RE: want a deeper conversation about atheism
March 28, 2019 at 6:07 pm
(March 28, 2019 at 5:08 pm)fademm Wrote: Thanks y'all for responding!
I hadn't, but I am now.
(March 28, 2019 at 5:08 pm)fademm Wrote: Guess I thought that the complexity of nature (such as biological systems assembling themselves) added enough depth of interest to the world without there being a story of god(s) that would have significantly less depth.
Therein lies the rub. Theology of any kind states "god did it" and stops there. Science does not.
(March 28, 2019 at 5:08 pm)fademm Wrote: As for "culturally Christian" traditions like Christmas I havent had a problem with those so much because I would see the religious implications as not doing anything if there was no god to make angry by celebrating those.
Sure. I was raised RCC. I celebrate christmas and have a damn fine time doing so. If it is any help, the whole thing is pinched from the preceding pagans anyway. The tree, the Yule log and on and on. They are all pagan traditions.
(March 28, 2019 at 5:08 pm)fademm Wrote: My celebration of Christmas seemed more like an Americanized holiday with a focus on materialism and family gathering than Christian beliefs. Although I understand there is a slippery slope element to this.
Well tough. The rest of the world thoroughly secularised it long before the Americans. Long before the christians for that matter.
