Eudaimonist
I believe in life before death!
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Atheism is the quest for error.
Just like religion is the quest for fantasy?
eudaimonia,
Mark
I still reckon if we bring back Woodstock it will get the spiritual juices running. I think humans have had he ability to look to the heavens and wonder whats out there. Whether it be aliens, fairies, Ghosts or gods man has this inclination to think that there is something out there. Its almost a built in thing and its as though he sort of knows there is something but then we try to put all these different explanations to it. Even a native cut off from civilization will look to the skies and wonder. I believe its more than a mental thing. Its like our spirits are in tune with a bigger spirit world and we are trying to phone home like ET.In evolution, might didn't make right, it made what is. But another influence began to assert itself within the sociological evolution of will conscious man, Love and its derivatives. This development was universal, across all cultures. In religion we believe this was the emergence of minds ability to respond to spiritual gravity, the capacity for receptivity of spiritual truth.
Atheists seem to be arguing that mankind has contracted a virus in its interpretive response to this spiritual gravity that we call God.
No, you misunderstand again, religion is the quest for truth on all levels. Atheism believes that religion is a fantasy, the imagination of billions of other people for ages upon ages. So the Atheist is in a negative pursuit of potential errors or inconsistencies in the religionist explanation of his or her faith in order to prove their own faith in their own doubts.
religion is the quest for truth on all levels.
Atheism believes that religion is a fantasy
So the Atheist is in a negative pursuit of potential errors or inconsistencies in the religionist explanation of his or her faith in order to prove their own faith in their own doubts.
You mean, your atomic mater born phenomenon is attracted to my atomic mater born phenomenon in displaying yet another electrochemical phenomenon in a universe that is ultimately meaningless. Thanks, big meaningless mass enveloping hugs to ya.
If that´s the way you see things....You mean, your atomic mater born phenomenon is attracted to my atomic mater born phenomenon in displaying yet another electrochemical phenomenon in a universe that is ultimately meaningless.
So is the rationality used by most atheists. How good that we have something in common.
No, atheists conclude that religion is a fantasy or contain some other form of error.
No, atheists are generally involved in a positive pursuit of truth at all levels. But searching for truth means that errors will be exposed, and atheists find some of those errors in religious worldviews.
I have no time to waste "proving faith in my own doubts" any more than I hope you debate atheists simply to prop up your own lack of faith.
eudaimonia,
Mark
You seem grumpy today. Enjoy the sunshine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_CE7GqqrvY
eudaimonia,
Mark
You mean, your atomic mater born phenomenon is attracted to my atomic mater born phenomenon in displaying yet another electrochemical phenomenon in a universe that is ultimately meaningless. Thanks, big meaningless mass enveloping hugs to ya.
I highly doubt religion is maintained solely for the desire of an "easy out". Heck, not every religion offers some reward for belief or even an afterlife, but some of those sorts of religions still have a modern following.
A recent review of studies found that religious belief is inversely associated with intelligence. That is, more intelligent people are generally less likely to be religious. The reasons for this are not fully understood, although some of the main theories were discussed in Tomas Chamorro-Premuzics article. Dr Chamorro-Premuzic also made the intriguing suggestion that the relationship between religiosity and intelligence might be mediated by the personality trait known as openness to experience. A related possibility is that greater knowledge about religion and the world in general might play some role in explaining why more intelligent people tend to be less religious.
I think there is a whole lot of people who cant do that either and there is no religion involved at all. Take a look at who is running our countries to start with. Take a look at the life problems billions are having with drugs, suicide, family breakups, crime, polluting and destroying our planet ect. I dont think people are solving life problems with or without religion anyway.
2) hold on, that's where the faith of atheism comes in, you make conclusions of final value with only having a tiny amount of data about the universe, origins or potential.
3) see above, your claim of a positive pursuit of truth is blinded by premature conclusions, so you are self deluded if you think you are really seeking all truth.
Do you realize how ironic that is coming from a theist?
But I never did say that I have made any final conclusions.
That same idea applies to you no less. Theists can also be said to have ruled out atheism too quickly by making all sorts of premature conclusions. Are you claiming to have drawn no conclusions whatsoever? Then why quote the Urantia Book so often?
Yes, I do seek all truth. However, I am also an atheist in that I see no good reason to believe in the existence of any divine beings. I have drawn conclusions, as anyone else does, but that doesn't mean that the conclusions are final. There is no contradiction there.
Perhaps this will help you to understand what it means to be open minded and a critical thinker at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
eudaimonia,
Mark
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