tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083077248630884853.post5462184027555821673..comments2024-01-06T02:55:10.599+00:00Comments on Streams of the River: The New Atheists (again)!David Chisletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16798657034517527174noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083077248630884853.post-92180747534208070702010-06-28T08:24:35.465+01:002010-06-28T08:24:35.465+01:00Being an atheist, I am inclined to apologize for a...Being an atheist, I am inclined to apologize for a lot of the "new atheism" that people have been seeing in the news, media and online. When I first choose to deny all claims of god and the super natural I began to experience the world through the viewpoint of identifying what role organized religion and belief in god played in humanity and I wasn't too happy about it. That probably did play a part in my share of name calling and nonconstructive argument and for that, I'm sorry.<br /><br />I haven't formally studied Nietzsche but you said "[He] understood also that the death of God beyond us is the death of the human as such within us. If we are, after all, nothing but the fortuitous effects of physical causes, then the will is bound to no rational measure but itself" I'm not going to lie, when I first realized there was no invisible being watching over me I was a little scared, but such is realizing the true depths of your personal free will. I can even sympathize and take some comfort with knowing there exist an early social construct that enables large groups of the population to adhere to a form of civil order just like a parent would take some comfort in knowing their children are less likely to act up or else <br />Santa wont give them any gifts.<br /><br />If someone has no obligation to do for anyone but himself then that person is just selfish but if that person pursues a cause for others and the rest of humanity then he is pursuing a self doctrine, a philosophy.Mr Coldhearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540504765288774127noreply@blogger.com