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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
— Psalm 14:1 and 53:1
The DemonRATS booed God. They are servants of Satan (or Allah) but I repeat myself.
If you believe in nothing you’ll fall for anything.
By the bye, before I proceed a single word further, please let me state I'm an atheist by belief or faith. My beliefs are neither more nor less provable than the Jew's, Christian's, Hindu's, or anyone else's. Ultimately, it's all a matter of belief.
I started out at the ripe old age of about three, if you can believe such a strange thing, believing there is no God. That's an essentially negative belief. Well into my forties, while hanging out with a decidedly religious friend, I began to shift toward actively or positively disbelieving in all things "spiritual;" concurrently, I gradually turned much less argumentive and much more tolerant.
All that said™, if you think I'm embarrassed by the behavior of many of my fellow atheists in America today, you're entirely correct. All too many are leftist extremists of the most morally and intellectually immature kind. I'm much more the Ayn Rand kind of atheist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
Ignosticism is the view that a coherent definition of a given religious term or theological concept must be presented before the question of the existence or nature of said term can be meaningfully discussed. Furthermore, if that definition is unfalsifiable, the ignostic takes the theological noncognitivist position that the question of the existence or nature referred to by the term, for the given definition, is meaningless.
Some philosophers have seen ignosticism as a variation of agnosticism or atheism, while others have considered it to be distinct.
Atheism is now a religion in my opinion.
Neither.
It is a conscious rejection of God and an intellectual game of solitaire that refuses to seek God.
Pointless discussions.
Man knows there is a greater being but, if he does not feel compelled to seek him out then he can contrive a myriad of reasons why it would be pointless.
For instance, if the aethiest were to seek God and given the number of religions and their faiths he would have to start with “Which God?”.
Just be a witness and maybe, quietly, they will one day seek God.
I’d neither describe it as a belief or a lack of belief.
It is simply a worldview.
Thank goodness I’m a “heathen”. A nun in my Catholic high school confirmed that. I’ve been fine with it ever since.
Atheists believe in God. They just see God as the enemy to be defeated.
It may not be belief but it has large conviction.
Atheists will demand to be married in a church and can’t be told no.
It is a belief that they know where we came from and what is out there and the belief there is nothing like a god or higher being or spiritual universe. They cannot provide facts to back up their claims, therefore, it is simply their beliefs, a religion in itself.
There is belief; and unbelief. pick one. choose wisely.
Some may know because they have direct observation or experience of God intervening in their life.
Why does it matter? I don’t see that it does one whit.
I thought atheism was the lack of a belief in God and agnosticism was believing in God but not in religion. Is it odd that to have faith in God, yet lack faith in religious dogma?
I went through an atheist phase as a young teen, who would tell God that I don’t believe in you. God saw it different and I feel blessed with the continual presence of God every in moment, even when I am not conscious of it. And though I wouldn’t call myself an agnostic by what I thought was the definition of the word, I do find religious dogma to often be no more then the demand to conform to some other person’s vision of God rather then God’s vision for all and each of us.
I do find atheists are often angry and bitter as well as contrary. The contrary ones won’t believe in God because they will do the opposite, thinking it makes them appear more capable and independent. The angry and bitter ones are miffed that God seems more mythical then magical. They’re angry at God because life is not perfect and all their desires are not met. For this they rage against God and against those who believe in God. Not long ago a started reading a biography of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, and as I suspected she was one of the angry, bitter atheists, who want vengeance on God for the bad things in their life. She set out to destroy God because he didn’t control her life and instead she ended up destroying herself and her loved ones. She didn’t destroy God. God was always there watching over her and telling her to turn back, but she didn’t because she couldn’t let go of her disappointment, her anger and her bitterness. She went where her anger took her rather then where God would have taken her. And where her soul is now, is between her and God.
Lack of Belief.