An alternative to atheist thought

[BlindedWantsToSee]

No, it's not.  What you are calling understanding is mere acceptance.  And what you're calling reasoning is rationalization.  And hindrance we have added to our reasoning and understand has been primarily provided by myths such as religion.

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You seem to be a kind person.   I'm doing OK in every sense, according to normal standards. Thanks.

I believe my concept is rooted in facts. A spirit is the non-physical portion of a person,  his or her consciousness. That's a fact. Evil is the cause of pain and suffering. We know everybody suffers.  That's a fact. I don't believe in God; however,  there has to be a primordial source in the universe.  You and I have sources:  Our parents.  They had sources,  which each also had a source.  These are all facts.  Let's go back 4 billions years: something produced the earth, and the earth became the source of all life on the planet.  So the earth has a source and is a source also.  Let's go back all the way;  something gave rise to the first source of the material universe:  The Source of all sources.  This is a fact, not religious.  The 1st cause (the one that preceded all of the other causes and effects)  (think of the domino effect) has produced disgusting results,  which we see and experience today. I know to most people it's no problem,  but I don't believe it's right.

You know, it's easy to notice and interact with matter.  Non-material things are more difficult to perceive,  but don't make the mistake of believing  they do not exist.  It would be similar to claiming viruses or bacteria don't exist because we can't see them. I'm not talking about mysticism. There are thousands of cases of brief clinical deaths, where the people that were resuscitated report having experiences outside of their bodies,
This while their brains  and hearts were dead.   This is a fact. Concepts,  ideas,  feelings,  thoughts, awareness,  and the like are non-physical and very important to us.  This is a fact.  Religions lie and blind people.   They seek to control people. Believe me,  I'm not religious.

You're throwing around the word "fact" pretty loosely. It is not a fact there is a primordial source in the universe.  It is not a fact there was a first cause.

Bacteria can be seen. NDEs are crap.  No one has been brought back from being brain dead.

You may say you're not religious, but practically everything you've written is religious, in the broad definition.

Maybe you don't believe in the Big Bang theory. I'm not going to argue that one. It does not matter though, because the essence of everything that exists (energy? consciousness? life?), whatever it is, that's what I'm talking about.

Brain dead people being revived: I have not met anyone personally. I have seen reports on the subject which testify the subjects had no brain activity whatsoever while they still experienced awareness. I believe at least some of those reports are genuine. You don't believe them. We will see...

You are probably right about my topics and terminology being somewhat religious. I really wrote this article for religious people (my family), in their terms. But I know for a fact that all religions lie and seek to control and profit from people, to their detriment. This is disgusting to me.