RE: Proof for being an atheist
October 20, 2015 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2015 at 2:33 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 20, 2015 at 10:03 am)JBrentonK Wrote: I was only asking if atheism is a new thing, created in the 1900's or so. I believe it is, and if we discover it was, then atheists cannot claim anything about being irreligious. In fact they will only be able to claim that they are directly acting out against God, for purely evil or ill-will'd intentions.
Complete rubbish.
Atheism has been around as long as people have been claiming a god or gods exist.
The Carvka school in 6th century BCE India, was a blatantly atheistic philosophy, that taught general skepticism and critical thinking. Some early sects of Jainism from about 300 years earlier were also atheistic.
They must have been acting out against Shiva, right?
How proud of your willful ignorance you must be.
Your working knowledge or basic logic and critical thinking seem to be a bit, lacking shall we say.
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.
