Atheism is the belief that God or a divine being does not exist. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Before I started researching the subject, I thought it would be like this and that the different classifications would be more among the “non-atheists”. or “believers. ” But nothing further from reality.
There are several forms of atheism, the way not to believe?It is not always the same for everyone, but above all, not everyone follows the same pattern of atheism throughout life.
- I believe that this variability is precisely due to the fear of atheists to end up being like some believers.
- While this may sound offensive.
- It is an atheist rejection of any dogmatic or extreme position.
However, atheism will rarely be a religious fundamentalism as we know it. In general, the struggle for atheism in society is part of the idea of establishing a secular society, in which religion is a belief comparable to belief in Santa Claus.
A belief without scientific basis, but which does not have to be negative if classified as such: only a belief A lay state is a state in which it is permissible to write about such comparisons, although always with fear of In a confessional or religious society, a person can be executed for having presented such an idea.
Philosophers such as Antony Flew and Michael Martin have differentiated positive (strong) atheism from negative (weak) atheism.
Positive atheism is a general term used to describe atheists who accept the premise: Does God not exist? as truth. Positive atheism has taken the trouble to pretend that there is no evidence that God exists. The negative atheist says “I don’t believe in God” because maybe he doesn’t even take it as an idea to disprove.
Agnosticism, on the other hand, claims not to know whether God exists or not, because we do not have the knowledge to affirm one thing or another, so many believe that agnosticism is a cowardly atheism, which takes no position. .
We cannot pretend that we have rational means to define whether certain things are imaginary or not, such as hadas or mermaids, and yet we cannot openly deny that there is no God in the real world.
The separation of these different meanings from the term allows us to better understand the different types of justifications that can be given for varieties of atheism. One argument can be used to justify some form of atheism and another cannot.
There may be up to a billion atheists in the world, although social stigma, political pressure and intolerance make it difficult to accurately estimate.
Therefore, justifying atheism can involve several different projects. There are obvious differences in what information we have, how it should be interpreted, and what it entails. There are also broader meta-epistemological concerns about the roles of argumentation, reasoning, beliefs, and life religiosity.
The athey idea can be found not only by arguing that the evidence indicates that God does not exist, but by defending the need to base beliefs on evidence more generally.
Atheists argue that it is generally not considered reasonable for a person to believe in a supernatural being because he has no evidence otherwise, nor would they find it reasonable for a person to begin to believe that he has cancer because he has no evidence to the contrary.
There are other approaches to justifying atheism that we will discuss below. There are many arguments, sometimes called deductive exercises, to conclude that God’s existence is impossible.
Another large group of important and influential arguments can be grouped under the heading of inductive arguments. These probabilistic arguments invoke considerations from the natural world, such as widespread suffering, lack of faith, or discoveries in biology or cosmology.
Another approach, atheist non-cognitivism, denies that God’s idea is meaningful or has propositional content that can be evaluated in terms of truth or lie; religious acts, on the other hand, are considered a complex kind of emotion or expression of spiritual passion.
On the other hand, inductive and deductive approaches are cognitive in that they accept that statements about God have significant content and can be determined as true or false.
The question of whether or not a God exists extends to issues and positions related to biology, physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics, philosophy of language and epistemology. The reasonableness of atheism depends on the general adequacy of an entire conceptual and explanatory description. of the world.
On a personal level I believe that for every person God can be something different, no matter what the divine idea of religions is, but how we solve our existential problems, it is above all a personal and subjective decision. In any advanced society, the two positions can coexist, respecting the spaces of the other.