whitelotus:
A lot of people have misconceptions about atheism and I want to set that straight. Also, some people might be curious and so, I want to help!


Please, feel free to ask any question about atheism or humanism that you want to!


Which person's death are you blaming on God?




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whitelotus:



Hello there!

It is impossible to prove anything after death. No one knows what happens when we die.

At best, one can theorise that we just cease to exist in the same way that we didn't exist before we were born.

Also, since the brain stops working when we die, it makes sense that we would lose all consciousness at death and we are gone forever.......


In summary, no one truly knows what happens when we are dead. Religions are just playing guessing games with heaven and hell.

whitelotus:


It is very possible. But that is how far we can go for now.

This universe could have been coded by a celestial programmer or many celestial programmers. Some scientists infer this because of certain laws of physics and the universe having many consistent characteristics.

However, there exists no proof, only theories/guesses and as such, no reason to believe in a programmer God.

whitelotus:



1. I became an atheist after leaving christianity and studying Islam. I left both religions because they were both complicit in the enslavement of africans. They also had contradictions in there holy books. They also lack any evidence for their God.

2. All miracles are staged magic tricks. No amputee has ever grown his or her limbs back in a church or shrine.

3. If I die, I do not know what happens next. My educated guess is that I will return to nothing. I assume it would be like before I was born.

4. I survive by keeping my beliefs personal. I survive by working hard. God will not just put money into your pocket.

whitelotus:



1. I became an atheist after leaving christianity and studying Islam. I left both religions because they were both complicit in the enslavement of africans. They also had contradictions in there holy books. They also lack any evidence for their God.

2. All miracles are staged magic tricks. No amputee has ever grown his or her limbs back in a church or shrine.

3. If I die, I do not know what happens next. My educated guess is that I will return to nothing. I assume it would be like before I was born.

4. I survive by keeping my beliefs personal. I survive by working hard. God will not just put money into your pocket.

Ghostrye:

I'm not the OP so I don't want to take away his shine, but if I put up a soapbox and start, you will just have to use your super faith card to back yourself up. But just on hindsight, Google is not that far away from you and it has a better mood than me, so please use it

whitelotus:


1. Let me give you a contradiction. If God is omniscient and knows the future, why does he get jealous? The bible says that God is a jealous god. He knows what will happen so why should be be emotional?


2. There are natural things that science cannot explain. Supernatural by definition does not exist.

3. Ok

4. I would say that I am non religious. I dont follow any religion

Maximus69:
@ Whitelotus!

Well it's about the concept of a Supreme Being (God).

Though ATHEISTS claims that humans can achieve PEACE on their own without the idea of God or Gods, but the God of the Bible foretold something really strange!

He said during the time when he is about to judge evildoers on this planet, PEACE will be taken away from the earth, and there will be no human society or group that will unite peacefully without the use of force, weapons or records of casualties to scare them from revolting against their own constituted authorities.

God said that is the time he will prove his power by uniting faithful individuals from different races under one umbrella in his own name, they will settle all their racial differences and bury prejudice so that PEACE will reign amongst them!

None of them will carry weapons for no reason whatsoever because from one extremity of the earth to the other extremity of the earth they will view themselves as one big and happy family of peace loving worshipers!

What really amazes me is what God said that this will be done when no human society is at PEACE!

So he gave them a name that every nation of the earth will hear for a sign that there is no THEORY they can fabricate that will be able to achieve anything close to what they will see amongst his own people!

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES!

whitelotus:



Life is intrinsically meaningless. We are but a speck of dust compared to the total size of the universe. We live only to die. Every day we live is an other day closer to death. An asteroid could land on the earth and blow all of us to smithereens tomorrow.


Life lacks meaning. This does not mean that we cannot give our lives meaning. For example, there is a stone in my field- it is useless but i can choose to make it useful- I can choose to use it as a grinding stone or a weapon.

Think of life as a blank slate or chalkboard. It has no words or drawings on it. No meaning. It is our choice to either write on it or leave it blank.
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If you want to know how meaningless life is, just look at your Jesus. He really died for nothing. His torment at the cross did not even yield him followers among the Jews- his own people. Most Jews are not christian. Furthermore, almost 70% of people in the world are not christians. His message did not even move close to half of the world. And the numbers of christians are dwindling. Not only that, christianity has been so perverted today, that many even ask if Christians are truly like Christ.

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As an atheist and a humanist, I try to enjoy my life and make this world a better place because it is the only life I will have with my consciousness. I alone give my life the meaning or purpose that I want it to have.




You're partly right. The meaning of life is what we give it but at the same thing you're pandering to nihilism.
And Jesus didn't die for nothing. He died to save mankind. I suggest you listen to the late Ravi Zachrias to clear up a lot of stuff. What do you think is the problem of human race? What are the core needs of existence. It is meaning, Purpose, Origin and destiny. Atheism denies these things and yet they seek it at the back doors.

whitelotus:



Life is intrinsically meaningless. We are but a speck of dust compared to the total size of the universe. We live only to die. Every day we live is an other day closer to death. An asteroid could land on the earth and blow all of us to smithereens tomorrow.


