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Marketing Atheism
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From New World Encyclopedia

Atheism (from Greek: a + theos + ismos "not believing in god") refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the existence of a single deity or deities). Atheism has many shades and types. Some atheists strongly deny the existence of God (or any form of deity) and attack theistic claims. Yet certainty as to the non-existence of God is as much a belief as is religion and rests on equally unprovable claims. Just as religious believers range from the ecumenical to the narrow-minded, atheists range from those for whom it is a matter of personal philosophy to those who are militantly hostile to religion.

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"Positive" or "strong" atheism is the assertion that no deities exist while "negative" or "weak" atheism is simply the absence of belief in the existence of any deity

Atheism often buttresses its case on science, yet many modern scientists, far from being atheists, have argued that science is not incompatible with theism.

Some traditional religious belief systems are said to be "atheist" or "non-theist," but this can be misleading. While Jainism technically can be described as philosophically materialist (and even this is subtle vis--vis the divine), the claim about Buddhism being atheistic is more difficult to make. Metaphysical questions put to the Buddha about whether or not God exists received from him one of his famous "silences." It is inaccurate to deduce from this that the Buddha denied the existence of God. His silence had far more to do with the distracting nature of speculation and dogma than it had to do with the existence or non-existence of God.

Many people living in the West have the impression that atheism is on the rise around the world, and that the belief in God is being replaced with a more secular-oriented worldview. However, this view is not confirmed. Studies have consistently shown that contrary to popular assumptions, religious membership is actually increasing globally.

Atheism is a belief that is held for a variety of reasons.

Some atheists base their stance on philosophical grounds, arguing that their position is based on logical rejection of theistic claims. Indeed, many atheists claim that their view is merely the absence of a certain belief, suggesting that the burden of proving God's existence is upon theists. In this line of thought, it follows that if theism's arguments can be refuted, non-theism becomes the default position. Many atheists have argued for centuries against the most popular "proofs" of God's existence, noting problems in the theist lines of reasoning. Atheists who attack specific forms of theism often claim it as being self-contradictory. One of the most common arguments against the existence of the Christian God is the problem of evil, which Christian apologist William Lane Craig has referred to as "atheism's killer argument." This line of reasoning claims that the presence of evil in the world is logically inconsistent with the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent God. Instead, atheists claim it is more coherent to conclude that God does not exist than to believe that He/She does exist but readily allows the promulgation of evil.

A form of atheism known as "ignosticism," asserts that the question of whether or not deities exist is inherently meaningless. It is a popular view among many logical positivists such as Rudolf Carnap and A. J. Ayer, who claim that talk of gods is literally nonsensical. For them, theological statements (such as those affirming god's existence) cannot have any truth value, since they lack falsifiability. This refers to the fact that claims of transcendence and of metaphysical properties cannot be tested by empirical means and must therefore be rejected as null hypotheses. In Language, Truth and Logic, Ayer stated that theism, atheism and agnosticism were equally meaningless terms, insofar as they treat the question of the existence of God as a real question. However, despite Ayer's criticism of atheism as a concept (perhaps using the definition typically associated with strong atheism), ignosticism is still considered as a form of atheism in most classifications of religious thought.

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Understanding Atheism | Session 6 | Asadullah Ali
A two day lecture presented by Asadullah Ali al-Andalusi on the subject of "Understanding Atheism". Session 1: Introduction to Atheism Session 2: The Rise an...

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Atheism is the Opiate of the few
Atheism is the best answer to the god question, however people use it as an answer to all of the problems that exist in the world today when it is really just a symptom of a much bigger problem....

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Evolution is a religion for atheists. Their bible is "Origin of the Species" and their atheistic messiah is Charles Darwin. Their pastors are atheistic professors and school teachers. Their congregations are the children and young adults in our public schools and universities. Their evangelists are atheistic scientists. Our tax dollars are the tithes and offerings.

Their doctrine is to get your children and grandchildren to reject the Creator. For almost 200 years of our history, Christianity was taught in our schools. Un-elected Supreme Court judges removed the Holy Bible (1963) and prayer (1962) from our classrooms and replaced it with atheism.

Today, only the religion of atheism is allowed to be taught in our schools. Do not be naive, religion is being taught in our schools. Evolution is a religion masquerading as science.

BILL DENNY

Urbana

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Oh No Is Atheism Destroyed
A recent Christian video promises to prove atheism wrong in one minute... did it? http://www.splinterbook.com.

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Atheism can #39;t CAUSE anything
Three young people who happened to be Muslim were murdered by a man who happened to be an anti-theist. I can understand why this tragedy would become an international headline, but let #39;s take...

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Atheism explain this about evolution

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Themurder of three American Muslimsat aUniversity of North Carolina condominium on Tuesday, 10 February, was noordinary murder, nor is the criminal who killed them an ordinary thug.

Thecontext of the killings, the murders themselves and themedia and official responsesto the horrific event is testimony to everything that has gone wrong since theUnited Statesunleashed its war on terror, with itsundeclared, but sometimes-declared enemy; namely, Islam and Muslims.

Horrific as it was, the killing of a husband and wife, DeahShaddy Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha, and Barakats sister, Razan Abu-Salha,by homegrownterrorist Craig Stephen Hicks is the kind of violence that can only fit intoa greatermediaandofficialnarrative. This narrative designates millionsof innocent Muslims, in the US and across the world, as enemies or potentialterrorists.

In recent years, countless television hours and endless space in numerousmedia have been dedicated to vilify and demonise Muslims. Attempts by Muslims to distance themselves from every militant grouping,ideology and tendency have done them no good. A Muslim is a terrorism suspectuntil proven innocent, especially if he is a bearded, brown-skinned man or a woman wearing a headscarf.

The end result of this dehumanisation has been racism,racial profiling,extrajudicial killingsand war. It was only amatter oftime before that violence reached the nominally safe Muslimcommunities in the US itself.

The episode of dehumanisation is long, complex andprotracted. It is also quite clever, for it involves billion-dollar media outfitsand Hollywood itself, which has an awful track record regardingthe negative and stereotyped representationofArabs andMuslims.

The outcome is a whole industry that is predicated on doublestandards and half-truths.

The ongoingenthusiasm for more military interventionsmeans that the supposed moral awakening inspired by the advent ofPresidentBarack Obama rarely registered in the collective psyche of the nation. While thereis ample evidence that Americansare tired of war, that very war fatigueshould not be conflated with a departure from the type of dialectics thatrationalised warin the first place.

In fact, while cheerleaders for war might changepolitical camps, ideology or even religious philosophy, ultimately they arethe same breed of people: a mostly white, male-dominated and chauvinistic tribeof well-funded politicians and media pundits,with an unquenchable thirst forintervention.

Hicks, the terrorist who killed the three young Muslims,subscribes to a school of thought known as New Atheism, whatreligious scholarReza Aslan refers to as the school of anti-theism. It is, in part, anotherhate-filled platform, and despite itssupposed disdain for all religions,its malicious energy mostly targets Muslims.

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SB 3.18.5 - Science and Atheism (Alachua 1996)
Sadaputa Dasa (Dr. Richard L. Thompson) proposes that deterministic chaos, known popularly as "the butterfly effect", seriously undermines Laplace #39;s doctrine...

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