Atheists often consider themselves to be the rational ones and for many reasons this is true. But just like any other grouping of human thought they are not immune to the insanities of the human mind.
It's all very well believing there's no God, it's a highly rational outlook. But to then go on a mission, spending all your waking hours arguing God's non-existence, in an attempt to enlighten the world into your viewpoint, is daft.
Throughout all recorded human history, religion has played a part. Why would you then think that this will ever change?
Darwin taught us that we are animals like the rest. No other animal can change its nature through thought and effort, so then why us?
Richard Dawkins states at the end of the selfish gene that 'We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators'. What is this based on? Nothing but faith. Where is the evidence?
Schopenhauer - surely the most realistic of all the philosophers - told as that 'we can do what we will, but we cannot will what we will'. Unlike Dawkins, he truly understood the message of Darwin. Many billions of people have an unconscious will to believe in the supernatural, many others believe in science in an equally supernatural way (the quest for eternal life, for example, will never happen, but many atheists still believe that one day they'll be resurrected forever - never gonna happen).
Religion has always been with us and always will. It is insane and ignorant of the realities of darwinism to try and change this. Tolerance and understanding of the failings of human logic (i.e. religion) is the wisest state of mind. Everything else is just pie-in-the-sky talk.
Accept. Tolerate. The world will never be united in a single philosophy. And thank god for that (figure of speech).
Does anyone really believe religion will one day die out? If not, give up trying to convert people, and begin trying to understand them.
It's all very well believing there's no God, it's a highly rational outlook. But to then go on a mission, spending all your waking hours arguing God's non-existence, in an attempt to enlighten the world into your viewpoint, is daft.
Throughout all recorded human history, religion has played a part. Why would you then think that this will ever change?
Darwin taught us that we are animals like the rest. No other animal can change its nature through thought and effort, so then why us?
Richard Dawkins states at the end of the selfish gene that 'We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators'. What is this based on? Nothing but faith. Where is the evidence?
Schopenhauer - surely the most realistic of all the philosophers - told as that 'we can do what we will, but we cannot will what we will'. Unlike Dawkins, he truly understood the message of Darwin. Many billions of people have an unconscious will to believe in the supernatural, many others believe in science in an equally supernatural way (the quest for eternal life, for example, will never happen, but many atheists still believe that one day they'll be resurrected forever - never gonna happen).
Religion has always been with us and always will. It is insane and ignorant of the realities of darwinism to try and change this. Tolerance and understanding of the failings of human logic (i.e. religion) is the wisest state of mind. Everything else is just pie-in-the-sky talk.
Accept. Tolerate. The world will never be united in a single philosophy. And thank god for that (figure of speech).
Does anyone really believe religion will one day die out? If not, give up trying to convert people, and begin trying to understand them.
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