected to go with this?”

Loved the cult video. I shall embed it in my own blog.

By: ciaran

ciaran — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:41:43 +0000

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your comment. I think this explains my position on atheism/ agnosticism. I’ll be putting up a page later on with some clever videos including Douglas Adams’ views on the two.

http://www.hanway.co.uk/atheism-introduction/atheism-faq

Short answer: I think agnosticism’s a bit of a cop-out.

By: [Spammer Name removed]

[Spammer Name removed] — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:19:32 +0000

So just under TWO PERCENT of the email that arrives every day is genuine. The rest is rubbish. I’ve got some spam filtering in there, but it isn’t great. It sometimes junks genuine emails and I’ve lost some good opportunities through this (I almost missed the New Statesman gig after my spam filter killed it).

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:25:00 +0000

Ciaran, these rock. Glad there’s at least one fellow atheist in Harrow!

By: Simon Jester

Simon Jester — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:49:23 +0000

On a frivolous note: Zeus is just Thor with a fake nose stuck on.

On a more serious note: do you distinguish between atheism and agnosticism, and if so, why do you prefer atheism over agnosticism?