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oldschool8

My problem with Atheism

Sep 22, 2007 12:06

My main problem with Atheists is that they are so certain that there isn't anything out there. I don't understand how someone merely human can make such declarative statements about the universe. We can't even get past the moon, prevent dying, create life, or any of the sort that nature has obviously ruled for so long, yet we think we gave absolute ( Read more... )

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anonymous September 22 2007, 17:59:26 UTC

I totally agree. Awesome entry =)

aquarianhorizon September 22 2007, 18:00:27 UTC

Oh, I guess I was not signed in. :P It's Melissa!

xghostorchidx September 22 2007, 19:10:29 UTC

That's why I'm agnostic. One of my first problems with Christianity was, how do they KNOW? My problem with atheism was that as well.
I figure if there is a higher power, it won't be mad that I didn't arbitrarily pick a religion, when there is no way to really know for sure.
And if the Christian god does exist, and sends me to a place to be tortured for the rest of my life FOR THAT--- then he's a dick.

But if you apply this to atheism, do you apply this to every religion that claims to know as well?

Are you agnostic?

oldschool8 September 22 2007, 19:22:12 UTC

Now that you mention I guess that would apply to all religions who claim to know whats up. I think I just hold more over the heads of Atheists because I prefer to think that there is something greater than the physical in the universe. I guess rationally I'm an Agnostic, but I lean more to believing that there is something more, but thats based on personal hopes more than actual belief.

xghostorchidx September 22 2007, 19:31:51 UTC

Well, I think I lean more to believing there is something more as well. I think that... there is a shallow interpretation, i.e. Christianity, which attributes purely human thoughts and concepts to something as huge as existance. On the other hand, science also tries to explain existance. I'm not sure they can go this far, I believe they can explain life and things that deal with a logical realm.
But no one can really explain how the fuck there is existance and not simply nothingness. But then again, even nothingness is something. WHY DOES ANYTHING exist? Why is there outer space? Why is there a universe? How do things simply exist?
These questions are WAY beyond our realm of thinking. Or at least mine. Maybe I'm dumb. But actually thinking about fucking existance- not ours- but of anything. it blows me away, and makes me crazy.
This is why I think there is an explanation, and we can NEVER reach it. Maybe we're not meant to.

sleyiseemaydee October 4 2007, 07:57:21 UTC

I feel like you're saying that Atheists are ignorant.

oldschool8 October 5 2007, 00:42:56 UTC

>>http://sleyiseemaydee.livejournal.com/2007/10/04/

lazyangel1317 October 26 2007, 14:14:52 UTC

this is why i'm agnostic as well. it's nice to believe there's something more out there, but i'd rather spend my time making the most of my life as an independent individual - live well and not assume something either way.

i read a letter to the editor in my school newspaper from someone who believed that we couldn't have morals without religion. i think i showed some moral restraint by not punching that person in the face, so it clearly isn't true.

i don't really have a problem with someone deciding to believe in God or deciding that it's totally impossible that there is a God or higher power or something out there, it's when those people are so rigid in that belief that they can't respect someone else's thoughts on the matter.

and i agree with xghostorchidx - if us agnostics are wrong and god decides to punish us for not being christian - he is a dick.