The Shortest Path To Atheism

Robert begins this series by explaining the shortest path to atheism. You might be surprised to learn how easy it is to accept atheism, as true and accurate.

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Education

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• atheist
• atheism
• bible
• Christian
• theist
• deity
• God
• religion
• belief

[Hanahleia]

@AwesomenessVidStudio Your response is more of an admittance of ignorance of the Hindu religion than it is a rational play of thought. No offense, but these so-called Hindu Gods you're referring to aren't Gods at all, instead they are more accurately represented as archetypes. I'll leave you a couple of suggestions here, if you're interested in eastern religion:

A short suggestion:

/watch?v=iih7QsbuVLM

When you have more leisure time:

/watch?v=zV74_-qF6OI&playnext=­1&list=PLF7659E6D9F968E1B

[AwesomenessVidStudio]

@Hanahleia What would then be the purpose of Hinduism Gods? You have to admit they are less rational then all of the reasoning provided by modern day science. When introduced with a claim of such a god, I ask a simple question. Can this be of any benefit to me that I could otherwise achieve without it. There is no point to any religion of any kind other than sacrificing people and causing people to believe deranged myths.

[Hanahleia]

@AwesomenessVidStudio When I say mystical experience, I do not refer to the "tiny feeling in the stomach," the sort of faux-religious feeling that Matt Dillahunty is well versed in denouncing. I'm referring to a phenomena that Alan Watts spoke about. I don't agree with what you've said , because different religions haven't very different notions of how they think about God. For instance, in Hinduism God is thought about as a panentheism which is very different from the God of western religions.

[AwesomenessVidStudio]

@Hanahleia Once you don't believe in God your view of what religion is is widened. All of the other religions can be examined then, and if you were a Christian you probably already made up your mind about other religions. A mystical experience, aka: a tingly feeling in your stomach, would still not convince me that magic man dun it.

[BoomChaRhythm]

@Hanahleia True. Reading and studying the bible is relevant to Christians and their shortest path to atheism. I have not read the doctrines of other religions, so would not know first hand if that would be true or not... or other religions and belief systems. You make a valid point.

[Hanahleia]

I don't understand how reading the bible with sharp scrutiny is somehow the shortest path to atheism. It may be the shortest path to dismiss a religion that espouses the bible's teachings, such as Christianity, Catholocism, etc., but what about the theology of the rest of the other religions? What about the theosophy of hinduism? I say, if you want to dismiss Zen Buddhism, first experience nirvana, then decide what you want to believe in. Have a mystical experience.

[imtifade]

3:16 lost a lot of christians viewers to much science

[lanastompanato]

@Kwinnky I have always heard John Walsh was a pretty stable well rounded person with a family and a lot going on in his life. He is certainly interested in and supportive of child protection and safety, but using the word religion implies a bit more than that. As said below, I would typically use a word like obsession or preoccupation. But I can't say someone is wrong who uses the word religion instead when that preoccupation rises to a sufficient level to warrant it.

[lanastompanato]

It depends on how "ardently" they followed those causes. It might be hard to make opposition to the Twilight movies into such a cause it rose to that level, but I could see a "Vegan" who was so determined to spread veganism around the world that they make it such a powerful belief & ardent cause for them that it was indistinguishable from a religion. I once saw a vegan and a vegetarian nearly come to blows over some difference between the two, like whether you should eat milk or eggs or the like

[lanastompanato]

@Kwin "But what does faith have to do with NOT believing with something"

Those atheists who fit a description of simply not believing would not have atheism as a religion. To have it be a religion, the atheist would have to make atheism into their cause. Going far beyond just a negative like disbelief & turning it into a positive cause, a cause they are ardent about & faithfully believe in. I think that describes someone willing to commit a crime to deface currency in furtherance of their cause