First off let me remind you that An atheist is a person WITHOUT a    belief in any gods and not necessarily a person who believes "there is no god". No    belief is required to belong to atheism, only the absence of a belief   in  gods is required. In this article I would just explain why am I an atheist rather than being a deist or an agnostic and I will not talk about the "ungodly" gods of those 2000 year old books.
The word "god" is so often used  to  describe something for which there is  a lack of understanding in and   which seems to be a very profound  concept. "god" is a word which   defines a deity. A deity is a  supernatural being and has different   powers depending on who you ask. In  Monotheism, god is said to be a   source of morality but not morality  itself. In Polytheism, there is   more than one god and the different gods  rule over different aspects of   life. In Deism,  the god is a  supreme being who created the   universe and he does not intervene in  human affairs. In Agnosticism  God  is unknown...etc
Actualy the definition of god depends on   the person you ask, previously I  would define god as an infinite set  of  variables which most people will  never understand, some others  define  him as our innate good nature,  some define god as  consciousness or the first cause...etc  and there are more defined gods  than humans.
Whoever  you ask,  agnostic or deist or anyone who is not an atheist, his god/belief is  simply an emotionally/spiritual potent oversimplification   of the  unknown without any evidence.
Beyond a personal preference for a belief I think the word "god" is very problematic and very unnecessary. Beyond an historical sense it's neither needed nor helpful. For the sake of clear and precise communication the best solution by far is to ditch the word "god". Parsimony (Occam's razor) would negate an unknown entity for the purposes of reasoning humanistic values. If someone wants to believe in a deity/god/great spirit/etc. then they should be brought to understand that such a belief is at best incidental. As Laplace said of god to Napoleon regarding his work on celestial mechanics, I had no need of that hypothesis. Napoleon was a believer and Laplace could have appealed to a god but it was not necessary so he didn't. You won't find the word "god" as a psychological, sociological, or sociobiological scientific technical term in any textbook. And you won't for good reason. One more time, it's not needed other than for historical purposes.
Beyond a personal preference for a belief I think the word "god" is very problematic and very unnecessary. Beyond an historical sense it's neither needed nor helpful. For the sake of clear and precise communication the best solution by far is to ditch the word "god". Parsimony (Occam's razor) would negate an unknown entity for the purposes of reasoning humanistic values. If someone wants to believe in a deity/god/great spirit/etc. then they should be brought to understand that such a belief is at best incidental. As Laplace said of god to Napoleon regarding his work on celestial mechanics, I had no need of that hypothesis. Napoleon was a believer and Laplace could have appealed to a god but it was not necessary so he didn't. You won't find the word "god" as a psychological, sociological, or sociobiological scientific technical term in any textbook. And you won't for good reason. One more time, it's not needed other than for historical purposes.
For an atheist,  the use  of some words to refer to a god is useless,  meaningless,  irrational and  unscientific. It refers in fact to nothing.  The term God is applied so liberally that it  really  doesn't seem to  hold any real meaning. It seems to be  interchangeable  with everything.  So if one wants to say "love is my god"  or "Justice is my god" or "X is  my god". But then the term "god"  becomes  meaningless. It could  literally be anything, therefore it is  useless.  It traded man's courage  and relentless pursuit of answers for   myth-based reasoning and a false  sense of purpose and security. "God",   for many people can be a good  thing as it gives a focal point and   something to look up to. But god  can be very debilitating to man as  well  in his own greatness, as it  prevents him from making progress in  the  areas where the dogma  surrounding this god is dictated by this  same god  and it prohibits the  productive analysis concerning critical  areas of  our lives like  understanding our natural world (science) and   understanding our  "innate" good nature (morality).
To  an atheist, Deists tend  to personalize the meaning of the word god to   the point of making it  into nothing more than a box for which to place   questions or doubts in  an attempt to feel satisfied the questions and   doubts are answered. To an atheist, it is meaningless when agnostics say that the existence  of gods is unknown without even defining what object called god and what object it refers to. 
For  an atheist the word god is unnecessary as  a response to the unknown   simply because it is just a human idea which  provide a necessary   useless illusion.
For an atheist, anything  that makes you see  justice/love..etc as a spiritual thing and not as  billions of  connections in the  brain which pick up sensory information  and store  and manipulate that  information is useless and irrational.  Just  because something seems to  be mystical or powerful or profound  does  not automatically deem it  "godly".
To summarize, An atheist is a person  who  acts in a manner that takes into  consideration actual "Critical   Thought" and "Rational Thinking" and not  proliferating the useless   ideas caused by the lack of Critical Thinking  in the first place. As an   atheist I'm just keeping my thoughts simple without tending toward irrational. To me Atheism is obivously the only rational reasoning and   the  only philosophic doctrine that could lead to a timeless wisdom...
 

 
 
Good job!!!
RépondreSupprimerEXCELLENT :))) welcome w YEDHOM
RépondreSupprimerMerci Insane w yedhom :)€€
RépondreSupprimerMy friend I really thought I was alone...not anymore!
RépondreSupprimer@Angelus: No you are not, there are thousands and thousands of atheists in Tunisia :)
RépondreSupprimerLecture: Islam or Atheism - Which One Makes More Sense? By Hamza Andreas Tzortzis
RépondreSupprimerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcxprzvNLA
watch first 30 mins of lecture to see the rationality of the atheist.
Proving atheists to be irrational, contrary to their thinking that they are rational
Hello, I am a Deist :D
RépondreSupprimerAn atheist cannot be irrational, quite the opposite, should be too rational to get there. Only irrational people have the ability to take and believe religious crap without feeling bad about all the contradictions and non-sense it contains !!
RépondreSupprimerI would love to see statistics showing if there's any correlation between education level and popularity of atheism. Anyways, I feel I'm between fellow humans over here !!
well then please watch the link i posted and tell me where the speaker was philosophically wrong when explaining the atheist irrationality then we can go from there.
RépondreSupprimerIn case you missed it here is the link copy and paste the whole of it:
RépondreSupprimerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcxprzvNLA
Was my response too long ? :) It gets deleted each time I post it ... whatever
RépondreSupprimerToo fucking bad ... Good night
RépondreSupprimeranger with a side of cursing by answering a "imagined" response by me for your post being deleted?
RépondreSupprimerit takes two to tango not one ^ ^
quite irrational indeed on your part sofiane
That wasn't anger but a mere expression of disappointment cause my post gets deleted from some reason after all the time I spent writing it. I wasn't expecting anything back from an Anonymous nobody ...
RépondreSupprimerAnyways, I don't think we can establish any meaningful exchange through the comments section of a blog. If you're really interested in my response to your question, just propose a manner to establish a two way communication and we'll take it from there ;)
Good night.
Anons are just "anonoymous" not nobodys
RépondreSupprimeras for the two way communication, if you have facebook add "True Peace" and ill talk to you on there via chat if you wish that is, if not so be it.
PS leave message like " Hi its me Sofiane" or something if you are going to go through this.
Please bare with me here, there's at least a dozen True Peace on facebook, can you give me a particular sign, e.g. Activities and Interests FBI, United Muslin Nation ...etc.
RépondreSupprimerAs per the nobody, I didn't mean to offend... I just find the word appropriate to represent a disincarnated Web being without a name or an identity, thus a nobody :)
Ok how bout I find you, if not then the Avatar i have for true Peace is that of stones such as in this link:
RépondreSupprimerhttp://www.macwallpapers.in/wallpaper/Stones/