On: Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)

[whatshisface]

If everything about God is beyond human understanding, then a belief in that god doesn't leave you with any more beliefs than you started with, which makes it atheism by a different name. I would argue that you would have to have at least one religious belief to be counted as religious (and no, "the belief that I have a religious belief" doesn't count.)

[philwelch → whatshisface]

I didn’t say I was religious, and in any case this is a distant digression.