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Questions for an atheist
Some religious minded people can not understand Atheism. Time after time I have seen this problem whilst writing about religion and its problems. I have been a citizen Journalist for about 5 years or so. Before that I have wrote on forums and newsgroups ever since the foundation of such communication.
I have often seen atheism being suggested as being a religion. The favorite comment has been “you hate Christians” when I have wrote an article that questions all religions.
So the first question is do atheist hate theist? A few do but many like myself do not hate the religious minded but do hate what religious indoctrination has done to them.
Could an atheist be converted to be a theist? I have heard a few have been converted but most Atheists would shudder at even the thought.
Do atheists worry about death? I expect some do but the ones that I have spoken to have said they are not afraid of death. My own thoughts on this are that its stupid to worry about something that has not happen yet. I know the lights fade and then the brain stops thinking and that’s it, one does not exist any more.
Does religion frighten you? Yes and that may just as well founded why Jews are frightened of the Islamic faith and Christians frightened of the Islamic faith. I think I have good reason to say yes to the question.
Have you believed in a religion prior to being an Atheist? Yes in fact two Judaism and Christianity.
What made you lose religious faith? When I realized how little I knew about my faith and I started reading the Bible thoroughly to find out more in what I believed in. Then I found contradictions and the main verse in Isaiah 45.7 that explained my God to have created evil convinced me the religion was false. For a very long while I was annoyed at my gullibility and even believing the magic and miracles created by Jesus Christ.
What type of Atheist are you? A weak atheist, that’s because I have a belief, but not in a deity.
And what’s that belief? I believe that there is intelligence behind the creation of the universe and how it functions. This is not a God or any form of deity, its nature and natural laws of the behavior of atoms.
Then how was the Universe created? I have a theory that a Hugh empty vacuum has to be populated by substance. That the very fabric of space split asunder, into matter and antimatter of equal proportions, the Big Bang. That the atoms and their nature that are the real keys to our own creation, billions of years after the Big Bang. It’s the chaotic nature of the universe and the natural laws that’s the simple but seemingly complicated
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at 06:54 on April 24th, 2009
The problem is that Marxists are the political animals of atheism and the record of Marxists toward others, both dissenters within communism and in regard to religious people, is just one of horror, with over a hundred million people killed.
I was an atheist and I am no longer one, and I have a friend from Cuba, a high-level administrator who fled Cuba because after her experiences that brought her back to an experience of a higher power, she proposed opening up the Cuban Communist Party to believers as well.
She had to flee the island to avoid prison. Her two political allies in this project were arrested and were in jail last I heard.
As far as science goes, what is the aspect of the universe that allows natural laws to exist? What is a natural law an expression of?
at 01:30 on April 26th, 2009
I really can not pecieve why Marxism and Communism has any thing to do with present day athiesm within a religious society and how both could possible have in an atheist converting to a religious indocrination.
I do know that athiesm existed before Carl Marx was born and that Marx was Jewish and buried in the same cemetary as 2 of my sisters of whom died before I was born. So I spent much time in my youth looking at the jewish philosphers grave and pondering how alike Marx's social philophy was in tandom to another Jewish Philopher Jesus Christ. This new society dream of Marc's was similar to Jesus form of utopia in many aspects. But Marx did not include God within the concept. However your story is interesting but did you know that budist monks freely flow in communist China and seemingly Islam still was tolarated in the ex-russian communist satelites states.
Its funny when we talk about athiesm Christians tend to be more out spoken to ban atheism, lol
Your question
As far as science goes, what is the aspect of the universe that allows natural laws to exist? What is a natural law an expression of?
First of science goes some time further than thiest wish it too (joke) lol
I would have write a book on the aspect of the universe that allows natural laws to exist (in fact I have already started to write one.) the simple answers is the universe natural laws are geared to the way atoms and their components behave within the vacum the universe was created in. But the real problem is how many natural rules there really are. The area of quantum physics has many problems that need solving such as why quarks behave in such a ballance fashion as they do if one quark goes positive the other goes negative. The distance in between does not matter and so on.
Actual nature is normally what we refer as being the natural laws on our planet at a guess thats the answer tour seeking. If you drop a stone from a high building the gravity effect makes it go down ward and the wind will push the stone the direction the wind is blowing. If its raining the rain will erode a minuet part of the stones surface as would the air the stone passes through and the wind that efects the stones direction.
If you cast small amounts of molten lead from a tall building as it cool when it drops the natral effects will make the lead look like leadshot if it lands in a deep pool of water.
We our selfs exist due to these natural laws its been a long process since those first atoms got mix into a solution that created the first active living cell but just look in a mirror to see what the nature of survival of the fittest and evolution has created a living marvel of an inteligent creature with much of the nature of its last ancester the ape.
As I said I am writing a book on this issue and if I was to go on this comment would be ten times larger than my original article. lol
at 07:37 on April 24th, 2009
Babel-Fish, thanks for an interesting Opinion piece.
at 02:18 on April 26th, 2009
your welcome
at 04:03 on June 17th, 2009
Have you read the scientific miracles of the Quran yet mr fish?