Rather, as our best theologians in this century have increasingly confessed, the roots of much serious atheism can be found in long - revered ideas of God that have not yet been shaped either by the promissory aspects of revelation (especially in the case of
the kind of atheism associated with Marx) or by the revelatory image of the kenotic God (especially in the case of the atheism associated with existentialism).
Richard, you need to read the other article cnn put up about «the six different
kinds of Atheism».
Not exact matches
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atheism is not healthy: what
kind of prayer?
It does not bother me that you might not believe, but it seems strange to me when someone throws insults at me for my having faith in God when your
atheism is just you having faith that there is no god
of any
kind.
Kind of like what elite liberal socialists do all the time — trumpeting their
atheism credentials to be accepted at their wine and cheese parties.
Since
atheism per se takes no stand on the killing
of innocent people, when an sociopathic atheist is responsible for the deaths
of people, be it one person or a million, it does not represent any
kind of inconsistency with his status as an atheist.
I
kind of feel bad for this guy, only because
Atheism isn't «about» anything.
Atheism or [just not giving a crap] is
kind of different.
There's a full - on atheist in the film; her
atheism is treated as a local secret, the
kind of thing the adults know but children must be kept from hearing.
But it is a pity that the appropriate critical relation toward
atheism has been uncritically expanded into a
kind of negativism.
Atheism takes for many something away that is essential to the fabric
of human life and we have to come to some decisions about what is true, what is lovely and what is just and
kind.
I'm torn on the idea
of some
kind of formal taxonomy
of atheism.
One might very well read his protest not as a brief for
atheism, but as a
kind of demythologized Gnostic manifesto, an accusation flung in the face
of the demiurge.
All
atheism is prone to all
kinds of nonsense because it denies the truth, and glorifies mankind and self.
Therefore we must resist the temptation to respond in
kind, rush into judgement, proclaim this as an atheist hate crime against Christians, tar all atheists with the same brush and suggest that
atheism inevitably leads to such persecution
of Christians.
Atheism is the belief that there is no god
of any
kind.
Let's acknowledge that instead
of starting the endless debate over
atheism versus theism and especially, who is» better» or «
kinder» or «more this or that»!?
The few references to religion made by Marx in his later years indicate that, in spite
of his lack
of interest in this
kind of problem, his view on religion and
atheism did not change as the years passed.
The few references to religion that Marx made in his later years indicate that in spite
of his lack
of interest in this
kind of problem, his view on religion and
atheism did not change as the years passed.
The dea th tolls in these move ments (very ath eistic, not that I am eq uating
atheism with this
kind of tra gedy, but do want to ill ustrate the com mon factor is man and our hu bris, not religion as the prob lem.
This sort
of thing explains the
atheism of Robert Ingersoll and all his
kind.
No, the more basic reason for the challenge is that this very issue
of theism or
atheism is too complex to admit
of the simple either / or
kinds of answers apparently called for by the question emblazoned on the cover
of Time for Easter 1966.
Anyway, if he still believes in God, then he isn't really an atheist, and will never know what it's like to truly be one, since that is what
atheism means — having no belief in any
kind of god.
An example would be the fictional sermon on hell that James Joyce recounts in his Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man This
kind of preaching fosters an image
of God as an unloving and cruel tyrant, and in some cases leads to a complete denial
of hell or even to
atheism.
It is equally interesting that after a period
of irreligion or relative
atheism there have been signs
of a
kind of perceptible religious renewal in certain changes in theology.
Kind of like, most atheists would agree that
atheism is disbelief in the existence
of deity, but may take issue if I said
atheism is wickedness.
One
of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers
of today's popular
atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy
of reality, much less any
kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain
kind of factual asseveration.
Atheism is the world view that there is no god or God or deities
of any
kind.
More serious is what Bellamy referred to as its «abusive tone about God and religion,» namely the undeniable
atheism and materialism that characterized not all
kinds of socialism but particularly the most influential strand, Marxism.
It may not be the same
kind of faith that a person would have towards God, but I believe that
atheism does, at the end
of the day, require some degree
of faith.
I guess this is an example
of the new militant, evangelical
atheism that is attacking religions
of all
kinds.
Murray and Brownson, just like Patrick, say that theory — all by itself — is a
kind of political
atheism that is destructive
of all civilization.
Atheism is in and
of itself a
kind of religion, as it posits the non-existence
of something which has yet to be dis - proven with any measure
of incontrovertible evidence.
«Thus would political
atheism suspend the
kind attraction
of heaven upon us, and let out the storm
of guilty passion and, by one disastrous move from stem to stern, make a clear breach over us, sweeping away what patriots and Christians and heaven have done to render us happy.»
But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic
of so - called realist
atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support
of one
kind or another to private religious education.
An Afghan man is granted asylum in Britain on the basis
of his
atheism, in what is thought to be the first decision
of its
kind.
An Afghan man has been granted asylum in Britain on the basis
of his
atheism, in what is thought to be the first decision
of its
kind.