(December 22, 2012 at 9:12 am)Dr.Barré Wrote: That God is a ficitional being is an unsupported and therefore worthless proposition.
If you refer to god as existence, or existence as to god, then sure. You're essentially doing little more than arguing semantics at this point. I can call my life "god," because to me my existence is everything and it is all-encompassing of me. But I don't, and you know why? Because I have no need to put forth an additional term to something I experience to be real; it is simply "existence."
You are simply switching terms around and calling it a theism. I see no need to worship the universe, however, therefore I see no need to call it a theism. The universe neither demands nor needs your worship; indeed, the universe is remarkably apathetic towards us. It shows no need of worship. Of study, however, yes, we study it every day.
Atheism, however, is in the broadest sense, the simple nonbelief in a god. You call the universe god. We do not. We call the universe reality.
It is little more than semantics. By YOUR view, atheism makes no sense. But to those of us who see no need to attribute deistic qualities to the universe, it makes plenty of sense.
