The argument against God

[Eilonnwy]

Blake once said 'If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetical Character, the Philosophic and Experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things and stand still, unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.' I am inclined to agree. Falling outwith the realm of science does not make anything more or less valid.

So atheists don't have imagination can't appreciate art? Do you even know what the scientific method entails? I love art, I love fiction, I love music (Whether such things are in reverence to a god or not) I however can differentiate from what is real and what is imagined. I can discuss all day what might be a nice theory of how the world works but I realize that doesn't make it true. The only way we have ever been able to find out what is true is through science and reason. The reason you can communicate with us, with people all around the world, is science. The reason you have alarm clock to wake you up in the morning, a tv to entertain you, a microwave to cook food. All this shit happens because of the scientific method. No prophet or poet made this stuff happen. No prophet or poet can figure out how to go to moon. That's all science baby, and it pushes the limits of our imagination every day. We never knew how truly vast this universe, how beautiful it was until science got out there and discovered it.

I don't think atheism is much of a philosophy if it can not promote itself without giving the negitive of another philosophy. Why are you atheist?

Atheism isn't a philosophy. It's a single stance on one issue, which is god. We simply don't accept the claim there is a god. As for what philosophy I adhere to? I personally agree with Secular Humanism.

And honestly, any philosophy is a negative of another philosophy otherwise what would be the point of being a different philosophy? But atheism as a belief does have a unique characterization of being something that your are not. Why? Because everyone assumes you believe in god and it's so ingrained in our society that people ignore us and try pretend we don't exist or say that we just need to shut up. So we have to come out and say we don't believe in god or the people who do will continue to push their ideals onto government and trample on our right to be free from religion?

Why am I an atheist? Because there's no proof that there is a god, no religion has done anything to prove their beliefs. It's as simple as that.