- Re: The Great Deceiver? Must be me. Archived Message
Posted by dereklane
on July 25, 2019, 12:12 pm, in reply to "The Great Deceiver? Must be me. "
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And you might like to believe that atheists are rather embittered and hateful towards God and those who believe in Him" I think the problem is absolutes; some possibly are, just as some religious folk are bitter and hateful to those who don't believe (exactly what they believe). The vast majority of each (I would hope) are not. As an argument against the thoughts of atheists on religion, it's a poor one. Everyone arrives at their conclusions through either a lot of complex thought or by none at all. For the religious, the none at all approach often comes as a result of their family being religious, and possibly the other way around too. I have met more religious people who are religious by absence of thinking than I have atheists who have no beliefs by the same. The world we live in still requires us to have some specific faith by and large, so its independence of thought that leads outside that paradigm ATM. That doesn't make all religious people fools, only the vast majority. Some (I have read cs Lewis) have spent long hours pondering the problems of the human condition and philosophy and merely come to different conclusions than I did. No position is to me inherently false, except the one that declares faith in something we are told is more important than fact checking, philosophy, thinking, logic and reason and compassion intertwined. We need to use our brains if we want to learn anything. |