Hi to all you faithful non-believers who have deep faith in God's non-existence and faith in Reason as the only god to worship. You do have faith because since it is not possible to prove that God does not exists, it stands to reason that you "believe" that God does not exist. It is your faith - not certainty - that sustains you in God's non-existence. You are therefore a very religious person who lives by faith in God's non-existence and in the existence of reason alone. But, it is reasonable to believe in God. So to worship reason alone does seem to be a contradiction. Still, I wish to congratulate you on living a life based on faith. St. Paul said this to the Athenians: "Then Paul stood in front of the Aropagus and said, 'Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, 'To the unkonwn god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who make the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines make by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortal life and breath and all things.......since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art of imagination of mortals While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in rightousness by a man (Jesus) whom he has appointed and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said,'We will hear you again about this.'"
Now, fellow atheists, you and the Athenians have a lot in common. Both of you are religious. You do worship the god of reason. Outside of the god of reason, you place all in the the category of the god of myth. But Aristotle, himself, apostle of reason, concluded that we have the spiritual power of abstraction: that is we can look at a tree and take it in spiritually and come up with a universal definition for all trees. Since we do not put this tree into our head physically, we put it in our minds spiritually; and Aristotle said that this spiritual power was a simple entity: the human soul. He said that this soul had no parts and could not fall apart. He said, therefore, that the human soul was immortal and could live outside the body which can fall apart. He said that the human soul was indestructible - will live forever. Aristotle was not Christian but "'reasoned" to the existence of the human immortal soul. Also, the Greeks reasoned to the existence of "atomos" - the smallest particle of matter that if you were to divide an "atomos", the result would be something else other than the matter you are dividing. The Greeks had to microscope. We now can see atoms easily. I have seen pictures of atoms. But how can the Greeks conclude the existence of the human soul and the existence of atoms if they couldn't see either? Can God be real even if we do not see Him? Is unseen reality real? Absolutely. Has anyone seen free will? I believe in free will. Psychology has searched for free will. They have stimulated everu area of the human brain and can cause muscles to flex its muscles but could not find where in the human brain our free will resides. They could not find it because free will is a power of the soul not the body.
Likewise, I know in my mind what love is; but I have never seen love that lives in the heart of men and women. I believe it's there! I have faith love exists.....and I believe in the quote from God's Word: "God is Love; and wherever their is Love, there is God!"
Christianity is the only religion that loves atheists and cares about them and their concerns. Christianity knows that atheists are seeking truth and therefore are seeking God. I am a Christian and write this blog in loving kindness to my fellow atheists. This final quote is the most powerful of all and truest of them all:
"IF THERE WERE NO GOD, THERE WOULD BE NO ATHEISTS!"
Love, Pio
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