Which is hilarious because it takes just as much faith to believe in God as it does to deny Him.
Think about it long and hard before you quote this and try to break it apart. The world was flat once. Not only that, but Quantum Physics and the General Theory of Relativity disagree with one another, but that does not mean that they aren't true.
It's all about a paradigm shift. Be open to the things that you cannot see and understand, because we put our trust in just those things every day. Why it is such a leap for some people to believe in something bigger than themselves when there's so much evidence to support the ideas that the things we believe in now are faulty is amazing to me.
I won't dissect this, but I'll both wholly agree and wholly disagree.
For some people, atheism is almost like a religion built upon opposites.
For others, atheism is simply the absolute lack of everything regarding faith, and nothing more. It takes no effort to not believe in leprechauns, and for many, it's the same way for deity(ies).
Moving on...
Some atheists argue everyone needs to be on the same page as them. I'll admit, I use to be the same way.
But we humans are retarded, and it might take awhile for humans to accept something with so much weight as this life we live having absolutely no meaning or purpose. That thought is absolutely terrifying for the majority of people.
I don't agree with faith, but it's a rather human thing, pretty much ingrained in the brain once acknowledge of self occurs.
What I argue is faith based upon specific teachings of such absolutes is rather ridiculous. Not to mention breeds conflict.
Faith in a pure and far more simple deity, or deities, would be a far more beneficial system of belief for our species. And seriously, if some deity found offense to simplifying the way we humans perceive it, I'd be extremely displeased. This deity should realize we would be bettering our species, trying to breed ourselves beyond our innate drive toward tribal conflict.
My main beef, beyond that, is what I had already stated a few posts earlier. We need our species to recognize all that we, and we alone, can accomplish. Even if you believe it to be false, if we praise humans for the good, and punish them for the bad, as if they and they alone did it, and get all humans to recognize self in that regard, we'd be far more prepared as a species to move on.
And after all, the main drive for our species needs to be unification of all the various peoples. Each bring their own culture, and a handful of differing religions. Which group gets to say they are absolutely right above all others? Hmmm? Each religion preaches their own absolute righteousness, and thus followers can go to extreme lengths to impose that upon others, because obviously they must be wrong if we are right. Yes?
If we are all to unite under a single banner, that banner will have to be brand new for everyone involved.
Well, I just convinced myself we're never going to unite. Like, ever.
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