Mine happens to include supernatural beings and it makes just as much
sense as the atheist world of happy accidents.
Not exact matches
As an atheist (SHOCK) it makes more sense to me to just get your body cremated or something and if you want a spot for people to come and remember you that's nice, but really it could be anywhere as long as you buy the spot, buying a specific plot of ground to have your body thrown into just seems silly and a waste of mone
As an
atheist (SHOCK) it makes more
sense to me to just get your body cremated or something and if you want a spot for people to come and remember you that's nice, but really it could be anywhere
as long as you buy the spot, buying a specific plot of ground to have your body thrown into just seems silly and a waste of mone
as long
as you buy the spot, buying a specific plot of ground to have your body thrown into just seems silly and a waste of mone
as you buy the spot, buying a specific plot of ground to have your body thrown into just seems silly and a waste of money.
«Yea, though the
atheists maketh more
sense and writeth better and have things such IQs that we do not, their time cometh, and cometh soon, just
as it cometh soon for many thousands of years now.
I would never suggest that everything
atheists do makes
sense or is good, just
as I hope you wouldn't try to claim everything Christians do makes
sense or is good.
Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors
as well
as a
sense of national community in many societies (although many
atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.
I'm not saying that when you'll do this you'll become an
atheist (though personally I believe if you truely do think about it, that you will become one soon enough) there are a few people on this board (like JW) who has thought long and hard about god and rationalized it enough to still be a believer and make some
sense, but fred, I will not be even remotely swayed to understand your point if you only use the bible
as your bullhorn.
Referring to the difference between atheism and religion
as «a theological disagreement» is sort of like saying the difference between The Berenstain Bears and The Brothers Karamazov is a matter of «length,» but Jones is hoping that his
atheist church will provide skeptics with a regular
sense of community.
Atheists in this
sense are metaphysical naturalists, and
as will be shown, they DO follow a religion.
As to the
atheist your being at such the advanced stage in spiritual development you are ripe in time for turning the
senses inward / thus knowing one's true self I can only repeat your at further state in your spiritual development you believing meditation the next port of call upon your human journey leading to enlightenment.
Jeff, while on the surface your comments make
sense; however, IF you dig down, and look at the real issues at hand, it is much more often and with much more vehemence, that Christians condemn
atheists as «idiots» «heathens» «unclean» and any number of other rather unpleasant names.
I don't know, Sean, I am an
atheist and I have a GREAT deal of respect for both spirituality and for theism, insomuch
as it is practiced in a way that does not assume that,
as and
atheist, I am condemned to eternal damnation or that I have no morals or
sense of right or wrong.
The Assembly described itself
as a secular urban oasis, where
atheists could enjoy the benefits of traditional church - the
sense of community, the weekly sermon, the scheduled time for reflection, the community service opportunities, the ethos of self - improvement, the singing and the free food - without God.
It makes just
as much
sense for an
atheist to be afraid of god
as it does for you to have a fear of leprechauns.
Seeing
as atheists are constantly calling for proof, it doesn't make
sense to say that
atheists have faith.
Or
atheist values... satisfy your
senses as much
as possible while you're alive (which often leads to a consumerist state — i.e., America) which also led to Islamists hating us.
However in a country that defines itself
as «christian» then it makes
sense to criticise that prevailing faith, if for no other reason than said
atheist has absorbed those cultural memes and can be intelligently critical.
An
atheist in Zossima's and Tikhon's
sense, then, Ivan perhaps is; and Dostoevsky
as well: passionately concerned, a step away from absolute faith, never confident about getting there, usually sure he never will.
There is certainly a strongly held view, exemplified by popular scientists such
as Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard and an avowed
atheist, that there is no such thing
as free will in the
sense of an independent personal entity.
Atheists feel the same
sense of awe and wonderment of the world around us and the universe
as believers.
There is indeed a quality of geeky isolation from reality, common
sense, and the fullness of life that I see
as a motif in
atheist and Darwin activism alike.
«
Atheists have the same
sense of morals
as any religious people have
as we get our morals from many millenia of evolution»
look up doctrine...
Atheists have the same
sense of morals
as any religious people have
as we get our morals from many millenia of evolution, just
as all social animals do.
lol, yes clay i am an
atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more
sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race
as well
as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.
In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt
as children in Christian America is
as nothing compared with the danger they
sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in
atheist America.
To say that it ought not matter if one is a Scientologist or
Atheist or whatever, serving
as CinC, makes little
sense.
Some
Atheist angles may be content to allow the rest of the world believe whatever it wants, but so long
as those beliefs are hoisted upon others
as a burden to bear, used to judge and separate people who are unlike others, and make absolutely no
sense whatsoever... I personally will always crusade for the destruction of this plague.
Thus it is a theological venture in the strict
sense, but it is no less a pastoral response hoping to give support to those who have chosen to live
as Christian
atheists.
This statement makes about
as much
sense as a person who uses «AtheistsAreLosers» to tell
atheists how horrible they are for name calling.
«The contemporary pope - hunting springs from a secularist movement which feels incapable of asserting a
sense of purpose or meaning in any positive, human - centred way -
as the great
atheists of old such
as Marx or Darwin might have done - and which instead can only assert itself negatively, in contrast to the «evil» of religion, by posturing against the alleged wickedness of institutionalised faith.
It can be a very open line — Quakers take only God literally and treat everything else
as open to individual interpretation (and have my greatest respect — they are even happy to include Quaker
Atheists or Quaker Buddhists — even Jesus and God are in some
sense optional to them).