(September 11, 2020 at 11:02 am)rockyrockford Wrote:(September 11, 2020 at 10:37 am)brewer Wrote: Since faith is a human quality, attaching eternal to faith is a bit of a reach for atheists.
There may be eternal things, human faith is not one of them.
brewer, could you please tell me, is "atheism" considered a human religious belief system, even though a deity isn't worshipped? Or would an atheist consider themselves 100% void of any spiritual belief. That they simply exist one day, and they don't the next.
Thank you!!
Nope, not a human religious belief system. Atheists have little in common other than a lack of belief in god(s). Not much of a religion.
You'll need to define "spiritual belief". There is human spirit, team/group/community spirit, which is based in emotion but I don't think that's what you are referring to. I am void of any beliefs in god(s).
And yes, the same as all living creatures, individual existence begins and ends. If I procreate a part of my DNA may continue for a time. There is no after life except as memories of others.
You seen to reference concepts in extremes, ............... i.e. complete, eternal, 100%, ......... just an observation. My guess is that it's related to the god concept.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
