What has Atheism accomplished?

Question

Considering that it has been around since the time of Moses, not very much I think. Atheists do not realize that they are being used by the devil because it is a form of idolatry.

Answer 1

Not much of anything other than helping to prove the existance of a true God no matter how much they deny it. Even their "championed" science has done more to prove the evidence of God than they would like to believe. A few quotes perhaps?

Charles Darwin himself: "To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the higest degree."

Here's one from a Nobel Prize winning scientist names Arthur h. Compton:
"Science is the glimpse of God's purpose in nature. The very existence of the amazing world of the atom and radiation points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything...An orderly universe (whether you want to say it 's just orderly because it fits humanities needs, still makes it orderly) testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered: 'In the beginning God...' "

Answer 2

You are thinking in a typically narrow "Christian" perspective. Atheists were NOT believing in Zeus and Thor long before they were NOT believing in your monotheistic religion.

Atheism is only one of many dis-beliefs in supernatural phenomenon. As humans have come to understand the causes of natural phenomenon, they have abandoned the idea that things were caused by "gods" and supernatural "powers." This, alone, resulted in tremendous advancement for mankind. At last, the sciences were free to flourish. Religion no longer held sway over the dissemination of knowledge.

Think about it... at some point some brave atheistic human being stopped thinking dogmatically and said, "maybe it's not evil spirits and demons causing this persons illness, maybe it's the sheep dung we've been rubbing on his open wounds. Maybe instead of praying to the gods to save him, we should try BATHING him."

Each and every time a person chooses a rational, intelligent explanation over a faith based, supernatural one, the overall intelligence level of mankind increases. Atheists are the biggest participants in this way of thinking.

And if nothing else, you have two devil-worshiping atheists to thank for the computer you are typing on. Bill Gates invented Windows, and Steve Wozniak co-invented the Apple computer.

By the way, both men are widely regarded as two amazingly altruistic individuals. Bill Gates AN ATHEIST, heads the most charitable organization in the world, and Woz spends his time teaching underprivileged children how to use computers.

So much for idolatry.

Answer 3

One need only look at the fruits of a secular society to understand what atheism has accomplished. Whether it's medical research, jazz, literature astronomy etc. These are all activities that have notihing to do with a belief in God. So atheism has accomplished pretty much anything of note throughout history. And generally, when religion 'accomplishes' something it is to burn someone at the stake or start a war based on bigotry and hatred. Christianity in particular is a junk religion whcih has wreaked havoc on the world through cultural imperialism.

Answer 4

Okay first of all. I am Christian and I firmly believe that it is not a wise assumption that every one who disagrees with you is being used by the devil. "The Art of War" (A book that has been used by most of the greatest generals in history) Says "In War, Deception is every thing" There is certinaly a War between Heaven and hell. and I bet that both god and the devil understands the inportence of deception in warfare. So I would not jump to conclusions about who is using who until you see the whole picture.
both God and Satin have used Christianity to do both good and evil things, both God and Satin have used Atheism to do good and evil things. Christianity and Atheism are states of mind,
In general Christianity has provided Hope, Love, Tolerance (True not as much tolerance as some would like), Forgiveness, and a peace of mind to every one who embraces it fully.

Answer 5

Accomplishments like the Crusades, Olaf's slaughtering of 200,000 Norse for refusing to convert after Olaf swung a deal with the Poop, er Pope, the inquisition, the devastation of various Polynesian societies, Vlad the Impaler's butchering 100,000 Transylvanians for refusing to convert, all the pogroms committed on so many indigenous or non-Christian groups in the name of god, burning women as witches on the word of brain-washed children?

Answer 6

Queen, for crying out loud, your logic has more holes than swiss cheese.

Yeah, "accountability" to your God did wonders for the behavior of Andrea Yates, Ted Haggard, and the perpetrators of the Inquisition and Salem witch trials.

"Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK are among the least religious societies on earth. They are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate and infant mortality"

Answer 7

I don't think Atheism, Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion can really claim to have accomplishments. The majority of accomplishments would only be defined through that religion's faith, right?

Instead, religions inspire and influence.

Answer 8

Actually, it's been around since before religion existed. It is the default. Existed before any devil thing was written into that book of yours. It's only a LABEL, not a THING. Labels can not accomplish anything. Only people do. And their beliefs are not a factor in their accomplishments.

Answer 9

You seem to make the assumption that something must serve a purpose in order to be true. I just picked up my glasses and put them back down again. It didn't accomplish anything, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

Answer 10

While this is a somewhat fair question, your phrasing ("it has been around since the time of Moses") is a bit presumptive. I doubt in an age before reason there were many atheists to accomplish much, and their atheism would hardly play a role.

But here's a brief and far from exhaustive list of people who have accomplished, tried to accomplish, or are working to accomplish a variety of things.



