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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allen Poe

By morality the individual is taught to become a function of the herd, and to ascribe to himself value only as a funtion... Morality is the herd instinct in the individual - Friedrich Nietzsche

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. - Tool

An individualist is a person who says: "I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself." - Ayn Rand

I can understand how a man can look upon the earth and be an atheist. - Abraham Lincoln

Democritus once said "... It was an individual's conscience alone that determined right or wrong action."

And man has actually invented god... - Fyodor Dostoyevsk

Open your mind- not your bible.

What is atheism?
Atheism is the disbelief of the existance of God or gods. Atheists need concrete and logical proof of the existence of gods, though none exists. Some are agnostic, which means that they feel there is be no proof of the existence of a deity but do not deny that a deity may exists. I proclaim myself as atheist.

How can I declare so many theists wrong?
The concept of a god has been around for many years. Some believers use this as an argument. If no gods existed, why do/did so many people believe? I would be declaring millions of people as wrong or liars. Let me rebut with this quote: "... rational inquiry is different from gang warfare. It isn't the size of your gang that determines the merit of your idea, but the evidence you can present to support it. It's actual merit."

God is good?
God has been proclaimed to represent all that is good and pure, and is all-knowing, all-doing, and infinite. It would be correct to say that if such a deity were to exist, this deity is responsible for all that has happened, for he is the "creator" of this dandy planet. An all-knowing deity would know of the bleak future that humanity would possess, but this deity continued to create a planet where people murder each other, lie to each other, and consume life's resources. This is a good god? This sounds like a vengeful god...

Believe or go to hell!
Basically, what many theists are saying is, I have the freedom to "believe" what I want, as long as it's god, otherwise, I'm going to hell. It's "believe in god or go to hell." Many people have tried to use that against me as an argument. That's not an argument, that's a threat.

Free will?
Many have said that gods do not interfere with the world to fix the horrible occurrences because of "free will." Supposedly we all have the free will to decide for ourselves and our actions. God is the creator, therefore he has created within us the ability to have "free will." Must I point out that if it is given to us, it is not free will? Perhaps one's free will has been pre-programmed; how liberating is that?

Contradictions
"An example of the first type of argument would attack the notion that god is both 'outside' time and yet simultaneously capable of intervening in the affairs of men. The notion of a timeless creation, for example, is blatantly contradictory. What would it mean, for example, for a timeless being to judge someone? Or perform any action? In short, god's timelessness contradicts his ability to act as creator; a timeless god cannot be an active god.

Another example of the first type of argument is the fact that any entity is necessarily finite. Simply put, for one to have a notion of god, god must be defined. To 'define' is to limit, to draw the boundaries, to separate the 'god' from the 'not-god.' Simply put, it is not possible for an entity to possess limitless power; the notion of power presupposes limits. What god can do, he can do; what he can not do, he can not do. No matter how much power we grant god, that is how much he has and no more. This argument attacks all the 'omni' properties.

An example of the second type of argument is closely related to the above argument. Any observation is necessarily finite. Any observation of power can only suggest finite power. Thus any entity possessing an 'infinite' attribute could never be shown to exist. Thus the existence of a 'god' could never be part of man's store of knowledge. In other words, no one could ever know or claim that 'god' exists.

An example of the third type of argument is the existence of evil. If we require that God be all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing, why then is there evil in the world? Does god not know of the evil? Does he not wish to end it? Can he not end it?"

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