The following is the first part of an article I have on my archive website, I haven't posted all of it but click on the title or the [Read The Rest Of The Article] link and you can read it in its magnificent entirety:
[Read The Rest Of The Article]
Read the rest and you'll see what I meant by my earlier posting ... we're the same as theists, we just lack the god bit.
Kyu
Quote:"The Uplifting Message Of Atheism", Psycho Dave
Many religious people believe that without their faith in whatever god they worship, life would have no meaning. Imagine what a bleak statement on their personality that is, unless they believe that:
- They do not deserve salvation,
- They are terrible sinners,
- Mankind has fallen from a previously perfect state, or
- Only by being a slave to Jesus and God can they find salvation...
Unless they believe these things, they are doomed.
This, to me, is a classic example of the psychological trick whereby a therapist tears down the psyche of an individual, only to rebuild them by making them accept a new set of premises.
Most Religious people revile atheists. Because we do not accept their paradigms of mankind's fall, sin, and salvation, we are antithetical to their idea of a perfect society. But they go as far as to suggest that without accepting their paradigms, we are living a meaningless, pointless, wicked existence.
What could be more meaningless an existence, than to believe that all of mankind is wicked and doomed to hell, that you do not deserve anything good in this life, and that the only way to get any meaning in life is to bow down and worship a God who allegedly created everything the way it is?
Christianity and other religions, see men and women as pawns in a universal struggle of good and evil. If you are not on the side of good, then you're just evil. But which beliefs truly are good, and which are evil?
What does atheism have to offer? Well, obviously, it doesn't offer a world of gloom and doom, with mankind as a doomed race with only one door of opportunity to save it. Atheism requires the individuals to make up their own unique worldview, find their own meaning in life, and judge moral situations one at a time.
[Read The Rest Of The Article]
Read the rest and you'll see what I meant by my earlier posting ... we're the same as theists, we just lack the god bit.
Kyu
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Where those who are hacked off with the stupidity of irrational belief can vent their feelings!
Come over to the dark side, we have cookies!
Kyuuketsuki, AngryAtheism Owner & Administrator
