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Believing in God in itself doesn't make a person irrational. Being irrational makes a person irrational."
It is a "winner" sentence( written by our friend
@HonestJoe in his post
#104 ) . I appreciate it.
Does one agree with the sentence colored in magenta above?
If not, why not, please?
Regards
HonestJoe is a loser. Just because someone votes him a winner doesn't make him a winner.
Atheism is irrational.
Atheism Is Irrational
Note the source. A psychiatrist, which is a reliable authority for two reasons
1. They tend not to have bias in favor or religion
2. They tend to be experts on the mind and what constitutes rational behavior.
They clarify to say that there are certain types of atheism that are rational but what is called Gnostic Atheism ("we know there is no God") is irrational.
But I will expand this to include all atheism, aside from agnosticism. Why? Well...
1. An agnostic claims to not know for certain about religion, while an atheist claims to not believe in God but if often closer to an antitheist.
2. In fact, an atheist cannot consistently decide anything about itself. Is it a religion or not? Well, the answer seems to be "when it's convenient." It's a religion when such discussions are that only religions are allowed to debate, but it's not when it wants to claim that religions have special priorities that atheism doesn't have. Or when atheism pretends to be "scientific." In actual fact, despite claiming it is not religious, it has official dogma (stuff like climate change, Darwinian evolution, etc) and punishments for adherents opposing the official views. It has clerics (mostly men in white coats or military uniforms). It has sacred scripture, of sorts. It claims to be religious and then supports big government and secular politics.
3. It claims to be on the side of science, but when used to oppose the notion of God, it willfully dismisses laws of science when they no longer are convenient. So "matter cannot be created or destroyed" except when it comes to the Big Bang, then it can just do whatever it wants. Or we have evolution, only in every case where society tried to impose a survival of the fittest model, it has been a tyranny, and its days are number.
4. The idea of atheism is inherently irrational. Anything that exists comes from an origin, and there are no known exceptions to this. While the idea of a old man may not be how things went down, every rock comes from igneous/sedimentary/metamorphic causes, every tree comes from a seed, every chicken from an egg, every rain/snow from water condensation, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc! And yet, an atheist wants to spin a fairy tale where the universe has no origin (aside from a laws of nature explanation, which fails immediately because of this):
God vs. Atheism: Which is More Rational?
You see, the problem of Big Bang, which was originally proposed by a scientist named Lemaitre who was also a theologian (then Stephen Hawking takes credit for it, and everyone decides he's brilliant rather than a crippled bitter old man) is that tbh the entire theory cannot work without the existence of God. Why is that? Well, we have a series of scientific laws that don't exist until after the universe does (since such a thing as magnetism is meaningless if there is no matter and especially no metal to interact with), but a universe that cannot exist without the aid of such forces. So one or the other had to come into play first, but without a third part to this equation, it would be locked forever in a Mexican standoff.
5. The Bible says that the unbelievers are under a "powerful delusion." I know this to be true for certain, as I've seen atheists reject pages and pages of information contrary to their opinions, and they simply ignore this to continue saying what they think is true. There is evidence in the scientific world to disprove atheism. There is evidence in the natural world. There is evidence in observed coincidence, and in the change in people's lives. There is evidence in history, since despite clever plans, dictatorships have always fallen.
6. During this disease hysteria, the least fearful have been (real) theists, who insisted that it's just a bug going around, and it's fairly mild. The atheists I've talked to ignore completely any reasoned attempts to convince them that hoarding and job loss caused by an extreme fear reaction are at least as dangerous, deciding to literally buy 50 rolls of toilet paper and collapse the supply chain. One of these people is able to get back to life as normal, they other wants to completely upend modern society because they can't deal with something that isn't even in their area yet.
If we were to describe this delusion, it would be a pervasive sense that human beings are alone and cannot trust each other, that the church is out to judge people, and that there is no God yet believers are telling atheists they are damned (dude: pick - either you don't believe in God and therefore what believers believe is not a concern, or you do believe in God in which case God forgives sins). That the state as a cult is to be revered, and that death has final say yet life somehow has purpose if that is the case (if death has the final say, then life has no purpose because nothing you create will last).
