Like Theism, Atheism is also simply an ideology! Let me prove it to you!

The Glitch
Aug 26, 2017 · 3 min read

Differences between Faith, absolute belief and agnosticism.

Most people in the world rely on faith. Faith is when you have not dived completely into a religion and probably aren’t fully aware of the different dos and don’ts of the religion and only identify oneself associated to a religion simply because he/she inherited it — and their ideology is simply that there is a god and the god judges you based on your intentions and actions alone.

Agnosticism however, unlike atheism or theism is simply stating that one can never truly know weather or not there is a god or what nature a god would possess. It is a simple way of saying, we have no idea and maybe never will.

Absolute belief is what I believe you can define any radical theist or atheist with but please don’t get me wrong. I am not in any way implying that atheism in itself is a religion, I actually find the idea absurd — no, what I am implying is that atheism like theism is simply an ideology. Please let me elaborate —

Most religions are based on books, written to the least many centuries ago without any basis of it’s validity and it almost always entails a man who was supposedly somehow connected to god himself — no, there is no “/herself” here because almost all religions believes that god is a man. The stories of this god’s man are always full of miracles and predictions and obvious wisdom and Barnum statements and radical theists are the people who find these books to be the absolute truth.

Before however I talk about atheism, please let me tell you about skepticism so that you can understand better what differences it has with atheism.

Skepticism is when you are presented with something as the truth or entails the idea of truthfulness but you treat it with doubt and try and study this information to come to a conclusion of it’s truthfulness. Skepticism can only talk about the validity of a religious god but not the notion of god itself because we have no information about it.

Atheism however, like skepticism is when you use the truth of science to disprove a religion but unlike skepticism, it doesn’t stop there. Atheism treats the notion of a god as one only a religion can have and therefore starts claiming that there is no god because there is no religion with any truth to it. There is no soul because there is no truth to religion, atheism will disallow the study of any idea that presents itself as similar to that of a religious idea, so that’s why I call atheism an ideology — I myself would prefer to call myself a skeptic and find myself free to explore ideas such as Near death experiences and rebirth and super human abilities such as that of Prahlad Jani and the Fire Yogi Of Tanjore however, unlike an atheistic approach, I will give these ideas the unbiased study it deserves based on the way it has shown to deserve an attention.

Please in your comment, try not be rude for I believe I am a reasonable person and only want to learn so if you think my ideas are flawed, I would love to have an intellectual argument with you and change my ideas if I am shown to be wrong.

Finally, I need your help so if you could divert you attention to my story here, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

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