Thoughts of a Dying Atheist

I'd consider atheism a faith. It takes a lot of faith to look at the evidence for and against creationism and God and the like and decide that there is no higher being. But you're right about the rest

wow... i've noticed so far everyone is talking about either Atheism or Christianity, There are other ones out there<br /> anyways, on to my actual message<br /> <br /> <br /> from my personal perspective being an atheist is anti-conforming, But an anti-conformist is conforming to be anti-conformist.<br /> what i mean, is being an atheist is a religion in itself.<br /> Personally i believe in (Hope for) Reincarnation

Atheism most definatly is not a faith.<br /> <br /> "I'd consider atheism a faith. It takes a lot of faith to look at the evidence for and against creationism and God and the like and decide that there is no higher being."<br /> <br /> This is an example of a stupid statement. Because you think so does not make it true. Most atheists, like myself, simply do not believe in anything. It's not like I'm sitting here going "I believe in my heart there is no god". When Atheists start saying crap like that, then yeah, I'd say you'd have grounds to call it religeon. Plus, if you were paying attention, there is mountains more evidence against the existance of god, than for. What do you have as proof? The bible?<br /> <br /> "from my personal perspective being an atheist is anti-conforming, But an anti-conformist is conforming to be anti-conformist.<br /> what i mean, is being an atheist is a religion in itself."<br /> <br /> You have a point, yet you're generalizing. There's a big difference between a SOAD fan and a dickhead that claims to be a SOAD because he heard BYOB on the radio, just like there is a difference between someone being an atheist or non-conformist simply because that's what they are vs. someone who is doing it because they are just trying to do what someone else does.<br /> <br /> "Personally i believe in (Hope for) Reincarnation"<br /> It's a nice thought, I'm personally open to everything, however at this point in time there really isn't any evidence to support the concecpt. Perhaps further research into the human mind and specific instances of conciousness, how and if it is transferrable. I've actually given this subject quite a bit of thought (but of course, all one can do at this point in time is philosophical), that perhaps once your body can no longer regain conciousness, than your conciousness may drift to something else, yet there is no recollection of the event simply because every mind has a different memory. Almost like moving your monitor to another computer. Your monitor isn't going to remember everything from the first computer, in order for that to happen, you'd also have to swap the hard drive. Granted this idea is a little far fetched, and one could argue that it would take faith to believe in it, but that's just it, I don't believe in it, it's just my mind wandering. When I start coming up with theme songs for it and gathering with other people once a week to compare clothing, then we can talk. /ramble

atheism is indeed a faith as one is choosing to reject any type of God, whereas obviously one can't prove without a shadow of doubt that there is no God - just like one can't prove that there IS a God. one believes in the 'lack-there-of.'<br /> <br /> agnosticism is the closest thing to a lack of any type of faith. but even then, one is having faith in not having faith, so it is really all futile.

God that comment was stupid. Atheism is by definition lack of a faith, faith is believing something without evidence like religions. Atheist believe that there is no god because there is far more evidence to support science then there is to support an adults version of Santa Claus that contradicts itself anyway. Now stop trying to over analyze everything and sound so philosophical, you're not good at it and it makes you sound dumb.

Arguing on the internet about something as ambiguous as words such as "faith" and "belief" isn't going to get us anywhere. We're all going to have different ideas about such words and that's not going to change.<br /> <br /> Frankly, I think the vast majority of conflict in the word is caused by a failure to communicate.