What is Atheism? (Rated G)

I explain what Atheism IS and what it IS NOT.

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[semajgnik]

@cengime My point is that there is no reason to try to criticize a poem/song about scientific facts.

But let me ask you, where does our thoughts and reason come from?

[cengime]

@semajgnik Yes, but these figures of speech only exist because doctors and philosophers once thought the heart was literally the seat of thought, reason, emotions, and/or the soul.

[semajgnik]

@cengime right... because with the state of medical knowledge in today's world NO ONE uses poetic figures of speeches like, "follow your heart","whatever you heart tells you", etc. right???

PSALMS, penned by PSALMISTS, should be taken as scientific statements. Its so reasonable.

[cengime]

@semajgnik Considering the state of medical knowledge when the Book of Psalms was written, I wouldn't be surprised if the writer considered this more than a poetic figure of speech.

[semajgnik]

@antibarbi03 i guess some brains can't understand poetic figures of speech. just sayin.

[antibarbi03]

@MrJcenter7 Those "fools" don't use their hearts, they technically use their brains. Just saying.

[MrJcenter7]

I'm gonna come from the gut. How fucking clueless can a person be? The fool says in his heart there is no God.

[semajgnik]

@poserproductions1 It's not so much that you're wrong. The problem is that your philosophy is self refuting.

For example, you're theory of knowledge. You say that the best way to go about things, is to first test things thoroughly, but you did not test if THAT statement is true. You simply presupposed it.

What you need to realize is that you (and everyone else) have basic presuppositions that you did not first "judge" or test.

Logic is assumed to be true by EVERYONE.

[poserproductions1]

@semajgnik Deciding that I am probably wrong about everything in my theories is the best way that I can respond to the questions of the universe without un-justified confidence. But I am probably wrong here too aren't I?

[semajgnik]

@poserproductions1 Virgin births and a man surviving inside a whale is not illogical or unreasonable AT ALL (this next part is important) in a worldview where a supernatural being, God, exists.

You keep saying that you withhold judgement, but you are contradicting yourself whenever you practically make a claim that your epistemology, your theory of knowledge is the correct one. Your whole philosophy crumbles and refutes itself here.

You should withhold judgment on withholding judgment then.