RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 13, 2019 at 8:41 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2019 at 8:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A thing that question lists like this one always brings out, is the assumption in the questioner that the answers to those items must, somehow, be different between a believer and an atheist.
This is rarely the case, as both people are coming from the same culture, which has overarching answers to these questions that will be broadly uniform in the population regardless of whether they believe in gods.
If we're being candid (with each other and with ourselves) believers and non believers from the same culture are even likely to share an assessment of the faith of other believers and god notions in general. Insisting, for example, that the churches and religious people are largely ignorant of gods, corrupt, and in need of serious reform (if they shouldn't just shutter the windows and stop it already). Ask a protestant about the catholics tidy little racket. Ask the catholics about the protestant megachurch prosperity hustle. Ask an atheist about either.
Ultimately, the difference between a theist and an atheist is unlikely to be found in the minutiae of questions that swirl around a shared cultural monolith...and more generally a shared experience of life.
I have a question for the OP. How did you expect atheists to answer, what did you expect to be different?
This is rarely the case, as both people are coming from the same culture, which has overarching answers to these questions that will be broadly uniform in the population regardless of whether they believe in gods.
If we're being candid (with each other and with ourselves) believers and non believers from the same culture are even likely to share an assessment of the faith of other believers and god notions in general. Insisting, for example, that the churches and religious people are largely ignorant of gods, corrupt, and in need of serious reform (if they shouldn't just shutter the windows and stop it already). Ask a protestant about the catholics tidy little racket. Ask the catholics about the protestant megachurch prosperity hustle. Ask an atheist about either.
Ultimately, the difference between a theist and an atheist is unlikely to be found in the minutiae of questions that swirl around a shared cultural monolith...and more generally a shared experience of life.
I have a question for the OP. How did you expect atheists to answer, what did you expect to be different?
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