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What aspects of the atheist religion do you like/dislike?

ebola? said:
Droppersneck apparently ran out of ideas and bumped his own troll-thread from years ago.
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He certainly has a talent for mangling ideas into horrid titles and then sets it on fire. He's a good man. Taught me a lot of patience.
 
Atheism still finds a way to knock down shamanism, yet you will never get an Atheist to take ayahuasca or psychoactive compound and actually hear them come back and say
"whoa, perhaps there is something behind all of this."
I mean, i don't believe in Christ God, but i do believe that there is a higher power within the foundational energies which swirl all around us unknowingly.
To have a scientific mind, you also need to have an imaginatory mind.

IF atheists want to denounce that fact that science is bringing us closer to spirit and farther away from programming.
Then i think they are kind of denouncing imagination.
 
I'd class myself as anti-theist.

Organised religion harms humanity.

When an athies is widdled down to the core they say that a christian can not explain where god came from before the universe.
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Really? How old are they? 6? I've only ever seen this kind of point being made as response to creationists: "Every creation has a creator" .. "Then who created God?" .. "God has always been" .. Riigghht.

I think the anti-christian only atheism is probably due to their location? That and their knowledge of the Christian belief is probably far greater than that of any other religion.. Christianity is a problem in the US. It's the main reason for no / abstinent only sex education (which shows strong correlation to teenage pregnancies), abortion clinics being attacked or even abortion being illegal, "GOD HATES FAGS" mentality, the need to be religious to enter a political career (probably just some states), and fcking creationism being taught in science lesson.

Christianity is the largest religion in the world and the Roman Catholic sect account for over half of them. The Vatican, the Roman Catholic church and everything involved is just a massive criminal organization making mega buck from donation plates, "charities" and investments in cash lending companies while spending a fair amount on the hush hushing of the countless child abuse cases. The Roman Empire never died.. All hail Emperor Francis.

And ok ok.. Islam is a fascist ideology, tops the dark age type moral systems, laws and punishments and is definitely stuck in moral rewind. At risk of being murdered for a silly little remark about Mohammed. At least with the bible most Christians don't take every word literally or have done some kind of mental gymnastics to turn a passage about beating your slave into a positive thing.. Dangerous religion. Dangerous.

Genital mutilation is wrong.
 
I don't think atheism is "trendy." I think a combination of better scientific understanding and a reduced emphasis on conformity with tradition in society allows for the opportunity to make free and logical choices about what to believe. Many people are now atheist because it agrees naturally with our scientific understanding of the world and because parents, and society in general, do not as often force a belief system onto youth.
 
Non-religious
Agnosticism: the belief that most things are unknowable. In regard to religion it is usually characterized as neither a belief nor non belief in a deity.
Atheism: the belief that there are no deities of any kind.

United States
Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.)

World
Christian 33.39% (of which Roman Catholic 16.85%, Protestant 6.15%, Orthodox 3.96%, Anglican 1.26%}, Muslim 22.74%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 6.77%, Sikh 0.35%, Jewish 0.22%, Baha'i 0.11%, other religions 10.95%, non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01% (2010 est.)


https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html
 
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^I don't know. I used to think the same... But there is more potential for spirituality than theism, I think (not necessarily more than, but theism doesn't hold exclusive rights to spirituality). I still still can't seem to personally depart the concept of God, though. I keep coming back to it.

I do understand what you mean, though, but I connected with someone's thoughts who said she was an atheist, but still spiritual. I was challenged to process it. I was so used to thinking of atheists as always denying 'spirit', and therefore kind of empty.
 
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Elaborate. If I'm flawed I'd rather know than be laughed at. Atheism as far as I knew only denies God/Gods, especially in a creator sense.

Did you mean that for me?

If that's all you have to offer anymore I think its time for you to stop being a mod. :)
 
I am an atheist and I am not spiritual. I do not consider atheism a religion. A philosophy at most.
 
But do you think there is room for it? Does atheism also preclude spirituality in general?
 
In my opinion a true atheism would not be spiritual at all. Just what I believe.Maybe I'm just too much of a realist.
 
I was replying to droppers.
And no, I don't see why atheism would preclude spirituality, but atheist spirituality is a bit unorthodox.

ebola
 
My anti-theological beliefs do not bar me from feeling all things spiritual. The "spiritual" activity of my heart and soul are related to the life I live.

I am physically present, part and party of the great whole, as are you. I cannot explain my heart or reason but the answer to these questions will come out of the same flesh as I am made of.

I may think very odd things but there is an ongoing battle to stop believing nonsense. They are pages in a book and the words are not something to cling on to.

Keep the book shut, fight against religious thoughts, and this robs you of a great comfort in your life.

When the page is free to turn in the wind, the spirit is lifted, but it is not a spirit wind.

It is shameful, whoever tried to sell you your own thoughts. I will not lie to you. Tell your prayers to your hands and never let anyone, even yourself, label them as something.

Atheism is indistinct, free of rules. There is no goal, no tithe, no punishment, no priest. You let all that go, because you know things are wrong in the beliefs and there is no emptiness from losing them. The one making the claim is asking an atheist to believe and an atheist is not.
 
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