In the latest edition of Religion Dispatches, Paul Wallace writes an excellent essay on Atheism and apophatic theology.  In it, Wallace claims that atheists reject far too little, instead settling for rejecting a “kind of ridiculous super-object in the sky”, a position that is far too simplistic. In this way, this category of atheists (Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, etc.) are simply the mirror image of the theology they so vociferously refute.  In simpler terms, they are the “does not” that compliments the “does too” of theological fundamentalism. This is not, by far, a new idea.  Aristotle, in On Interpretation, wrote “Affirmations and their corresponding negations are one in the same knowledge”. Wallace goes beyond affirmation and negation into second-order negation, or inverting the inversion.  Why is this important? The third level is the most difficult … Read entire article »