You identify as an atheist. Atheism is a group with common beliefs. There are common expressions like “You can’t prove a negative” that atheists recite similar to how religious people will cite scripture.
Many atheists will purchase books from people like Richard Dawkins. Are those books just empty pages? Nope, it’s full of guidance from someone who fulfills a similar role to that of a priest in a religion.
Things like “flying spaghetti monster” is joke atheists share that’s based around denigrating other religions. People who are zealous in their religion are often intolerant towards people with other beliefs.
Really atheism has all the properties of a religion. The only difference is that atheists claim that atheism is not a religion. Which is a belief, not objective fact. And there are other religions that claim not to be a religion but more of a “way of life”.
The bottom line is that you’ve found some significance to there not being scientific proof of something metaphysical which by definition can’t be proven. So significant that you take on atheist as an identity.
But it’s all just your belief. Scientifically speaking, we know there are some things that can never be proven, see the Halting Problem. The beliefs of atheists are consistent with scientific thought from a century ago, beliefs that have been disproven. But like most religions old ideas are clung to despite any evidence to the contrary because your beliefs are connected to your identity. A Christian can’t question the resurrection of Christ because if they did they wouldn’t be a Christian. Similarly an Atheist can’t question the capability of science to prove everything because then they wouldn’t be an atheist.
Religion is like that, it gets you stuck in a thought pattern you can’t question.
The fact that you compare rhetorical devices and scientific literature to religious beliefs is disturbing and sort of undermines your entire argument.
Science, measurements, facts, these are not a religion. There is no bullshit mysticism surrounding an empirical view of the world. Comparing such to a religion is ignorant- it may make theists feel better about their belief system, but they’re still fundamentally wrong.
To be blunt: yes, I am an atheist and yes, my view of the world is objectively more correct than a theists- because I’m not out here making shit the fuck up and expecting it to be treated with the same validity as actual, rigorous scientific thought.
Everyone thinks their beliefs are correct, otherwise they wouldn’t believe in those things. You aren’t any different from a religious person.
You can call what you believe in science, but you’re just perverting science to suit your own beliefs, just as many religious people have done before you.
Believing in science inherently means your beliefs aren’t static, they evolve and change with new information. The scientific method is our tool for understanding—actually understanding—the world around us.
In that sense hell yes I’m different than a religious person
You identify as an atheist. Atheism is a group with common beliefs. There are common expressions like “You can’t prove a negative” that atheists recite similar to how religious people will cite scripture.
Many atheists will purchase books from people like Richard Dawkins. Are those books just empty pages? Nope, it’s full of guidance from someone who fulfills a similar role to that of a priest in a religion.
Things like “flying spaghetti monster” is joke atheists share that’s based around denigrating other religions. People who are zealous in their religion are often intolerant towards people with other beliefs.
Really atheism has all the properties of a religion. The only difference is that atheists claim that atheism is not a religion. Which is a belief, not objective fact. And there are other religions that claim not to be a religion but more of a “way of life”.
The bottom line is that you’ve found some significance to there not being scientific proof of something metaphysical which by definition can’t be proven. So significant that you take on atheist as an identity.
But it’s all just your belief. Scientifically speaking, we know there are some things that can never be proven, see the Halting Problem. The beliefs of atheists are consistent with scientific thought from a century ago, beliefs that have been disproven. But like most religions old ideas are clung to despite any evidence to the contrary because your beliefs are connected to your identity. A Christian can’t question the resurrection of Christ because if they did they wouldn’t be a Christian. Similarly an Atheist can’t question the capability of science to prove everything because then they wouldn’t be an atheist.
Religion is like that, it gets you stuck in a thought pattern you can’t question.
The fact that you compare rhetorical devices and scientific literature to religious beliefs is disturbing and sort of undermines your entire argument.
Science, measurements, facts, these are not a religion. There is no bullshit mysticism surrounding an empirical view of the world. Comparing such to a religion is ignorant- it may make theists feel better about their belief system, but they’re still fundamentally wrong.
To be blunt: yes, I am an atheist and yes, my view of the world is objectively more correct than a theists- because I’m not out here making shit the fuck up and expecting it to be treated with the same validity as actual, rigorous scientific thought.
Everyone thinks their beliefs are correct, otherwise they wouldn’t believe in those things. You aren’t any different from a religious person.
You can call what you believe in science, but you’re just perverting science to suit your own beliefs, just as many religious people have done before you.
Holy shit no by definition
Believing in science inherently means your beliefs aren’t static, they evolve and change with new information. The scientific method is our tool for understanding—actually understanding—the world around us.
In that sense hell yes I’m different than a religious person