What Is the Higher Power Atheists Appeal To?

[just a believing guy]

What is the higher power atheists appeal to?

 

[Nithavela]

mu

 

[Saucy]

 

[Strathos]

I would imagine that it depends on the individual

 

[Moral Orel]

Define "higher power".

 

[just a believing guy]

Define "higher power".

An atheist who knows what atheism means should do this.

 

[Moral Orel]

An atheist who knows what atheism means should do this.

Well it's just too much of a leading question with the baggage that words like "appeal" and "higher power" carry with them. I doubt you're going to get many decent answers without better clarifying what it is you're getting at.

 

[just a believing guy]

Well it's just too much of a leading question with the baggage that words like "appeal" and "higher power" carry with them. I doubt you're going to get many decent answers without better clarifying what it is you're getting at.

As said, an atheist should do this...

 

[quatona]

An atheist who knows what atheism means should do this.

Go ahead and tell us why you feel atheism requires belief in "higher power".
I´m sure we´ll have a lot of fun with your explanation.

 

[seashale76]

What is the higher power atheists appeal to?

Kind of hard to appeal to a higher power if you don't believe in one. What kind of question is this? I'm perplexed.

 

[Dave RP]

What is the higher power atheists appeal to?

I have no idea what you are asking. Can you give further explanation of your question, because as an atheist i simply got no idea what you are on about.

 

[just a believing guy]

I have no idea what you are asking. Can you give further explanation of your question, because as an atheist i simply got no idea what you are on about.

I myself don't know what atheism is. That's why I asked an atheist to explain it to me. The explanation included the atheists' supposed ''appeal to higher power''. That's why I started this thread.

 

[Desk trauma]

I myself don't know what atheism is.

Lack of belief in god/s.

 

[jardiniere]

It might be broken apart and become more intelligible. What do you mean "to appeal to"? What does "higher power" mean to you? As far as I know, atheists don't deal with a concept like "higher power", it just doesn't impact their understanding of reality. So if by "appeal to" you mean something like an appeal to one's better nature, as in "try looking at this issue with compassion" , then since atheists don't have higher powers to appeal to, this just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

I suppose one could conceive of the natural world as an entity, sort of like Mother Nature, and then claim that's a higher power, but I don't know of atheists that do that other than as rhetorical arguments.

 

[Dave RP]

I myself don't know what atheism is. That's why I asked an atheist to explain it to me. The explanation included the atheists' supposed ''appeal to higher power''. That's why I started this thread.

What explanation did he give you? Mine would just be that I don't believe in any of the gods currently available or those believed in throughout human history. I therefore have no "higher authority" to appeal to. Are you perhaps asking why, if there is no "higher authority" do atheists not go around raping and murdering if we feel the urge?

 

[seashale76]

I myself don't know what atheism is. That's why I asked an atheist to explain it to me. The explanation included the atheists' supposed ''appeal to higher power''. That's why I started this thread.

Well, at least you're honest. Sometimes it is the case that some atheists out there confuse their reasons for being an atheist with what atheism actually is. Atheism is a lack of belief in gods/deities. That's it. If anyone atheist or otherwise comes along and adds to that, then you're getting their additional/personal reasons for why they are an atheist (or why they think others are atheists).

 

[essentialsaltes]

No such thing.

Atheism is a lack of belief in any gods. It is not a belief or appeal to something else.

 

[durangodawood]

An atheist who knows what atheism means should do this.

So you use the words but cant explain what concept they represent?

Thats a recipe for confusion from the start.

 

[just a believing guy]

So you use the words but cant explain what concept they represent?

Thats a recipe for confusion from the start.

He didn't explain, beats me why.

 

[durangodawood]

He didn't explain, beats me why.

Oh I see.

He probably didnt explain because it makes no sense. Atheism is simply not about respecting "higher power".

Atheism is basically about not believing in gods. But it may be part of various of more complicated worldviews. Thats where people get confused sometimes. They mistakenly think those various worldviews are atheism.