Yes, it’s the old mantra, “atheism is a faith position too”.<\/p>\n
In \u201cOn a Mission\u201d, Education Guardian<\/span>, Tues May 8th, Joanna Moorhead quotes head teacher Terry Boatwright (head of a religious school) as saying “Even people who don’t believe in God have a faith – they have faith that God doesn’t exist. People say: How dare you push your faith at young people? But a head who doesn’t believe is still a head with faith.”<\/p>\n So that’s why it’s ok for Boatwright to “push” his faith at kids.<\/p>\n Jeez, “atheism is a faith position too” has really entered the zeitgeist. It seems to crop up almost weekly in the press now. Where’s it coming from? See here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a> for earlier discussion.<\/p>\n The idea that science is also based on “faith” seems to be behind a lot of it (Juliana recently suggested this, I note). I think we should discuss that shortly…<\/p>\n Who can find the most irritating, sinister or downright funny use of this ever-popular myth? I’ll send the winner a signed (if desired) paperback copy of The War For Children’s Minds<\/span> (published July).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, it’s the old mantra, “atheism is a faith position too”. In \u201cOn a Mission\u201d, Education Guardian, Tues May 8th, Joanna Moorhead quotes head teacher Terry Boatwright (head of a religious school) as saying “Even people who don’t believe in God have a faith – they have faith that God doesn’t exist. People say: How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,127,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-atheism-a-faith-position","category-atheism-the-mystery-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}