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There are so many different religions, and there as so many possible religions, and only maximally one of them can be right. The odds to pick the wrong one are just too big. Just from a rational perspective: if there exists some deity or multiple deities, odds are almost 100% we're having the wrong ideas about how they are, think, and operate, because He/She/It/They would be divine, and we are not. Any person who can think well for himself will question whether or not God exists or not - regardless of their religious backgrounds, and come to some conclusion later. I never saw the point in believing in a God, because even if He exists... why doesn't he just clearly show himself to everyone, and let everybody be happy, when he's so omnipotent? Why, for example, would he allow evil to exist? If there is a God, he must be (mainly) malevolent, and I prefer not to live by such a standard. Now, what I think the most important thing about religion as a whole is the following. People can believe in what ever the fuck they want. Why does anyone give a shit about what someone else believes? Atheists - if a Christian is happy to believe in God, and finds a nice wellbeing and lives the good life by trusting in God and doing things as the Bible tells them, who the fuck are you to tell them to stop doing it? Just because you think it's bull? Why burst any bubble when you don't have to? Christians - if an atheist is happy to reject God, and finds a nice wellbeing and lives the good life by trusting in, say, science, and doing things as science and general rationality tells them, who the fuck are you to tell him to stop doing it? Just because you think he'll burn in hell, and think he's wrong? People are so close minded. If everyone could simply accept other people's religious views without bashing about it, there would never be any problem about it. On an unrelated note: atheism, yes, IS a religious view, and it IS a belief. Get over it. You believe that no deities can exist. It's a belief. You cannot prove that God does NOT exist, can you? Check and mate. I haven't read up on this thread carefully, so this point may be way off topic, but seriously guys, take some logic classes. |
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the reason i believe in god is because its cool to be atheist and im a part of the counter-counter culture #2meta4u
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I don't know how you can possibly make such a post after everything that has been said here and not realize that your post is the exact confirmation that not only your reasoning is entirely flawed, but you're making use of the same fallacities over and over to justify your stance. You are not clever. You are not enlightened. You are the same as pshychotic person repeating the same delusional patterns no matter what you feed them. People in this thread had way too much patience with you, and given you are not a troll, your reasoning falls way below mental retard. This is not meant to be an offence, it is a matter of fact.
To sum it up, you absolutely did not come here with a mind open to accept new possibilities, as there is only one available to you, and everyone who thinks otherwise is automatically inferior, as clearly shown by the many instances where you brought up how god-less people lack for morals, are lost, have no purpose with their lives, etc. I guess if you live your faith trying to use it as a mean to do good to you and the people around you, have some connession with the universe and the divine, while conceptually wrong, that's fine. But if you happen to be actively opinionated and trying to make a difference about anything concerning education, health, government that is related to your faith, my dear friend, you are to be considered a social cancer to exterminate. Quote:
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Lack of belief is not the same as belief in lacking. To not have a belief simply means you don't have a belief. This does not mean one necessarily believes that that thing does not exist. Atheism is *not* a religion. For instance: Would it make sense to say that someone has an addiction if that addiction is no addiction at all? |
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About 6 years ago, I was heading to church with my family and we stopped to get breakfast at Jack in the Box. There was a homeless man sitting on the divider in the middle of the street. I asked my mom if I could use some of my own money to buy this guy breakfast. She was okay with it, so I bought him a combo meal. When I walked over and gave it to him, he told me to have a wonderful day and that God must be working through me. 30 minutes later during the church service, my mom received a text from my step-dad saying that my grandmother had died. Obviously God works in mysterious ways and my grandmother dying was related to me buying a homeless man a breakfast deal. |
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"Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true." That means rejecting a belief for being ridiculous does not constitute a belief. |
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Atheism = a + theism. A means "not" theism = belief in supernatural deity/deities yada yada Atheism = no belief in supernatural deities |
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A lack of belief would be agnostic, though; more or less, not believing in anything in specific. Thus, not believing a deity exists, but also not necessarily believing a deity does not exist.
Basically, atheism is the group of all non-theistic religions/beliefs. The premise that atheists see as true is: "there exists no god". Check and mate, again. Come on now, please. And yes, there are systems in which no premise can be set; not particularly believing in a god does NOT mean you must believe there can NOT be one. You can simply be indecisive, for example... Flat out rejection of a belief is literally the same as believing in (part of) its opposite. Also, Mollocephalus, if your previous post was all pointed towards me: you either have no idea what I'm talking about, have no idea what you are talking about, or you're a troll (you'd be a decent one though). Flat out saying my reasoning is "retarded" really won't make me agree with you, or make me respect you as a person; rather the opposite, so I think only you are losing points there. On a side note, my mind is very open, considering I have changed my overall world views multiple times in the past, and would do so again if I am proposed a theory that seems more likely than what I currently live by. All in all, your entire post can be disregarded. Footnote: atheism = a-theism = a-the-ism = (a-the)-ism = (no god)-belief = belief that no god exists =/= no belief that god exists. This difference is so obvious, why are some of you missing it? |
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Gnosticism is a claim about knowledge and what is knowable. Theism is a claim about belief in supernatural deities. They are different things. You can be a gnostic atheist, an agnostic atheist, a gnostic theist, an agnostic theist, etc. It's not meaningful to say that atheism is a belief. People do this, usually, to try to put atheism and theism on the same grounds of validity: "You believe in atheism and I believe in theism, and both stances are equally sound/valid because we simply have faith in opposite directions -- they're both beliefs" which is incorrect. Otherwise, if you're going to say that atheism is a belief (which makes no sense), you have to at least acknowledge that atheism and theism are not on equal grounds of validity. |
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Holy shit.
Atheism = No belief in deities. Agnostic = Believes it is impossible to prove the existence of deities. |
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Also, what's the point of bashing on the "atheism is not a belief!!" because you, apparently, very desperately want to reject the idea that you are actually believing something? If you do not believe anything (in religious aspect), then you don't believe no god exists either. I'll just take your word for the gnostic/agnostic part, I really don't care that much about such definitions. Bottom line is that everyone should be free to believe in what ever the fuck they want without people bitching about it and calling eachother retarded or wrong. |
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Nothing isn't something.
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“Atheism is the position that affirms the non-existence of God. It proposes positive disbelief rather than mere suspension of belief.” Atheism is a belief. |
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just wow, lmao And it's not always believers that do bad when it comes to any sort of religious disasters. It really isn't like atheists are always the good guys. The world is far from perfect. Does this thread need to be imperfect too? Apparently. It's a shame, though. |
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