And I’m a Christian AND a scientist because I believe that science illuminates God’s beauty and that science tackles different questions than religion such that they go hand in hand beautifully! Neither science nor my faith contradict the other! And that’s a-okay too, just like how only being atheist and scientific is cool too!
Ppl just need to respect one another’s belief systems — as long as ppl aren’t hurting one another no harm no foul
The problem with atheists is the ego trip it must take to discount god or a conscious creative force and the inability to separate the spirituality of Humans with organized religion.
Ask someone like the Dalai Lama if there is a concious creative force in the universe; his conclusion is from a lifetime of meditating and studying the nature of reality.
But Shibbins et al. has really figured it all out, please tell us how your dismissal of organized religion because you don’t understand allegory is anything other than ‘edgy’ because it’s cool to trash the beliefs of your ancestors, because it’s easy to bite the hand that fed you.
Tell us your qualified opinion, while all the greatest thinkers in human history have concluded that god exists and we are god.
Total narcissism.
Or, you know, how bout we all just politely respect each other's beliefs/non beliefs, and carry on with our lives? Yes, there are some athiests who are rude, disrespectful, and the like, but they do not represent the rest of us, same for any religion. There are those who take it too far with any group, who get the most attention because they are the ones who do the 'newsworthy' things.
We can all agree, that there are just some people who spoil it for the rest of us. Maybe one day, we can resolve that peacefully, by continuing to try spreading the idea of just living our own lives, and not trying to force anything on anyone. This is my own ideology, and yours may differ a bit. I am happy to discuss any conflicting beliefs.
Totally agree, do whatever makes you happy as long as it doesn’t impede on others. My point was that some view points are valid and some are trendy; a person who neglects their spirituality because organized religion is a system of control has hopped on a bandwagon. There’s no humility when a 22 year old that’s spent two days thinking bout life proclaims there is no god, cause it’s ignorance of being ignorant. They don’t even know what they don’t know.
Well if you were to ask Richard Dawkins he would tell you that the issue with letting people believe in supernatural religions is because it gives them the right to ignore reality and we desperately need people to face reality nowadays.
(Different guest here) yeah and why are you assuming it takes an ego trip to discount all of the religious beliefs and possibilities we know of? The post doesn’t say they think the can definitively say that there is or isn’t a god, they just said they use the term atheism for themselves because they don’t have a NEED to believe in a god—it’s not important to them/they think there are better things we could devote our thought and time to—and therefore they don’t believe in a god. Some people use atheism to say there is no god (which I believe is a little over eager and impossibly definitive), and some use it like the person in the post here. Like me, personally, I’m agnostic (not claiming there is or isn’t a god/higher power, I think this could be a better label for the OP), because I’m not comfortable with religion, and I personally don’t need it or want it to feel happy and like I have a direction/purpose etc. Not an ego trip.
Ppl just need to respect one another’s belief systems — as long as ppl aren’t hurting one another no harm no foul
Ask someone like the Dalai Lama if there is a concious creative force in the universe; his conclusion is from a lifetime of meditating and studying the nature of reality.
But Shibbins et al. has really figured it all out, please tell us how your dismissal of organized religion because you don’t understand allegory is anything other than ‘edgy’ because it’s cool to trash the beliefs of your ancestors, because it’s easy to bite the hand that fed you.
Tell us your qualified opinion, while all the greatest thinkers in human history have concluded that god exists and we are god.
Total narcissism.
We can all agree, that there are just some people who spoil it for the rest of us. Maybe one day, we can resolve that peacefully, by continuing to try spreading the idea of just living our own lives, and not trying to force anything on anyone. This is my own ideology, and yours may differ a bit. I am happy to discuss any conflicting beliefs.