What is your problem with Atheism?

[Joods]

Why on earth would I waste time looking forward to death, when I'm out enjoying life?

Once you die, that's it. There are no more chapters to write in the story of your life. You're done and your book is finished. You have no guarantee of any sort of afterlife so why waste time anticipating death when there is so much life to live?

[robvalue]

I look forward to death, but not because I expect there to be anything else. I wish I didn't feel that way.

[Haipule]

We don't make unsubstantiated claims.
We don't knock on your door to pester you.
We don't threaten anyone for any reason.
We're definitely not after your money.
We all pay business taxes.
We don't make promises we can't keep.
We try to make sense of the world around us before we can hypothesize about the one beyond our space/time.
We are happy to change our mind on practically everything as science makes new discoveries.
We only eat dead babies!
We don't wear silly hats.
We have no mantra.

What's not to love!

As if all us Christians are the same! And all atheists, agnostics and antitheists are the same! My main bitch is can we throw back a few and talk about how awesome life is? If your life sucks, can we talk about how awesome my life is? Certainly, it's my shout then!

[paulpablo]

My only problem with Atheism is that I hate light skinned people.

[Joods]

I look forward to death, but not because I expect there to be anything else. I wish I didn't feel that way.

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[robvalue]

I look forward to death, but not because I expect there to be anything else. I wish I didn't feel that way.

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Thank you That's just how my life is and I've made peace with it.

It makes me sad that people would be wishing for the end of this life because they think another better one is coming, but I can understand it as a coping mechanism if life is really bad. I just hope they don't make any decisions about this life, including wasting it, ending it or failing to rectify problems directly because of there belief in an afterlife. That's the harm religion can do.

[Little Rik]

YES YOU DO.

Here below just a tiny list of your claims.

1) The consciousness is a product of the brain.
2) When the body dies also the consciousness die.
3) Nobody created the universe.
4) Nobody run the universe because entropy do the job.
5) NDEs are just hallucinations.

1.  Go beat your head against a rock, see whether or not you find that substantial.
2.  You might be able to simultaneously test this one while substantiating 1.
3.  You;re right..you;re right, my cousin Cletus did it.  Mystery solved.
4.  Cletus, again.
5.  Yet another postulate you could test in the course of figuring out number 1.

Now that we've handled that...you realize that none of those things have anything to do with atheism, right?  That;s been a pattern in this thread.  Peoples problems with atheism don;t seem to have anything to do with atheism.  More accurately, they;re the claimants problems.

You don't get it Khem, do you?  


The title of the thread is..................What is your problem with Atheism? ................
But the OP start in this way.................We don't make unsubstantiated claims..............follow by......WE..........WE........we and more WE so I am entitle to deal with what atheists say although the title of the thread and the further claim that deal with what atheists think is contradictory.  

If the thread would have said..........What is your problem with Atheists instead of.......What is your problem with Atheism?.......... that would have made more sense because all the questions in the Op related to what atheists suppose to be about not with what atheism is all about so don't blame me if the title of the OP is incorrect.
Blame the one who start the thread and the Op not me.

By the way I am spot on with my reply to the Op.  

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There is not such a thing as an everlasting punishment.
The evil and corrupted priests created this terrible dogma in order to keep people under their mental control.
No wonder that atheists treat religion like garbage.

Not only that but because of all dogmas that the religions are based upon atheists treat all theists in the same way.
The theists that do not believe in hell and all other religious dogmas.  

I believe justice and God hand go hand, true belief in God, is belief in justice, he is justice.

To prove this is quite simple. Everything human experience is for their benefit. 

Evil is really misguided use of emotions and confusion with regard to the truth and being unbalanced and not putting things in their proper place.

For example, Anger against oppressors killing and not giving people their rights, is a good thing. However, anger for petty things for our own sake is not good.

Forbearance and compassion have their proper place.

So does wrath and vengeance.

As no praise is found in creation but it exists in perfect ultimate form and harmony in God, then it follows vengeance, although mercy and compassion must precede it, and favored over it, also has it's place.

And it has it's place to the extent God is most compassionate in the place of mercy and pardon and the most severest in punishment in the place of wrath and vengeance.

It's obvious vengeance can be a good thing it's proper use. Justice is sought by the friends of God from God and God wants people to love justice.

Of course, justice is always balanced off with that God tries to save us from it and act according to his compassion and mercy instead. However, if we refuse and die on that refusal, it make sense just like his reward is endless for the good people so then is his punishment for the evil people.

So you know for sure that evil people go to hell, do you?
How do you know that?

Sorry MK but that doesn't make any sense at all.  

If the hell would exist then is obvious that God made some mistakes in his creations.
Why God would make mistakes considering that he is perfect?
Perfections means........NO MISTAKES therefore God can not create a dumping ground for his alleged mistakes.
It is just 100% contradictory that is why the hell is an human invention by sick humans.
Nothing to do with God therefore.  

[downbeatplumb]

Neo makes a clear appeal to consequences, yet he maintains he's not in it for the swag.  I call bullshit.

Adoption of an idea need not be fully based on foreseeable outcomes. If one believes atheism to be true then one should embrace/accept what follows from that position, for good or ill. Similarly for Christianity, Hinduism, etc. Christianity asserts that despite natural physical differences in ability, health, intelligence, strength etc. or circumstantial differences in wealth, prestige, power, etc. every human being is existentially equal and deserving of all the dignity afforded to them by virtue of being God's children. Secular humanism has adopted this principle...just because...and could as easily dispense with it...just because.

Christianity has adopted some of secular humanism not the other way around.
Do you not know of the horrors and oppression that dominated the world for millennia because of religions.

Look at any totally religious country today and you will see repression, oppression and intolerance. With the possible exception of some small budhist states.

Where religion leads humanity is diminished.

[Joods]

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Thank you That's just how my life is and I've made peace with it.

It makes me sad that people would be wishing for the end of this life because they think another better one is coming, but I can understand it as a coping mechanism if life is really bad. I just hope they don't make any decisions about this life, including wasting it, ending it or failing to rectify problems directly because of there belief in an afterlife. That's the harm religion can do.

I know and I wish I could give you a hug.

[Little Rik]

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Thank you That's just how my life is and I've made peace with it.

It makes me sad that people would be wishing for the end of this life because they think another better one is coming, but I can understand it as a coping mechanism if life is really bad. I just hope they don't make any decisions about this life, including wasting it, ending it or failing to rectify problems directly because of there belief in an afterlife. That's the harm religion can do.

Thank for not putting religions and theists in general in the same pot or better say.......thanks for pointing to religions and not theists in general.