Intellectually impoverished atheism

Lachlan R. Dale
7 min readOct 2, 2021

Atheists like to think of themselves as both rationally and intellectually sound. Regrettably, this is not always the case.

Richard Dawkins. Photo: The Sunday Times

Take a moment to call to mind some of the atheists you’ve met. With some luck, you will have come across some wonderful secular humanists, who are kind, reasonable and psychologically well-balanced. But, odds are, you’ve also likely come across another type of atheist: the smug…

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Lachlan R. Dale

Exploring religion, philosophy and literature in a rather amateurish fashion. Writing and reading as a practice.