Joshua Nitti posed the question: Do you think that people believe in the idea of christian atheism because of lack of evidence?
I myself am an atheist. I am of the personal opinion (no offense to those who believe differently) that there is no supreme being who has the ability to decide how my life should be lived and what the circumstances of my actions are. Up until last week, I had never even heard of "Christian Atheism," but since I discovered what it was I find that I can identify with it.
Christian atheism has a few main views. According to BBC, those include:
- Religion is about internal spiritual experiences, and that is all.
- There is no world other than the material world around us.
- There are no beings other than the living organisms on this planet or elsewhere in the universe.
- There is no objective being or thing called God that exists separately from the person believing in him.
- There is no 'ultimate reality' outside human minds either.
- We give our own lives meaning and purpose; there is nothing outside us that does it for us.
- God is a projection of the human mind
Basically, there is no such thing as God, we are in charge of our lives and give them meaning, there is no heaven or hell. Christian atheism is about living by Jesus' love thy friend, love they neighbor, etc principals, without believing in the messiah or God. To me, it seems like Christian atheists don't believe in God because, like me, they think the likelihood of some man in the sky controlling our actions is a little ridiculous. Maybe lack of evidence has something to do with it, but it's more likely that they just don't want to have to worry about pleasing somebody who, in the end, can't fully be pleased. Just like Confucius believed it was impossible to be a sage, I think it's impossible to follow every rule of the Bible and Christianity. Perhaps so do the Christian atheists, so they follow the ones that make sense, and are good moral people who don't believe in God.
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