Atheism: Bringing Back Catholicism

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

What is atheism? Why would someone be an atheist? Why do people fear and dislike atheism? Simply stated, atheism is the lack of belief in a god or gods. Granted, atheists are each individuals and undoubtedly each of them prescribe [to] many different philosophies on life, politics and morality as do Christians. However, though atheists may choose to gather collectively for whatever purpose, unlike Christianity, atheism is not a belief system. An individual who identifies himself as an atheist is merely stating that he does not believe in [the existence of] god or gods. Atheism, as indicated by its name, is the opposite of theism which is belief in at least one god; to include polytheism (belief in many or more than one god) and monotheism

Atheist religions include Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Scientology. Atheism is the non-belief in god, so Atheists have no belief in god (Crabtree). Atheism is not so much a religion, but a belief. “Atheism isn 't, therefore, ‘a religion’ and nor should it be capitalized, any more than ‘monotheist’ or ‘polytheist’ should be” (Crabtree). Christians do not identify themselves as monotheist. They identify themselves as Christians or their specific denominations. For this reason, Atheists should not be radicalized as an extreme religion or rather extreme lack of religion. About 13 million (nearly 6 percent of Americans) describe themselves as atheist or agnostic (Smith). It is unrealistic that any person out of this 13 million will become a future President.

An Atheist in America is possibly one of the most misunderstood individuals in the country today. A vast amount of religious people in America have a warped notion and don’t quite grasp the concept behind someone who does not believe in a deity. Most Americans have never even questioned the existence of God and just don’t see how someone cannot believe in it. The media paints atheists as untrustworthy, unmoral, scary, insane, aggressively hating God, doing the Devil’s work, and the list just goes on. Unlike many other countries that aren’t based around faith, there is a corrupted viewpoint on what is to be expected from someone who lacks the belief. This often leads to very damaging misconceptions about what an atheist actually is. An atheist

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

In William L. Rowe 's paper "The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism" he sets out to accomplish two main goals. The first goal is directed toward theists, while the second attempts to reach the very wellspring of an atheist 's heart. Foremost, Rowe sets out to show that there is "an argument for atheism based on the existence of evil that may rationally justify someone in being an atheist" (335). After he has effectively addressed this first issue he moves on to try and convince the atheist that in light of all the evidence that theists are rationally justified (just as much as the atheist) and therefore that atheists should subscribe to what Rowe calls "friendly atheism."

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,

As the world grows, diversity follows. With this diversity different faiths, or even lack of, are created; one being Atheism. Atheism is the unbelief of God or any other supreme being. Atheism is becoming more present within the community which sometimes leads to criticism. Since Christianity is the is the polar opposite of Atheism, their beliefs, practices, and symbols (or lack of) are bound to clash. Nonetheless, Atheism continues to grow.

The atheism is accounted for its historic existence of fundamentalist religion in Australia. Australians perceived to be peculiar in responding to religion which neither gives comfort to believer nor to atheist, as both are appalled by anything but full commitment. Peter Jensen, future Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, and Bruce Wilson claimed at the same time that Australia was a ‘pagan’ nation and not a religious by its actions or attitudes. Australians’ objection to Christianity is that it failed to make people morally any better than those with unbelief. While Peter Jensen emphasized that morality is not Christianity. Tom Frame explained that the abandonment of religion is inevitable as the growing body of scientific evidence

At this day and age, there are so many different religions and religious ideas. There is Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Agnosticism, and there is even the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. People all over the world, whether as a group or not, have faith in different beliefs. Most of the time, it depends solely on what region of the world they are in. In America, the religion that is predominant is Christianity. What do most people think of when asked about the opposite of Christianity? The answer is well known: Atheism. Christianity is the belief that there is a supreme being, specifically God, and that he is the creator of everything. They also believe that there is an

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

Educators need to understand the impact of religion on the lives of their students. According to Gallup poll data, nearly 95% of teens believe in God and 86% believe that Jesus Christ is either God or the Son of God (Gallup & Lindsay, 1999 as cited in Ream, 2003). These and other similar statistics demonstrate the importance of considering religion when dealing with young people. Ream

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

Atheism is not yet acceptable in the religious system because they are judged by the stereotypes included in religious books. The Qur'an is the religious book for Islam's. It is full of stories and beliefs that have been passed down for centuries. A message from the Qur'an quotes that we should feel sorry for Atheists and the decisions they made about their lifestyle. "He is not but a man who has invented a lie about Allah, and we will not believe him." He said, "My Lord, support me because they have denied me". Allah said, "After a little, they will surely become regretful"(Qur'an 23). The being referred to is Satan; an Atheistic devil that does not believe in any Gods or God. In the Qur'an it states that a man has asked God to help him because Atheistic people have said there is no God, Allah replies back to the man by saying that if later when the Atheistic people are in need they will be regretful that they do not believe in God. There are many quotes throughout the Qur’an that explain how Atheists are a disgrace and they will/should be

People in our society today who have the atheist point of view on religion, which is the belief that there is no god, are going against the so-called norms of society, and therefor are seen as deviant. Deviance is just an idea. Society determines what is deviant by the ideas they hold of what should be the norm. Atheism is seen as a negative deviance, or below the norm. They have a status that is placed on them in society. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they believe in evil, although that is how it is sometimes viewed from people in society who have a specific religion or faith. Atheism, which is not a new idea, has been evolving in our society, and is the reason for problems leading to debate and court cases, and for