Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet
…hing. Bell’s project is almost the exact inverse of Pascal’s. Bell, an at least sometime believer, seeks to act as if he did not believe. Yet his understanding of the relationship between belief and practice suggests something about how we have come to think of religion in the marketplace approach of contemporary spirituality. Bell treats atheism as a religious practice in which one attends services and reads devotional literature, the “sacred tex…
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