Will Religion ever be illegal in America?

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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

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Ka-pi96 said:

 

I disagree. Some 'athiest' people are fanatics just like religious fanatics. But for true athiests it is just a lack of belief not a belief itself.

Semanitc rubbish. To be a true atheist you have to have thought about the concept of god and religion and come to a conclusion that God doesn't exist and that religion is all made up. This perspective is based on assumptions and beliefs when it comes down to it. for instance the belief that things can only be true if there is a way to measure or observe it with the senses or with scientific instrumentation, i.e. nothing exists outside of what is physically observable.

The true atheist is someone who has done a lot of deep thinking about the reality of things. The casual atheist is the one who simplistically thinks it is a case of not believing.

Technically speaking nobody is a true athiest, because being a true atheiest means that you know for a fact that a higher power dne which is in impossible. since it cannot be proven nor unproven.

Well, not necessarily. We would never know if a higher power could be proven or disprove. However, if we were to assume some force existed that would resemble the concept of god, would not that being then become part of science? This is why rational thinking is the only way forward. If this "power" exist, then It is part of the natural world. Otherwise, it does not exist and therefore there is no god. I tend to believe in the latter.

Example: if I would have described the force that exist within nuclear energy for a person 200 years ago, that person would have said it to be false. It would be hard for me to prove or disprove it but when we discovered this energy a 100 years later, this immense power became part of how we can explain the world around us. The premise of a god is very farfetched, but the moment we prove its existence, it becomes science.