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Wiser atheists
will accredit both ends of the Xian polarity as figments of the
imagination and let it go at that, but for the constantly pointing
accusatory theistic fingers demanding our attention. We answer not for the
benefit of our detractors, whose made-up minds, encased as they are in
rock hard concrete and impervious to the penetration of truth, can never
be corrected. We answer for the practice of it, and to show any onlookers
another side of the story exists, and that the haughty finger wavers are
pointing away from themselves in their accusations so that their own guilt
may go unnoticed in the seething frenzy of their vendettas.
We believe in
neither the god named God nor the god named Satan. The erroneous claim
that atheists deny God errs further in statements associating us with
Satan (or any other various transmogrifications of "The Devil") by
attempting to make us into Xians so that we can be condemned according to
their creeds; elsewise, they are forced to acknowledge we have nothing to
do with any of their trappings and actually mean it when we say we mainly
want only to be left alone.
One writer claimed
that "knowing God
is the sole purpose for us being here. You'd be hard pressed to think of a
better one." That may be fine, if theists can ever show anyone who has
accomplished that. It may be a reasonable claim for someone whose entire
take on existence has been the result of indoctrination, and requires the
denial of reality as a major part of it. Most atheists display an absence
of concern with any "purpose for us being here", since it is not obvious
who or what could have set that purpose, and deem it something for each
person to determine for themselves.
Knowing God must require the knowing of Satan, too, but that demon seems
to have as mysteriously disappeared from accessibility as has the demon
proposed to us under the name "God". When neither have ever been available
for direct interactive contact, how does one know to tell one from the
other? How does an outsider, an atheist, who sees only those representing
themselves as messengers, know for which demon any one of them is
speaking? All we can do is look at what has been written in history, see
the grand numbers of gods that have been deposed, their roles usurped by
newer reifications, look at the claims made about the newer gods, and
assess from what they have led their followers into doing which role their
gods may be playing.
The Xian god, the
god named Allah, and the Jewish Yahweh all look suspiciously like
representatives of evil to us, and dangerous, and very like the way Satan
gets constantly described to us. That is, however, beside the point.
Atheists hold no beliefs supporting any of these concepts. We mainly know
we do not want to be like the Xians we deal with because we do not regard
their obfuscative mentality as anything we could respect.
Joey summed it
quite nicely in a message he posted in a Yahoo discussion group:
"Atheists do not claim, for
the most part, that there is no god. Theists have the belief that
there is a god, or gods depending on, of course, their particular
religion. Atheists do not have that belief. Either one has a
belief, or one does not.
"The minimum requirement for
atheism is to not have a belief in god. "God" cannot even be defined.
Every objective characteristic used to describe god, offered by theists,
it is interesting to note, also precisely describes "nothing". For
example, some theists assert that "God is without limits." Well,
so is "nothing." Every something has limits and these limits we
can identify and use to describe that "something." God has NO
referent in actuality. If I describe to you an automobile, you can
readily find a referent in actuality, a real car to compare my
description to and then decide if indeed what I have described is actual
or not.
"Every individual ever born,
was born without beliefs. Ergo, everyone has been, is, and always
will be born an atheist. This is 'implicit" atheism. As we
grow older we are exposed to religious views, theistic teachings.
"Those that reject these
teachings become 'explicit" atheists. I am, for example, an
explicit atheist. I have always rejected the religious instruction
my parents and society have tried to impart to me. I decided to
remain an atheist. Too be sure, some atheists do go further.
Some atheists state that there is no god. This makes little sense
to me, because how can one assert that a thing exists or does not exist
when it has not been defined in actuality. I readily admit that
'god' is real to many theists, but he is not actual. He is real in
their minds. This is the scary part of religion. Because
[if] god exists in the minds of these theists, and only in their minds,
they are of necessity delusional.
"Fortunately for most, and
for what ever the reason, the delusion is mild, and does not interfere
with the their lives or with the lives of those they interact with.
Unfortunately, however, this disillusionment increases as individuals
attain increasing stages of fundamentalism. We all know, from
history what happens when this occurs, genocide, witch-burnings, the
inquisition, torture, murder, rape and slavery.
"The 'theism' in the word
atheism means literally 'god belief.' The 'A' in atheism is from
the Greek and it means literally 'without' or 'absent of.' An
atheist is quite simply, one for whom belief in gods remains absent.
As an atheist, I too, have no belief in devils, witches, ogres, nor do I
believe in unicorns, fairies, ghosts, Fred Flintstone nor Betty Rubble.
"[Theistical] people are to
be pitied but they are to be feared as well. Those who would
censor, would enslave. Those who burn books will eventually burn
people. Christianity has achieved much power over the masses
historically by instilling fear, guilt and shame. These are the
true tools of Christianity. Christianity, especially it's Catholic
manifestation, is a pervert factory. It pretty much guarantees to
churn out, predictably and regularly, people who are twisted, perverted
with guilt, with fear and with shame.
"The human body and human
sexuality is NOT obscene, nor is it pornographic. Violence is
obscene, violence is pornographic. Christianity is anti-sex,
anti-woman, anti-earth, anti-life, anti-truth, anti-good. What I
have gathered … is that beyond making good decisions about one's health
and relationships, beyond educating one's self with the facts about our
bodies, about our health so that we can make correct decisions, …
celebrate sex[uality], celebrate life. I too believe in life
before death! The current sexual norm in western civilization is
the product of 2 thousand years of Christian repression. It begs
to be challenged. [end of excerpt].
by
Joey D. Smith"
A correct portrayal of atheists
relative to superstitious belief emphasizes belief as absent.
The word "lacking" implies a need not met, something most atheists do not
feel and
self-lost theists cannot
understand. We are often accused of 'dis'belief by those who want to
associate atheists with Satanism in order to make it appear that we have
avoided steering a right course by refusing to take theists at their word
for anything in their multifarious creeds. To 'disbelieve' requires a
denial of evidence that is incorrect because none that meets the
Principles of Atheology
has ever been presented to us, and because we have been shown no
evidence.
*Dis*belief puts atheism into a ballpark
where a kind of intelligence and knowledge that would encompass the
universe is required. That is impossible for any kind of human (to my
knowledge). As a part of the Arabic religions, Satanism has nothing at all
to do with atheism, and only those intending to slander others would make
such an accusation. Satanism belongs mainly to the Xians and there
counterparts elsewhere.
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