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Atheism
Atheism is the disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
1,002 Questions
Is nitrogen harmful to the human body?
If we were to inhale pure nitrogen, we would obviously die from lack of oxygen. Otherwise no, you have to understand that 70% of every breath you take is nitrogen
Why are people afraid of an atheist president?
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Many people are so consumed by their religion that they feel that if you don't believe in god, you won't have good moral standards. Answer: Historically, America has based its culture and political beliefs on a judeo-christian platform of ethics. Many Americans view atheism as a possible threat to their culture, history, and way of life. Answer: Consider the quote : A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
~ Albert Einstein Many people fall into Einstein's "poor way" and assume every one else is as well.
What items are considered magical in other religions?
The 72 virgins in the Islamic heaven are considered rather magical by other religions.
Why are there so many atheists on YouTube?
On the internet it isn't hard to come across an atheist and spotting them isn't hard either. So the question is why does there seem to be a great amount of atheists on the internet and on sites like YouTube, Reddit and other social networks and forums?
The answer is quite simple really. Atheism isn't growing as atheists would love to believe (it's still a small minority and thank God for that!) rather the internet serves as a gathering place for these atheists and because they're so small in numbers they try to make themselves seem large by being more outspoken.
Atheism, regardless of what the atheist says, is a religious belief. If it isn't and I'm wrong in comparing it to such then the extremist atheist has certainly made it into a religious belief due their fanatical devotion to it. Some atheists love to express the fact that they're atheist by using the word in their username on forums or by following atheist speakers such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris and creating tributes to them on Facebook and YouTube.
How many atheists live in Wisconsin?
There is no census for religion, therefor no one knows exactly how many atheists are in the great state of Wisconsin
Which Bollywood actors are atheists?
Kamal Haasan, Ram Gopal Varma, Javed Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar
What would be the socio-economic consequence if hypothetically it was proven there was no god?
Hypothetically cannot happen. Factually, probably will not happen-ever. If, however people stop relying on fairy-tales-as-facts, there could possibly be economic collapse due to people no longer supporting religion financially. Religion is a multi-billion dollar, if not trillion dollar industry. Religious leaders have a monetary interest at stake, and its demise if suddenly the entire world quit supporting its money habit; would not be pretty.
Which famous actors are atheists?
Mrs. Jolie is an atheist/agnostic. Bill Maher, Ian McKellen, Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Woody Allen, Lance Armstorng and some more.
Zac Efron is an agnostic. That means he doesn't agree with the concept of organized religion and believes there is no way to know if there is a God.
Zac Efron's religion has often been described as Jewish on the internet. Zac's paternal grandfather was Jewish, although Zac's three other grandparents were not Jewish, and Zac was not raised in the Jewish faith.
Zac does resemble actor Logan Lerman, who is 100% Jewish.
He certainly was in the past, given that he was a proponent of Objectivism and had Ayn Rand stand next to him during his 1974 swearing in. He later, at least arguably, drifted from the principles of Objectivism, but there's no evidence he ever stopped being an atheist. (And it's quite rare for educated adult atheists to later become believers.)
Is a naturally superior being the same as a supernatural being?
No, a naturally superior being is one who some people consider to be superior than others due to natural characteristics, while a supernatural being is a being whose existence or characteristics cannot be explained by science.
No.
He was raised a catholic, but he later dismissed Christianity and joined a masonic order, and most likely an atheist one:
"Mozart's position within the Masonic movement, according to Maynard Solomon, lay with the rationalist, Enlightenment-inspired membership, as opposed to those members oriented toward mysticism and the occult."
This type of masonic movement is usually referred to as "Illuminati", meaning "enlightened" in Latin.
And the "Illuminati" is widely recognized as an atheistic movement.
Further evidence that Mozart was an atheist is that he on his deathbed rejected a catholic priest and was buried in the common grave of the poor.
A band, of itself, can't be any affiliation, per say. However, I can list some frontmen of bands who do self identify as atheist:
(note: there are many atheists in various music genres throughout history, but i'll concentrate on contempoary music)
Henry Rollins, of Black Flag
Justin Sane of Anti-flag
Tracy Thorn of Everything but the Girl
Robert Smith of the Cure
Donita Sparks of Donita Sparks and the Stellar Moments
Wayne Static of Static-X
Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA
Eddie Vedder of Peral Jam
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa of Frank zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Eric Avary of Janes addiction
Bjork formerly of the Sugarcubes
Issac Brock of Modern Mouse
Kim Deal of the Pixies and the Breeders
...and tons more
How did atheism begin in Victorian England how did it increase?
Atheism was around before religion because there it is merely the absence of theism. No doubt an increase in scientific knowledge led to an increase in religious skepisim but personal faith does not have to conflict with science and can easily coexist, as long as the faith does not require inflexible beliefs which contradict known facts.
