@ John Atheism is not a religion
its the complete lack of belief in a deity.
The latter is simply
a complete lack of belief.
And just to be clear, here, atheism is
the complete lack of belief in a deity or deities.
Not exact matches
Therefor, you have not shown that there is, as you put it, a «
complete and utter
lack of support» for Christian
beliefs.
The unreasonableness
of those
beliefs rests on the
complete and utter
lack of support for them, but that doesn't mean that you can't hold them.
Communism is technically atheist in that it
lacks belief in an unseen supernatural being, but make no mistake: it is a secular religion,
complete with iconography, strict moral codes and worship
of a supreme leader.
Religious
beliefs certainly can, and given the
complete lack of actual evidence for any supernatural aspect
of religion, they ought to be questioned at every opportunity.
Divine Science represents many
of the New Thought denominations in declaring, «Sickness is the result
of a
belief in two powers; a
lack of the full realization that we are, in Truth, spiritual beings... when an individual is expressing on a high level
of consciousness and knows completely that he is Spirit, he can not be ill, for he is in
complete harmony with the one creative power, God.»
While it is impossible to prove a negative, the
complete lack of empirical evidence to support
belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on
belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular
beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.
It's the
complete and utter
lack of data supporting the existence
of gods, that makes
belief in them rather silly.
That
belief shows a
complete lack of knowledge
of editing.)
One can see a number
of basic flaws here; the
complete lack of appreciation
of the importance
of natural variability on short time scales, the common but erroneous
belief that any attribution
of past climate change to solar or other forcing means that CO2 has no radiative effect, and a hopeless
lack of familiarity
of the basic science
of detection and attribution.
[Dr. Carling has] the
complete lack of appreciation
of the importance
of natural variability on short time scales, the -LSB-...] erroneous
belief that any attribution
of past climate change to -LSB-...] other [than CO2] forcing means that CO2 has no radiative effect, and a hopeless
lack of familiarity
of the basic science
of detection and attribution.
Although her focus on the problems caused by
lack of sufficient nurturing, and her
belief that even young children are strongly influenced by the «death instinct,» led her to develop useful tools for treating seriously troubled children, her theory does not provide a
complete, or hopeful, view
of normal human psychological development.