Atheism

I am no expert concerning God. I can't even truely say that I have read the Quran and the Bible though I plan to do so as soon as I can. However, this blog contains about as much as I know about God and why I am an atheist.

Imagine you are a man in the times when men lived in the wilds and lived by hunting. You wake up, you hunt, you roam. You see the stars, you see the sun, you see the moon. How do you explain them? No one moves them, they seem to move on their own. You naturally assume that these stars, and suns are big and powerful, much bigger and much more powerful than you, and over the years, you start to say that they are all controlled by one entity, ie: God. However, man developed, and with each year, he understood more. He understood how the sun moves, how the moon moves, what the stars are. Yet, the belief held by his ancestors, instead of developing with man, remained the same. And it grew and took the form of religion. A religion which forced him to stop enjoying, to give up pleasures, to fight for God, to fear him and to serve him. This website aptly describes the difference between science and faith. http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-01-15%20--%20science%20vs%20faith.png

First of all, what you are specially depends on your upbringing. If you are brought up in a deeply religious environment, you are sure to believe in God. As a child, you accept what is told to you and after growing up, you find it hard to change your views. When I became big enough to comprehend some basic science and logic, I became agnostic. Then, after viewing arguments for and against God, I decided on atheism.

First of all, I present arguments for God. And I find very few of them to be even slightly logical.

1) My holy book says that God exists. God wrote the holy book hence it must be true. Hence, God exists. http://www.jhuger.com/kisshank.php shows how foolish this logic is.

Anyone can understand that this argument uses circular logic and this argument is not even worth refuting.

2) Everything requires a cause. Hence, if you go back you must come upon a first cause. This cause has to be God.

This argument is again logically incorrect. The argument assumes that everything requires a cause and then says that God doesn't require a cause. People argue that God is uncaused and is infinite. If God can be infinite, why couldn't mass-energy have always existed. People argue about the problems in infinity but as far as I know, they hardly affect the argument that mass energy could have always existed.

3) Look around you. The universe is so complex. It requires a creator. God is the creator. Hence God exists.

Again, this argument is incorrect. If everything which is complex requires a creator, then God, being the most complex of all must also require a creator who must require a creator and so on.

4) It is impossible that we have just come by a series of chance events.

Evolution is not about chance. Evolution basically means random mutations and natural selection. It is not a series of chance events.

These arguments are based on my personal experience and the rest are not even worth mentioning.

Other people argue that God is beyond logic, beyond time. That all present laws do not apply to God. Honestly, why does someone need God when he hasn't shown any proof of his existence, takes care that the universe can be explained without him, and is basically of no use at all.


A few last points

Finally, I want to make a few last points.

Now, most religions say that we should fear the almighty God. People also say that you should show your devotion to God, love him etc. Now, how can you love someone you fear? How can you show true devotion towards someone when you fear punishment and know that you will be rewarded? And isn't God a little too human-like, who gives punishments to people who defy him and rewards those who serve him?

Second, the ever popular stone paradox. If God is omnipotent, he can either create a stone he can't lift or he can't create a stone he can't lift. Either way, he is not omnipotent.

Third, people say that if people have their belief, they should be left alone and allowed to be followed any religion they desire. However, religion causes a great amount of loss in life and property. A great amount of money is wasted in religion. Religion also effects the rational thinking of people. If someone believes in Superman, he/she has serious problems.