2007-11-24 10:48:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ok, for the slow ones, and the ones who don't know me :
I am not saying that atheism takes faith, I am questioning the Fundie assertion that it does...
2007-11-25 01:36:52 · update #1
No, they have faith in themselves and their wisdom.
2007-11-24 10:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question! Some True Believers (like the dude who asks the zillion 'Does the atheist religion...?') want to make atheism into a religion, but they don't want to give us the same rights as members of other religions. We have faith in Darwin, science, whatever, but our faith isn't really faith. We're a religion, but we can't have paid holidays. We're a religion, but it's OK to bash and discriminate against us. Etc., etc....you get the idea...
2007-11-24 18:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The premise is false: it does not require "faith" to be an atheist; it requires nothing more than common sense. It does require faith to believe in something for which there is no evidence. But faith is the ultimate evil: it is the deliberate refusal to use the one facility which is the essential character of our species: the ability to examine evidence and draw correct conclusions from it.
2007-11-24 18:59:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith in and of itself isn't the issue. You could have faith that if you drop of a 10 story building angels would catch you but I would suggest against it. It gets down to what your faith is in!
lol I always like that "common sense" position. How can someone say their position is the common sense one when it goes against what 90% of the people believe?
2007-11-24 18:58:40 · answer #4 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible, the saving grace comes from having faith. Thus, if you do not have faith, then you have rejected the free grace.
For if you believe the hypothetical situation that God can save everyone by denying human free will, then we all ought to be robots.
2007-11-24 18:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by tkjaros 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Atheism being a lack of faith in any god, I don't quite understand the link
2007-11-24 18:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by didi 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, God is a concept, a concept of what we cannot understand.Muslims believe in Mohamed, Jews in Moises and Mormons in Joseph Smith.They're all just a way to fill up that emptiness that we all feel when we ask ourselves:Where did we come from?Why are we here?What is the meaning of life?
We do not have an answer to all of this questions so we try to fill that emptiness with religion, which is not a bad thing, it's just a basic human necessity, the necessity to know.
So it really doesn't matter which way you pick, as long as you believe in it.
2007-11-24 18:51:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
According to the Bible, saving faith has Christ as its object. To be "saved by grace" its not simply enough to have any ol' faith, but rather it must "faith in Christ", specifically in Christ's death and resurrection for you.
"Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own eyes."
2007-11-24 19:01:07 · answer #8 · answered by angelos447 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not true. It takes No faith to be an atheist- they only believe in themselves.
2007-11-24 18:53:11 · answer #9 · answered by Seeno†es™ 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
you're really twisting concepts to try to force them into what you want to think yourself.
but no, just cause you go off the deep end with twisting logic, that doesn't affect the outer reality
2007-11-24 23:44:30 · answer #10 · answered by center of the universe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Christianity, everyone believes in Christ who has heard about him, so those who have heard of Christ who say they are atheists are liars.
Now let's see who's sensitive.
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2007-11-24 18:59:16 · answer #11 · answered by miller 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