Atheism

Andrew Ryan imposes his personal beliefs on Rapture’s citizens, predominantly Atheism. Over the city’s brief existence, the people did not forsake God; rather, Christianity became the underground religion of Rapture, and smugglers made their living dealing out religious paraphernalia. Such is the jaded concept of freedom in Rapture…

People today are affiliated with diverse religions and beliefs. There are Catholics, Christians, Buddhists, Baptists, but some individuals are Athiest. Atheism is “ the view that God does not exist” (Shafer-Landau 64). Within our society today, people all over believe that having religious views is needed to fulfill our duty in life. They believe if we are not religious, then we can not be civilized, generous, and cannot possess a moral compass. The one question that I raised when reading the…

Ideology “Ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’ -it is profoundly unconscious” (Louis Althusser). The quote by philosopher Louis Althusser interprets that ideologies are rights that humans choose to create unconsciously. In many situations, performing or establishing an activity without consciousness can result in an incompetent and unpredictable situation, but not necessarily all unconscious decisions have contravening effects. Ideologies may acquire different roles in the lives…

Question: Who was Nietzsche? What is a “Cosmos without God”? Nietzsche was born on the 15 of October in 1844 and died on the 25 of August in 1900. He was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar who’s work has had exerted a big influence on western philosophy and modern intellectual history. A Cosmos without God is also known as "God is dead also known as the death of God is a widely quoted statement by Friedrich Nietzsche a German Philosopher. The quote first…

this Thematic essay, we will explore the distinct styles of communication Wilson and Harris deploys. Compare central themes, and summarize core concepts. Sam Harris is a world-renowned philosopher and neuroscientist Harris’s prolific writings on atheism and how to be good without god, has propelled him to the forefront of society. In his Ted Talk, Science can Answer Moral Questions, Harris takes on a observably straight forward approach. Using both rhetorical…

good? In this paper, a huge issue in today 's society will be discussed. The matter of religion… does it assist people by giving hope for a better life or is it holding society back from progress? There are thousands of different religions. Each has their own belief system and ideas about the afterlife and what it will be like. With all these different ideas out there it brings up the question. Are all of these religions good? Is there just one that is correct or are they all just nonsense…

Jews all over the globe throughout millennia have had challenges that would have caused many other groups to lose their group identity. In the Soviet Union the Jews first had to overcome state-sponsored atheism, then outright oppression and anti-Semitism. This was followed by suppression of religion. Lastly came restriction of movement, by refusing to let Jews emigrate during the Iron Curtain bringing the oppression of Jews a full circle as in the years leading up to the founding of the Soviet…

The broken relationship with his father was a primary source of this doubt. Paul Vitz, a professor of Psychology at New York University, wrote the book Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of Atheism, which talks about how atheist’s relationship with their father affects their relationship with God. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, Jean-Paul Sartre, Voltaire, and Ludwig Feuerbach were famous intellectual atheists…

The expectation of going to college to receive a higher education is placed upon every adolescent after they graduate from high school. Throwing up one’s cap and receiving a diploma seems bittersweet, as it is a reward and documentation of completing the thirteen required years of basic education, however, one is thrown the burden of adulthood at them afterwards. The two plausible roads to take after graduating is to endure stress-inducing college or find a decent job that can support oneself. I…

The horrors and aftermath of World War I shook European Protestantism to its core. The promises and hopes of Protestant liberalism seen in the nineteenth century evaporated as Europe, seen as the cradle of Christendom, moved beyond Christendom. In this gap, what were once strongholds of Protestantism such as Germany, Scandinavia, and Great Britain witnessed a rise in secularism and skepticism. The theological response to the rise of secularism is seen in the work of Karl Barth, the son of a…