Atheism
By
Gary DeVaney
Personal Declaration: I, Gary DeVaney, have no hard evidence that The Biblical God ever existed in reality. I personally do not like The Biblical God character, real or not, as depicted, C&V, in the Bible. I personally do not choose to spend eternity with such a character - fictitious or not - based on The Biblical God's heinous C&V rap-sheet. If The Biblical God is real and He throws a party, I’m not coming.
I perceive that trying to organize true Atheists is like trying to organize a herd of cats. True Atheists are immune from the glue of "faith and belief" and from the world pandemic "God-Virus".
"The God Virus" is an outstanding book by Dr. Darrel Ray.
True Atheists lead their own lives and have little interest in leading or following other lives. True Atheists understand and accept enforceable criminal and civil law. True Atheists are not affected by supernatural nonsense.
Evidence Of God
There is evidence of the absense of God.
There is the absense of evidence of God.
If you provide verifiable evidence of God - you will become the most famous Human Being in modern history.
Carl Sagan: Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonders of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
A Real Christian Testimony
I am a Christian. I believe The Holy Bible which documents Chapter & Verse that Jesus Christ died for my sins. I am a sinner. I sin a lot. I have some favorite sins. It is my sacred duty to sin so that my savior, Jesus Christ - who died for my sins - did not die in vain, pointlessly, or unsuccessfully. I am saved!
Logic tells me that the Biblical "God / Character" does NOT exist in reality. Due to this real or not Character's Biblical C&V deeds, I choose NOT to be around this Biblical God / Character even for a moment - let alone for eternity.
Other than a warm-fuzzy, unexplainable feeling, can you prove there is a God?
Friedrich Nietzsche: I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Religious scholarship: To educate eager, young minds by promoting religious beliefs is to promote a universe of liars. GWD
Atheism: A non-prophet category of Human Beings.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are often accused by Christians to have been evil Atheists.
Adolf Hitler declared in Mein Kampf: I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
 
Mein Kampf By Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was known to be Catholic.
Joseph Stalin had at one time attended a religious seminary.
Men, known to be Atheists, when they murdered hundreds of millions: Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge, Mao Tse Tung, Hoxha, Castro, Bonaparte, Ho Chi Minh...
Please don’t come with that tired nonesense that these men killed in the name of “communism”, and not Atheism. Communism was merely the vehicle which they used to carry out their atheistic plots to eradicate religion from the world, and to create religion/God free utopias. Karl Marx himself admitted that communism was born of Atheism.
Atheism is not a religion. Atheism is a personal relationship with reality. TXT2PIC.COM
Gary DeVaney: Some accuse that my writings come across as written by a typical "Atheist" - although, I really don’t care to be limited as such. I rather consider myself to be a "realist". Atheists have about as much influence, in my value system, as do Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Hebrews, Muslims or any other group. Am I an Atheist because I don’t hold respect for nor obedience to the characteristics and deeds of the God of the Bible? If so - I am guilty as charged.
I took on the Biblical God based on "God's Word" - "God's Letter" - "God's own Diary" (The Bible). I take issue with what the Biblical God has been documented to have said and to have done. If there is any evidence of another more ethical, fair, and more appealing God, I am open to also experience whatever that God amounts to.
Jesus Christ did not make the cut with me. I am confident that I would also not make the cut with Jesus.
These next two Bible C&Vs are what sunk Jesus Christ in my value system:
Luke 19:27 And, as for those enemies, who would not have Me be King over them, bring them before Me and slay them.
This parable parallels the dogmatic Christian threat: "If you will not have Me, Jesus Christ, as your savior - you will suffer Eternal-Torment in Hell."
According to Ezekiel, after the millennium, if you are not judged and chosen by God so to serve Him for eternity, you will cease to exist.
Quoting Sylvester Stallone Doing Shakespear: "To Be - Or What?"
According to Revelation, if you are not judged and chosen by God, you will suffer Eternal-Torment.
