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True or False about Atheism
True or False: Atheists are atheists for psychological reasons, not philosophical reasons, which is why when they make claims they have no idea how to connect them to reality or rationally defend them. As the atheists on this site confirm with each post.
Maybe I don’t believe in God for psychological reasons, or it could be philosophical reasons. I don’t know and I don’t care. I don’t beleive the moon is made of green cheese either. Do I need a reason why?
This fool is perfectly illustrating the point. He believes what he believes without reason, which is to say mindlessly, proving God right that atheists are 1) unreasoning animals; 2) fools and 3) mentally reprobate.
Once again an ignorant atheist vomits his lack of basic knowledge of logic all over the screen. The fallacy of the argument ad hominem occurs when you ignore the merit or lack thereof of an argument and reject the argument because of the person making it. When the subject of the argument is the person making it, it is not possible to commit this fallacy. Go back to school, mental midget.
It's true, except for point 3 should be changed to "morally reprobate".
Even the "good" atheist who follows some kind of moral guideline is still trying to replace God with himself.......hating God, trying to make God dead like the atheist is dead.
A ‘Good’ person in a biblical sence would mean that they may complete gods will by murdering 127 non-believers, or pagans, or philistines, or apostates, or any number of some other ethnically suppositioned group of people.
Why would I want to believe anything the bible says, it was written by man, not by a divine creator because a divine creator would be a force outside the realm of human understanding or consequence.
Why would I want to enforce any of the many tenants or teachings of any religion, they have proven by far the most divisive regressive, dogmatic and degenerate corporations yet divised by man. It’s a sick and sad tale you follow, where the leaders have a vested interest in embroiling you in a lie that convinces you have irreconcilable differences with the person beside you, hoping to win some kind of final transcendent battle that elevates your brand of theology to ruler of the whole world.
A "Good" person, in reality, in Biblical light, does not exist. Only God is good. We are all sinners, dying, corruption rife in our morals and in our genes and blood...polluted and not good.
You might want to believe the Bible because you want to know the truth. People hate the Bible because it says we are sinners worthy of death and eternal damnation in Hell. A wise person will seek the truth wondering why God has not already given us what we deserve, and how we can be sure of having His mercy secure forever so we never get what we really deserve....eternity roasting like a lump of coal, frying like an eternal sausage in the fire of Hell.
Who is forcing you to listen, or to care about reality? Muslims? Public school atheists who bully impressionable minds into thinking death exonerates them so the teachers feel like self-justified powerful leaders?
What is your invested interest? By fighting in favor of believing there is not truth, you feel God cannot hold you accountable for your sins; for every moment of the time He gave you in your dying outside of Hell condition?
Why should I care to reason with you? Will you give me money if I convince you to believe the truth? Keep your money. All I want is for you to go to Heaven; to be saved from Hell and only God the Savior who is Jesus who died for your sins and rose to forgive and justify the life of all who trust in Him.
If you are just going to be nasty and insulting caring nothing for me but only caring to convince yourself that you are exonerated in death, I'll ignore you and you can go your own way and find out for yourself where it will take you.
Atheism is a ploy created to direct the general public in to a single thought of only religious context to GOD. Though God as a public idea is most popularized as a religion only there are in fact non-religious legal description of GOD independent from religious definition.
Most provable none religious explanation of GOD. GOD is a numerical axiom that consist of the Numbers 400, 11, 500. When the logical formulation created by the axiom is followed it creates the number 89. When it is not followed it creates the number 911 or -111.
Atheist is a religious creation used to describe an accusation held by a religions members. The public struggle is to present it as a choice to hide the challenge made in representation of a non-religious entity all together.
The pagan already knows God, but because they refuse to worship Him, God turns them over to a reprobate mind, causing them to not know right from wrong.
Although I cannot speak for every atheist, I believe what I believe because I cannot find conclusive proof of a god or gods. The bible is unreliable as a source, as even the acclaimed "gospels" rely heavily on supernatural evidence to argue for their god, leaving much to be desired in terms of historical evidence. Additionally, the figure of Jesus steals from the Quran, Torah, and other predating religious works. Heaven and hell violate the laws of thermodynamics, as they are both massive energy sinks. It appears that argumentum ad hominem runs hot here, not a good practice in general. If you have an argument for your god, feel free to share it. I am open to reason.
