Before you say that an atheist has the same opportunity to fill the
hollow with atheism, I will remind you that the small person is already an atheist.
THE CHRISTIAN CHARACHTER IN THE MOVIE IS ALWAYS POTRAYED AS A IDIOTIC BUFOON AND I HAVE NO
PROBLEMS WITH ATHEISM BUT THE SE ARE NOT ATHIEST THEY ARE ANGRY AND ENRAGED ANTI-THEISTS AND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
These were mass murders performed
with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.»
Second, while I hate to agree with an atheist, this Mehta guy makes a great point; it's hard to
experiment with atheism when it requires a decided belief.
There is nothing
wrong with Atheism, it certainly is more honest than those who use religion for political gain while ignoring the central values of the religion they profess to follow.
Well, well but of course communism is associated with atheism!!
As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle
with atheism completely.
After attending Christian university Nyack College for a year, grappling with his faith and
flirting with atheism, he moved to Seattle to attempt to get a music career going.
So baically you were a morally bankrupt person, that is a personal problem with you,
not with atheism.
I am completely
ok with Atheism, as long as those who adhere to this position realize that it is a faith commitment without any empirical support.
When they combine that
awareness with atheism, they become existentialists or governed by the thought that there's no escape but death from the miserable absurdity of who we are as ephemeral specks caught between two abysses.
Do you now throw your support behind that single poor soul of a Tibetan whose only wish is to see the evil empire that is China do
away with atheism?
using the semantics of atheism I could say there are unseen components to us we have yet to quantify or understand but that there is indeed more to us than meets the eye and a connectedness that is hard to describe but is like concrete once you are in tune with it
You start your
heading with Atheism, then talk about socialism and communism as if they were somehow related — they are not, but you seem to be trying to grind a religious axe and political axe at the same time (which seems rather common).
William Hamilton has observed that mysticism often confuses human self - transcendence with divine revelation, thus flirting
unawares with atheism.
The fact that a Christian pastor wants to «experiment»
with atheism gives me hope that maybe not everyone is a mindless catatonic who believes everything they are told.
But fair is fair, and just because Benedict starts with the Church doesn't make him any more fanatical than the atheist who
starts with atheism and the atheist intellectual tradition.
I think this notion that b / c some religious people are jerks and shove their religion down your face that its acceptable to be an atheist (which is in fact blind faith as well, do not confuse
agnostic with atheism) jerk that wants to shove their opinion down your throat.
If many wish today to take threatened Christianity under their protection, where, I would ask, was Christianity for them in these fourteen years when they went arm in
arm with atheism?
here's reality: Communism begins from the
outset with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction.
If you admit that 3.5 lb isn't capable of understanding everything
then with all your atheism what do you do with the stuff you can't understand - say it doesn't exist or it is just a myth?
After we moved and my wife and I married, they no longer went to church — but I never once
discussed with them my atheism, or sought to indoctrinate them.