I seek to promote a fuller understanding of religious skepticism by defending five theses. These concern, respectively: its breadth, discussed in relation to theism on the one hand and naturalism on the other; why it should be distinguished from a general metaphysical skepticism; how it is supported by the consequences of recent cultural evolution, which at the same time enable new and stronger arguments for atheism; the relations it bears to non-doxastic religious faith; and, finally, its curious capacity in certain not uncommon circumstances to take the form of a soft irreligion that is widely approvable—even from a religious perspective.

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宗教怀疑论

我试图通过捍卫五个论点来增进对宗教怀疑论的更全面的理解。这些问题分别涉及：一方面涉及有神论，另一方面涉及自然主义。为什么应将其与一般的形而上学怀疑论区分开来；最近的文化进化的结果如何支持它，同时又为无神论提出了新的更强有力的论据；与非宗教宗教信仰的关系；最后，它在某些常见情况下的好奇能力采取了柔和的宗教信仰的形式，这种宗教信仰得到了广泛认可-即使从宗教的角度来看也是如此。