dark_gh0st_b0y said:
Dante9 said:
I bet you have heard this before, but atheism is not a belief system, but rather the lack of one. It does not take any effort or practise to not believe in something. It just does not exist, in our eyes. Simple as that. Is not believing in unicorns a belief system, for example? Of course not. Many religious people seemingly cannot fathom not having a belief of some form, so in their mind, they have a need to twist even unbelief into a belief. It's weird. Sorry, didn't mean to crash this place but as an atheist I just felt i needed to address this. |
I guess it's a matter of perspective, one would argue that if you have 0 of something you have nothing hence you cannot have anything less, yet another could say that you can have -10 of something, and therefore you owe something
relatively speaking - and based on the Bible - Jesus teaching is supposed to be the most important thing in a Christian's life, hence Luke 14:26 saying one must hate their father and mother in order to get to Jesus - because His teaching is meant to be above human love (e.g. if your father is Hilter or Putin who go against Jesus teaching by causing suffering to others, then it is better to hate them than betray Jesus teaching)
when it comes to atheism, I understand it is a lack of belief, but at the same time there must be something that is the most important thing during your time in this world, I don't think belief in nothing is your most important thing right?
it can be something physical or someone's teaching, it doesn't really matter, there is always something that is the *most* important thing to people, and for many, that is what you believe in
doesn't have to be called religion or faith, what you perceive as important is what you believe in, and in the end of the day what defines your mentality, and state of mind, also defines your actions and therefore who you are - so the end result is the same as having a religion |
Yeah, thats true. If we extend "belief" to mean anything, then everybody believes in something in their lives. Atheism doesn't really work that way, because we simply don't even think about the subject of God in our everyday lives. It pretty much only comes up in conversations like these. Not believing in the existence of something can't be a basis for anything in practical terms, you just simply discard the thing.
And yes, most atheist are agnostics as well. We can't really know that God *doesn't* exist, who could? We just don't see any evidence for it. Then again, one might say that it is a matter of belief, not proof, so that conversation might be moot anyways.
