Atheism? Seems to have law: "both good and evil", ends evil, as x-ian law vs law (loser vs loser) also does

Question

Atheism seems to be fastest growing religion in usa,
growing twice as fast as roman catholics diminishing.

I find many good points about atheism, such as:
- thinking is allowed, even required, to learn
- somebody ought to challenge those x-ians
- nobody likes being condemned, to hell

I also find many bad points about atheism, such as:
- no god at all, so stuck with the system, law thereof
- law vs law is as loser vs loser every way looked at
- and perhaps they overlooked what Einstein said:

Einstein: about science and religion:
"Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind."

Science: only thing common to man ww is legend of ww flood.
Science: there's no evidence of ww flood. It never happened.
Bible: it's "allegory" & "mystery" written aforetime for "learning"

Two Religion(s), God(s) thereof, compared in Bible:
- IMPure religions: arrived defiled, then got worse-end.
- Pure religion: arrived undefiled, remained unspotted.

Comments

Thanks to all for your beliefs,
but know supercedes belief.

As for so-called Athiests, well,
they also give existence to God,
simply by mentioning there is no God;
in the same manner x-ians do the devil.

Answer 1

Atheism isnt a religion

Answer 2

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question but I have a few comments.
Einstein was raised Jewish and never believed in the concept of the Christian version of God. He was a deist, not a Jew or Christian.
Atheism covers a lot of different beliefs. Some people use the term to describe anything not Christian, like Buddhism, Hinduism, Wicca, ancient Greek mythology, etc and some say the term refers only to those who believe in no other-world at all. So, saying it is the fastest growing religion doesn't rellay make sense.
Also, law does change. For instance, there were stories on the news (often, it seemed) of parents who had left their toddler in a car in the summer, it died of heat exhaustion and then the parent was put on trial. But, I just heard on the news that the same situation happened but this time, the judge decided there would be no trial b/c the woman was suffering enough. Also, if you look at history, our methods for punishment have changed. nobody burns anyone at stake anymore and many countries do not kill single mothers. So, law can change, too, albeit slowly. I don't think every 'atheist' believes anything is forever.

Answer 3

Atheism is a lack of belief in gods. While some people (both theists, and atheist) think that it is more than that, it is not. We come in a wide variety, just as Christians do.

I can not completely blame you for misunderstanding of Atheism, it seems that organized atheist groups have placed beliefs into something that should be no more than a lack of belief in gods. All over the Internet I see Atheist that hold some views of what Atheism should also be, and they also hold expectations of other Atheist. Some would go so far as to say I am not an Atheist, because I do not believe as they do.. What a joke right?

I find it all to be rather odd, I am an independent. The term Atheist is starting to carry a stench from the emo wannabe anti theists.

I don't blame several Agnostics for trying to separate themselves from that group, but the fact is.. Atheism is just a lack of belief in gods.

Answer 4

The main flaw in your logic is that you seem to think science and religion are incompatible. This is simply false. My religion, Catholicism, has the best of both worlds. Faith and Reason.

It's possible that atheism is growing faster than Catholicism, but given there relative size this would not surprise me. I still think it will be a while before the small number of atheists catch up to the billion + Catholics. If you like economics think of it this way: Catholicism is already at the top of the curve where it's starts to flatten out in terms of the rate in which it gains new members. Atheism is still at the bottom, where the curve is steep, and the rate of increase is much higher.

Answer 5

Atheism is a LACK of religion, NOT a religion.

Also, the fact that Einstein was a religious guy doesn't mean anything. He proved relativaty, but never came up with a mathematical formula to prove god. He was more concerned about evil men like the nazis using science to create the atomic bomb, I feel.

Answer 6

Thanks for the original and very unusual question, GodShew.

Atheism is certainly a religion; it is faith in an accidental, meaningless existence, with no Creator to establish and sustain human rights. Einstein, as our greatest scientific mind and visionary, and as a representative of God's first people, would never accept a lame science that ruled out an intelligent designer.

Christians (the X is Greek for Christ) certainly teach that thinking is required. Jesus, our greatest prophet and visionary, challenged people's thinking constantly. We are still trying to work out some of the puzzles he posed, e.g., in John 6. No one has yet come up with more than analogies concerning his Trinity (see Matthew 28:19).

As Jesus was vindicated in all challenges with skeptics, so Christians should welcome sincere questions and objections to Christianity. If we are unnerved by questions, our faith is small.

Finally, no one who doesn't choose hell is condemned to it. Thus Christians do not condemn. However, Christians are responsible for warning about hell's reality, as Jesus did (e.g., Matthew 5:22).

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 7

Einstein was a Deist. His comments about "God" are often misinterpreted---what Einstein meant by "God" was something like "the physical laws and processes operating in the Universe".

Rules of conduct for everyone, both religious and non-religious, are based on ethics. There is no consistent set of "laws" in the Bible that we still use today---the commandments in the Bible require the death penalty for all transgressions. The Bible requires slavery.

Answer 8

Thom 1274, "Catholicism has faith and reason!" Is there reason in the Vatican putting a scientist under house arrest for speaking the truth? Is there reason in them waiting half a century before admitting that was a mistake? Yours is the most corrupt religion on the face of this Earth.

Answer 9

Atheism does not have me "stuck" with anything. I live exactly the same life under the exact same rules and laws of society that even the most avid "believer" is obligated to abide by. Only difference is that I am not indoctrinated, and thereby helplessly chained to a series of conditioned belief requirements that involve "sin" obedience to some mysterious invisible superbeing, and the twin dominating forces that apply within all religious denominations "theat" and "fear" Fear of a potentially angry and punitive God who will come down on you like a ton of bricks for the smallest infraction of his "rules" and the threat of being despatched, after death, to a hideous pit of fire where I will spend aaaaall eternity screaming and hollering in excrutiating agony.

Atheists do not walk around wearing a plaque that reads "I am an atheist". They go about their daily lives being plumbers, electricians, doctors, lawyers, airline pilots, garbage collectors, gardeners, accountants, housewives or whatever. They do not take time out every so often to attend gatherings where they "worship their atheism", or engage in special rituals, ceremonies, feasts or fasts in its name.

In your daily life, many of the people you interract with, and very probably many you know quite well, are atheists or they lean in that direction. But we don't go up to people and ask them what their personal belief system is, do we? Certainly nobody does that where I live. We interract with people based on whatever our particular connection with them happens to be, and unless that information happens to come up by coincidence, we don't know, and it isn't any kind of a priority to find out.

Nobody I have ever known makes determinations about whom he calls a friend based on what that other person happens to embrace in the religion department. I have friends from all kinds of different denominations, and they are all equally good, decent and wholesome people, because that is what I look for in a friend and try myself to be.
I don't try to make it more complicated than it is, which is not complicated at all.

Answer 10

uh correction, Atheism is NOT a religion, quite the opposite.
and we atheist are just people without a belief in god(s).
Science to us explains alot and its much more logical then a religion. But every atheist is different.

Answer 11

Why do your bad points about atheism make no sense? Is it because I'm an atheist?

I think you get more incoherent with each question, my friend. You should work on expressing your ideas more concisely and clearly. I'm pretty sure there's no way to derive an answer or a comment from this, as it only made sense in your head.