Atheism is a belief. Its an invention. God is truth. It is natural to believe in 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. Atheists are the ones who spend so much of effort in going their way out to demolish theist claims. 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.
I feel that your input is worthy of a response, cause it readily exemplifies your typical agnostic spiritualist. A person who seeks to mystify his belief so much that it becomes inanely uncommunicative in these religious/atheist discussions.
Here we go.
First of all atheism is not a belief. How many times do I and others need to assert this? Atheism upholds no common scripture, nor does it communicate any teachings of any sorts. It is the equivalent of substituting the word 'belief' with 'ideology'. Statements such as
“Atheism is an ideology!” are also fallacious, cause the inherent nature of atheism holds no ideological preferences, and can therefore not be reviewed nor criticized under such pretences. Epithets such as Muslim, Hindu, Christian all carry an entourage of collective thoughts. Atheism inherently lacks any collective thoughts. I dare you to find me any radical common thought within a atheistic community (except for the fact that they lack a belief). You can not? Well guess why? Because there exist none.
Your statement that
“It is natural to believe in God” is also frivolous. The philosopher Hume argues that we should not argue of “ought to be” from “what is”. Just because human beings have the naturalistic tendency to religious thinking does not mean that the logical mind(and the logical thought) can not transcend these basic tendencies. The reason why define our species as the “wise man” is because we have freed ourself from our biological instincts, alas religion is but on step further of freeing ourself completely from our primitive holdings.
I agree with you. To adhere to atheism is not an easy task. To brake ones cultural shackles and contemplate the logical rather than the comforting exceeds the capacity of many human beings. You see the organic is not always the correct, as much of a naturalist that I am, I need make myself logical and clear before I see myself comforted by my own thoughts.
Maybe it is you who lacks the ability to attain awareness and pierce beyond the norm through higher states of consciousness.
Such statements(and many of your other statements) are really blatant in the polemical discussions. Higher consciousness? What does that even imply? I need to imprison myself in a cave and meditate for twenty years before I reach such a state?
Human beings have established the logical as the communicative method of what holds to be true in our consciousness. We can not adhere to spiritualism to free us from misguided traditions and rituals, I am sorry.
Topic: Atheism Is Not A Belief