tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post3002118754993982148..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Asking About AtheismDr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-43134699268868090232019-02-21T19:55:32.473-05:002019-02-21T19:55:32.473-05:00
I understand but think that what you are looking ...<br />I understand but think that what you are looking for is already implicitly contained in what I mentioned as far as that type of person is concerned. If that person is atheistic for the reasons given then that is a permanent condition and not really open to debate for them. The reason, as I mentioned, is simply that there has been no apparent divinely inspired midcourse correction or remidiation. There is therefore no reason to rethink atheism as a permanent world view ever. There may be a more casual category of atheist that may be amenable to rethinking but I have not come across one.<br />Qmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-8400065838053151912019-02-21T08:31:05.822-05:002019-02-21T08:31:05.822-05:00I'm certain you're right to say that some ...I'm certain you're right to say that some initial personal tragedy, failure, anger, or sense of betrayal or loss most often precipitates one into atheism in the first place, much more often than an intellectual conviction. A comparison of famous atheists suggests hatred of fathers has a high correspondence too (Vitz, 2013). There are various motives one can have for adopting atheism. What I wanted to discern was how one lived with one's decision AFTER becoming an atheist — what would hold one there, and how one sorted out an integrated, rational view of life based on that preliminary decision, so as to go on. How does one live based on atheism: that was my question. As you can see, that’s something beyond the mere initial incentive. Perhaps I need to make that clearer.Immanuel Canhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580529966007662214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-1848655858156720872019-02-21T00:19:14.036-05:002019-02-21T00:19:14.036-05:00From my observation of (friend or not so friend) a...From my observation of (friend or not so friend) aetheists I have concluded some additional items. Some of them simply reject religion because they found it, or observed it for others, to be a useless tool that did not produce the needed results when truly needed. E.g., healing, personal or observed abuse cessation, perceived social injustice without remidiation, observed lack of significant differentiation between believers and unbelievers, and so on. And if this is combined with not having had a religious upbringing and the perceived inconvenience of religious obligations, thought processes, and no directly seen intervention to punish the evil doers then this most likely can produce or confirm an atheist. In other words, the atheist in general would need a very direct and observable linkage of divine intervention in the world, not something they feel they have to second guess at.<br />Qmannoreply@blogger.com