Man’s relationship with God or his total absence has been a problem that has generated most of the most beautiful stories or the most bitter controversies since ancient times. In general, individuals tend to think that they are atheists, agnostics, or believers if asked about the idea of God. .
This idea has been defined and extended by most monothetic religions in the world, has impacted millions of people, and around it a large number of societies are organized, sometimes skepticism about religious elements goes further, and not only does this age of divinity refuse, but others with an intuitive or energetic profile , such as the law of karma and the law of attraction.
- Could you say that far beyond having received a religious education or not.
- Are there people?Disbelievers? And others not.
- As the great actor Fernando Fernon Gómez said.
- What is a fact is that this belief.
- In itself.
- Does not make your life better or worse.
- Because it is other variables that determine our stories and relationships.
Despite this, a recent experiment created by Jean Decety, a neuroscientist and psychologist at the University of Chicago, with children between the age of 5 and 12 in six countries of very different cultures (Canada, the United States, Jordan, Turkey, South Africa, and China)) revealed that children who did not receive religious values in their families were more generous in sharing their treasures with other unknown children. Minimally curious.
“My atheism lights up when private belief becomes a public matter and when, in the name of a personal mental pathology, the world is also organized for the next. Because from personal anguish to the manipulation of each other’s body and soul, there is a world in which those exploited from this spiritual and mental misery bubble, intact. -Michel Onfray-
Without analyzing in depth what is more appropriate to believe or not, because there is no clear answer to this, however, it is interesting to know how throughout history several characters have proclaimed themselves atheists and have done so with firmness and conviction, even in the risk of reprisals, simply expressed their beliefs freely and their way of perceiving human and social relationships from a radically different perspective.
Let’s look at some of the most famous and controversial atheists
We often relate Marxist thought to the most antagonistic way of understanding society in relation to that proposed by religion. Objectivism? He opposes both positions, arguing that for anyone who aspires to be someone different, ideas like religion and communism are harmful.
“Really, if I want to summarize my attitude on the question of God, it is this: of all that I know, the definition of God is “what the human mind cannot understand. “To be rationalist, in a literary spirit and to believe that it is a moral obligation to truly believe what the person says, I literally take the word of those who adopt this definition, I agree with them and obey them: I do not understand them. -Ayn rand-
Ayn Rand presents an agnostic neoliberal philosophy that has been very well accepted by some intellectual and artistic circles, who felt that this individualistic ideology could not be explained in greater depth, although she herself had fallen into contradictions throughout her life on certain social and political issues. , what he always supported was his atheism until his death.
If there is anyone who is questioned whether the idea of God was supported or not, is this well-known scientist and author of the theory of relativity, Einstein was a convinced atheist, although he actually declared himself publicly agnostic, trying to avoid academic enmity.
He was not interested in religion at all, and for him the concept of God was not central in his theory or in his life, as he explained in one of his statements responding to the enormous interest in knowing his opinion on it.
Einstein explained that for him, if God existed, it would be very similar to what Spinoza described: an extended God without a dualistic nature who totally contradicts the conventional idea and accepted by most people who follow a monotheistic religion.
Hipatia was probably the most important philosopher of antiquity, along with Aspasia and Hiparquia, his figure was condemned to ostracism by the cover-up of his enormous influence on the history of the different sciences that were still born, it was his status as an agnostic woman that provoked this fact. .
He was not a person committed to the religious events that took place in his city and would lead to his terrible murder by a religious hierarchy, a hierarchy he saw in his knowledge of mathematics, astronomy or philosophy an enemy they feared. Unfortunately, his death was the prelude to religious control that existed in the Middle Ages.
Karl Marx was a German intellectual of Jewish descent who, together with Friedrich Engels, founded scientific socialism, modern communism, Marxism and historical materialism, the work of this thinker impossible to summarize, but what is evident is that he rejected against the idea of God, religion and the existence of social classes.
“Just as in religion man is dominated by the product of his own head, in capitalist production he is dominated by the product of his own hand. -Karl Marx-
If, at first glance, these ideas do not seem linked, they find in their development their logic and their perfect coherence: a society, to be freer, needs to try to be as egalitarian and just as possible, which is done by the action and the name of the company. If we abandon this motive and abandon ideals like God’s or money to solve problems, society and its organization are adrift.
Today, in the world of psychology, the figure of Sigmund Freud is equally revered and hated. Some people take an intermediate attitude toward this controversial neurologist and recognize the work he did in his day, but they think his weight in today’s psychiatry is totally disproportionate, given that only a small part of his theory found scientific support. .
“It would be great if there was a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence; that there was a moral order in the universe and a future life, but it is a very surprising fact that all this is exactly what we feel compelled to desire. -Sigmund Freud-
Thus, we could define Freud as passionate about the study of the human being, someone constantly seeking why the complex behavior of adults, stubborn in giving a comprehensive and beautiful explanation to our most intimate and subjective project.
In this subjective context, for Freud the idea of God made no sense to explain the complex human relationships, and involved a setback in the maturity and commitment of each individual.