RE: Why You Should Be Atheist
October 13, 2013 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2013 at 11:48 am by Dunno.)
(October 13, 2013 at 5:27 am)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: We're retreading old ground here.
That you think no evidence has been provided is reflective of your own ignorance, not of the work of theistic thinkers.
You need to familiarize yourself with the evidence.
So people are hard wired for faith. Being an atheist doesn't mean I don't have a lot of faith. But I do not express this faith in any organized religion. I have faith in myself and I have faith in the human species. Even though there are people like you, that say that my lack of faith means that I am an amputee, or at least your quote did, who are you to judge me? What do you know of my upbringing? My faith is that people will continue to create and discover more, and my hope is that someday all people will get along, even though at this time of war and oppression, that hope seems futile, I have faith that people will change, and see the wrong they enacted on humanity. So you see, faith is about believing in yourself and others, even though you're nothing, you're useless, you're stupid, you have faith that you're great.
Because being an atheist means having faith in the entire human species, it is actually a far more humanistic way of looking at life than any other religion has ever attempted. Religions disagree and fight over their imaginary beings, while I just have faith in the human species, something real, as one, all the humans that cover the earth, and faith in myself. But we must remember that humans are good and bad, and to encourage the good, so far as we understand, because every person is important.