Quote from oddiduro:
However to assume that there is no creator because of the machinations of mass religion would indicate that you are missing a very large part of your existence.
atheists do have a "religion" all their own that requires its own brand of "faith", since they have no evidence that a creator does not exist any more we have proof that one does.
When you assume, you make an
ass of
u and
me.
You are making assumptions about what atheists assume. We do not read Plato's or Marx's statements about the political function of religion and then extract from that that there must be no god. It is from disbelief in the whole notion of god that the notion of religion appears to be a ridiculous pursuit.
Marketsurfer already stated in one of the other dozen god/no-god threads heading the Chit Chat threads the difference between (western) religion and science: religion accepts without proof, science rejects without proof. The atheist viewpoint is by that definition
not a religion, but a science.
Anyhow, why are we missing a large part of our existence by not believing in a creator? Do things need to believe in their creators to fulfill their nature? If I create, let's say, a table, does that table need to know or care that I created it? No! Is it any less a table, or any less a tribute to my work for lacking belief in my existence?
Your creator created not just humans, but all things, living and non-living. All of them go about their existence without fretting over who, what, created them, and why. Except for non-atheist humans. Personally, I think people who worry about believing in a creator are missing part of their existence
: every moment they waste worrying about these questions is a moment they could have been spending going about living their lives.
In fact, if I created a table, wouldn't I be disappointed in my creation if it wasted its time fussing about who or what created it, and arguing about this with other tables, rather than just forgetting about all that and simply performing its function as a table?
