I was mildly critical of Ron Rosenbaum (above) below, re: his spurious Pale Fire controversy. But I'm entirely on his side on the topic of agnosticism vs. atheism. As he says in this week's Slate, "Let's get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition to the unwarranted certainties that atheism and theism offer."
Well said, sir. Atheism is as absurdly childish and irrational as any other full-fledged religious belief that reposes on the arrogant and credulous "faith" of its proponent.