That's exactly it, I don't have faith in there being no gods, I know that there are no gods, as that would contradict science. Faith is nothing more than an intellectual cop-out for being unable to backup your claims
I did not ask you about your lack of faith in God. I asked you a simple Q: Does you belief or lack thereof have any impact on reality? Yes or no? If yes, you are delusional. If no, who cares what you believe?
But since you brought it up, tell us your credentials in science and how God's existence would contradict science. Then tell me how you know YOUR UNDERSTANDING of science is correct. Then tell me how having faith is a copout when you cannot even know you birthdate without putting faith in your ultimate truth source?
Good luck. You my be the first atheist ever to deal with these issues.
If you're trying to make an analogy that atheists are equivalent to blind men, you need to back that up. What proof do you have that we weren't skeptic theists before becoming atheists? I used to be a diehard believer in Jesus, but the more I looked into him, the more I felt like he was a load of horse shit. The Gospels rely predominantly on things they couldn't have witnessed (the creation of the universe) and are quite lacking in historic evidence that we can trace back. Any argument made for your god I suspect will be quite easy to refute.
Fools are not open to reason. You already think you are better, smarter, and stronger than God. You are an unreasonable fool, deceiving yourself and trying to deceive others.
If God ends your time today and you wake up in the fire of Hell, is He wrong after you refused to listen to reason of Him who offers you pardon while you insist it is not possible?
If you will not agree to His terms, why should He show you mercy?
Atheism is a religious philosophy in which the adherent feels exonerated in death and exempt from punishment. It's the religion of fools. The psychology is self-justification which is impossible or the atheist would not be dying.
It's completely illogical, twisted, and self-contradictory; it's the love of death taking fools into the fire of Hell.
Atheists deny gods, that means they claim to not believe in rulers or forces of nature that have dominion over them
Atheists deny God, that means that they claim to not believe that there is a Supreme Being, or Ultimate Reality.
The problem with atheists is that they learn how to be atheists from atheists. Atheists are clearly not a reliable source of information about anything, because that worldview is inherently self defeating and patently ignorant to anyone who knows better.
Personal whim is the god of the atheist, and they deny even this god because they are haughty and blinded by their pride. They point the finger, accusing others of what it is they are doing. Maybe the people they accuse are doing what they are doing, but the difference is that people who believe in God acknowledge their sin while atheists are haughty and in denial about their own.
Atheism is a very superstitious position. Watch and see, all they can do is point the finger at others and dispute the meaning of words. They are lost. It is a foolish position.
Because they received not the love of truth, they have been cursed with strong delusion.
It would be better for atheists to humble themselves, repent, and believe the Good News. The answer is God.
Atheists don't like to hear this because their god is the self. They are self righteous, despite the fact that they don't even believe in righteousness.
The worst atheists are the ones who appeal to science. They are being deceptive, because there is absolutely nothing scientific about denying God. In fact, without God, there is no such thing as science. They will say anything to be justified in the eyes of others. They are men pleasers. They don't care about the truth. Wicked to the core.
Thankfully, God is merciful and forgiving. Grace is given to the humble, but the proud are resisted.
I could not imagine a more intellectually feeble argument. Atheist deny a magic guy, so they are ignorant, but they’re not, they know all about your magic man in the sky. And then I learned it from other athiests, wow, that’s an insight, I’ll have to put that in the book. And then my superstition didn’t allow me to receive any ‘god’, but I don’t think I need anything inside me, thanx tho. The worst athiest is the one that relys on science. Wow. I mean wow. All of society and all of its advancements; flight, hospitals, schools, space exploration, cell phones, the internet, if reason was based on biblical intuition we’d all still be defacating in the gutter. Let’s not forget that the church burned witches and athiests alike back in the era of the dark plague, murdering scientists and children until one of them survived long enough to build a rudimentary microscope. Dull witted arguments only reinforce the need for more exploration into the mental disease that is called Religion.
