I Am Not An Atheist

So his lack of understanding is why he turned to religion? Yeah that sounds about right.

Asking too many questions will lead to atheism..You'll see soon enough that the bible is just a book and your priest is just a dude.

Milk jugs did not exist during Lewis's time, milk bottles did, so therefore I suspect that this is a fake quote due to modern terminology.

This is a rather interesting logic trap .-.

Drivel. The conclusion does not follow from the premise. The lack of trust in thinking applies just as much to Lewis's conclusion god must exist as to the atheist's conclusion that it does not.

Anyway, atheists don't [i]dis[/i]believe they simply [i]withhold [/i]belief on the grounds of lack of proof. If you provide a rational atheist with proof they will believe.

On the other hand as Granny Weatherwax said on the subject of the gods:

Granny Weatherwax: I don't hold with paddlin' with the Occult. Once you start paddlin' with the Occult you start believing in Spirits, and when you start believing in Spirits you start believing in Demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble.
Nanny Ogg: But all them things exist.
Granny Weatherwax: That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

Lewis seems to think that a god must necessarily be good. Experience suggests otherwise which brings to mind Vetinari's position on the gods:

"If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."

And finally Richard Dawkins makes a good point on the subject of Christian objections to atheism:

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

Every time that a theist writes 'God' try replacing it with 'at least one god' or 'one or more gods'. The logic, what little there is, remains the same but you'll have a hard time convincing adherents of the Abrahamic religions that if their arguments were valid that they would justify belief in Kali, Odin, Zeus, etc., just as much as their own brand.

The same objection would apply to God.

Are there people that are going to point out that it doesnt matter who is with the "team".
As long as the "team" makes positive claims on reality... that "teammembers" have absolutely no weight on those positive claims. The only thing that has a weight, is the evidence.

Where is the evidence speedyman! Where is it!

Personally i'm not sure & I can't really say I care. I'd like to think that there's a higher power out there, and there just might be. But if we ever had any interaction with one, they've left us just as soon as they met or made us & for good reason. Just look at how we treat everything.

no amount of these appeals to authority or credentialism will convince me.

I don't give a fuck how smart he was how many books he wrote etc the fact is that this was not a rational decision but an emotional one to convert back.

i don't care what kind of achievements the "Former atheist" of the world had their reasons for retaking up the cross are all fundamentally irrational. Every. last. one.

When someone moves in next door to me and they wanna be friends and 13 years later we have three little convos a month, or less.....

I might casually ask her what is her religion, but then again most likely

I WOULDN'T CARE

so why does anyone?

GET OVER IT. GROW UP

"RELIGION" and "ATHEISM" are people's PRIVATE personal things. Let it go.

@LeopoldBloom No, because the universe is physical and temporal. It exists within time and space. It's therefore contingent upon someone or something else for its existence. That everything else was created by a necessary being is the logical outcome of observing that all temporal things have a beginning and therefore need a cause.

I really don't think you're making yourself look all that intelligent by giving such short shrift to classical arguments for theism. "So who made God then?" is the argument of a 10 year old.

You can find anything online on being former something. I can get you a video on people becoming atheists/agnostics.

What is God? The shape of God, the form of God? Does anyone knows? No body. I bet all religious books are silent on that. God existence can neither be proved or disproved by science or logic. We will never go that far to understand the supreme power which made it all happen.
I think it fair enough to understand we won't find answers to every question the humanity is trying to figure out. A lot will always be hidden from us. I guess, one have to decide if they chose to believe in God or not. Its personal choice of each individual. A choice which will only be proven after death when pur energies enter another universal dimension.

Having said that, one thing seems every undeniable so far, that everything around us is deeply connected. To me it leads to one source of mighty mighty power. The power which initiated it all. I believe that power source which initiated it all is GOD. I BELIEVE IN GOD.

The God which isn't in human form or in statues etc etc

Fucking CS Lewis is just a gay Tolkien

[quote]It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought[/quote] lol did developmental psychology not exist during this time??😂😂

I disagree the more questions I asked the more my beliefs were strengthened. Not to mention the more I studied anatomy and psychology the same thing

Good writer and philosopher 🙂👍

Well put!

I wish former theists can answer that. 😆