Sitting in my favorite recliner reading the paper, I was distracted by Razi, my gray tabby, rearranging his sleeping position on my lap.
Of course, I recognize that reading the paper should have precedence over my cat’s predictable habits – he shifts his weight, turns around, often returning to his original position. But I stopped to pay attention because in a holistic sense, Razi was offering

A very rapidly growing number of people in the world don’t believe in supernatural beings or realms. In other words, they don’t believe in gods or demons, heavens or hells, the unseen and unsensed, the actuality of what is only imagined.
But they are not necessarily atheists, a word that implies, often unfairly, active antagonism. Untheists are simply unbelievers, …

In a sense, religious doubt began with the ancient Greeks, the first to robustly question the concept of divinity.
The death of seminal Greek philosopher Socrates in 399 B.C. was a harbinger of how the consequences of religious skepticism would play out in ensuing millennia. While questioning the consensus “truth” of just about everything in his day, Socrates, fatally it turned out, …