Do you think atheism is the source of many evil ?

Answer 1

athieism is the belief in nothing. C.S. Lewis is a athiest turned christian. We all have to start some where....

Answer 2

I don't think it is atheism or christianity that are the source of evil, but how people irrationaly manipulate these belief systems to justify evil means (but atheism seems to be less violent than theism. You can't have an atheist martyr--that's a contradiction in terms).

"isms" are fine for rational people, but for irrational people, the consequences are disasterous.

Answer 3

What is evil?
Evil - The product of the absence of good. When all good has been removed from anywhere (situation, someone, some place, etc.) you get evil. For example, darkness is the product of the absence of light.
(Light=Good, Darkness=Evil)

With that being said, God is all things good. Now if the absence of all things good is evil then atheism is 'A' source of evil. Athiest believe that there is no God, thus creating the absence of God and all things good, creaing evil.

Get me?

I am not intending to bash Atheist, but they have the absence of God, thus they are evil. Don't take it too harsly, but its true.

Answer 4

100% opposite; religion is the source of evil. Look at it this way--compassion and greed are equally powerful in a tabula rasa homo sapiens. Religion, particularly christianity and islam, divert the compassionate side of your nature into some ephermeral god-being and thus...well, think about war for a minute...

In war, the man willing to do what the other man isn't; the man willing to operate without any ethics whatsoever always beats the man who restains himself by a sense of decency. Which creates the modern era of collective punishment by cluster bombs (killing people's children to make 'em do what you want, the US's means of handling things) and suicide bombers (willing to do what the other guy isn't). Now somebody who ain't seriously effed in the head could do either of those actions. Could you blow the arms and legs off of 20-30 children by pushing a button and still live with yorself afterward? Well, US pilots do it all the time, and have been for the past fifteen years. Now why is that? How can an otherwise reasonably ethical human being live with himself after pulling a stunt like that? Because he's got a god to tell him it's OK. He diverts his compassion for his fellow man and applies it to, essentially, himself. 'Cuz everybody's god is personal; it's an extension of your own personality. God is good, god is love, which means that other people are irrelevant and should be used as tools to make rich white fucktarts richer at the expense of every other living thing on the planet. That's the christian position.

So religion encorages you to take all of your care, all of your concern for your fellow man, and sequester it in a black hole in your heart where it won't interfere in the scrabbling rat race to trample everyone else in your rise to the top. That kind of malevolence just isn't possible for atheists, who weigh all moral choices independantly and then, usually, as we're so far outside the mainstream and end up representing our entire 'religion' with our actions, act according to our logically defensible moral compass. Across-the-board, atheists are better people. I've never met an atheist who shucked hir god because they chafed under the moral restrictions. Atheists leave religion because religion works opposite to what it preaches. Atheists are atheists due to the hypocracy of religion, not because they want to go "live free". Whatever. Either you're a troll looking for stirring answers (hope I gave ya one) or a kid just wondering. This here's the POV of a born-n-rasied atheist. We're the good people of the world. Satanists, too. They get a bad rap.

The satanic position is that satan got banished not for a power grab, but for disobediance. So defining oneself as a satanist, generally, means you are defining yourself as the oppsite of the blind worship of temporal power that religion represents. If god is obediance, and obediance gave the world the Nazis and the KKK, then I, as a hypothetical satinist, define myself as not-a-nazi; not-a-klansman. Aside from the few fruitcakes who get off on fake black magic, satanists are also existing on a more refined ethical plane than christians. Chew on that for a while.

Answer 5

Of course it is. It's responsible for the problems between the Jews and Muslims in the Middle East. It's the responsible for the problems between the Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, It's responsible for the Catholic Church lying to Africans that condoms will give you AIDS. It's responsible for the Islamic extremists. It's the responsible for the Neocons. Oh just terrible those Atheists.
Sarcasm off.

Answer 6

Atheism is lack of knowledge of God not seeing the great things that he can and has offered us. Someone who doesn't believe you have that great car you told them about in your garage because they have never been their. This does not mean that the don't have morals or standards. Something that i have learned here recently is why there are so many Christians out there giving a bad name in the way of pornography, sexual sin, gambling(any addiction to that matter) is because they do not understand we are not bound by the laws we learn to obey them because we want to not have to.. which is something atheists dont worry about. Many people will hid there "sins" in the closet. Its like telling a child dont open this box. Wald away leave it with them they will open it which is the same way we are when we Find are selves bound under the laws they dont worry about.

Answer 7

No evil comes from the heart of all mankind. I happen to know some every kind atheists who do a lot of charitable deeds. Every man has evil in his heart not just atheists.

Answer 8

This is my favorite qoute "A good man will do Good an Evil man will do Evil but for a Good man to do Evil that takes religion"

Richard dawkins said it on "The root of all evil?"


i will get you the name of the man who said it just a sec :)

Answer 9

Nope. Atheism causes no evil whatsoever.

Answer 10

From the British Times:

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Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.

According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.

The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.

It compares the social peformance of relatively secular countries, such as Britain, with the US, where the majority believes in a creator rather than the theory of evolution. Many conservative evangelicals in the US consider Darwinism to be a social evil, believing that it inspires atheism and amorality.

Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that religious belief is socially beneficial, believing that it helps to lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity and abortion. The benefits of religious belief to a society have been described as its “spiritual capital”. But the study claims that the devotion of many in the US may actually contribute to its ills.

The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example for an increasingly sceptical world.

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.

“The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.”

Gregory Paul, the author of the study and a social scientist, used data from the International Social Survey Programme, Gallup and other research bodies to reach his conclusions.

He compared social indicators such as murder rates, abortion, suicide and teenage pregnancy.

The study concluded that the US was the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates were still high, and that the least devout nations were the least dysfunctional. Mr Paul said that rates of gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US were up to 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. The US also suffered from “ uniquely high” adolescent and adult syphilis infection rates, and adolescent abortion rates, the study suggested.

Mr Paul said: “The study shows that England, despite the social ills it has, is actually performing a good deal better than the USA in most indicators, even though it is now a much less religious nation than America.”

He said that the disparity was even greater when the US was compared with other countries, including France, Japan and the Scandinavian countries. These nations had been the most successful in reducing murder rates, early mortality, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion, he added.

Mr Paul delayed releasing the study until now because of Hurricane Katrina. He said that the evidence accumulated by a number of different studies suggested that religion might actually contribute to social ills. “I suspect that Europeans are increasingly repelled by the poor societal performance of the Christian states,” he added.

He said that most Western nations would become more religious only if the theory of evolution could be overturned and the existence of God scientifically proven. Likewise, the theory of evolution would not enjoy majority support in the US unless there was a marked decline in religious belief, Mr Paul said.

“The non-religious, proevolution democracies contradict the dictum that a society cannot enjoy good conditions unless most citizens ardently believe in a moral creator.

“The widely held fear that a Godless citizenry must experience societal disaster is therefore refuted.”
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