Atheism and What it is Not

by Aeon

This is in regards to some people's comments about atheism.

First of all, if you are going to say practicing atheism is stupid, then you are stupid. Atheism IS NOT a practice. It IS NOT even a religion, nor is it a belief. Atheism is defined as "An absence of belief in the existence of gods." Simply put - a person who does not believe in God. Atheism is not a hatred for religion either; it is simply the lack of belief for it.

If you are going to debate something, at least bring some education of the subject to the table.

Atheists can entertain any idea about God and religion, due to the fact that they have no true belief in it. They can entertain the idea that God is all that the Bible makes him out to be, they can entertain the idea that God and Satan are best friend's, and earth is a board game for them to play. Atheists can entertain the theory of Big Bang, evolution, and even the idea that religion and the bible were invented for mass crowd control by intelligent people with a goal of becoming tyrants. So to claim that atheism is stupid does not make sense. It is not stupid to not believe in something that has not been sufficiently proven. I could argue that is in fact stupid to believe in any form of deity/god. But arguing the opposite is not logical.

It is like someone exclaiming "Alas!", and then you saying "No, that is stupid!" That does not make sense.

There are also two types of atheists: The one I described above, and then there is the extreme atheist. The extreme atheist believes there is absolutely, what-so-ever, no place for religion or God anywhere at anytime. While the other, does not believe in God, but that doesn't mean we don't think religion or the notion of God has its' purposes (i.e. crowd control, some people need religion to find a form of strength/purpose, etc).

It is for this reason that I am capable of arguing/debating many things about religion and Gods. I can entertain any and all ideas, simply because I do not believe in any of it. And in a way, you could say that this allows me to see many things "outside of the box", from non-subjective views, and essentially all views of opinion.

Aeon