Atheism And Agnosticism

Theology is an intentionally reflective endeavor. Every day we reflect upon the real, vital, and true experience of the benevolent God that exists. We as humans tend to be social beings, and being so we communicate our beliefs with one another in order to validate ourselves. Furthermore atheism has many forms, three of the most popular atheistic beliefs include: scientific atheism, humanistic atheism and the most popular one being protest atheism. Scientific atheism is the idea that science is the answer for everything and god is not existent. The humanistic approach states that society is

I believe Atheism and Christianity both can agree on creation of universe but they disagree who is the creator and what created the creator, how did it happen in the beginning of the world? Christian believes in Jesus Christ by faith. In book of Genesis it says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and earth” This phrase shows that everything was created out of scratch and there was nothing at all before creation, in another words, God originated everything supernaturally. God created the material universe in six days.

To begin, the roles people play and the beliefs people have or do not have may be able to be explained through a scientific development. The explanation of atheism and agnosticism can be described when we define both of them fully. Agnosticism is also known as agnostic; furthermore, atheist have a lack of faith, a lack of beliefs in that of a God. Atheists even have a belief that there is actually no God. When in fact, what they actually have is a lack of awareness that there are actually Gods. When it comes to these who are of the atheism belief can be described as an atheist. They who are agnostic just believe that it is a impossible to know there i there really is a God. And than, they also have a possible caution about the issue of a God concept that they may not understand. In fact, in all actuality agnostic do not actually

Having a Worldview is essential when it comes to how a person lives from day to day. A worldview is an initial set of expectations to which one pledges, this serves as a basis for accepting and understanding reality and will also deeply shapes how one will act (Waddell, 2015). There are different worldviews and they each have different beliefs. Atheism is a worldview that does not believe in God or any spiritual realm and leans more towards scientific theories. Pantheism worldview is quite the opposite, they are very spiritual and believe all is God. Even though they are so spiritual their God doesn’t have a relationship with humanity. Theism is a worldview that has three different religions that consist of Judaism, Christianity, and

Americans have been believing in God less and less in recent months, and new research is shedding light on why that may be.

Atheism is disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods, they reject religion as apart of not only a rejection of ignorance, but also a rejection of their religious family and association of religion itself, says Catherine L. and Caldwell-Harris who are published in the Department of Psychology for Boston University, Lesley College,University of Haifa, and Trinity College. This is a stark contrast to theism, which is the belief in god and is the case for many Americans. This demographic is about 83% of America’s population, according to the most recent census. About 16% of the population, or about 34,169,000 people are of an unaffiliated position, which would include Atheists,

Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days episode that I chose to watch was season two’s, Atheist vs. Christian. This is episode is about Brenda, an outspoken Atheist who has a non-belief in God, and instead chooses to live by the “Golden Rule” – do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Brenda goes to live with two outspoken Christians, Michael and Tracy. They choose to live and interact with each other for 30 Days, in hopes of expanding their point of views.

Canada’s diversity in religion is constantly increasing, Atheism as a part of it. Though statistics show that the number of Atheists in Canada has been fluctuating, it is currently the most it has ever been. Before 1971, there were only 202,025 Atheists in Canada. Now the number has grown to 7,850,605. Looking at the statistics, there was a great increase in Atheism in Canada from 2001 to 2011. This is associated to the plane flewn into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Since religion played an aspect to the tragedy, people chose to denounce religion entirely. The number of Atheists during 1991 to 2000 was 346,395 while from 2001 to 2011 the number increased to 445,130. As numbers of Atheists grow so do numbers of those who oppose them.

The practice of organized religion has been declining greatly since the mid 20th century, but the pace in which religion is dying is not constant in every western country. Ireland is the only country where most people attend a religious event weekly, on the other hand, less than ten percent of Scandinavians attend religious events. Organized religion is dying where it once was common in everyday life, which is bad news for church leaders who want to fill their seats. From 1945 to 1985 the percent of regular church attendees in Canada dropped in half, from 70% to 35%. Although people have stopped associating themselves with a religion, many of them still believe in a creator. Around 32 percent of America’s population attends church weekly, but 66 percent of Americans have no doubt that there is a God, and another 16 percent believe in a God but have doubts (Altemeyer 79). There is evidence that the recent rise of religious apostasy occurred because of backlash against the “Religious Right”, the christian fundamentalists that are known to be anti-homosexual. Many people are turned off by these beliefs and severed their already weak relationships with the church. Children are also not being taught religious beliefs because of parents who have left the faith. Parents have stopped

Sadly, while I am usually kind and caring, I was being snarky in your case. The point is to wake you up.

One of the major problems in the world is about the non-sense atheism. They believe that life can have meaning without God-belief. This argument seemed to be puzzling to me because even if it is true, they have nothing to prove about the existence of God.

Gnosticism is a diverse set of beliefs. Gnosticism reflects my current understanding of seeking God through gnosis or “secret knowledge”. The many interpretations that display the definition of Gnosticism makes it unclear on which one is actually the correct one. In The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, the Gnostics are seen as heretics for not following the religion of the Orthodox Christians. While the Orthodox Christians seek God through his word, the Gnostics seek God through the experience of one’s own self. The Gnostic Scriptures by Bentley Layton, displays Gnosticism through collections of gnostic scriptures and figures. Through imagery, aeons and the high creator are placed with each other to form realms in “The Secret Book According to John” reflecting the book of Genesis. “The Secret Book According to John” is like a backstory of Genesis only with the creations in more specific and complex details. However, through both explanations of each book, Gnosticism does not comprise of just one true belief, but many beliefs put together to define its content.

In the article, “On Being an Atheist”, H.J. McCloskey discusses the reasons of why he believes being an atheist is a more acceptable than Christianity. McCloskey believes that atheism is a more rational belief versus having a God who allows people to suffer so he can have the glory. He believes to live in this world, you must be comfortable. The introduction of his article, he implements an overview of arguments given by the theist, which he introduces as proofs. He claims that the proofs do not create a rationalization to believe that God exists. He provides 3 theist proofs, which are Cosmological argument, teleological argument, and the argument of design. He also mentions the presence of evil in the world. He focuses on the existence

The number of atheist and agnostic has been expanding there have long been predictions that religion would fade from relevance as the world modernizes, but all the recent surveys are finding that it’s happening startlingly fast. An atheist is a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings along with an agnostic, an agnostic person is a person who holds that the existence of an ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human

But as god beliefs have grown more absurd because of increasing knowledge, some have felt compelled to point out difficulties with these beliefs. And, as religion has grown more tyrannical, atheists have seen the need to organize in defense of freedom.