Comments on: Protestant Atheism http://johnbasie.com/2008/06/09/protestant-atheism/ Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C.S. Lewis Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jon Furst http://johnbasie.com/2008/06/09/protestant-atheism/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Jon Furst Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:24:44 +0000 http://johnbasie.com/?p=50#comment-36 Your title reminds me of a quote from Flannery O'Connor: "[I]f you live today you breathe in nihlism, in or out of the Church it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now." Looking forward to your upcoming thoughts on the new "positive atheism". Your title reminds me of a quote from Flannery O’Connor:
“[I]f you live today you breathe in nihlism, in or out of the Church it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”

Looking forward to your upcoming thoughts on the new “positive atheism”.

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