Atheism

question of “how should one live their life, theistically or atheistically/agnostically?” This is a life changing question that is literally impossible to not choose a side, because by even choosing to not side you’re inevitably choosing the side of atheism through the very fact that you did not choose theism and the same vice versa. It is utterly impossible to be neutral in such a dire predicament. Thus, since we cannot avoid the predicament, let us tackle it head on and embark on a journey to…

The thinker George Berkeley contended against the notion of material substance existing. He built his argument from stringing together a series of claims on being and epistemology, and using them to attack belief in matter and dismiss it. Berkeley begins his argument with an attack on abstract thinking. He claims that generalities do not exist and the qualities of an object cannot exist outside of it. Notions of abstract ideas are made up and mistaken; that they cannot actually be thought off.…

As Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” The world seems to have embraced this idea, making democracy, at least for now, the most ideal form of government possible. Some regions of the world embrace this more than others. For example, there are no democracies in the Arab world. There are many different reasons as to why this may be, religion, culture, etc. However I believe that the main reasons that the Arab world are not democratic…

During the Scientific Revolution there was a para dime shift which caused an era of questioning and skepticism. The religious assumptions that guided the thought of the medieval scholars were abandoned in favor of mathematics and mechanical metaphors. This led to the Enlightenment period where many people challenged tradition and faith with scientific methods. This created a philosophical, spiritual, economical, and cultural revolution that would change the way people thought forever. Throughout…

Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith, published the article “The Moral Conditions for Genocide in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in the Winter 2005 edition of College Literature. He has focused his studies on the subject of religion, atheism, and politics — all of which he uses within this article as a method to deconstruct the novella by Joseph Conrad. His various publications have further supported his authority on these subjects and gives him the ethos to create the…

and he compares this to a New York sky line and in the picture there stands the twin towers. He says that being atheists is something to be proud of but most Americans think badly. But if people would speak out you could change their minds about atheism. He compares this to gay marriage it.…

The Cold War lasted nearly 45 years because neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to compromise their political or religious ideals. Both nations considered their way of thinking to be the best, and the looming threat of nuclear warfare further escalated the tension. A stalemate resulted from the countries’ inability to address their differences, especially those on politics, economics, and religion. When the United States and the Soviet Union began to address their differences,…

Francis Bellamy produced The Pledge of Allegiance In the year of August 1892 and President Eisenhower, in 1954 and Congress added the phrase under God into the Pledge of Allegiance. 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," forming the 31-word pledge. However, their many people are against because they don't believe or does stand for flag and falling that protect and never came home. Which guide into a lawsuit…

that people who consider themselves spiritual but not religious are 19% more likely to develop psychological disorders than their religious and nonreligious counterparts. People who fall in the grey between the black and white that is theism and atheism are more prone to mental illness. Another study showed that there was an inverse correlation between a greater level of education and smaller religious population as time progresses. Because people are learning more and more about the world and…

Stories told in the past that are still prevalent today includes tales of individuals from all ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds who chose to travel to America for the collective reason of building a stable and prosperous life. Having to appropriate to lifestyles that are completely different from one someone grew up in and is accustomed to is the reason for the major culture shock that these individuals endures and leads to the dire need of comfort and familiarity. To this, those who…