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- [ The Argument Of The Atheist ] [ By Intoxicating ]
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- The Argument of the Atheist
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- By Intoxicating
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- Religion is based on ignorance.
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- We only need to look back in history to see proof of this fact. As the first
- intelligent cultures began to organize thousands and thousands of years ago,
- they had no explanations for the Sun, the moon, the stars, or even why the
- grass grew. They did not understand, so they created explanations.
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- The source of these explanations usually involved the sky, since it was one
- of the few places a human could not travel to. These explanations also tried
- to rationalize such things as the weather, which has always been cruel and
- unfair. Greek mythology of the Sun God, and the Goddess of Love, and these
- types of creations were all used to explain the unknown to a human animal
- that hungered for answers and for reason.
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- Over time answers became clear, as a primitive science began to grow. Soon
- things could be explained, or at least enough was known to understand that
- there was no Goddess of Love, or a God of Thunder. Christianity, Jewism,
- Hebrewism, and many more religions all have their history and their proof of
- the truth. Each believes that predictions were made into the future, but
- aren't all these predictions just a matter of interpretation and perception?
- If we want to see something, we do.
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- In today's society there are still many that believe in a God. Why? Because
- they want to believe in something better then the life they live, or they
- hope for something better after death, or they just don't understand how this
- world could exist without the power of an immortal powerful being. In the
- case of the first two reasons, they believe in something because they need
- too, or because they want too. In the third case, they believe in something
- because science can't explain everything yet, so there is still room for the
- miracle work of a god.
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- To believe in something because of ignorance is wrong. We can't say God
- created the world because we don't know how else it could have been created.
- We shouldn't believe in a God because there can be no other explanation for
- an occurrence. Most of all, we shouldn't live in our own world believing in
- something because it's easier to believe in, and the facts are hard to
- accept.
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- Religion is far from perfect, but it did serve its purpose at times. However,
- as a god becomes less probable, religious leaders should realize that selling
- their religion will become increasingly difficult. Instead, they should sell
- morality. We teach science in school, give the students the tools to
- disprove religion, yet we do not teach them proper moral behavior.
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- Philosophy and courses on logical thinking are a couple of examples of
- schoolwork that could expand our minds. Sure, the morals these courses bring
- won't be exactly the same, but they will change with a changing society, and
- be followed not based on ignorance, but based on reason and knowledge.
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- I don't claim to have all the answers, but it's easy to see that religion is
- based on ignorance, and as that becomes more obvious, a replacement for
- religion is the next step in our advancing global society.
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