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RE: A little article I wrote about why Atheism is not a belief

in #religion7 years ago

[And instead of doing a good faith investigation into whether God exists and what he demands from us you do nothing.]

Why do you believe that atheists do not investigate God's existence with the desire to actually see whether it is a truth claim or not?

[Not only that, atheism is a religion. It answers all the questions: How did we get here? We evolved. What happens to us when we die? We rot. Does life have meaning? No. Are there absolutes? No.]

Atheism does not answer those questions, usually branches of philosophy or science answer those questions and atheists adopt them according to what is most psychologically compelling to them. Your answers are also terribly reductive and somewhat of an over-generalisation.

[Atheists would say that there's no reason to help someone else if we didn't care about them personally because the joy you get from giving is simply a brain hormone that evolved to further the survival of the species. Ayn Rand was perfectly happy to let people starve in the streets.]

Again, another strawman, there is plenty good reason to help someone you do not know, and it does not just boil down to brain chemistry.

[In fact every religion that isn't based on the God of the Bible is perfectly happy to let children starve in the streets. They claim to think that the child did something bad in a previous life and is suffering for it now. It wasn't until Christian missionaries went to third world countries and helped them that some people from other religions went and did the same so they didn't lose members.]

You have a very limited view of other religions. For instance, Islam has a tenet that promotes the taking care of orphans and widows. How much study have you actually done of these other religions you are criticising?

[The most vocal atheists are those that hate God with a passion. Nobody hates the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. So how do they hate God when they claim he doesn't exist? It's simple. They hate God because they don't like the way he runs his universe. Or because of something that happened to them. So they deny his existence. The good thing is that so many of them are so obnoxious that they turn off people they could "convert".]

I am pretty vocal, I write articles, and help run a debate group based around the topic of atheism and faith. I do not hate God, I simply do not believe that God exists, and that there are no good reasons or arguments that are compelling enough to make me believe that God does exist.

[I think that a lot of so-called atheists look at the evidence for God and decide that they'd have to give up their sexual sins if they believed in God so they refuse to believe.]

Then you think incorrectly.