I think some atheist are very anti-religious and some aren’t. It’s the latter that I have difficulty with because they accept that there may be some form of God, but it’s too unenlightened to say that one religion is any truer than the others. Therefore they are ok if you are a Christian, but don’t accept the divinity of Christ. Many are former believers who tried to resolve their doubts and failed. They claim they are scientific in the sense that they are always searching for truth and self-correcting whereas most religions are beholden to culturally created texts. I.E., they see themselves as truth-seekers and everyone else as dogmatists or Plato’s cave dwellers.
Agreed.
You either believe that you are nothing more than evolved flesh with a worldly agenda, having emerged from primordial ooze, or you believe you’re flesh infused with the spirit of God, and that spirit is in continuous conflict for control over the worldly pursuits of said flesh.
Theory teaches that everything came from nothing; science teaches me that matter can be neither created, nor destroyed… therefore, matter has always been here. An object at rest tends to remain so unless acted upon by an EXTERNAL FORCE. Even if everything sprang from nothing in a “supposed” big bang, some EXTERNAL FORCE surely must have preceded it, no? PARADOX. Trying to say something popped out of some other dimension… blah, blah… still presupposes that some other EXTERNAL FORCE was at work.
God is omnipresent, and therefore, even a mere whisper from God is about as EXTERNAL of a FORCE as it gets, and for my money, that explanation is so much more logical than all of the other hokum and gibberish spewed by those who advocate the denial of God.
I watched my Dad grapple with this towards the end of his earthly life; my heart hurt for him, and it was at this point that I really began to contemplate and try to put it all together. I have prayed so much since then that I’m bound to have made up for the last 50-years of lost time. For reasons known only to God, he chose to favor our species over all others on this Earth by imbuing us with souls. A tiny fragment of Him occupies our flesh and provides us with reasonable, rational critical thinking abilities above and beyond that originally supplied in the flesh. What we do with it is up to us.
Personally, I don’t want to go through the rest of my life “wondering”… for the most part, I’ve found my answers, and an awful lot of peace-of-mind.