The Agnostic Root

Abstract

This chapter demonstrates how atheists acknowledge their unknowing about certain questions of human existence and, in so doing, present and even experience themselves as people who are exceptionally open to life’s mysteries in general; to a new way of living for which feelings of responsibility and gratitude are prominent features; and even to the reality of death, which, in light of their brevity, only serves to intensify their commitments to living responsible, grateful lives.