Saturday, February 28, 2009, 10:34pm
We find out that Scandinavia was "a society -- a markedly irreligious society -- that was, above all, moral, stable, humane and deeply good." We find out "many of his interviewees spoke of death, without fear or anxiety, and their notable lack of existential searching for any ultimate meaning of life."
They didn't like the word "atheist," though. And why would they? Why would they need a word to describe something that is so obvious to everyone? It's what Sam Harris was alluding to a couple years ago in his remarks at the Atheist Alliance International conference when he said we need to drop the "a-word" label.