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Originally Posted by wig
I agree with what you are saying, but I would add for clarification...
"Atheism" (a-theism) addresses Theism -- the belief in one god as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation.
When you look at the Theistic belief systems on offer and their claims, there is good reason to doubt they are true.
Here you seem to assume there is a power. I don't think "power" is the right word and maybe that is just what came to your mind, or maybe it was a Freudian slip.
The reasonable answer is to admit that it is currently unknown whether there is or is not a higher power; not "what that power is definitively".
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No slip, I mean it when I say power. Even if all that power boils down to is the energy we know from science class as a kid and it has no rhyme or reason to it. It is still there as a whole and turning that cranks that make everything go. Which in itself is miraculous and unexplainable. We get our energy from the sun, and what do all the modern Judaeo-Christian religions seem to trace themselves back to? Sun worship. So maybe their original roots aren't wrong, and it is simply the corruption of religious institutions over the centuries which have erred. I simply don't think we can know, or ever will know. It simply just is.
I tend to agree with the opinion that Atheism as a term shouldn't even exist. Why do you need to identify yourself as a non-something? I'm not an adoctor, I'm just not a fucking doctor. It's a given name for a belief system which is spawning a whole religiouslike following of anti-religion. All it's missing out on now, besides the obvious god-figure, is a weekly meeting and a donation box so the church of atheism can go on their mission to promote the atheist agenda