My original understanding of Atheism focused on several distinctions that I felt acted to characterize basic differences between an atheist and theist. Of these particularities, I honed in upon experiencing life without a God figure present, as well as the importance of being fully aware in the environments we inhabit for the sake of forgoing the jurisdiction of a supreme being. An attempt was made to emphasize this approach by asking the reader to understand that we as individuals exist in a reality of our own creating, as such we exercise our free will within the confines of a reality that is built upon ideas, experiences, knowledge, method, and a drive to discover. Essentially - the need for God is unfounded in this age now that we have gone beyond the clouds.
As the class evolved, I found my initial approach to be unsophisticated, though not necessarily “wrong”. A 386 processor in a cloud server world, one might say – functional, but certainly not up …show more content…
Linking these very human qualities to a concept in which they and God are inseparable would in effect negate the concept of free will and inextricably link humans to “God”. Furthermore the differentiation of which God I was referring to when describing atheism was unclear. Initially I treated the idea of the atheist as only someone who would have to deny the anthropomorphic version of God, as this is the only type of God that came to mind. This was also easy for me to refute in the original paper, as I do not personally believe that there exists such a God. Although part of me could possibly be talked into owning up to a sense of spirituality, which may or may not be out of convenience as the word agnostic reeks of indecisiveness, I would rather not be associated with such a personality
As the class evolved, I found my initial approach to be unsophisticated, though not necessarily “wrong”. A 386 processor in a cloud server world, one might say – functional, but certainly not up …show more content…
Linking these very human qualities to a concept in which they and God are inseparable would in effect negate the concept of free will and inextricably link humans to “God”. Furthermore the differentiation of which God I was referring to when describing atheism was unclear. Initially I treated the idea of the atheist as only someone who would have to deny the anthropomorphic version of God, as this is the only type of God that came to mind. This was also easy for me to refute in the original paper, as I do not personally believe that there exists such a God. Although part of me could possibly be talked into owning up to a sense of spirituality, which may or may not be out of convenience as the word agnostic reeks of indecisiveness, I would rather not be associated with such a personality