/lit/ - Literature

why didn't you post in that thread

To be fair, if you're going to be a part of a religion, it's probably best NOT to be part of Christianity.

>>3288810
>why can't we just agree that some people have a certain need to connect with something greater
That's not what prompted the shitstorm
>even if it's just a social construct
Kierkegaard would be slapping you in the face right about now.

The definitions of "God" and "divinity" are not reductible to their employs by judaism, christianism, and islam. If I define "God" as "the epistemological and metaphysical first principle of a philosophical system", then atheism doesn't exist.

>Schopenhauer's God is Will. Nietzsche's God is Will to power. Marx's God is Mankind. Einstein's God is Cosmos. Wittgenstein's God is Mystery. Hegel's God is Reason. Heidegger's God is Being. Etc, etc, etc...

This definition renders obsolete the classification of philosophies between theism, atheism, and even pantheism, because pantheism can be defined only into an objectivist paradigm where 1. other subjectivies do exist and 2. a common world exists to link them between themselves. A solipsist, for example, wouldn't understand what you call "pantheism".

Good day.

>>3288810
OP here, let me rephrase

I'm an American teen and I can't understand why people aren't atheists. They must be dumb.

Atheism would not exist if not for the existence of Theism.

Why must you bite the hand that feeds you?

>>3288874

You are very ignorant and solipsistic. Read more books.

Don't you know that everyone has a time in their life when they seriously question the existence of a higher being?

>>3288885
There's a place for that
>>>/reddit/

>>3288885
> You are very ignorant and solipsistic.

lol you're a teenager, right?

>>3288892

A place for what? I don't follow.

I bet you just watched the zeitgeist movie and think you have the world figured out.

>>3288894

lol you're a teenager, right?

... this isn't even literature anymore

What's the board for relgion vs. atheism arguements? Is it /x/ ?

because that OP was a fucking dense troll, jimmies slighty rustled for falling into that trap

Atheists who argue that believers are unintelligent do it because they find value in Religion. If they did not see the value in Religion then they would only have a feeling of mild amusement that someone would, according to them, be so stupid as to believe something so absurd.

No. Angsty teens are legitimately angry that someone does not subscribe to the same beliefs as them because that is their response to everything else in the world: anger at flaws.

Atheism removes flaws because it removes all meaning, allowing them to live within their own safe bubble where nothing ever happens outside of their own understanding of the world.

Atheism for teens is just as much of a coping mechanism as Christianity is for Christians.

>>3288849

why would kierkegaard do such a thing?

>>3288874

I'm OP, fuck you

>>3288866

so, you rather extend god's concept. I'm ok with that

>>3288918
no, /x/ is for shitty creepypastes and spiritual bullshit that don't go anywhere

this is fault of fucking Milton

>>3288866
>Solipsism
Anon, thank you.
I had been thinking of a similar philosophy myself and this is what I think I believe.

>>3288810

When they're not connecting through politics or gelignite I really couldn't give less of a shit. When they do it's time to crack down.

>>3288949

Solipsism is a serious pathological condition.It's also fucking retarded.

atheists: 1
christians: 0

i proved them wrong in this thread

bump

>>3288988
I watched the Truman show too many times.

>>3288810
>Why can't we just agree that some people have a certain need to connection with something greater even if it's just a social construct rooted on his/her mind?
...

And?
And why can't they get over the fact some have outgrown Santa Clause?

>[A]theist here
Really?

Sage/hide/ignore

>>3288810
thread about a thread. OP you are a winner.