We're here, we're back just as G-d said we would be thousands of years ago.
Well Atheism is not a lack of belief..
You have to believe there is no God to be an Atheist...
Most people who think they are Atheists, are at best just Agnostics...
Poppycock.
Ok so where are the truths?
Very good summary. Couldn’t agree more.
Atheists claim not to believe in God, but what they actually deny is the interconnectedness of all things. Religious people, in believing in God, believe in the interconnectedness of all things through God (God being infinite, and thus disconnected from nothing).
So when Atheists claim that they are “rational” or “reasonable,” inevitably they mean these terms as applied to the “reality” of fundamental isolation - so, to someone who is completely isolated, “community” becomes the overwhelming goal. Thus they see compelled collectivism as the ultimate solution - whether in the form of socialism, communism, progressivism, totalitarianism, or any other mandatory group organization.
This is why liberals not only disagree with, but are so frightened by conservatives - conservatives fight for individual freedom, which liberals see as forcing them to be alone in an isolated universe. It terrifies them, so they fight with the fury of the damned against it, because that’s exactly how they feel.
Does Mr. Harris have a theory why this is so (other than mindless prejudice)? Or does he take it to be simply implied in his manifesto?
What a twit. I guess this nearly 50 year-old trust fund graduate student has found a way to give meaning to his life.
Being an atheist is a respectable position. Being an atheist activist is the sign of a deep mental illness.
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Psssst...[wispering] I hear they don’t believe in God.
There is nothing new here. Atheism is based upon faith as much as any other religion. Atheism is a religion. As the writer indirectly admits, Atheism has lots of questions but few answers. Ignorance is the new intelligence. How does an Atheist know that we are hardwired to act in a moral way? Who or what hardwired us? Why be moral? What does it mean to be moral? Who determines who or what is moral? How do you know that man is more moral today and in previous generations? Who decides that? Why is morality even important? Morality does not exist in nature. If man is nothing more than a naked ape, why do we even care about morality? The idea that Atheists enjoy life more than a Theists is absurd. Only an Atheist could believe that. Atheism is dogmatic. It is as dogmatic as Theism. Atheism makes the dogmatic statement that God does not exist. It also believes that Atheists are somehow more intelligent and enlightened than the other 96% of the world. The reality is that everyone worships a god. The Atheist simply worships himself.
Atheists (as shown in the above sentence) are "legends in their OWN mind".
...it seems important to deflate the myths that prevent them from playing a larger role in our national discourse.
Thanks for the offer, but no thanks. The religion of atheism (moral relativism) has done enough already to ruin a great country that was founded on Christian principles (not "religous principles" as in Muslim, Buddhist or secular humanist, but CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES).
Atheism has given us abortion, homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, as well as drug and alcohol abuse. Really, we appreciate your gracious offer to do "more" for our society, but really, you've done enough already.
(Myth 2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history. People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions..
Hitler (who DESPISED Christianity), Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were "religous people". Their religion was a totalitarian government that wanted nothing to do with God. Because the almighty state was their "god", they hated anything or anyone that opposed their tyranny. In other words: when it came to being worshipped, they didn't want any "competition" from God.
100-200 million murdered under communist regimes since 1917. I wonder if they had believed in one of the most basic dogmas of Judaism and Christianity: "Thou Shalt Not Murder", if those innocent lives would have been spared.
But wait, there's more!
45 million innocent unborn babies murdered in the name of "choice" in the past 37 years (I highly doubt that the butchers at Planned Parenthood hold Christian worship services at the end of the day).
500,000 plus dead from the "gay disease" (if you asked homosexual's what their "religion" is, they'll laugh in your face if you talk to them about being "saved" by Jesus).
Yes, atheists are a "intelligent" bunch; so intelligent that they don't even realize that it is because of Christianity that they have the freedom to act like the fools that they are in public.
"When scientists don’t know something — .........they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesn’t know is a profound liability in science."
......well not in the case of Climate Change, where faking evidence is a very lucrative affair, and as a bonus, you can count on the majority of scientists to cover your butt when you lie.
1. Atheists believe that life is meaningless.
Deny the eternal, and you bump into Solomon’s conclusions in Ecclesiastes.
Very interesting article, SeekAndFind. Thanks for posting it. I’m a Christian who has had conversations with athiests and agnostics. Much of what this article is saying rings true, in my opinion.
I learned a valuable lesson from a preacher’s wife many years ago. She basically said, “I don’t argue religion, because religion is based on faith” and “I don’t argue against other religions (our conversation was about Mormons) because we are all taught our beliefs and hold on to them regardless of whether we are right or wrong”.
I trust in God and if I was wrong in not becoming a Mormon, or Jew, or Catholic, or ‘name your religion’, then I pray He will forgive me.