Most sadistic clergy choose the Revelation's "Eternal-Torment" version over Ezekiel's "cease to exist" version. The "Eternal-Torment" version puts more fear into their believers which means more money, power and control for the evil clergy.
Most authoritative Christians, who unsuccessfully try to convert individuals, will blackmail those individuals with the threat of Eternal-Torment.
Friedrich Nietzsche: After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
The other gross Bible C&V that lost my feel for Jesus Christ is in: Revelation 2:23 "The Son of God" (Jesus) will kill the harlot's children.
Jesus will kill children because of their parents! That's enough of Jesus Christ for me. Concerning respect! Jesus is history!
Some Christians say that Jesus loves me anyway and that God put me here at this time to do exactly what I am doing to fulfill His plan. I have no evidence of that nor do I have any evidence of the existence of any Satan. There may be Gods - but none that I have studied to date are worthy of my support - and, I decide that - you don’t. Agreed? Unlike my early years, I am no longer blackmailed by fear. Who knows, there may be a real God, somewhere, Who is interested in straightening out the Biblical God’s mess. He may even be cheering this work on.
Most Atheists are thinkers but, unlike most believers, I view that most atheists are NOT doers. Most Atheists DO little to nothing. A man once told me he was an Atheist. I told him I had a few hundred Bible C&Vs that would support his choosing to be an Atheist. He said he didn't care. Most Atheists are basically impotent and harmless to defending themselves against the Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief systems.
 Edmond De Goncourt: If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
"Blasphemy" (dictionary): Written or spoken insults directed against religious beliefs with deliberate intent to outrage believers. It is still an offense in English common-law.
Do some Atheists / realists insult God? Yes - and rightfully so. We are often guilty as charged.
But, people widely differ in their take on the Bible. Many profound thinkers contend that the usefulness of the Bible is extinct, that it causes the problems of modern society by its very model.
The believers who claim blasphemy, are generally the ones who attempt to avoid, to evade and to cover up the C&V facts.
Edmond de Goncourt: If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
If believers would take the blinders off concerning the Biblical God, I am confident they would honestly fear Him, but would they honestly like Him?
Thomas Paine: Each of the churches accuse the others of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.
Most Atheists are survivalists - who are usually individualists - who depend in their own skills to survive a threat or a disaster.
Atheism
From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.
The term atheism originated from the Greek (atheos), meaning "without god", which was applied with a negative connotation to those thought to reject the gods worshipped by the larger society. With the spread of freethought, skeptical inquiry, and subsequent increase in criticism of religion, application of the term narrowed in scope. The first individuals to identify themselves as "atheist" appeared in the 18th century.
Atheists tend to be skeptical of supernatural claims, citing a lack of emperical evidence. Atheists have offered various rationales for not believing in any deity. These include the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistant revelations, and the argument from nonbelief. Other arguments for atheism range from the philosophical to the social to the historical. Although some atheists have adopted secular philosophies, there is no one ideology or set of behaviors to which all atheists adhere.
In Western culture, some atheists are frequently assumed to be irreligious, although other atheists are spiritual. Moreover, atheism also figures in certain religious and spiritual belief systems, such as Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Neopagan movements, such as Wicca. Jainism and some forms of Buddhism do not advocate belief in gods, whereas Hinduism holds atheism to be valid, but difficult to follow spiritually.
Since conceptions of atheism vary, determining how many atheists exist in the world today is no easy task. According to one estimate, about 2.3% of the world's population are atheists, while a further 11.9% are nonreligious. According to another, rates of self-reported atheism are among the highest in Western nations, although also to quite varying degrees—United States (4%), Italy (7%), Spain (11%), Great Britain (17%), Germany (20%), and France (32%).
In early ancient Greek, the adjective atheos meant "godless". It was first used as a term of censure roughly meaning "ungodly" or "impious". In the 5th century BCE, the word began to indicate more deliberate and active godlessness in the sense of "severing relations with the gods" or "denying the gods". The term asebēs then came to be applied against those who impiously denied or disrespected the local gods, even if they believed in other gods. Modern translations of classical texts sometimes render atheos as "atheistic". As an abstract noun, there was also atheotēs, "atheism". Cicero transliterated the Greek word into the Latin Atheos. The term found frequent use in the debate between early Christians and Hellenists, with each side attributing it, in the pejorative sense, to the other.
