*[I believe] Atheism is an absurd worldview

[Deathbydefault]

The atheistic worldview is an absurd one. Why? Because the atheist views the world as ultimately meaningless and therefore as absurd.

I can only wonder how many atheists have utterly destroyed this argument.
This is something that has been getting refuted for years now, yet there are still people saying it.

Would you also like to argue that I eat babies? Perhaps my innate want for people to die that obviously ties directly to my atheism?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

The atheistic worldview is an absurd one. Why? Because the atheist views the world as ultimately meaningless and therefore as absurd.

Let's back up a bit: what makes you say that atheism is a worldview at all?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

You cannot rationally justify a belief that the world has an ultimate purpose unless you adopt a theistic worldview.

It seems like there's a necessary step in your reasoning that you're jumping over... something like "if a thing isn't universally important, it can't be important to me." I hope you'll recognize that this is unsupported nonsense (or "absurd", to use your new favourite word).

 

[Yerda]

The atheistic worldview is an absurd one. Why? Because the atheist views the world as ultimately meaningless and therefore as absurd.

Could you elaborate, please?

The "world" includes all things and therefore contains meaning in many forms. This seems to be so obvious that it's trivial.

 

[Deathbydefault]

There's no counterargument here.

There was no argument on your part to begin with.
Just an assertion:

Because the atheist views the world as ultimately meaningless and therefore as absurd.

Do you have evidence of this?
I personally know atheists that think the opposite of this.
I also know an atheist who believes in magic and thinks of it as the central force of the soul and rebirth.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

The atheistic worldview is an absurd one. Why? Because the atheist views the world as ultimately meaningless and therefore as absurd.

I think this thread was created for a purposeful heated debate???

We have meaning in our life? Why would disbelief in god equal no meaning for any person who doesn't believe in deitie/s?

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Why would disbelief in god equal no meaning for any person who doesn't believe in deitie/s?

Yeah, it's a puzzle.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think this thread was created for a purposeful heated debate???

We have meaning in our life? Why would disbelief in god equal no meaning for any person who doesn't believe in deitie/s?

Perhaps it would seem so to someone whose meaning is seen as given by their religion.
Without religion, it would appear that there is no meaning.
And in a sense, they're right.....as far as some absolutely universally "true" meaning doesn't exist for us (typically).
But instead of that, we still have meaning....it just comes from our own thinking organ.

 

[Gambit]

That's a nihilist view, rather than an atheist view.

Atheism entails nihilism and absurdism.

 

[Jiddanand]

Atheism is mere blindness.

 

[ImmortalFlame]

Atheism entails nihilism and absurdism.

Please demonstrate this.

Atheism is mere blindness.

Also this.

 

[Willamena]

Atheism entails nihilism and absurdism.

We disagree, then. If that were the case, we'd see a lot more atheist religions.

 

[Jiddanand]

If you don't trust that there is a Creator then situation is that you are the creator which you are not. Thereby atheism is a pure blindness.

 

[Gambit]

Nah, atheists just create their own myths to give the world meaning.

They are no more objectively true than the theistic ideologies they replace, but they can give the world just as much meaning.

I agree with you in one aspect. The purpose and meaning that atheists believe they create must ultimately be deemed illusory when atheism is taken to its logical conclusion.

 

[Sunstone]

Atheism is mere blindness.

Even if that were true, it would not necessarily follow that theism is any less blind than atheism, for theism could be just another kind blindness.

 

[ImmortalFlame]

If you don't trust that there is a Creator then situation is that you are the creator which you are not. Thereby atheism is a pure blindness.

Not believing that there is a creator doesn't mean that you believe that YOU are the creator. That's like saying not believing in leprechauns means you must believe that you are a leprechaun, and I as yet have not accrued a pot of gold.

 

[Revoltingest]

Atheism is mere blindness.

To someone who sees a mirage, the person who doesn't is blind.
Blindness ain't all bad.

 

[Gambit]

wrong.
Unless of course you can prove that the world has an ultimate telos or purpose.
Since we both know you cannot, how can it be denied?

Nonsense.

 

[ImmortalFlame]

Nonsense.

A compelling argument. I have changed my mind.

 

[Gambit]

We disagree, then. If that were the case, we'd see a lot more atheist religions.

Atheistic existentialism is not a religion.