The Delusion of Atheism [Spirituality & Religion]

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The main delusion of atheism is that its followers believe that it exists.

They are deluded into believing that no gods exist, yet they have their own gods that they worship and put their faith in.

They can't understand that there is only one true God, Yahweh, who has revealed Himself to mankind through His Spirit and through His Word, yet they try their darnedest to discredit Him and His Word instead of taking time to understand Him and His Word.

They keep claiming they have evidence for their type of science that evolution happened instead of God, Yahweh, creating the heavens and the earth but fail to produce evidence so far. They, however, have shown evidence that intelligent design happened instead but still claim it's evolution.

They mock, ridicule, and insult hoping that these actions will set them above those who believe, on the contrary, the opposite happens and their mocking, ridiculing, and insults fall back on them. Plus, these actions prove that they have no such evidence to support their claims in that evolution happened or that God, Yahweh, doesn't live.

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SW-User

[quote] The main delusion of atheism is that its followers believe that it exists.

They are deluded into believe that no gods exist, yet they have their own gods that they worship and put their faith in.
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This whole part doesn't make sense. Atheism isn't a religion with followers. Atheism is the lack of belief in organized religions and gods.

I'm not going to spend time debating you on your religion. You believe what you believe. But those sentences come off rather oxymoronic.

Really · 80-89, M

@SW-User [quote]Atheism isn't a religion with followers[/quote] It is with some folk. I once went to a meeting of people advertising themselves as freethinkers. At the meeting a number of them declared themselves atheist and were very militantly evangelistic, going on & on about it as hard as any gospel preacher. I subsequently discovered there's a movement, or society, calling themselves Freethinkers, and their first principle is that Freethinkrers must be atheist. How's that for oxymoronic?

SW-User

@Really lol. I think you might be projecting your own religious ideals on that group with your comment: "At the meeting a number of them declared themselves atheist and were very militantly evangelistic, going on & on about it as hard as any gospel preacher." However, there is room for the thought that if they were indeed going on and on and solely calling themselves atheists, these were probably people who were bathed in a religion from birth through some point into adulthood when they rejected it. I've only seen people raised in that manner to have that kind of emotional outburst when they are "militant atheists." Those of us raised with little or no religion don't join groups like that.

As an aside, I've heard of the group, but they supposedly are filled with more than atheists. It appears the meeting you went to was possibly an off shoot or anomaly? Whatever they were, sounds like a ridiculous waste of time to me.

https://ffrf.org/faq/feeds/item/18391-what-is-a-freethinker

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free-think-er n. A person who forms opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief. Freethinkers include atheists, agnostics and rationalists.

Is atheism/humanism a religion?

No. Atheism is not a belief. It is the "lack of belief" in god(s). Lack of faith requires no faith. Atheism is indeed based on a commitment to rationality, but that hardly qualifies it as a religion.
Freethinkers apply the term religion to belief systems which include a supernatural realm, deity, faith in "holy" writings and conformity to an absolute creed.

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GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M

@Really [quote]I subsequently discovered there's a movement, or society, calling themselves Freethinkers, and their first principle is that Freethinkers must be atheist. How's that for oxymoronic?[/quote]

Thank you for sharing that, Really. Skeptics are no more freethinkers than they are atheists. Remember, the only atheists are the skeptics lying dead in the ground and skeptics walking around are dead above ground. The true Freethinkers are the ones that believe in the truth of God and not the lie of man.

GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M

@SW-User [quote]This whole part doesn't make sense. Atheism isn't a religion with followers. Atheism is the lack of belief in organized religions and gods. [/quote]

From what I've gathered by talking to skeptics on here, they say the opposite. We were created for worshiping the one true God, Yahweh. Even though mankind became Spiritually dead at the fall, we still have that trait living within us. Therefore, there will always be an god or the one true God that mankind will worship.

[quote]I'm not going to spend time debating you on your religion.[/quote]

I'm not religious.

Really · 80-89, M

@SW-User Harry, I had a long post almost complete, ressponding to your own reply to my previous one. Then my computer spontaneously decided it was time to reboot. My essay is gone! The gist of it ....

- You're wrong: I have no religion
- No dictionary or googling or semantic declamation will ever let you know what an actual person thinks.
- I personally aspire to be a free thinker but not A Freethinker.

I do wish for you, many thoughts that will satisfy your soul. Sorry if that's an unacceptable word but it just jumped up. Don't google it! 😏 .

Really · 80-89, M

@GodSpeed63 That's not how I use the word skeptic. I use it to mean someone who's dubious, not convinced but could be if shown credible evidence. Could be a priest or a stripper or a hedonist; currently religious, non religious or sacreligious.

SW-User

@Really @GodSpeed63 lol. Nothing personal but the two of you are too far out in left field for me. I haven't a clue wtf either of you is jabbering on about. Carry on strange men. Carry on. I'm removing myself from this thread.

Really · 80-89, M

@SW-User [quote]I'm removing myself from this thread.[/quote]

Godspeed 😁 Sorry about that. (Edit: and apologies to user GodSpeed. Didn't realise I was taking your name in vain.)