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posted by
Kabu
on March 14, 2007 at 6:11 AM
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Wiley.Coyote ,
Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on March 13, 2007 at 9:21 PM
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Wiley.Coyote ,
Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on March 13, 2007 at 9:21 PM
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afzal50
I know some atheists who have always been that way from birth and they are not cynics at all. As a matter of fact, I am attracted to the idea but have had a different life experience which leaves me with no choice but to believe.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 13, 2007 at 8:59 PM
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Afzal
Athiesm isn't as well defined as all of that. There are many different things, many different beliefs....it's not as cut and dry as that.
I could be considered Athiest by your description. Some people believe, but they just don't believe in a God in a form that most people think of.
It's very hard for me to explain in a few words how I think of "God". I don't believe that God is someone, or something.....at least not in part. "God" if that is the term you'd want to use (I don't, because in my mind that word signifies a "being" of sorts), is EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. It's everything that you can see, and everything that you can't. It's everyone that you know, and everyone you think you don't.
I could go on and on, but I'm not going to do that here now. I will try in detail to explain all these feelings I have one day, when we are together...it will make it easier.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on March 13, 2007 at 4:34 PM
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Oh my goodness, where to begin.....
Agnostics are not atheists, they are searchers who have yet to find that which they can truley believe in.
Atheists are as difficult to pinpoint as theists are. There are as many 'versions' of atheism as there are theisms. You make the leap from the faith of others to the existance of their God, which is to say, no proof of existence. You make the leap of non-faith equals some lack of moral fiber, again with no proof.
I do not doubt that there are many who deny their faith, due to unfortunate circumstances, but you simply cannot use them as the posterboy for atheism. I know many atheists that are fine upstanding citizens with better moral instincts than the hypocritical 'theists' who think they can absolve their sins by stopping the the church/temple/mosque/synygogue/fruit stand, and dropping a few coins in the collection plate.
posted by
Whysper
on March 13, 2007 at 12:25 PM
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