Isn't Atheism just another BELIEF, a belief there is NO God?

Question

And they cannot PROVE their position any more than people
of faith can?
And don't they PUSH thier belief, and try to CONVERT others
to their way of thinking?
And are just as Prideful, Self-righteous, and Hypocritcal as the
people they condemn?
Where do YOU people get off thinking you are SUPERIOR?
You have the same self-centered and petty nature as all human
beings. The only difference with real spiritual people, is that we
own up to it, while most humans blame everyone else for it!

Answer 1

Who states that they do not push their less than Faith?
Every time a Christian question is posted the first to answer is usually a Atheist when the question is directed at other Christians

To me some are just as bad as Fanatical Christan's,Muslims and all other Religions who are Fanatical

Answer 2

No atheism is not necessarily a "belief in no God", atheists simply do not share theistic belief that there "is" a God or Gods.

Celestial teapotists believe there is a teapot that orbits certain planets, ateapotists simply do not share the teapotists belief. You yourself may be an ateapotist, you simply do not share a belief in a celestial teapot, but don't need to actively believe in no teapot although you probably think it so unlikely as to be as good as non-existent. It's much the same thing as theists and atheists, the onus of providing proof always rests on the person making the claim, until they do that their claim doesn't require too much of our attention.

You say that atheists are "Pushy, Converters, Prideful, Self-righteous, Hypocritical, think they are Superior,Self-centered and Petty natured as any spiritual person", this is a strangely honest admission to make.
The thing is why should atheists be any different from anyone else, atheists are human also, the only thing that makes an atheist an atheist is that they don't share a theists belief in a God or Gods.

Answer 3

Interesting someone commented that scientists tended more towards the atheistic thread. This didn't actually happen til after the spread of mechanistic philosophy with Buffon, Descartes, La Mettrie, La Place and Lyell. Before that, science was perfectly compatible with a teleological argument, that if design inherent in nature. In fact Newton, believed in a theistic deity (though more inclined to a Arianistic interpretation of the trinity), actually wrote more theological works than scientific. Worldviews are crucial in shaping how we do "naturalistic science", where our science is influenced by often times less scientific evidences and more philosophical, religious or political. i.e. Darwin's theories were far more accepted not b/c of the weight of his evidence but rather b/c of the easier acceptance of progressivism in the Victorian industrial era. There has been a heavy reliance on our belief systems to shape the way we view the world and our ability to acquire knowledge and our very way of knowing (epistemology).

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Answer 4

Your question seems to be in three parts.

1. Is Atheism a belief?

Yes, it is. As for proving it, atheists don't have to. The burden of proof is on the people who believe in a god.

2. Is Atheism a religion?
(You appear to think so by your use of the word "convert".)

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Not all atheists push their beliefs on others, and furthermore, unlike Christians there is no one (like St. Paul) telling them to do so.

3. Where do atheist get off thinking they are superior?

They don't. They see themselves as not deluded by any superstition or belief in an afterlife. Unlike Christians, they take responsibility for their own actions and don't hope for a supernatural being to absolve them from the moral consequences of their actions. Unlike Christians, they don't think they can get away with things if they are really sorry afterwards.

So who are YOU to accuse atheists?

Just because you lost an argument with an atheist isn't a reason to accuse him of trying to convert you or to rant on an answer website.

Answer 5

people don`t seem to get the fine line of distinction about this, and I mean Atheists nor Christians.
Atheism is not a religion as such,because the term religion has always been used to denote the worship of a Deity,now Atheists cannot all be accused of worshiping a Deity even though they are labelled as satan worshipers by angry Christians, for to do this would simply mean that you are not purely an Atheist.
you cannot say for example that as I believe in nothing then I am Atheist,for to believe in nothing is not logical in itself,and neither can it be classed as a belief system for the same reason.
Atheism is really the choice not to enter into belief of the existence of God.

Answer 6

So like most humans you simply must blame the atheists. A belief is not a religion. If an athiest pushes you into dis belief then you didnt have much belief to start with now did you??

Answer 7

Let me throw this one out here for thought. Atheist is a belief in a false god; man. (True) Christianity is a belief in the True God who is superior to man.
Total Ignorance --- Zero Witness
Opinion, Speculation --- one witness (self)
Fact --- 2 or more witnesses (God's way; Deut 10-20 (Jews) Matt. 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1 Christians)

However, many 'preachers' presently in the U.S. may only present a 'one witness' view of Biblical teachings.

Answer 8

Actually, I don't believe that there is no god, I just don't believe that there is one/many.

Notice the difference? A negative belief and a lack of belief are two different things.

Ultimately I'm actually agnostic because it cannot be proven either that there is or isn't a god. However others will stress their non-belief which is their right.

Answer 9

No. Atheism has to do with not believing anything at all. There is no God, there is no nothing. You simply do not believe. While this might be an alien issue to some, it's quite reasonable to atheists. Most of them - my dad is one - simply don't go to church or pray or do any sort of religion thing. He doesn't convert people into atheists. He just doesn't believe.

Answer 10

It seems that self-righteousness is not held only by the believers & the positive non-believers, but also the critics of both.

Is it a sign of self-aggrandizement to criticize someone else as self-centered and petty? I'm not exactly sure what you're owning up to, but it certainly isn't humility.