Atheism even lacks a Logo.

Whatever fits?!

I reckon Atheists are just a secretive society of Mediarites & Scientists trying to destroy Religion.

Setanta wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2020 at 11:31pm:

But wether right or wrong. The Story still exists. It's right there in a Book. It's one of the best 'inventions' ever made. God was created for the children who grew with no parents - and then their eyes were opened to the mystery within a book and the curse of a bloodline that became 'chosen'.

Setanta wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2020 at 11:31pm:



A comprehended god is no god.






But





“Go to the Limits of Your Longing”
by Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

Raven has said this in another thread but....

Atheism, in part, means doing what is right without the promise of eternal reward or the fear of divine retribution.

Captain Nemo wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2020 at 9:33am:



"When people stop believing in God, they do not believe in nothing. They believe in anything."
- G.K. Chesterton

Jasin wrote on Jul 5^th, 2020 at 8:08am:


Does one need religion to have a moral code?

Raven would argue our morality stems from nature rather then religion.

We are a social animal. That has been a major role in our success on this planet. As such our early ancestors relied upon each other to survive. Therefore we naturally developed a code of conduct between ourselves to ensure our survival. This predates religion.

Religion's claim of being the sole source of human morality is false.

A Lutheran, a Christian Scientist, an evangelical  Christian and a Bahá’í walked into a bar… well, actually it was a meeting room at Harvard University and they weren’t there for a palsy-walsy pint. Their mission was to elect the new president of Harvard’s organisation of chaplains, which they did in a unanimous vote. Some gag. Can we get to the punchline?

The new president is ‘humanist chaplain’ Greg Epstein, author of Good Without God. 

He’s an atheist. 

To Mr. Epstein, becoming the organization’s head, especially as it gains more recognition from the university, comes as affirmation of a yearslong effort, started by his predecessor, to teach a campus with traditional religious roots about humanism.

“We don’t look to a god for answers,” Mr. Epstein said. “We are each other’s answers.”

Which might be all very well for an advisor, a counsellor or a philosopher, but a chaplain?   

“Maybe in a more conservative university climate there might be a question like ‘What the heck are they doing at Harvard, having a humanist be the president of the chaplains?’” said Margit Hammerstrom, the Christian Science chaplain at Harvard. “But in this environment it works.”

Well, this is Harvard where biology professor Carole Hooven was recently castigated by the director of the department’s diversity and inclusion taskforce for ‘transphobic and harmful remarks’ when she lamented the use of the term ‘pregnant people’ and other prescribed terminology unhinged from biology.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/whats-woke-this-week-54/