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Is Atheism a Religion?
Is Atheism a Religion?
l
level for God’s exisThere is spreading conviction that atheism is
a kind
of
religion. The question is by no means trivial and worth examining
whether there is any sense in calling atheism a religion. An
analysis of atheism and then an analysis of religion will provide
a reasonable answer to the question .
Atheism
is a belief that no transcendent Divine reality of any kind
exists. All that exists is mater in movement which is responsible
for the whole of knowable reality. Atheists claim that existence of
any kind of god or gods cannot be in any way justified by
experience or knowledge and therefore is unnecessary deviation of
human interest. Some atheists add that religion is not only
obsolete historically but it is a positive source of evil because
in the name of god persecutions inquisitions , burning people on
stakes or even sacrificing children to the divinity are historical
facts. Believing in God is therefore something mankind has to
leave behind. The real future of humanity is guaranteed by steady
progress of science , technology and the conquest of cosmos.
What
is Religion?
Religion
is a belief that besides the visible universe and it’s multiple
forms of development there exists the real fundamental ,
transcendent source and creator of all finite beings and the
existence of this creator explains the fundamental questions of
the human mind: Why is there a universe at all? Why not nothing
rather than being? Who or what is man? What should man believe,
what can he/she know, what should he do with his existence and what
is his final destiny. The essence of religion is it’s power to
answer the questions not only of time but also of eternity. All
genuine religion has definite answers to what happens after
physical death. The crucial point in religion is not only that
there must be some First Cause , First Mover, and a Cosmic Mind
but most importantly that there exists a Personal God and a God
who in some form or other revealed Himself and His intentions to
humans . This is why the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Islam
and Christianity are deserving the name religion. Of course
religion make sense only if God really exists otherwise it is
something superfluous and obstacle to the progress of
scientifically growing human family,
From the above it is obvious that atheism cannot be in any rational
way called religion of any kind. Why?. Because it is a pure negation
of any personal transcendent creator or redeemer . Nobody within
his/her senses would pray to or worship subatomic particles , the
force of gravity or the expanding universe.
However
human beings fabricate their own idols that is pseudo gods
like progress, patriotism, the reign of , superior race etc. For
those idols millions upon millions of people die throughout history .
There were self proclaimed gods, the Roman Caesars, The Japanese
Emperor , father Stalin, the great leader Hitler who promised
thousand years of German domination of the world. Such ideologies
perhaps could be in a very broad sense called religious , since
they demand again and again a holocaust of millions of human lives.
Religion contains a living relationship between God and humans and
in this relationship the position of humans is creature-hood . Since
all humans are creatures they expect some sort of salvation from
the prison of time , space suffering and death. For example
Christianity offers to the believer salvation into eternal life
offered freely by God who became human and through His salvific
actions opened the perspective and promise of eternal life which
is the complete fulfilment of human desires of happiness.
Atheism
is the product of a theory of knowledge which limits the
capacity of the human mind only to the visible measurable and
somehow discoverable by senses . This limitation of human knowing
must necessarily lead to some form of skepticism and materialism.
Therefore atheism by no means can be called religion.
Atheism
does not answer any of the fundamental questions mentioned above. The
claim that science makes God obsolete has no scientific or
philosophical justification. The crucial question here is
whether God exists or not because one part of the question can be
true . If God exists then any denial of His existence is fatal to
the meaning of human life and also to the very nature of human
beings. Atheism therefore has an obligation to justify it’s
position not only from scientific view point but also from the point
of men’s existential situation. If all human values and all reality
is necessarily vanishing into the past without any hope for
eternity then of course Sartre is right life and human existence
is meaningless and absurd. To come however to such conclusion one has
to disregard the nature of the human mind and it’s arguments on
the philosophical and revelationatence.
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