What Is The Biggest Drawback Of Atheism?

[james bond]

I should talk, but from this fundamental Christian's POV, it's death.

Yet, I've heard...

J. Robert Oppenheimer Father of Atomic Bomb and celebrity atheist

I don't know. What do you think?

I'm not positive, but my answer would be death while Christians fear God.

Atheists may look at death like this.

What the heck, we're all gonna die due to Adam's sin and Satan.

Still, the atheists believe...

 

[diver52]

Atheists look at death like this...…

 

[mamooth]

So, the question seems to be is whether a comforting myth is preferable to reality.

 

[diver52]

So, the question seems to be is whether a comforting myth is preferable to reality.

Well, reality isn't all that clear. Pretty much the only argument that there is no god is the lack of evidence that there is. This is a logical fallacy and proves nothing. So they are all ultimately myths. Might as well pick the myth you find most comforting.

 

[BULLDOG]

From what I can tell, the biggest drawback to being an atheist is they don't have a chance of getting their first blowjob at church camp like so many kids do now days.

 

[beautress]

Atheism has consequences. Unless the adult was raised in a Christian home with taught goals and observances, atheism provides a lifelong sense of pointlessness, separation, and chaos. It goes perfect with socialism, and could result in isolationism that brings a society into becoming a vassal nation. That is my opinion.

Even so, believers might consider asking our good Lord to have mercy on those who fail to believe, because oftentimes, we as Christians may have a flaw that becomes exaggerated to the poor in spirit, and the book of Jude cautions us all:

Jude 1: 22 And have mercy on those who doubt.

 

[beautress]

From what I can tell, the biggest drawback to being an atheist is they don't have a chance of getting their first blowjob at church camp like so many kids do now days.

I doubt that very seriously.

 

[diver52]

Atheism has consequences. Unless the adult was raised in a Christian home with taught goals and observances, atheism provides a lifelong sense of pointlessness, separation, and chaos. It goes perfect with socialism, and could result in isolationism that brings a society into becoming a vassal nation. That is my opinion.

Even so, believers might consider asking our good Lord to have mercy on those who fail to believe, because oftentimes, we as Christians may have a flaw that becomes exaggerated to the poor in spirit, and the book of Jude cautions us all:

Jude 1: 22 And have mercy on those who doubt.

I see no evidence that atheism does any of those things.

 

[Pogo]

So, the question seems to be is whether a comforting myth is preferable to reality.

Well, reality isn't all that clear. Pretty much the only argument that there is no god is the lack of evidence that there is. This is a logical fallacy and proves nothing. So they are all ultimately myths. Might as well pick the myth you find most comforting.

You are correct that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so to the extent one would claim it is, that assertion would be a fallacy. But it would not be a myth. A myth demands a something to mythologize, not a nothing.

Logically, atheism isn't even possible. Agnosticism is, but that's different.

 

[Pogo]

Atheism has consequences. Unless the adult was raised in a Christian home with taught goals and observances, atheism provides a lifelong sense of pointlessness, separation, and chaos. It goes perfect with socialism, and could result in isolationism that brings a society into becoming a vassal nation. That is my opinion.

Even so, believers might consider asking our good Lord to have mercy on those who fail to believe, because oftentimes, we as Christians may have a flaw that becomes exaggerated to the poor in spirit, and the book of Jude cautions us all:

Jude 1: 22 And have mercy on those who doubt.

This is a circular reasoning fallacy eating its own tail. For one it assumes the only possible "point" is deism, and that's by definiton not a given.

And questions of religion, or in this case absence thereof, clearly have no relationship to economic structures. Religion is not economics.

 

[diver52]

So, the question seems to be is whether a comforting myth is preferable to reality.

Well, reality isn't all that clear. Pretty much the only argument that there is no god is the lack of evidence that there is. This is a logical fallacy and proves nothing. So they are all ultimately myths. Might as well pick the myth you find most comforting.

You are correct that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so to the extent one would claim it is, that assertion would be a fallacy. But it would not be a myth. A myth demands a something to mythologize, not a nothing.

Logically, atheism isn't even possible. Agnosticism is, but that's different.

A myth is just a story. It does not require any something.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

I should talk, but from this fundamental Christian's POV, it's death.

Yet, I've heard...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Father of Atomic Bomb and celebrity atheist

I don't know. What do you think?

I'm not positive, but my answer would be death while Christians fear God.

Atheists may look at death like this.

What the heck, we're all gonna die due to Adam's sin and Satan.

Still, the atheists believe...

Straw man fallacy, loaded question fallacy.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Atheism has consequences. Unless the adult was raised in a Christian home with taught goals and observances, atheism provides a lifelong sense of pointlessness, separation, and chaos. It goes perfect with socialism, and could result in isolationism that brings a society into becoming a vassal nation. That is my opinion.

