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Atheism and Divinity

Posted on 09/11/2011 by admin

I have listened for many years to debates between religious people and agnostics and/or atheists and heard many trying with earnest goodwill to persuade each of the merits of their own case. Some points may be considered absurdist (like defending exact phrases in the religious texts against experience) and some antagonistic (like labelling all religious people as one kind of thinker.)

What is obvious to everyone is that religious belief will never go away  and we have, thankfully, left behind the times when showing disrespect to the gods in Rome was tantamount to insurrection and carried the death penalty or at least imprisonment. As did vegetarianism in Rome at one time.

I became an agnostic in my teens but in the past years I have finally realised that atheism is actually the finest route for my mind. Beginning with leaving behind religions – which is a sane response to their ancient myths and search for miracles – and then witnessing the gradual retreat of god into metaphysics where god can only be known through belief and nothing more. And of course beliefs tell you everything about the believer and how they think and nothing about the divine.

In future times we will see how naive religions have been and how inadequately they contain the nature and spirit of the universe but how completely they have been expressive of human nature.

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