Atheism is a belief. Its an invention. God is truth. It is natural to believe in God.
We're born Atheists, our parents pass down religion based on what their parents taught. And our parents make us care about God.
Spirituality is organic. Whereas it takes effort to believe in the non-existence of God. It is sensible and intelligent to believe in God.
It's only intelligent to be skeptical unless you have proof outside your state of mind.
Atheists are the ones who spend so much of effort in going their way out to demolish theist claims
Yes because Atheist go door to door, giving out pamphlets and booklets trying to get people to leave. We may take a kick out of debating believers, but we're not going to actively point a gun to anyone's head saying you need to leave your religion. It's only asshole religions we tend to complain about, not too many atheists would have a problem with Buddhism for example.
Atheism is not a reflex, it is a conditioning, it is a learnt habit, it is a state of mind that is built by those whose mind has boundaries and cannot be perceptive of higher truth.
Again when we were children we didn't really care about the idea of God. It was just kinda pounded into our brains.
There is no such thing as belief in God. Know God or do not. Admit through actual experience and the knowing, or do not. Do not say you know for sure that God does not exist, for how can you establish with absolutely certainty that there definitely is no being who knows everything.
You're right we don't know therefore we're not going to believe in something 'JUST IN CASE' just like we're not going to burn people for being witches 'JUST IN CASE'.
Atheism is a state of mind. Different people have different natures. Some people are more intelligent than others. Some parts of a subject and some subjects themselves entirely are more complex and advanced than others. Maybe you nor your ancestors have evolved to be able to prode and take deep stabs at the Mysterious.
No intelligence is based on fact. Just because something is mysterious and you don't know about it and don't believe in it does not make you stupid. Example, back in Europe when the plague killed 1/3 of the population, they didn't know it was being spread by rats. Now based on 'mysterious' superstition they killed all the cats because they thought they were associated with witches. So ' JUST IN CASE' better kill all those cats. Now you see this tragedy wouldn't have happens if people just stepped back from their beliefs and analyzed what was going on.
Maybe it is you who lacks the ability to attain awareness and pierce beyond the norm through higher states of consciousness.
Maybe this thing seems absurd only to you because you cannot understand it. You lack the ability.
You don't understand therefore you ask questions, most religions punish you for asking questions and challenging them, just as you are doing to us.
No one loses being unable to taste the sweetness of benign knowledge except themselves. God does not lose. God does not cease to exist.
Apparently he does since people are praying to him and maybe only a very very select few see some kind of miracle. Then when god doesn't answer their prayers they just say. ' Oh it was meant to happen, god knows best haha' Yeah nice.
You cannot speak with authority. Because you are only you. Your words have meanings only inside your head. And your definition of reason is only valid to you.
Same with religious people. All of the hundreds of religions.
What weight does your opinion hold? If you were eliminated what affect does it have on the cosmos? Does absolute reality alter because of some humans' inability to percieve things to which they have not attuned themselves to?
Look we weren't alive when the universe was formed and shit was going on millions of years ago. We had no consciousness, so we really shouldn't worry about these things for the future.
The Atheist could be a Theist. The Theist could be an Atheist. What is your state of mind in one place and what is it like in the other?
The feeling of certainty and righteousness is out of fear of being false. It is due to ego.
What is the best measure of certainty? Evidence for one thing does not apply to all others. If you demand scientific evidence for God maybe you're not acting on intelligence and being smart, maybe you're the one who is actually stupid.
Personally as an agnostic it's not god I have a problem with. It's his asshole followers I can't stand who feel that because they are in 'god's good graces' they can poop over everyone else. And since Islam
especially has based it's authenticity and entire existence on pooping on everyone else's belief's/ lifestyle is why we are upset and ended up here. :3
Topic: Atheism Is Not A Belief