RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
November 3, 2022 at 5:29 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2022 at 5:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 3, 2022 at 4:45 am)rlp21858 Wrote: Grand Nudger: from what ive gathered about the term "atheism", i believe it only means a disbelief in idols, what i think youve called "narrative devices". i believe this agrees with Christianity; it speaks against idolatry too, the worship of anything we can see or detect. by "narrative device", i think you mean that it is only a reference to a much larger something "behind the scene." as a Christian, i believe this is true, up to and including Christ himself. so i think that, basically, God is the good that these devices have been referencing.The term atheist refers to anyone, who for any reason or no reason at all, doesn't believe in gods.
When I say that the gods that christians believe in are a narrative device, I'm suggesting that they are fiction created to assert the moral view of their very human creators. Nothing "behind the scenes", or even good. In fact, I think that our monotheistic gods are uniquely bad in a way that polytheistic and deistic gods could never be. This, in part, because they are totalitarian in nature - and in part because they come from the minds of people with poorly formed worldviews, and are reflections of those people, themselves. I'm an atheist by circumstance, an antitheist by consideration.
Neither thing, atheism or antitheism, agrees with christianity. You couldn't have gotten that more wrong. If there is no christian god, as I believe, then it's all pointless cruelty and foolishness. If there is, as I doubt, it's still pointless cruelty and foolishness. I have no interest in killing the better man to pay for my parking tickets, would not accept blood money for any reason, and have severe doubts about the character of anyone who would, or worse, would call any of that good. I do get, mind you, that most of you guys were saddled with this business from an early age. IDK if that makes it better, or somehow worse, but at least it's modifying for the individual, such that a person wouldn't have to be a monster to affirm monstrous things. Just raised that way. I have some experience with that, in other contexts.
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