Muriel wrote:tycho wrote:Believing or not believing in something is mainly about choosing relationships and ordering experience. But no matter what, one thing is clear, reality must be ordered, and more often than not, we can only see and understand a tiny portion of what we seek to order.
In that measure atheism and theism are the same.
Ordering of 'reality' demands sharing and increasing intensity of relations, hence the religious streak can never be avoided.
'God' is a symbol with a meaning that varies, and it's possible to have a different symbol but with a similar meaning. The clash for and of symbols is a superficial clash.
Absolutely my brother.
With such logic did we quench Hamburglar and showed that atheism is a hoax.
I see atheism as an 'anticulture' a reaction of experience against commonly held values, and an attempt at pressing of the collective mind towards new forms of belief. That's why @Hamburglar may choose to express himself the way he does.
The forces and the conditions involved bring forth the different responses and attitudes we call 'worldviews'. Like shattered glass.
The big question is no longer about what x believes or doesn't believe. The big question is how the forces of nature and relations are transforming me and how true I am to these forces.
Paradoxically, the best way to answer this question is by way of surrender.