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Religion offers nothing for me, I’m of the opinion we’re born, live and then die, with nothing after death. None of that has ever stopped me from having a mainly happy and productive life. Each to their own though.
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I understand that a Christian will want others to share the same belief. From my perspective, I have considered the possibility of a god over time and I don’t consider it to be a hypothesis with evidence at the moment. I guess you could say it’s a scientific mindset, but that also means I cannot fully discount it. I agree with Dawkins in his assessment of there being a thing as an ‘agnostic atheist’, and that probably is the best fit for me in that it means that you don’t think there is a god, but would be open to one if the evidence appears. Just as with other ideas. I don’t think it’s a certainty in that I don’t think many can say they are 100% certain with no doubt from either side.
Atheism for me is just a description for my stance on gods. I have always ummed and arred over humanism, but recent events have made me set more trust in calling myself a humanist. It’s more important to me than setting my stall as an atheist, and don’t think that should be some steadfast position as some take (see the new atheism page on reddit for the people I am referring to).
I do suspect calling us friends will have bpg smirking away again.
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On judgement day ,your mockery will receive just punishment.
Aye! He loves us so much that he’s going to punish us for all of eternity if we don’t love him back!
That’s not the behaviour of an omnipotent deity, it’s the behaviour of a psychopath!
All made up nonsense anyway. Nothing to see here, move on.
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“The illusion of an independent mind”?
Run that one past me again!
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All this pious piffle and proselytising about gods… many find the supernatural bizarre, pathological and harmful to society. In fact, like obeisance to royalty, religion is so bonkers it makes astrology look respectable.
Religiosity and self-righteousness are so often used as a cover for personal prejudice, racism, bigotry and all kinds of inner conflicts, complexes and hang-ups, while in society, religion often mobilises to oppose change and progress, especially around basic issues of democracy, human rights, women’s rights and the death penalty.
Worse, it’s frequently used as a justification for the kind of monstrous acts we currently see in the middle-east, as well as being a tool for controlling the population, with a line of ‘just accept it, it’s god’s will, and so on.
This attitude of ‘let it be’ and loyalty to scriptural interpretation is a view which steers the religious away from politics. Just look in Britain today – polycrises, injustice, suffering, refugees, foodbanks, homelessness, a million kids don’t even have their own bed… Yet the plastic Christians on here and elsewhere are as quiet as church mice about it (unlike ABC Welby who recently came out to remind them of British and Christian values, and even got criticised for it!).
In fact the co-existence in the same person of ‘holier than thou’ and ‘devil may care’ brings to mind a Jekyll and Hyde figure who uses religion as a form of insurance against, or even justification for his/her own inner monstrousness – a sort of roof prop which prevents the whole edifice from collapsing.
Opiate of the masses? A sort of inner ‘Cliff Richard’?
May their god help them.
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All religions are man made, no exceptions despite what bill reckons.
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