My English Literature professor is an atheist. However, he's pretty humorous about it. He was actually a Catholic, but got turned off because of the whole confessional thing when he was about 23. However, he does admit that there is some cosmic power out there, if there wasn't then how in the hell did the universe come to be? Even an atheist point of view (it was always there) is pretty weak in argument. He's even scared like crazy when it comes to death.
Think about it, you people think that there is absolutely nothing when death comes. You just cease to exist. Some people may say that, that's a more down to earth grip on reality when it comes to death. Okay, I can understand that (pessimistic) point of view, however here's a question: if that's all life is about, then what's the point of living in the first place? I mean you shouldn't be alive if that's the case. If there's nothing after death, then whatever you did alive is rather pointless now isn't it? I'm not saying because of getting in a heaven of hell, but rather everything you lived for in life so you could be a peace in death is rather pointless.
While the religious point of view of deity and life after death is weak in a lot of spots, I feel that the atheist point of view on things is even weaker. I think it's just a copout to escape from the certain truths in life that we must all face. By saying that science and reason is the ultimate way of life, and that believing in something is completely worthless warrants automatic death in my opinion; the same for those who devote their life completely by religion and think that it has all the answers to life's problems; if there's nothing to believe in or too much to believe in, then why be alive in the first place? You may as well be used as fertilizer for flowers than staying alive on this planet.
To say that we are all part of just one big cycle of life, and that's it is rather stupid. We're alive just so we can die. I don't think so. We all have a purpose in life. Animals, bugs, etc. all have a purpose so why not humans? If we're so damn rational then why do we complain when we think there is nothing out there? There's some sort of power out there. We all have purpose. Humans aren't created just so that we can die in the end. That makes life rather pointless, even from an atheist's point of view. You know what I think? I think I know why atheists act the way they do.
You people hate the hypocrisy of organized religion, and come to the conclusion that there's nothing there. However, you are adamant about having free will (like people with religion do); that you think there's not a power in the entire universe that can stop you. But in reality, you know there is something there. You're just too scared to admit it. Thinking that there is would make you question life and the order of things. It would cause chaos in your life and routines, and you don't want that. So you choose to believe in nothing hoping that you're right, and that everything will be okay. Humanity is better suited on it's own than with a god. To bad it doesn't work out that way.
There are just some things that man cannot control, and to think they can is completely and utterly useless in my opinion. To think that man is on the top of the food chain is pretty damn sad if you ask me. Besides we don't have complete freedom of will anyway. We are reactionary. We react to our environment. That's all we do. Thinking that we have complete free will is pretty invalid. We don't have complete free will. If we do, it's very limited. We as human beings are subjected to everything else on this planet: we react to whatever we like best and go with it. That's why you have atheists, and that's why you have religious people. Sure we're reasonable creatures, but we go with what appeals to us the most by what's given to us in our environment. Why do we do such a thing? Maybe we have no choice? Maybe there is a higher power that is the one who pulls the strings. To say that there isn?ft, is rather pointless. (Wait until I get a cynic to argue against all of this. Maciamo is going to b**** at every single thing I say.
Better yet, Maciamo should stay out of this one because I don't feel like arguing with a cynic. They contradict themselves and never listen to what you have to say anyway.
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Even if we evolved into what we are, taking out the theory of creation, then why did we evolve? There has to be some driving force to make us evolve. Saying that is just happened is rather weak. Do you see what I?fm trying to say here? The atheist point of view is just as weak all the religious point of view. You people like to branch yourself off on to one side of the extreme or the other. That is pretty sad if you ask me. If there is a God, it?fs probably looking down at us right now going, ?gThose poor son?fs of b******.?h Why? It?fs because we keep f****** ourselves with being on one side of the extreme or the other. As for me, I?fm a pragmatist. I?fm practical in my points of view. I?fm neither on one side of the extreme or the other. I?fm right in the middle, which is what I think God intended us to be in the first place. I don?ft believe in organized religion because of the hypocrisy of the church. However, I don?ft believe in atheist?fs point of view because it?fs just has hypocritical and full of flaws.
I believe there is a power out there that created the universe that we live in. To say that it?fs just by chance is irrelevant even at a scientific point of view. We are reactionary, but we do control our own destiny by picking the things we like the most. Not only that, but you know that limited free will I was talking about earlier? I think that can help a lot too. What I mean is, we can adjust and change our ways. We just need to have enough will and power to do so. However, most of us don?ft want to because we are in fact mostly reactionary. We are the weaker species whether we like to admit it or not. There is something out there that has made us this way. Who knows, maybe it has planned us to be this way from the beginning. We all have a purpose in life we just need to find it. The more I think about it, the more I laugh. You know atheists contradict themselves even more than they think. You say you don?ft believe in something, yet that?fs a belief right there. Funny how the extremes are full of flaws isn?ft?
In closing of my little rant I?fd like to say that I believe in God. I consider myself a Christian even if I?fm not a fan of organized religion. I wish to believe in something, not because it suits me best, but rather I will myself to. If I wanted to go with just how I feel like most of us do, I would probably be an atheist, but I know better than to just be reactionary like most of us are, and just go with that. I?fve willed myself into believing there is something out there. There has to be something after life. There are just too many unexplained things, and there is a power that is just too great that controls things. We just can?ft quite figure out what it is. Personally I like to believe it is God, an all loving God, and that if we are all damned in sin, that we can be forgiven as well. Well that?fs just me. You can take everything I said with a grain of salt. It doesn?ft matter to me how you feel, at least I know one thing for certain, I believe in something and nobody is going to take that away from me.
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PS: Don't even argue with me if I contradict anything in this post because I'm not going to argue with you. Do you know why? Because you yourself are just has hypocritical and contradict yourself just as much as the next guy. We all are gulity of this, so deal with it.
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