Excellent article, and it calls to mind this article I saw on the LA Times website recently: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0115-zuckerman-se... I like to describe myself as being vaguely 'militantly agnostic'[1] ("I don't know, and you don't either," as one of my favorite bumper stickers reads), and so this quote from the OP resonates with me: But I wondered if she hadn’t swung too far in the opposite di…
Our type seem to nowadays have no home in discussions of not only religion, where you would expect it, but also philosophy, where naturalism is a weirdly embattled position accepted even in weak form by only half the field.
Personally, it does feel "ideologically homeless" to find that I'm largely locked out of discussing larger questions with people simply because I have only truths and no Truth.