what do y'all think? (the atheism thread)

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by Sean

I maintain that there is a chance that he exists - albeit a minuscule chance from a reason-based outlook.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. — Miguel de Unamuno

Originally Posted by Sean

More active in my disbelief is a modest understanding of how religion developed and evolved throughout human history. When you take the time to understand that, it becomes exceedingly apparent that deities and religions are man-made concepts meant to help us deal with the questions we can't yet answer - particularly in regards to death.

religion <> spirituality
While religion is a social entity, spirituality is not. Spirituality is personal, developed be each of us, or not, on our own.
My spirituality enables me to deal with the questions I can answer, and which actually matter. It better enables me to live in the here and now, instead of life's distractions that are of no true consquence.

Originally Posted by froopy seal

I think every human more or less knows what's right and what's wrong. We're just too lazy and egoistic to follow that knowledge.

No. . . While everyone of us, save the psychopath/sociopath, knows right from wrong.
It is FEAR that leads us to fall short of our ideals. Driven by various forms of subtle, corrosive, self-centered fear, we fall into sloth, greed, envy, pride, gluttony, lust and anger.
This fear is present in all of us to some degree.

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

One thing I've learned about atheists is how many of "those" kind use science to legitimize their own style of bigotry and/or racism . . .

Exactly. The closed mind can rationalize myopia by arguing either for, or against, dogma.