Topic: Why I'm an atheist - page 48. (Read 89022 times)

Maybe your believe and faith in God was lost because of your different painful experiences in life.

Thinking your must superior for no one?

Or, believing every one exist because of evolution?

It is between you and God on how you respect your belief.

Hello to all open-minded atheists,

Thanks for reading the cases, they really are, in my opinion, some of the strongest proof available.
I am still waiting for a rebuttal for these cases, it must include an explanation that is simple and adequate, but to me it seems that survival is the most simple and adequate.

^^

Remember:

Even though this was philosophy, for those who adhere(d) to it, it is(was) also religion.

Great Post.

remember:

"Religion is the opium of the people" is one of the most frequently paraphrased statements of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx. It was translated from the German original, "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes" and is often rendered as "religion... is the opiate of the masses."

Marx.

The main thing is not that atheists do not believe in religion, the main thing that they are not ready to accept any claims without evidence. The majority of people who say that believe in God don't believe in him. They only pretend to believe. They're just trying to protect yourself, what if God really exists.

How exactly would you use the concept of a physical soul to explain the survival of the personality?

The top cases demonstrating the survival of the human personality after the demise of the physical body.
http://www.aeces.info/Top40/top40-main.shtml

In other words, atheists are kind of blind and dumb. Why? Because atheism is one of the stupidist religions around. And atheists can't even see it.

If you are called to the scene of a house break-in, there is nothing stolen, there is no sign of struggle, no blood, no empty cases, and NO BODY, it would only be logical to conclude that there was no murder committed.

Th same goes for your God, there is no physical evidence to conclude otherwise.

What you think is evidence is a product of your imagination.  Not a real physical evidence. 

Atheists are those who do not believe in religion.I believe in religion in my heart. I believe that creation is the Creator, He created the world.He has laid our lives for worshiping Him. Therefore, I am not an atheist.

If you rely on logic and science, then logic and science is your religion. Refer to the definition of religion, especially #6 - http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t.

Since the "soul" has to interact with the body to control it, the "soul" couldn't be a pure metaphysical “substance”, it should be physical, composed of particles/energy (which is the same, as Einstein said) or it couldn’t “command the body”.

The so-called dualism, arguing for a main difference of nature between mind (or soul) and body, imply a direct violation of the Second law of thermodynamics [see, for instance,
Harold Morowitz, The Mind Body Problem and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (http://newdualism.org/papers/H.Morowitz/Morowitz-BandP-1987.pdf)].

Thus, as a system of physical particles, the soul would be subject necessarily to an increase of entropy and therefore to decay and dissolute on smaller particles: on other words, to death.

Moreover, at least until now, the CERN's Large Hadron Collider didn’t find any particle compatible with any "soul".

Some even say that if this particle wasn’t already found, it won’t ever be because, taking in account the levels of energy at which the body works, it had to showed up by now (http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/771662/Brian-Cox-Neil-deGrasse-Tyson-GHOST-LHC).

I have to add this argument against the "soul" to the Op in due time.

Of course, the same reasoning applies to god. In order to be able to create the Universe, he had to have physical nature. An ethereal substance couldn’t create physical particles or changed them in order to cause the Big Bang. The same must said about his ability to make “miracles”.

But I guess that with god everything is fair game, including claim that he can change him self from a “perfect substance” into a physical nature and back again. God is the supreme chameleon.

If you rely on logic and science, that religion is a fraud. I find it funny to see how religious denominations Borja among themselves for the number of duped their people.

Well if you think about it, how the world and pretty much how everything works in unison to make things the way they are, i think its logical to believe that there is an architect that did all this. Well i agree if you base your belief strictly in the bible, which i think has been tampered already over time by different people, then this may be hard to swallow. Im not an atheist but i respect how you guys prefer to look at things, basing on logic and science.

Good point. Gotta be that he is copying an ostrich.   

Maybe this man is copying an ostrich? Only Muslims beat such bows. Although there is enough of such customs in Christianity.

Pull your head out of the sand before it is too late for you.

Why do you bring this up? The point about it is who is killing the gays is, the gays are killing themselves by being gay. Having feelings or tendencies towards homosexuality is not what kills anyone. The exercising of those feelings and tendencies is what kills them.

I am of just the opposite mind towards gays. Stop them from dying. The only way to keep them from dying is to turn them from actually exercising their homosexuality.

The greatest form of death is the death in Hellfire for eternity. If an actively gay person believes in Jesus salvation, he will be saved. But his homosexuality is fighting against salvation faith, because God doesn't condone gay practices. Homosexuality will make his life miserable, because God is warning him by letting trouble come on him, so that he will not lose his salvation.

There is no proof.  Your 'cause and effect' babbling is just that, babbling.  Your imaginary God concept does not have a 'cause'.

Don't understand how modern people can believe in fairy tales which written over a thousand years ago. Are you not touched on evolution? You have an education? How can this be? I'm an atheist and don't believe in all that nonsense which is written in the Bible.