RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
October 30, 2015 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2015 at 10:22 am by Edwardo Piet.)
@ the OP question
"Are all atheists ill-informed about religion?"
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Atheists are often more well-informed than the theists. Many atheists became atheists because they read up on the Bible.
EDIT: P.S. From an interview with my favourite music artist Steven Wilson:
"Are all atheists ill-informed about religion?"
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Atheists are often more well-informed than the theists. Many atheists became atheists because they read up on the Bible.
EDIT: P.S. From an interview with my favourite music artist Steven Wilson:
Steven Wilson Wrote:[...]I believe the curse of the human race is the knowledge of death. It’s why many people are unhappy a lot of the time. We are aware of our own impending death. No-one has managed to prove to me satisfactorily that animals are also aware of death. I think human beings are unique in that we are aware of our own mortality and it casts an incredible shadow over our whole existence. If we’re not happy, we measure our unhappiness against the fact that we have a finite amount of time on Earth in order to be happy. I would say that’s why we invented the myth of religion and God—to try and come to terms with the fact that we are mortal. We invented this whole kind of mythology and fairy tales about the afterlife and God. It’s all designed to make ourselves feel better and provide comfort. Now, that’s not the only thing we’ve done in order to get comfort. Alcohol, drugs, and one could even argue culture itself, are all things done to distract form being reminded about our own mortality. The irony with art is that a lot of it does the opposite. It reminds us exactly of our own mortality. I love that. It’s what draws me to lots of music—the whole spirituality thing, and sense of mortality, and that sense of the tragedy that is the gift of life. The gift of life is a wonderful thing, but it’s also a tragic thing. Life is but a blip. It’s just a moment, really. You have 80 years or so, maybe less, maybe more, to try and make some kind of sense of this random gift of life—this strange, cruel blip in time that is your life, your ego and your consciousness. Many years ago, I wrote an album called Signify for Porcupine Tree. The whole idea was to look at the ways we try to create some significance for our own life. So, even in my 20s, I was obsessed with that—the idea of making some kind of mark [...]
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Source, the interview this is from: http://www.innerviews.org/inner/wilson.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh5mWzKlhQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj-EljkcEQI