Noam Chomsky - MIT linguist.
Michael Newdow - brought Pledge case to Supreme Court and is working on taking "In God We Trust" off our money.
Margaret Sanger - early birth control advocate.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - worked with Susan B. Anthony for women's right to vote.
Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary.
Mao Zedong - Chinese leader.
Woody Allen - Writer/director.
Marlon Brando - Academy Award winning actor.
George Carlin - comedian/actor/writer.
Adam Carolla - comedian, originally of The Man Show.
Katharine Hepburn - 4 time Academy Award winning actress.
John Malkovich - actor.
Marilyn Manson - weird singer.
Penn and Teller - magicians.
Christopher Reeve - Superman, stem-cell usage advocate.
Gene Roddenberry - created Star Trek series.
Ted Turner - owns the Braves, CNN, TBS, TCM, TNT, donated $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation, launched the Goodwill Games, and most importantly, created Captain Planet.
Douglas Adams - wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Ambrose Bierce - notable American author.
Dave Barry - American author.
George Gordon Lord Byron - British author/poet.
Ernest Hemingway - Nobel Prize winning author.
James Joyce - poet/author.
H. L. Menchen - author/journalist/social critic.
Arthur Miller - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, married Marilyn Monroe.
Ayn Rand - author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, founded Objectivism.
Ron Reagan - president's son, stem-cell advocate.
Salmon Rushdie - Booker Prize winning author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.
Camille Saint-Saens - French classical composer.
George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley - British poet.
Kurt Vonnegut - American author.
Jeremy Bentham - British all around smart guy, came up with Utilitarianism.
Albert Camus - French/Algerian Nobel Prize winning author.
Auguste Comte - French philosopher, founder of sociology.
Marquis de Sade - early erotic writer.
Denis Diderot - compiled the first rigorous encyclopedia.
Karl Marx - political philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher.
Bertrand Russell - British mathematician, won Nobel Prize for Literature.
Jean-Paul Sartre - French Nobel Prize winning author.
Isaac Asimov - science/science ficiton author, has a book for every classification of the Dewey Decimal System.
Richard Dawkins - really smart British biologist.
Sigmund Freud - psycologist.
Alfred Kinsey - that sex study guy... go watch the movie Kinsey.
Carl Sagan - astronomer/physicist/writer of Contact, et al.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner - came up with Behaviorism.
James D. Watson - DNA double helix biologist, won Nobel Prize.
Francis Crick - DNA double helix biologist, won Nobel Prize.
Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Anaxagoras - old Greek smart guy, 1st person to put forth the idea of evolution around 600 BC.
Richard Branson - rich guy owner of Virgin enterprizes.
Warren Buffet - richer guy... 2nd richest man in the world, just donated $37 billion to fight AIDS and illiteracy.
Andrew Carnegie - original rich benefector.
Larry Flynt - 1st Amendment rights advocate.
George Soros - rich guy.
Lance Armstrong - cancer beating, super fundraising for fighting cancer, 7 time Tour de Franch winning guy.
Rodney Dangerfield - comedian/actor.
George Clooney - actor.
Angelina Jolie - actress.
Marilyn Monroe - actress, old school hottie.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian composer of Flight of the Bumble Bee.
William Shatner - "We've.... got to.... try." Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
Uma Thurman - actress who killed Bill.
Arthur C. Clarke - sci-fi author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, et al.
Joseph Conrad - author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, et al.
Christopher Marlowe - author.
Leonid Brezhnev - Russian leader.
Giuseppe Garibaldi - Italian revolutionary.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Russian leader.
Lenin - Russian leader.
Jawaharlal Nehru - Indian leader.
Josef Stalin - Russian leader.
Che Guevara - Latin American revolutionary.
Marie Curie - chemist/physicist who won 2 Nobel Prizes.
Richard Feynman - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Paul Dirac - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Pat Tillman - left NFL to fight in army and was killed by 'friendly' fire.
Stephen Jay Gould - biologist/author.

Agnostics

Clarence Darrow - lawyer in the Scopes Trial, defending Scopes.
Charles Darwin - did some science stuff and wrote some book.
Helen Clark - Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Emile Durkheim - philosopher, wrote Suicide.
Matt Groening - Simpson's creator.
Bill Maher - comedian, has his own show.
Protagoras - 450 BC said the existance of god is unknowable.
Matt Stone - South Park creator.
Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn author.
Margaret Atwood - author of The Handmaid's Tale.
Antonio Banderas - Zorro bitches.
Lewis Black - comedian.
Richard Dreyfuss - actor in Jaws and Mr. Holland's Opus.
Umberto Eco - author of The Name of the Rose, et al.
Bill Gates - just donated over $30 to charity.
Larry King - CNN interviewer.
Dave Matthews - singer/songwriter.
Bill Nye - the science guy... Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill.
Keanu Reeves - "woah"
James Taylor - singer/songwriter.

Plus, 93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences, who are working to discover how to cure cancer, how to keep the planet safe from global warming, how to feed Africa, and how to make wearable MP3 players that teenagers will don in about 3 years.