RE: Science of Atheism
September 20, 2023 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2023 at 7:54 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(September 20, 2023 at 3:56 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(September 20, 2023 at 11:15 am)Data Wrote: The unnecessary struggle between theism and atheism is a social and political struggle that has very little to do with God or the Bible or any other religion.
Good journal article here on cognitive biases.
The commitment "my group good their group bad" is a consistent block to clear thinking.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177...6221148147
tl:dr
How about you summarize it for us.
Agree in general.
There is no difference between theism. Christian contemplative Christianity, ("Dark night of the Soul", "The interior Castle") agnostic atheism, Christian (English) The Cloud of the Unknowing, Chinese Tao Mysticism, and any modern Cistercian (Benedictine) mystical prayer, or any other "way" people have worked out to be their best. Being your best involves discipline and a few other things. They all work the same. Religion is not needed. They all end up in the same place.
Thus Voltaire's "Il faut cultiver nos jardins" should be all their mottos. Pick you way, it all ends up in the same place, and no religion has any claim to a better way.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist