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Atheism and Evidence
Atheism and Evidence
The problem with the realist/superstitious controversy (as opposed to the secularism/ faith debate... which is strictly speaking one of a political power-struggle over who will direct society), is that THERE REALLY IS NO GOD. Therefore a statement like the one above ["there is no god"] always resolves to a merely/purely personal testimony!!! e.g. how in the heck can the atheist "KNOW" there is no god IF HE'S NEVER FOUND HIM! At worst, the atheist is doomed to an eternity of futilely looking for Him... "Found Him yet?" "... not yet. Still looking, though--" The opposite, of course, is also just as true. In other words, "there is a god" also resolves to a merely/purely personal testimony: Ask such a believer how he/she KNOWS there is a god and they're likely to tell you "because the flowers bloom in the spring" or some such nonsense. Well, "No. That's manu Manure, not god, is why the flowers bloom in the spring, plus more Sun, et al." The problem here is self-evident then: If the believer KNOWS there is a god he/she hath killed FAITH (in god). [The only upside here is that maybe he/she had a nice brunch with Him ...] What both "witnesses" are saying is: Believer: "I KNOW there is a god!" Atheist: "I KNOW there is no god." And both testimonies are equivalent: lies. My advice is to study the brain's ultimate function--which is to solve problems, to overcome them. [And yet there are so many problems in the world which no human brain will ever solve/overcome... both simple and complex (problems) too.] So I wonder what might result from the human brain not being able to overcome all those unresolvable problems which God now resolves so easily via a simple transaction (prayer by another name). I often tell people how "I know there is no god but I still pray to him" and they tell me they have no idea what I'm talking about. (Which is incomprehensible to me, of course, since THAT is the universal experience!) Well, I have often spoken with persons who swear to me (by God) they are truly atheists. But then we get around to what's going on in his/her brain when driving towards a distant green light ... on a morning when they are very late for a very important appointment ... And then they know what I'm talking about: Only a "robot" can be a true atheist--the rest of us are forever bound to a personal dialogue with with our universal alter-ego (GOD). God is a very neat invention of the human brain. It's when morons are allowed to define God that we get into all sorts of trouble with God (especially if when we allow psychopaths like Mohammed to define God, then blood hell). S D Rodrian http://poems.sdrodrian.com http://physics.sdrodrian.com http://MP3s.sdrodrian.com All religions are local. Only science is universal. .. |
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