comment,a violent at that
I wrote
______________________________
There was a time in my life where my being an anti-church made me question the existence of my God. For quite a time, the church has been perverting the teachings of God that the church made me question Christ’s divinity. I have been an atheist for I thought there things in supposed God’s existence which are illogical and has not touched my sense of empiricism.But later did I learn that atheism occurs because people don’t want the idea that they have something they do not know. Religion and rationality are not parallel and therefore the existence of God can never be attributed to the inquisitive mind and what it knows, rather what the heart feels.And so, atheism is not for me.Philosophizing is not for philosophy majors only. If you think I am wrong, then the hell with you, this is what I believe in.
Anonymous wrote
_____________________________
I've never met an atheist who had that motivation. It's arguable, though, that some people are religious theists because the answer "I don't know" (why something happened, why humans exist) is unappealing and "God did it" provides a comforting answer.Don't generalize about atheists when you weren't even one to begin with. It's arrogant.
I wrote back
___________________________
thank you for the comment; i will respect your piece. but really now, what's wrong with people admitting that they have something that they do not know, cannot understand or cannot explain?oh i have been one believe me. i may have kept my silence but i was questioning the existence of God and i have developed a cynicism towards him and towards religion in general. why? because there are things in people's religiosity and Christ's divinity which i cannot explain.yeah your argument is correct; humans attribute everything that they do not know to God's works. i too once shared with you that same argument. but look at it in different way. inquisitive people are suckers for empowerment for everything that they know and can explain. however, inquisitive people, who seek the truth about God, could not explain fully his existence and works, therefore, atheism becomes their comfort zone for everything that they could not explain. im sorry if i sounded so arrogant to you
__________________________
often, people see everything that they want to see in a different perspective as the way everybody see it.. and it is in believing what they know and turns out to be wrong that makes them human...
3 Comments:
gas! napakalalim naman. hehe.
when it comes to religion, i think it is suffice to say that one believes. alien.
"what's wrong with people admitting that they have something that they do not know..."
Nothing, which is why people's tendency to insist that if they don't know something, then "God did it" so strange.
"oh i have been one believe me. i may have kept my silence but i was questioning the existence of God and i have developed a cynicism towards him and towards religion in general."
Atheism is the absence of belief in gods, not the questioning of the existence of a particular god or feeling cynical about religion. You weren't an atheist unless you lacked belief in any gods; so, based upon what you have written, you weren't an atheist. An agnostic theist perhaps, but not an atheist.
"however, inquisitive people, who seek the truth about God, could not explain fully his existence and works, therefore, atheism becomes their comfort zone for everything that they could not explain."
Once again: perhaps there are some atheists like that, but I've never met one and I've interacted with hundreds. People I know are atheists because they grew up that way, because "God" is a nonsensical concept, because there are no good reasons to bother believing in any gods, etc.
A
Post a Comment
<< Home