AnswerProbably Charles Darwin's theory of Natural Selection and book "The Origin Of Species" got most people to doubt their faith or to stop believing in God. Also with the many arguments about science and God that were going on at that time made Victorians doubt their faith even more. But at that time going to church was important for social respect. So must people secretly stopped believing in God and still went to church. So the number of Atheists and Freethinkers at that time is still very unknown. Usually people who spoke up or admitted that they were atheists were discriminated, judged and treated poorly. Many famous freethinkers lived during that time so the arguments they made made people doubt God. But still the truth is unknoun about the existence of God.
AnswerAn interesting answer above: Darwin's book certainly gave people a convincing theory of the origin of life, as opposed to a very unconvincing Creationist tale. But atheists predate Darwin's 1859 book. Charles Bradlaugh, for example, was writing secularist pamphlets in 1853. He was elected as Member Of Parliament for Nothampton in 1880, and introduced the right to Affirm for MPs and witnesses in legal cases.
In the 1800s (and for hundreds of years before that), publicly speaking about atheism was illegal under the Blasphemy laws, and George Holyoake was sent to prison in August 1842 for remarks he made in a speech. His colleague, Charles Southwell, had been imprisoned as well, earlier that year.
Holyoake was the last person to be imprisoned in England for blasphemy, but the fact that atheists were not much in the public eye before the 1850s is perhaps in part due to the fact that they would have risked having their liberty removed for stating what they believed to be true.
Who is Richard Dawkins and what are his thoughts about Atheism?
Richard Dawkins was born 1941 in East Africa. A British Zoologist, he is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University; Fellow of New College; Fellow of The Royal Society
Brought up in an Anglican family, Richard Dawkins is an atheist.
Views on atheismPerhaps the best of the available euphemisms for atheist is nontheist. It lacks the connotation of positive conviction that there is definitely no god, and it could therefore easily be embraced by Teapot or Tooth Fairy Agnostics. It is less familiar than atheist and lacks its phobic connotations. Yet, unlike a completely new coining, its meaning is clear. If we want a euphemism at all, nontheist is probably the best.
The alternative which I favour is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater. By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
== By Richard Dawkins
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"All religions were made by men."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: "I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one." I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
-- Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p. 6..
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
-- Katharine Hepburn, American Actress; in Ladies' Home Journal, October 1991, from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
-- James A Michener, The World Is My Home(1991)..
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methusaleh,Preface (1921)..
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891)..
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." -- Joseph Stalin
"At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullsh*t that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness."
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.... I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
-- John Lennon
Atheists have no religious rituals, since they have no religion, and religious rituals are usually dedicated to a god, or to that religion's beliefs (ex. praying, hymns, sacrifices, etc.).
Rituals are just sets of actions that have some symbolic meaning, or that one does systematically for whatever reason that they may have.
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As said above, there are no religious rituals. Atheists can still have secular ones though.
Atheists can still have marriage ceremonies and just us a friend as the orator to say similar things: "We gather here to witness the joining of two people in marriage who love each other with all their hearts..." They have readings, but instead of the Bible they use other sources like books of poetry. They can give vows. It's much the same, just God is taken out of it.
Similar things are done with burials... a place is rented for a wake, friends speak about the person, favorite music is played, readings from favorite books, and they are buried in the earth. It's just done without invoking God.
The closest thing to a "religious" ritual is more of a mockery of one called a "de-baptism" which uses blow-dryers, but it is in no way manditory, unlike Christian religions which require the Sacraments.
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There is no "system" of atheistic belief: no rituals, no practices, no rules, no set of doctrines or dogma.
The only attribute of atheism is that we lack any belief in gods.
Who is the most famous atheist?
That can be controversial. Here is a list of famous atheists.
1. John Adams
2.Woody Allen
3. Lance Armstrong
4. Isaac Asimov
5. Mark Twain
6. Marie Curie
7.Robert Frost
8.Bill Gates
9. Pink Floyd
10. Jamie Hyneman
11.Theo van Gogh
12.Mick Jagger
13.Thomas Jefferson
14.Billy Joel
15.Angelina Jolie
16. Helen Keller
17. Bruce Lee
18. Abraham Lincoln
19.Friedrich Nietzsche
20.Oscar Wilde
and many more...
What do you say to someone who doesn't believe in God when they sneeze?
I have a tissue if you'd like...
If you are a Christian is it wrong to listen to rock music performed by an atheist?
No. I listen to Christian music on a regular.
He an anti-theist (against religion) but more-so agnostic when it comes to the existence of a so called "God".
Is Peter Atkins an atheist or a thiest?
Peter Atkins is a chemist who has been described as a 'celebrity atheist' along with the biologist Richard Dawkins.
He certainly shows no tolerance for the idea of a god. He once told a devout theist that the reason this person considered the existence of a god was 'because their brain was starved of oxygen'. In his book Galileo's Finger he describes dismisses an intelligent designer as a 'potty designer' due to all the anatomical features of the world that resemble no intelligently designedness.
