(May 20, 2015 at 1:00 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: I'm just telling you what I find convincing. I can't convert anyone. Just as my conversion was a miracle, so it is for all who, by faith, are saved in Christ. As I've said, God brought me to a point at which it began to require vastly more faith to remain an atheist than it took for me to believe in the God of the bible. As I began to evaluate my atheism after reading "Evidence" I began to realize that atheism isn't something positive (like an explanatory and conceptually fulfilling world view), it is merely the negation (or rejection) of theism. Since atheism is nothing more than that, it doesn't contain or support, and it isn't trying to contain or support, any kind of philosophical foundation for morality, the origins of life, or anything else. Atheism is highly prized as if it were really something wonderful by those who reject theism, but it is nothing but the rejection of theism. It is nothing! How can "nothing" make a person free?
You are correct that atheism is just the rejection of theism and is not a world view. It never claims to be. But when you free yourself from the shackles of stupid myths you can act according to how the world really is and not as part of some "gods plan".
As an atheist with one short life, life becomes more precious.
As an atheist you don't have to hate rival faith groups or people that the evil book tell you too.
As an atheist you take responsibility for your morals and nature, we aren't nice because god is watching we are just nice.
And of course we get to do what we want on sunday.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.