'Atheism' Articles
Atheism is a valuation of material sense impression as primary, and really exists more as a counter belief than a belief. Atheism has two aspects; negative atheism and affirmative atheism. Atheism isn’t a rejection of all beliefs. The philosophy of ethics is still seen as a legitimate line of speculation. They don’t reject philosophy as a whole, just theistic reasoning, the lines of reasoning associated with theology.
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” Stephen Roberts
“In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.” Jonathon Miller
“I’m not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn’t exist? That’s way too convoluted for me.” A. Whitney Brown
No God
First off, atheism isn’t nihilism. Atheists don’t deny beliefs as a whole. Atheism is an opposition to ideas that people attribute to life, concepts of Gods and the supernatural. They have many views on the subject so it isn’t a unified belief, and atheism could be considered more a state of mind than a formalized belief. Generally, it is very invested in the idea that anything not obviously present to the sense is not real and a potentially harmful distraction from “real life”. Though it isn’t all literal denial of any substance to the concepts of Gods or the supernatural,… Seek More
Evolution Wants a God?
There are schools of occult thought that use deistic reasoning. That paranormal functioning is possible in any way, because any divinity meant it as providence for human support rather than it taking an active and arguably meddlesome hand. This is another atheistic argument. God gave us the hammer? Yes. It’s argued that in the presence of an active God of which we can have knowledge, the question or option of free will becomes moot. The absolute divine authority would preclude any defiance in our own thinking and behaviour. As far as the question of absolute principles, there is the school… Seek More
What Is Is
The atheist views lack centralization or a strong professing membership for more reasons than intellectual cowardice, I think. I think though that atheism serves a useful purpose. We constructed Gods in a search for God, and found much about man. If we deconstruct Gods in a search for the truth, the principle that guides all of this and the reason why it isn’t a big meaningless mass of entropy can be discovered. But perhaps not until we can stop makings idols of men, or ideals perhaps? What does anyone else think? Everything needs something to counter to advance on. Creating… Seek More
