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As an atheist, I take great caution in posting and talking about religious views opposing believers' faith as to not to offend them.
I have posted and forwarded several points against religious indoctrination and man, theists, some how, forgetting that they belong to different religions, sects and denominations unite, and object me to severe tirade. Accusations like how can I say that God is a figment of man's imagination and that I am blasphemous are hurled on me.
Truth has only one face; lies have many. If God exists, he won't have many different incomparable entities. The description of god by different religions and civilizations is so contrasting and some times opposed to each other, I wonder are they talking about same entity. After many millenniums, a cocktail of religions got rebranded as Pantheism and even Hinduism, it being the oldest religion of all with no known, distinct founder and believed to exist since time immemorial by outside forces now seems to answer it by saying "all gods are one but with many names, many forms, etc etc etc. This is the checkmate answer against many religions we have today but still it does not prove whether god exists or not.
Theist quarters are the ones who indulge in this preaching of religion into the skulls of atheists and when atheists don't get oblique to their revelation, they get branded as numbskulls and blind. Calling another person blind, be it atheist or theist doesn't make you enlightened.
I'm not averse to religion; I just find it unfitting for me. Spirituality should be a matter of choice, not imposition.
I come across posts and instances glorifying God all the time but it never offends me whatsoever. When people tell me, "God bless you.", I don't tell them that God doesn't exist and launch a lecture against God and faith in God. I quietly smile and nod obligingly. IRONY.
Why can't theists have the same mindset and tolerance as agnostics and atheists and don't shove religion into their throats? Why does the need to impose that God exists manifests in religion espousing populace? Religion should be an option, not mandatory.
Anyway, the only time when theists belonging to different religions unite is when they confront an atheist and for that, Hoorah for the atheist brethren for uniting religious brethren.
Atheists are not bad news after all..
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I am a theist and I believe in God's existence. However, I always thought that one who believe in God or a supreme being should be humble, respectful and could clearly differentiate between preaching and shoving religion down the throat.
I noticed each religion or sect or belief seemed to have a bunch followers who are convinced that theirs is the true, enlightened path. Thus, everyone else is either lost or is in dire need of guidance or saving from their 'GOD'. Thus, they preach with arrogance and have no qualms whatever in insulting beliefs contradicting to their own, convinced that they have been chosen to advocate on behalf of GOD. Since within theists there exist such problem, then I am not surprised that atheists are not spared at all.
But, you cannot claim that there is no God. Maybe there is no God with four hands n innumerable eyes. Otherwise you cannot claim that god doesn't exist. Any creation must have a creator; it is impossible for any creation to manifest by itself or create itself. Human creators created the computer and the keyboard you are typing on. Then, there must be someone who created the humans who created the aforementioned gadgets and you, the user of the gadgets.
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Hell yeah, going by the creationist logic that every creation must have a creator, who created the creator? Another creator? Have you ever heard about test tube babies, cloning and genetically modified foods, artificial rain, etc? They are created by man's genius known as science.
In school we are taught about evolution, there are remains of prehistoric creatures like dinosaurs, mammoths and saber toothed tigers which lived millions of years ago and we fill our vehicles' petrol tank with took billions of years to form beneath the earth's crust and in Bible the earth is said to be only several thousand years and that the first man and woman are Adam and Eve. Stupidity is seeing all the lies and still choosing to believe all the lives.
Theism underlines that questioning is blasphemous whereas atheism encourages questioning and critical thinking.
The clear winner here is atheism. Atheism does lose out to theism in one aspect; atheists don't have God to blame when bad things happen and otherwise. That is a safety blanket for theists not to mention an illusion.
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