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August 30th 2009, 05:07 PM
SkeleTony
Just a note from a non-religious atheist:
Atheism itself does NOT mean 'Without religion'. It means 'Without GODS'(for whatever reason including critical thinking, brain damage, being a newborn baby etc.). There are many religious atheists(i.e. most Buddhists) and also many NON-religious THEISTS(i.e. many pantheists).
I myself am an a-religious strong agnostic and strong atheist, meaning that I am without any religious beliefs, am certain that knowledge of transcendent deities would be impossible for non-transcendent entities to have, am certain that SOME gods cannot possibly exist because of reasons of logic(specifically the Law of Non-contradiction with respect to the various Abrahamic gods. Re: One cannot be both free willed(itself) AND omniscient for example) and am a weak atheist to the rest(meaning that a 'Somethingness that might possibly do something in some other aspect of a potential reality...' is quite too ambiguous for me to give assent to and for natural objects, including Divine Emperors(re: Kim Jong Il, Gaius Caesar etc.) like the sun, I simply do not worship such things as gods. Worship is a bad and immoral idea. No being worthy of worship would want to be worshiped and worshiping ANYTHING is demeaning to the worshiper.
Tony
Atheism itself does NOT mean 'Without religion'. It means 'Without GODS'(for whatever reason including critical thinking, brain damage, being a newborn baby etc.). There are many religious atheists(i.e. most Buddhists) and also many NON-religious THEISTS(i.e. many pantheists).
I myself am an a-religious strong agnostic and strong atheist, meaning that I am without any religious beliefs, am certain that knowledge of transcendent deities would be impossible for non-transcendent entities to have, am certain that SOME gods cannot possibly exist because of reasons of logic(specifically the Law of Non-contradiction with respect to the various Abrahamic gods. Re: One cannot be both free willed(itself) AND omniscient for example) and am a weak atheist to the rest(meaning that a 'Somethingness that might possibly do something in some other aspect of a potential reality...' is quite too ambiguous for me to give assent to and for natural objects, including Divine Emperors(re: Kim Jong Il, Gaius Caesar etc.) like the sun, I simply do not worship such things as gods. Worship is a bad and immoral idea. No being worthy of worship would want to be worshiped and worshiping ANYTHING is demeaning to the worshiper.
Tony
