Thank God For The Atheists

The idea that Abraham was an atheist is cute but completely misguided. If Abraham could converse with God, an entity having greater-than-human power, then Abraham was clearly a THEIST, as the belief in such an entity is THEISM, not A-THEISM.

monotheist:

"I wonder what the derffirence between the atheists and animales????????"

Well, atheists can spell better.

B R E A K I N G -- N E W S:

The IRANian "AL-TAQiYAH" [islamic-Zionist] Army threatened to Destroy the "KABBA" in SAUDI ARAbiA & the "DOME Of The ROCK" in JERUSALEM & other islamic, Christian, Judeo, Hindu, Buddhist Holy sites.. IF,

PERSiA & their Mulla's gets attacked by any Judeo-JEWS & or Judeo-Christs secondaries , or Judeo-Hindu's [via HinDUTVA, aka Hindu-Zionists] teriary's or Judeo-Buddhists et al.

Fratricidal sky-gods do not exist, and there is not an atheist alive who believes they do.

The results from the Pew Poll are a result of poor methodology and nothing more.

Even as a young child I knew logically there could be no other answer for design than a designer and got busy about finding who that designer is.
I am happy to say the answer is only found in Christ Jesus.
Yahweh has made a record, the Bible, that is irrefutable and glorious in its perfect wisdom. We CAN know God and we can be right with Him through Son.
Praise be to Yah we have a Savior. HalleluYah!
Patrick Burwell/OnlyJesusSaves.com

maybe a better word for the people that the Rabbi is talking about is (a)theist. Check out peter rollins' How (Not) to Speak of God.

I wonder what the derffirence between the atheists and animales?????????????

I suggest the rabbi reads Sam Harris for a bit of insight and balance on the Pew survey. I would have expected better from a Rabbi than this fatuous piece but I suppose rationality is not one of the strong points of the religious mind. As for Maria Janna I can see that logic isn't one of her strong points.

Like Harris pointed out in his piece, this "21%" amounts to about 40 people, who may have thought it funny to tell the pollsters they were simultaneously atheistic and theistic.

Let's be clear on terminology: atheists DO NOT believe in any gods.

Religion is a disgusting racket, a sleazy scam that keeps the clergy employed and the people dumbed-down and indoctrinated into believing absurd fairy tales of skygods and demons.

What a way to shake down the poor suckers who believe whatever they are told by weirdos with their collars on backwards.

Religion will not survive the century. Knowledge is exploding throughout the world. It will bury the ridiculous superstitious myths of the ancients.
And I hope I'm around to enjoy it all.

Shame on you shamans.

Please!

An atheist who prays to a god is no atheist. He is an idiot.
Atheists do not believe gods exist. Only the deluded pray, and atheists are not deluded. They are atheists.
It all sounds like religious propaganda to me, to gain credibility for the act of praying which atheists ridicule, and all objective studies of praying show it to be a useless activity that benefits noone.

I like your statement that "the Bible’s first monotheist is also its first atheist."

I have a little theory of my own concerning atheism and secularism, and their comminglings with religion and religious thought.

Our modern religions are *written* religions, written by men in modern languages, the new languages of modern civilizations: Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic etc.. It's been like that since Hesiod wrote is "Theogony". Since this day, since the advent of modern, "civilized" religions, humans therefore became the creators of the gods, through writing, while the gods ceased to be the creators of men. From this day on the gods have always been defined, interpreted, altered and destroyed by modern writing and religious literature.

The whole relationship between the gods and men had been turned upside down. So it's quite obvious that modern religions THEMSELVES are already a secular phenomenon, because they are based on writing (and in consequence: re-writing). Therefore it's only logical that atheism is also a natural consequence of and is very much connected to *religion as a secular phenomenon*.

So I'm not really surprised that there are "atheists" who believe in god. Atheism and faith go hand in hand, stronger and closer than we may think. Religious thought is the direct cause of atheism. Maybe atheists are even the more "religious" persons than believers, because they oppose the mythical and supernatural approach and see religions for what they really are: a product of modern civilization and technical progress, of writing and language: strictly speaking a secular phenomenon.

Mr. HIRSCHFIELD you wrote "it strikes me as a very healthy corrective for the same man who was willing to “blindly” alter his life and that of his family just because God called him to do so."

I totally agree, been there done that.

BRAD HIRSCHFIELD

You wrote, " It was Abraham who heard God’s plan about destroying Sodom and argued that doing so failed to meet the criteria of good judgment; that if God was the most righteous, He should act more justly! In effect, Abraham was willing to deny God’s godliness if He didn’t measure up to Abraham’s understanding of justice. While that might be a bit arrogant, it strikes me as a very healthy corrective for the same man who was willing to “blindly” alter his life and that of his family just because God called him to do so."

And I would like to add when God and Moses had their "talk" about the Hebrews being wiped out and Moses saying what he did.

I look at both of these as God drawing out of these people something that they, themselves, probably did not even know that they had in them.

Not that God changed His Mind but God has His Way of working with individual people in whatever way works best with that individual.

God is a searcher of hearts and minds, not of religious affiliations or lack thereof and it sure does seem that not only is God a searcher of our hearts and minds but that our minds and hearts are also searching.

Take care, be ready.

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.