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Atheists are often seen in a very bad light by some theists. But, atheists make theists of different religions unite. All of a sudden, a different god or gods or goddesses become all accepted in the facing of someone who don’t believe in god and it evokes not only amusement but a point to ponder.
Here are some interesting truths about atheism:
Atheism is not a religion created to reject other religions. As a matter of fact, atheism is a by-product of theism. Atheism is motivated by palpable evidence, driven by reason and dedicated to logic, something theism glaringly lack. Atheism came into being after the manifestation of theism. Simply put, atheism is the opposite of theism.
There are no Hindu atheists, Christian atheists, Islam atheists and whatnot. Atheists disassociate and detach themselves from all religions, not only the religion they are born into. Richard Dawkins, a famous atheist once noted that children being born into a particular religion is as ridiculous as having children being born into a particular political affiliation. Unlike theists who rubbish the existence of other religious establishments and glorify their own as the ‘right religion’ and the ‘right god’, atheists rubbish all religions, religious scriptures and gods, that come in the religious package; atheists don’t take sides.
Theists claim that atheists are immoral since they don’t have a set of guidelines contained in a perceived celestial holy reference book or scripture on ethical behavior to follow. This claim is further fortified by the veracity of famous dictators in the past were atheists, eg: Joseph Stalin. For those autocrats, atheism was a means to an end to further their self serving agendas rather than the renunciation of organized religion. Atheists of today hold that humans are inherently capable to be good without having an ethereal entity that functions both as a boogeyman and a rewarder to keep us in line. This is why atheism extends to humanism for after all two working hands are better than a thousand clasped in prayers. Instead of being good for the promise of heaven, atheists aim to create paradise on earth, which is better lest afterlife heaven and hell don’t exist.
There is another claim that atheists are satanists.” Since you don’t worship god, you must worship the devil.” This is so myopic; for the theists, only two extremes exist, black or white, it’s either you like black or loathe black and vice versa, settling on one of the two extremes. For atheists, it is all shades of grey between the black and white extremes in the doing of vis a vis. As far atheists are concerned, they don’t believe in a talking snake as much as they don’t believe in a psychedelic monkey god that flies, assumes any shape it wants, with a mace rolling on its finger and carried a mountain in its hand and is immortal. As ludicrous as the idea of a goody-two shoes sky daddy who is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, so is a fallen angel whose mission is to poison the minds of humans and entice humans to indulge in vice for atheists.
Atheists hold that aliens could have given mankind a few starters and one common thing in all religions is they worship skywards and motion upward when referring to god. Perhaps we have been praying to ancient aliens. But, space exploration is yet to find god up there thus far so this is another anomaly for theists.
Atheists are dogmatic, some theists swear by this proclamation. It is not the case. Atheists are ready to evolve as some establishments get ruled out by better evidence that disproves previous establishment through discovery and research and in atheism, it is science. That is why many science people like Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrass Tyson are atheists. It is simply because science doesn't relate to religion; both are poles apart. Science tells you that dinosaurs have lived on earth billions of years ago and the proof is fossil, in the form of skeletal remains and fossil fuel formed billions of years ago. And, we happily fill our vehicles’ petrol tank with oil that took billions of years to form in the earth crust and preach in churches that the universe is only several thousand years old and that God created the earth in seven days and then teach in school that man originated from apes, ruling Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden out.
Most atheists are agnostic atheists. Richard Dawkins is perhaps the most famous agnostic atheists. While dismissing his hard earned reputation as a militant atheist, Dawkins admitted that he is actually agnostic as he can’t prove God doesn't exist.
He said: 'On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six.'
Professor Dawkins went on to say he believed was a '6.9', stating: 'That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don’t.”
The age old question atheists ask is:
Did God create religion or did religion create God?
With theists saying that humans manipulated religion and unearthly injunctions to further their agendas, creating hundreds of sects and denominations, it is increasingly becoming clear that religion and God ideals are man made.
But, it is not yet proved. The argument will continue.
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