RE: New suppositions about God and the supernatural entities
December 19, 2013 at 5:28 am
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2013 at 5:29 am by Angrboda.)
(December 19, 2013 at 3:54 am)A-g-n-o-s-t-i-c Wrote: This is my impression on atheism:
Atheists believe that:
1- All living beings are just machine.
2- There is consciousness only in the brain.
3- There is no soul (spirit).
4- There is no invisible intelligent beings .
5- There is not any telepathy and
6- There is not Influence on the object from distance by thinking.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of atheism. The only thing common to all atheists is the lack of a belief in one or more gods. The rest is something that you might find in certain types of atheists, certain subgroups, but is only descriptive of those specific subgroups, not to atheism as a whole. There are atheist Buddhists who believe in the soul, Christians who believe in reincarnation, atheists who believe in an afterlife, Buddhists who believe in beings without form, Hindus who are pantheist and Hindus who are (or were) hardened materialists. You're focusing entirely too tightly on similarities in atheists that you are aware of and familiar with, and likely misrepresentations of them by non-atheists as well, and missing both the sole point of unity - lack of belief - and missing one of the most wonderful - the diversity.
(I did a poll asking how many atheists felt that the disbelief in the supernatural was a defining feature of their atheism. Only about 15% responded to endorse that specific view, so you're describing a fairly small minority of atheists as a whole.)
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