Is Strong Atheism Sophistry, or Evil?
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Atheism is not an ideological driven belief.SimpleGuy wrote:Already Nietzsche said God is dead. Marx and others were as well. To deny the fact that atheism can have a logical basis is somehow to close ones eyes in front of the reality of others. Buddhism can be a religion without a god. Whole religious systems would have been excluded. How can we judge about others. Do not judge for you're not getting judged , is the answer. Because religion is nothing to be proven or to be rebuted , it is a form of social coexistence that appears after long-lasting rules.
Atheism is simply = not-theistic.
Unless theism can prove itself to be the ONLY good in reality, then it is logically anything that is not theistic would be evil.
But that is not the case in reality.
In fact some theistic ideologies themselves has various elements of evil within.
Christianity and Judaism has evil elements.
The worst is the religion of Islam which is for a major part is inherently and malignantly evil as represented by the tons of evil elements in the Quran and Ahadith.
As for ideologies which are non-theistic, they should be reviewed on a case by case basis rather than lumping all of them as theistic and condemned all as evil.
Therefore regardless of whether an ideology is theistic or non-theistic, they should be reviewed on a case by case basis and critique accordingly. Those ideologies that has evil elements should be cleaned of its evil elements or be banned if the evil elements are inherent to the ideology.
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I guess the person who deleted my last post has an aversion to truth. Redefining the word "atheism" is a sure indicator of the lack of anything intelligent to say.Spectrum wrote:Atheism is not an ideological driven belief.SimpleGuy wrote:Already Nietzsche said God is dead. Marx and others were as well. To deny the fact that atheism can have a logical basis is somehow to close ones eyes in front of the reality of others. Buddhism can be a religion without a god. Whole religious systems would have been excluded. How can we judge about others. Do not judge for you're not getting judged , is the answer. Because religion is nothing to be proven or to be rebuted , it is a form of social coexistence that appears after long-lasting rules.
Atheism is simply = not-theistic.
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To say you simply lack a belief about something is to say that you have no beliefs about it. For example, if you asked me, “Who is the best female polo player in Europe?” I wouldn’t know where to start. Why? Because I have no beliefs about the quality of women’s polo in Europe, or any other country for that matter. I truly lack a belief regarding that question.
This is not the case with atheists. People don’t write books about things they don’t have any beliefs about. No one debates about non-beliefs. If they did, there would be nothing to talk about.
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Nor do they say theists are infected with a "zombie parasite," which oddly doesn't get deleted. Double standard or just plain bias?
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"Believe" is a very loose term.Dark Matter wrote:I guess the person who deleted my last post has an aversion to truth. Redefining the word "atheism" is a sure indicator of the lack of anything intelligent to say.Spectrum wrote: (Nested quote removed.)
Atheism is not an ideological driven belief.
Atheism is simply = not-theistic.
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To say you simply lack a belief about something is to say that you have no beliefs about it. For example, if you asked me, “Who is the best female polo player in Europe?” I wouldn’t know where to start. Why? Because I have no beliefs about the quality of women’s polo in Europe, or any other country for that matter. I truly lack a belief regarding that question.
This is not the case with atheists. People don’t write books about things they don’t have any beliefs about. No one debates about non-beliefs. If they did, there would be nothing to talk about.
In general any arranged-thought could end up as a believe.
As I had stated 'atheism' or non-theism is not an ideological driven belief.
To be more specific, an ideology is "a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy" in this case it is theology or a deity.
Non-theistic views from various people has to be based on thoughts and views but it is not an system of ideas and ideals. Non-theists do critique theists [basically in response to attacks from theists] but I would not classify that as based on an 'ideology' as defined above.
The term atheism, i.e. [a][theism] linguistically is self-explanatory as [not-][theism], i.e. lack of belief in theism or nothing to do with theism.
It is the same as [a]political, i.e. not active in politics but do not preclude the apolitical [not as a member of any political party] from commenting on the acts of politicians nor voting in a political election.
It is same with [a]sexual, who can still discuss sex in general positively or negatively.
It is the same with other terms with the prefix [a].
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-- Updated November 23rd, 2017, 4:09 am to add the following --
...sophistry supported by bias and double standards.
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So the violation of this document in the next link , is called evil nothing else.
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
This shall be the least common divisor for all discussions.
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