RE: Great news for everyone
March 16, 2012 at 5:39 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2012 at 5:44 am by Welsh cake.)
(March 16, 2012 at 4:27 am)tackattack Wrote: could you please define how belief in a diety is confining or limiting to intellectual capacity?A deity is a non-being that serves as the sum of all non-answers to the relevant questions of why do we exist? By what means do we exist? And what is reality?
God is an irrelevant emotional concept that prays on our hopes and fears, rather than one based on solid logic and reasoning that needs empirical and measurable evidence to flourish.
A personal deity is a comfort blanket that suffocates the human enterprise or pursuit for understanding phenomena and our universe. It damages the filter for evidence to discern fact from fantasy, thereby sabotaging one's capacity to learn and acquire new knowledge.
That's not to say there isn't a god or some higher-being out there, though any concept that mankind has come up with so far, or what we're tempted to imagine would be a deity right now, has been nothing but a pointless exercise in mental masturbation.
Believing in a god and uncritically accepting its existence, without actually bothering to investigate the cosmos for its existence first, is not just laziness but it prevents us from ever acquiring the truth as to whether or not it really exists.
I'm an atheist because there's no sufficient evidence available to me and therefore I have no good reason to believe in such a being.
