2007-07-04 03:30:24 · 11 answers · asked by dostlew 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is your question a reaction to another question or is the other question a reaction to your question?
2007-07-04 03:37:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theism was a reaction to atheism in the beginning. People started off as atheists, but when they saw the world around them with no explanation, they created a God. Then, this got passed down to their children and their children's children, and they were all given very little room to disagree (Infidels? We'll kill ya!!).
Now, atheism seems to be a reaction to theism. Most atheists I know (including myself) came from religious backgrounds of all kinds.
2007-07-04 03:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by Stardust 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the dawn of man, man has questioned who his creator is.
Therefore, atheism is a reaction to theism because it rejects the notion of such a creator.
2007-07-04 03:34:24 · answer #3 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is a result of the rejection first of God and then of theism. God who dictated the bible to a chosen few existed before the foundations of the earth. It is man who gave the teaching and study of the bible a name and called it theism. God's only intent was to get truth to man.
2007-07-04 03:35:52 · answer #4 · answered by drivn2excelchery 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course atheism is a reaction to theism. When people refuse to believe God because they don't want to be punished for their wrongdoings, they make themselves think that there is no God.
2007-07-04 03:35:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither. Maybe there is a response for particular individuals in either direction, but I don't think either idea formed as a reaction to the other in a broad sense.
2007-07-04 03:49:59 · answer #6 · answered by Lao Pu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, I think.
Atheism is a response to the fact that there's no evidence for the existence of any gods.
Theism is kinda off in its own little world somewhere.
2007-07-04 03:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
All I know is that belief in God is not a reaction to atheism.
2007-07-04 03:34:14 · answer #8 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither is necessarily reactionary. I would hope that people believe something because they hold it to be true,not as a response to another viewpoint.
2007-07-04 03:32:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The former.
2007-07-04 03:32:35 · answer #10 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