Harrisonized Wrote:It's not another religion. Based on your logic, I can say that black, the lack of a color, is a color? I could further say that if something is imaginary, then it is still real because something real must be imagining it.
No, that doesn't make sense. Atheism is just the rejection in the belief of a God. People who don't want to assume something exists. I'm pretty sure if God can be proved, many of the Athiests would be quick to convert.So why can't we discuss it?
Again with me please lump everything in one section, I hate nested quotes.
Why not discuss it? Discussion is 1. for good conversation or 2. to convince someone of something. Religion deals with fundamental assumptions that are the cornerstone to every being's existence. Challenge those in the slightest and it's a warzone. You'll walk away probably very angry, certainly having accomplished nothing. THIS issue has been seriously beaten into the ground, people have argued it for YEARS, nobody has proven ANYTHING.
I am not saying science is a religion, I am saying ATHEISM is a religion. Atheism is not necessarily science because lots of scientists including my brother believe in God. The two are not necessarily the same. Atheists can be very rabid about the non-existence of God. I'd have argue they preach non-religion with the fervor of zealots... Bible-thumpers... evangelists. You can prove penicillin with science, you can't prove the parameters of the universe with it. We simply do not know whether God exists or not through empirical evidence, you have to use faith either way. For the religious, faith is acceptable. For the atheists supposedly only empirical proof is acceptable, but they HAVE no empirical proof. Logically then, only agnosticism and religion are logical alternatives. To actually say that God is "impossible" is without scientific evidence, and is an act of faith. Therefore, atheism is an act of faith. And the zealotry of the atheists is just proof of it. But you know what? I haven't convinced you. You still believe what you want to believe. And that's fine.
If you disagree with me that's FINE. But if we did argue you won't convince me either. We'd go around ALL FUUCKING DAY until we'd be screaming at each other, and nothing will happen. Some of my really good friends are atheists, I just don't talk about it with them, or they with me and because of that we can be good friends. Part of being a balanced human being -- regardless of what you believe -- is gaining the capacity to respect what others believe, even if you don't agree with it. It's one thing to stand by while some whore declares that pedophilia or rape is okay. But this seriously is not one of those issues. It's more of Republicans and Democrats coexisting with the other side even while they want their own guys running the country.