RE: Atheism is not a belief!!
April 25, 2013 at 9:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 9:38 pm by Beardio1.)
(April 25, 2013 at 9:05 pm)Dawud Wrote: But does anyone here believe that they are atheists.
I'm using the normal definition if believe - I.e. considering it to be true...
I like most people assume that people believe what they know...
So: do you believe you are atheist?
(Or do you change words' meanings to try to win arguments online?)
Everyone knows atheism is a lack of beliefs. It's not even a belief in science, because in science everything can, in theory, be proved wrong (apart from mathematics, the one TRUE science) HOWEVER... Atheism is not a belief, it is a pursuit, a pursuit of knowledge, understanding and truth.
Also, consider this, Belief is only in something that is merely possible, with a sliver of doubt. For example, There is a cup on my desk. I don't BELIEVE there is a cup, because there is, it is undoubtable, therefore I KNOW there is a cup. I am an atheist, and there is no doubting I am an atheist, because I know what I think. Just the same as you ARE a Muslim, it's not just POSSIBLE that you are. Therefore I KNOW I am an atheist just as much as you KNOW you are a Muslim. there is no doubting the matter.
And before you ask: If science, one day, proved the existence of a God, we would be the first to hold our hands up and say 'we were wrong' but until the evidence is found, we can't do that logically. However, if God was proven NOT to exist without a shadow of a doubt, I doubt religion would turn around and say 'oops, we were wrong'. If that day comes, I hope they will surprise me. I just want everyone to be happy without the Muslims fighting the Christians and vise versa and everyone being at each others' throats all the time? Is that too much to ask?

For me, The biggest Biblical contradiction is this:
''Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me''
Exodus 20:4-5
I am a jealous god? Isn't that one of the seven deadly sins? Oh dear me. And even worse... He's not going to punish the person who dislikes him... but his Children, and his children's children? Without trail? Oh, so much mercy God... How merciful you really are.