RE: Argument against atheism
December 25, 2011 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2011 at 8:48 pm by amkerman.)
Blam I fear your analysis of God is incomplete. I was an agnostic for all of a few months. In high school. You probably stopped your thinking process after: I don't see god, science doesn't believe in god, I like science bc it has answered many questions, religions can't all be right, much bloodshed and suffering has been caused in the name of religion, if religion is right then why do bad things happen to good people, religion is not right. Therefore no god. It's sophomoric. Atheism is a response to religion. It's reactionary. It has nothing to do with God. It's the equivalent of teenagers rebelling against their parents when their parents tell them something is not good for them bc they think they know better. Maturity and wisdom with experience and thought eventually make most of us grow up. Atheism is a phase of understanding on a path to realization. It is not the end result. continue questioning your beliefs and continue to strive for understanding. Never think you are right or that what you believe is complete. I have faith that you'll get there.
That goes for everyone here, including myself.
Furthermore, and I should probably start a new thread but the conversation has gone so far off topic that I'll just continue here. All religions, atheism, pantheism, agnosticism, are merely labels. They are the equivalent of being called a liberal or a democrat. They have no meaning beyond that which we personally ascribe them. People are people. They should not be judged on the labels they ascribe to themselves, are assigned by others, or are born into. Labels do not cause problems, individuals or groups of individuals do. Hating atheists or Christians or Muslims is just a form of bigotry. It's racism by another name.
I guess, since so many here have taken the intellectual route of labeling themselves using terms like pantheist, deist, secular humanist, etc if I were to define myself under such terminology I would be considered an "idealistic realist".
That goes for everyone here, including myself.
Furthermore, and I should probably start a new thread but the conversation has gone so far off topic that I'll just continue here. All religions, atheism, pantheism, agnosticism, are merely labels. They are the equivalent of being called a liberal or a democrat. They have no meaning beyond that which we personally ascribe them. People are people. They should not be judged on the labels they ascribe to themselves, are assigned by others, or are born into. Labels do not cause problems, individuals or groups of individuals do. Hating atheists or Christians or Muslims is just a form of bigotry. It's racism by another name.
I guess, since so many here have taken the intellectual route of labeling themselves using terms like pantheist, deist, secular humanist, etc if I were to define myself under such terminology I would be considered an "idealistic realist".
