Posted on 10/23/2023 1:39:00 AM PDT by spirited irish
Is atheism a religion?
https://www.gotquestions.org/is-atheism-a-religion.html
Why yes it is. One believes he is his own god.
Great Comment, thank you for that. Im saving it.
Thx.:-)
We’re the astronomers getting grants for the “right” scientism? Like the climate change taxpayer-funded pots of gold?
I respect your beliefs, but am praying that you’ll be right with God one day soon. Time is running out in this world.
I am an atheist. Why should I consider becoming a Christian?
https://www.gotquestions.org/is-atheism-a-religion.html
Given that a major mutation in the genome is thought to take a million years or so, and the fact that the entire Universe is only about 13.8 Billion years old, that leaves room for only about 13,000 mutations in the history of the Universe. I am being generous with the timeline here for simplicity. The actual number is far fewer.
There is no physical possibility that evolution could bring nothingness, or even non-organic compounds, to our state of being today.
Just.
Not.
Possible.
I don’t feel angry. Where on earth did you get that idea?
By the way, the Greek prefix a- means without, not anti. Atheism is simply the absence of a belief in a deity.
When superstitious people assume atheists hate god or are against god, they are projecting.
Like I said, who am I to say your imaginary friend does not exist?
Is someone who doesn't believe in the Tooth Fairy an atoothfairyist? You don’t believe in the pantheon of Hindu gods, I take it. Are you an ahinduist?
No.
Astronomy is really a study of history.
our closest star( really three of them close together) Alpha Centauri (A, B, and C) is 4.2 years away at the speed of light.
One reason I don’t believe in UFO’s, I figure if God planted life elsewhere they will never meet up due to distances.
At least in our dimension and universe.
Most observations are local or very old deep space.
Isn't that more loosely a definition of agnosticism instead of atheism, at least for many atheists? Many of my friends who are atheists actually (and actively) believe that there is no God or supernatural beings.
When you think about it, that's a much more profound claim than that made by religious people (i.e, considering the difficulty of proving a negative). When pressed, they usually fall back on the materialist conclusions of a lot of scientists in their refusal to believe in anything that cannot be tested.
"If I can't touch it or test it in a laboratory, it doesn't exist."
That sounds more like a condition for a laboratory experiment than a belief system. As a belief system, it sounds more like an unfounded bias than a reasoned conclusion.
I think a lot of people find themselves in the middle, where they don't observe or practice a religion (for a variety of reasons), yet acknowledge that there's a great deal we don't know regarding existential questions.
As for me, I prefer the clarity and structure of Christianity, which not only explains the origins of our world, but also supplies a shared meaning and purpose. I'm sure a person can find individual meaning and purpose, but I find this collective belief to more satisfying.
Thank you for your insights.
And the naturalists still haven’t found the invisible magic police fairies that make everything in the universe obey those laws.
Well, the magic police handed out some HIV tickets to fairies (of the gay variety) who violated the natural laws.;-)
No, atheists say "There is no God because the more we learn the more we find out that there isn't any organized intelligence in the universe except us." And that doesn't cause them any anxiety whatsoever.
Perhaps you need to go back to what Math and Biology has discovered. There very much is a level of organization and numerous mathematical impossibilities for the constants that allow life to exist. You are showing your ignorance of the science.
Those in the field or aware do not argue against intelligence, instead the debate is a desperate way to find mechanisms that do not require intelligence. To date it only gets worse for those who desperately do not want intelligence to be the answer
Nothing created everything.
Everything organized itself and formed stars.
Inanimate matter organized itself and began living.
It then improved upon itself and formed all the species we now see.
It decided to think and to have intellect.
It decided there was something called “good” and something else called “evil”.
“ I will adopt a provisional belief that is most compatible with actual experience (i.e., it works!).”
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I have heard it said that, if you had incontrovertible evidence of God, that would be “knowledge “ not “faith”.
I think faith IS what you characterize as provisional belief that works.
I won’t “Know” God exists until I meet him face to face. But I putter along in the practice and study of my faith in the Judeo - Christian God because it keeps working! I keep finding hope in the patterns of purpose, love and truth that happen to me individually, and to the world. Tossing out the possibility of God would bring me no peace. But belief opens up purpose, motivation to carry on in adversity, and deeper appreciation of true and beautiful things and experiences.
A crutch? No. A lodestar. A way to go. As in “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”.
Thanks for the post. I went to read the article and didn’t watch the video interview. It’s interesting but just reframed St. Aquinas’s Universal causation.
Thanks for that link.
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