Atheism Is A Very Hot Topic On The World

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.

Associating Islam with violence is a false impression that the Western public has long cultivated about this religion. An example of this misconception is that Islam is a religion spread by the sword, meaning that Muslims went from one end of the world to the other, conquering nations and forcing the inhabitants to either convert or die. The truth is that Islam spread through the expansion of the Ottoman empire, not that people were forced to convert or die. A modern day example of the Islam=violence misconception is Saddam Hussein. Although Hussein is of the Islamic faith, not all of his actions necessarily represent Islamic beliefs.

Violence has sadly become a large part of our society, as have hate crimes. Since the Paris attacks, there has been a huge incline of hate crimes against Muslims Americans and mosques. “The spike includes assaults on hijab-wearing students; arsons and vandalism at mosques at mosques; and shootings and death threats at Islamic-owned businesses […]” (Lichtblau). These attacks are bitter and cruel, but it is not the end of what has recently been happening to Muslims . This past December, there were multiple accounts of hate crimes against Muslims. On December 5th/6th, “A Muslim woman wearing a hijab said a man cut her off and threw stones at her car while she was driving away from a mosque…” (MacNeal). On December 10th, “A Muslim family in Plano, Texas, said that they had the windows on their home smashed two days in a row -- just six weeks after they moved to the area…” (MacNeal). Not only is this a horrible crime, but someone, maybe a child, could have been by that window. This act could have been fatal, and it shows how evil some people are. On December 13, two southern California mosques were vandalized. In the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Baitus-Salaam Mosque located in Hawthorne, California, a plastic replica of a hand grenade was found. This is a very serious way of threatening people, and about the same level of threat as a phone call saying someone was going to come in with a gun and kill people. To add to this, the fence surrounding the mosque of the Islamic Center of Hawthorne had the word “Jesus” spray-painted on it (MacNeal). Not only was this vandalization, but it took away someone’s right to religious freedom and knowing there was somewhere to pray without being judged, stereotyped, told it was wrong, or told they should be a different religion. Lastly, in “2013 Hate Crime Statistics” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that

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Islam is not the only religion that use violence for instance, the Christian use violence to destroy Islam. In the article crusades the idea of violence was demonstrated when pope urban II send innumerable amount of solder to “Rise in a spirit of cruelty against the jewish people scattered through the cities and slaughtered ’the women, also, and with their swords pierced tender children of whatever gender and sex.” The soldier did not stop there they also “Destroy the houses, synagogue of the jews and divided among themselves a very, large, amount of money [that once belonged to the jews].” Christians were influenced by Pope Urban II to assassinate million of people. It is estimated that about 1.7 million of people died during the crusades.

What do you believe Atheism is Religion or nonReligion? There are many different people who say different thing about Atheism why you might ask nobody can really say what it is they all just have their own opinion. A British Atheist Sanderson Jones is a founder of the Sunday Assembly atheist church movement, who believes that Atheism is considered a religion. A man named Jim Mulholland believes that Atheism is not a religion. Out of everyone that has their own opinion these two men stand out from everyone else. These two men have found ways to make people think that Atheism is and or is not a religion. Some studies show that Atheism is a Religion and there are some that show Atheism is not at all a Religion.

We as Americans are so egocentric when we look at other cultures. Some critics would argue that the Islam’s holy book the Quran degrades women extremely. As we discuss before, most Muslims dismiss the scripture that degrades women. For example: “The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females”) (Quran 4;11). This is not accepted in modern Islam, and is big misconception with westerners. From the Quran, “Whoever does good, whether male or female, is a believer, will enter the Garden of Paradise” (Quran 40:39) They have same opportunity as men and women do in the United States of America.(Source 10) The bible also have verses that degrade women ,and some extremist Christians go by this scripture too. The bible states "Let the women

Ever since 9/11 people have associated terrorism with people of the Islam faith, causing a tension between Islam and racist people. I’ve heard a lot about mosques being fire bombed and vandalized just in the last year alone. In the days after the 9/11 attacks many muslims were mugged and beaten just because of their faith. The real Islam preaches love and happiness, but the terrorist followed a radical version that employs if someone's not muslim than they deserve death. I must stress this is not the true Islam, too many people have the preconceived idea that Islam preaches hate and death, which has lead to racism. Islamic racism is an ongoing topic and will be for a long

America is supposed to be the home of the free, especially freedom of religion. Yet politicians left and right are expressing their interest in closing mosques and having Muslims wear special identification. At Thanksgiving, my mother’s boyfriend, who works for the government, expressed how Islam was a violent religion and will end western society. Due to the fact it was a holiday, I did not end him, but I quickly pointed out the Crusades were done by Christians. I also attempted to enlighten him on the strong ties between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, yet he was not willing to listen. Overall, religion is not violent. People are violent. It is entirely unfair to pin the blame on one religion, when the violence is coming from extremists and terrorists. I feel that Islamophobia will not disappear until more people are educated on what the values and beliefs of Islam

It is sad to see that there are so many intolerant people who think that they have the right to persecute or harm those who are Islamic. For example, peaceful women who wear hijabs are often ridiculed, belittled, and sometimes even physically harmed simply because they wear a hijab and are Islamic. Furthermore, the number of hate crimes against Islamic people in America has risen since the tragic event of 9/11. So many innocent men and women were victims of violent hate crimes solely because of the peaceful religion they practiced was also believed to be shared with those who hijacked the planes that tragic day. It is because of things like this that it is vital that there are laws instituted to protect religious freedoms and that others are educated on tolerance, not only here in America but in other countries as

To understand the connection between Islam and violence, one must understand certain facets of the Muslim worldview. One of the most important is the fact that, according to the historic Muslim understanding, there is no separation between religion and government—what in Christianity would be called the separation of church and state.

Terrorist events such as 9/11 are widely known as an attack by the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. This event, one of the most remembered moments in the U.S., may have been the start of the pressure towards defining Islam as a violent religion. Islam was developed in the Middle East and spread around the world to form a following of over 1.5 billion people, which is over 1/7th of the total population of the world. Islam is the 2nd largest religion in the world, to say that the majority of Muslims are terrorists or criminals because of their religion would mean that a large fraction of the world are criminals. Most Muslims in modern society are ordinary people who practice Islam, but because of Islamic extremists, certain scriptures in

The connection between Islam and terrorism was not intensified until the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center that pushed the Islamic faith into the national and international spotlight (Smith, 2013). As Smith (2013) articulated, “Many Americans who had never given Islam a second thought before 9/11 now had to figure out how to make sense of these events and relate to the faith tradition that ostensibly inspired them” (p. 1). One way in which people made sense of these events was through the media channels that influenced their overall opinions by shaping a framework of censored ideas (Yusof, Hassan, Hassan & Osman, 2013). In a survey conducted by Pew Forum (2012), 32% of people reported that their opinions of Muslims were greatly influenced by the media’s portrayal of Islam that depicted violent pictorials and fundamentalist Muslims. Such constant negative depiction is likely to lead to the inevitable—prejudice and hate crime. For instance, in 2002 alone there were approximately 481 hate crimes that were carried out against Muslims (Smith, 2013). Ever since the 9/11 attacks Muslim people have been the target of “suspicion, harassment and discrimination” (Talal, n.d., p. 9).