Responding to Atheism

I'm going to keep it rolling. Keep it moving. My response to atheism is strictly [ha] a response to Biblical criticism. I was an unbeliever [I prefer the term unbeliever because most atheists are non-militant and more agnostic or apathetic than atheistic] most of my life, and though isolationism has always been my MO the few family and friends I've had have been almost exclusively atheists. I can relate to the skeptic but that has little to do with it because all of the atheists I've known couldn't care less. They see science and religion as pretty much the same as me. Nonsense. Ideology. they don't start out like that, they become that when appeal to the masses has been achieved. They are, in effect, politicized.

So, when an atheist, or theist for that matter, agnostic or whatever, anyone, says the Bible isn't factual because it says light was created after plants, I say, no it doesn't say that. Very basic stuff. Then, if we choose, we can hammer out the details. On forums like this, it's best to do that in small steps. No one wants to drown in text.

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Underconstruction · F

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

BibleData · M

@Underconstruction Define god.

GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

@Underconstruction A fundamental issue with atheism, is that even if you intellectually and rigorously square all the circles pertaining to whatever was (or wasn't) the uncaused cause, that a fundamental aspect of human nature is left hanging.

Assuming a hardline scientific materialist atheist worldview, man is a wretched creature indeed, because it is an overgrown ape with a tendancy to want to believe in some sort of "divine" or "spiritual," however one defines it.

As though evolution, by accident or "design" (ha ha) ended up producing an animal with a craving for something that does not and can not exist. Why in the Universe would this be a byproduct?

That is like a kind of mice evolving with a desire for a food, let's call it Mana, that doesn't exist. But their idea of it is so compelling that they fly into deluded rages and slaughter one another over it!

Sounds curiously maladaptive to me. Much more so than any usual dead end trait that one imagines ends up getting culled down the line.

Moreover, atheism is ill equipped to deal with the fundamental existential issue our curious esoteric craving for the Divine/spiritual/religious poses, because it isn't its job to do so.

Reguardless, the problem persists. And atheism leaves little to nothing to ameliorate this issue of existential angst which emerges, which when left to fester can lead to a virulent form of nihilism that is not unlike what we see in much of the "Godless" developed world today.

This nihilism underscores many modern societal ills.

In the modern world, atheism is growing and much more commonplace because it is in part a worldview that stems from the alienation between man and his more primal, basic nature.

So, we have essentially made ourselves "God" now. Hence the misguided nobility of Secular Humanism, with its lofty goals but insular myopic worldview.

"God is Dead." Nietzche was trying to explain that there are severe rammifications upon society and indeed us as a species for our "murder" of God, and our attempts to replace him witj what amounts to some secular hodgepodge state religion.