RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2016 at 10:47 am by Simon Moon.)
Quote:Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
The OP is a malformed question.
Atheism is nothing more than not believing theistic claims.
Atheism is NOT a worldview. It has no doctrine, or anything else that could possibly even be a method for "sustaining a civilisation".
Asking if atheism (modern or otherwise) is sufficient to sustain a civilisation, is really no different than asking if not believing in ghosts, or aliens visiting earth is sufficient to sustain a civilisation.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