Life lacks meaning. This does not mean that we cannot give our lives meaning. For example, there is a stone in my field- it is useless but i can choose to make it useful- I can choose to use it as a grinding stone or a weapon.

Think of life as a blank slate or chalkboard. It has no words or drawings on it. No meaning. It is our choice to either write on it or leave it blank.

whitelotus:
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If you want to know how meaningless life is, just look at your Jesus. He really died for nothing. His torment at the cross did not even yield him followers among the Jews- his own people. Most Jews are not christian. Furthermore, almost 70% of people in the world are not christians. His message did not even move close to half of the world. And the numbers of christians are dwindling. Not only that, christianity has been so perverted today, that many even ask if Christians are truly like Christ.

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whitelotus:
As an atheist and a humanist, I try to enjoy my life and make this world a better place because it is the only life I will have with my consciousness. I alone give my life the meaning or purpose that I want it to have.

Maximus69:


So if you're truthful with the bolded, then what are you doing here in the first place?

Monveronique:



Do you think the universe is an accident. Do you know that a few inches closer to the earth and the sun will kill off all life in the earth. Do you know that thst interplanetary forces are perfectly poised to support gravity, that microscopic differences will alter. There is no clear proof of a God but the universe is clearly designed. It's too perfect not to be. Do you know about statistical indeterminacy that you can't simultaneously determine the position and momentum of an electron?Do you know if all the empty space in an atom collapsed, all the universe will fit into a grain of sand? Scientists can not account for that they call it dark matter. It shouldn't be possible but it is. Do you think these things are coincidences?

Monveronique:



I'm sorry but you guys are deluded and are in a cult. Mainstream Christianity do not share key concord with you guys. It's so admirable the amount of seriousness that ends up wasted.

Maximus69:


So if you're truthful with the bolded, then what are you doing here in the first place?

Monveronique:




1. What is the definition of "jealousy?"

2. You just contradicted your self. What is the definition of supernatural?
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4. Actually atheism is a religion that claims not to be. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!

odinson1:


Atheism is simply absence of Belief in a diety,it is not a philosophy or religion

Joshthefirst:
As an atheist, how do you make sense of a meaningless and purposeless existence?

Ghostrye:

Your stupidity is just appalling, if you want to have an argument or just to rub minds together with the OP, then you should do so without making yourself appear dumb. Your way of doing things makes me want to puke

Joshthefirst:
Help me ask the guy oh.

odinson1:


Atheism is simply absence of Belief in a diety,it is not a philosophy or religion

Maximus69:


And what makes you sure you're not making a big mistake?

Jesus said "my group will become objects of hatred by all peoples" Matthew 5:11-12, 10:22, 24:9; Luke 21:15

Jesus said "they accused me of being a Satanist, so my true followers will also be accused of being Satanists (cultists)" Matthew 10:24-25

Jesus said "those who remain in my teachings will be IDENTIFIED by the strong bond (Love) in their midst" John 13:34-35

So if you now think those who don't have any of these are the REAL Christians i doubt if you have the spirit to discern after reading! Matthew 7:16-18

odinson1:

"If you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem."
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Monveronique:



You put two and two together can't You? The absence of belief is belief in itself. Called the Belief in the absence of belief and btw this one example of a Trilemma.

odinson1:

ok then it is the Belief that God does not exist

Maximus69:


Cult is not the issue now Sir!

It's how well the job your humanism concept did, and so far there is none!

Monveronique:



Which makes it a religion. Let's assume that is a correct assessment.

Let's start from the basics. How did the world begin?

odinson1:


Science proposed the Big bang theory as a probable explanation,Though there are no evidence yet to verify it

so i will no one actually knows that Answer....yet
oh and Atheism is not a religion,dont make false claims

Monveronique:



[s]Do you think the universe is an accident. Do you know that a few inches closer to the earth and the sun will kill off all life in the earth. Do you know that thst interplanetary forces are perfectly poised to support gravity, that microscopic differences will alter. There is no clear proof of a God but the universe is clearly designed. It's too perfect not to be. Do you know about statistical indeterminacy that you can't simultaneously determine the position and momentum of an electron?Do you know if all the empty space in an atom collapsed, all the universe will fit into a grain of sand? Scientists can not account for that they call it dark matter. It shouldn't be possible but it is. Do you think these things are coincidences? [/s]

odinson1:


Science proposed the Big bang theory as a probable explanation,Though there are no evidence yet to verify it

so i will no one actually knows that Answer....yet
oh and Atheism is not a religion,dont make false claims

Plead:


And these things came about because of what? God?

The irony is that assuming Europeans didn’t bring Christianity to Africa all of you would never have heard about this God that y’all are defending now.