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Lighten Up: You Gotta Believe In Something, Man!
Two things here:
1) How does this philosopher not see that “not believing in believing” is itself a belief?
2) Is that a turtleneck or is that philosopher just really hairy?
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Atheism, Belief, Faith, Lighten Up, Philosophy, Theology
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