Even so, believers might consider asking our good Lord to have mercy on those who fail to believe, because oftentimes, we as Christians may have a flaw that becomes exaggerated to the poor in spirit, and the book of Jude cautions us all:

Jude 1: 22 And have mercy on those who doubt.

Appeal to authority fallacy.

 

[Pogo]

So, the question seems to be is whether a comforting myth is preferable to reality.

Well, reality isn't all that clear. Pretty much the only argument that there is no god is the lack of evidence that there is. This is a logical fallacy and proves nothing. So they are all ultimately myths. Might as well pick the myth you find most comforting.

You are correct that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so to the extent one would claim it is, that assertion would be a fallacy. But it would not be a myth. A myth demands a something to mythologize, not a nothing.

Logically, atheism isn't even possible. Agnosticism is, but that's different.

A myth is just a story. It does not require any something.

Of course it does. You can't write a story that has no subject in it.

"It was a dark and stormy night. Nobody hastily shivered in the rain as they didn't unlock the non-door to their nonexistent non-domicile where they proceeded to not exist".

Doesn't work.

 

[beautress]

Atheism has consequences. Unless the adult was raised in a Christian home with taught goals and observances, atheism provides a lifelong sense of pointlessness, separation, and chaos. It goes perfect with socialism, and could result in isolationism that brings a society into becoming a vassal nation. That is my opinion.

Even so, believers might consider asking our good Lord to have mercy on those who fail to believe, because oftentimes, we as Christians may have a flaw that becomes exaggerated to the poor in spirit, and the book of Jude cautions us all:

Jude 1: 22 And have mercy on those who doubt.

This is a circular reasoning fallacy eating its own tail. For one it assumes the only possible "point" is deism, and that's by definiton not a given.

And questions of religion, or in this case absence thereof, clearly have no relationship to economic structures. Religion is not economics.

Well, he was outmanned, had weaker soldiers, and things looked bleak, but Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and even the walls fell when the trumpet sounded.

 

[alang1216]

I should talk, but from this fundamental Christian's POV, it's death.

Since atheists don't believe in a hell we don't fear an eternal torment. If I was not an atheist I'd be real worried that I might follow the wrong religion and get myself damned. How can anyone be sure when there are so many religions and so many paths to hell?

That and getting to sleep late on Sundays.

 

[Pogo]

Atheism has consequences. Unless the adult was raised in a Christian home with taught goals and observances, atheism provides a lifelong sense of pointlessness, separation, and chaos. It goes perfect with socialism, and could result in isolationism that brings a society into becoming a vassal nation. That is my opinion.

Even so, believers might consider asking our good Lord to have mercy on those who fail to believe, because oftentimes, we as Christians may have a flaw that becomes exaggerated to the poor in spirit, and the book of Jude cautions us all:

Jude 1: 22 And have mercy on those who doubt.

This is a circular reasoning fallacy eating its own tail. For one it assumes the only possible "point" is deism, and that's by definiton not a given.

And questions of religion, or in this case absence thereof, clearly have no relationship to economic structures. Religion is not economics.

Well, he was outmanned, had weaker soldiers, and things looked bleak, but Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and even the walls fell when the trumpet sounded.

And Ella Fitzgerald could break glass with her voice.

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Just FTR, I worship Ella.
And I can prove she existed. Even seen her with my own eyes.

 

[anynameyouwish]

I should talk, but from this fundamental Christian's POV, it's death.

Yet, I've heard...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Father of Atomic Bomb and celebrity atheist

I don't know. What do you think?

I'm not positive, but my answer would be death while Christians fear God.

Atheists may look at death like this.

What the heck, we're all gonna die due to Adam's sin and Satan.

Still, the atheists believe...

"christians FEAR god"

so the only reason you don't kill, steal, lie and cheat is because you FEAR god?

actually you don't fear god, you fear what god will do to you if you don't tow the line....

which makes me ask......if you fear what god will do to you if you lie, cheat, kill and steal why do you lie, cheat, kill and steal?

perhaps you don't really fear god at all.....

 

[progressive hunter]

I should talk, but from this fundamental Christian's POV, it's death.

Since atheists don't believe in a hell we don't fear an eternal torment. If I was not an atheist I'd be real worried that I might follow the wrong religion and get myself damned. How can anyone be sure when there are so many religions and so many paths to hell?

That and getting to sleep late on Sundays.

ON THE OTHER THREAD YOU CLAIMED TO BE AN AGNOSTIC now you claim to be an athiest,,,

so which is it

honesty seems to not be one of your strong points

 

[james bond]

Atheists look at death like this...…

If death is the end, then none of the arguments between believers and atheists matter. However, Blaise Pascal made a wager that if one's soul depended on it in the afterlife, then it's safer to believe. If one knew what causes life to live, then it would show different, but so far we have no God's "breath of life." There's no smoking gun.