The term atheist (from French athee), in the sense of "one who denies or disbelieves the existence of God", predates atheism in English, being first found as early as 1566, and again in 1571. Atheist as a label of practical godlessness was used at least as early as 1577. The term atheism was derived from the French atheisme, and appears in English about 1587. An earlier work, from about 1534, used the term atheonism. Related words emerged later: deist in 1621, theist in 1662, in 1675, and theism in 1678. At that time "deist" and "deism" already carried their modern meaning. The term theism came to be contrasted with deism.
Atheism was first used to describe a self-avowed belief in late 18th-century Europe, specifically denoting disbelief in the monotheistic Abrahamic god. In the 20th century, globalization contributed to the expansion of the term to refer to disbelief in all deities, though it remains common in Western society to describe atheism as simply "disbelief in God".
Some atheists have doubted the very nature of the term "atheism". In his book Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris wrote:
In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Finis Wikipedia
Karen Armstrong (a former nun) writes that "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the word 'atheist' was still reserved exclusively for polemic... The term 'atheist' was an insult. Nobody would have dreamed of calling himself an atheist." In the middle of the seventeenth century it was still assumed that it was impossible not to believe in God; atheist meant not accepting the current conception of the divine.
The Hebrews (Jews) were the first to document a negative external-spirit whom they identified to be God. Up until about 500 BC, there was no Satan in Hebrew scenarios or scripture. The Jews viewed that their God did it all. Was Satan actually written about to pave the way for a composite savior called Jesus Christ?
"God Is Not Great" - By Christopher Hitchens - A Highly Recommended Book!
In about 560 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar, killed and captured Israel. The King took his captives back to Babylon. There, Zoroastrianism was taught to the Israelites. They adopted the concept of Satan and Hell. Jesus Christ made the concept of Satan and Hell popular. God's "Judgment Day" and "Eternal Torment" evolved as the consequence of not accepting Jesus Christ as God and your personal savior. If Jesus Christ is God, then Jesus is "the savior" that will save you from Himself.
External-Spirit?
Donald Morgan: A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism.
When the term "faith" is brought into the equation, it raises the question as to any "reality" of God.
“Have faith", "believe me" and "trust me” are often the terms used by control-freaks, con-men and scoundrels.
To Challenge one's faith is to challenge one's nonsense.
Is it those who assume authority over their atmosphere the same those who insist that you have faith in authority. By you having faith, are you yielding to their authority?
Authoritarian / believer / controller: I don’t want debate. I want obedience to my beliefs, demands and expectations.
Some God-Fearing believers claim to be "spiritual" and not "religious". They claim that God is "spiritual" and that "religion" is worldly. They worship God privately without paying support to religious leaders or churches. The non-believing Atheist sees little to no reason to do either.
Blaise Pascal: Men never commit evil so fully or joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
Not one man in 10,000 has the goodness of mind or the strength of the heart to be an Atheist.
Atheism is not about religion. Atheists simply assert that god does not exist - nothing more and nothing less. Atheists mostly stand up and debate believers (bullies) who push their "conquer them all" God on them.
 George Bernard Shaw: I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
Karen Armstrong: All fundamentalism - whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim - is rooted in a profound fear of annihilation.
Believers are mind-set, hypnotized and brainwashed. When an Atheist questions or uses a C&V fact to point out a believer's error in their mindset, that Atheist is often accused of attempting to brainwash the already brainwashed believer.
Socrates was accused by Meletes of not believing in the gods.
Clark Adams: If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!
The question is the highest form of thought. Learning requires a change of behavior. As long as a believer can not question his or her belief, he or she can not learn (change their behavior).
The Question IS The Highest Form Of Thought
The paradox is: If a believer CAN question his or her belief, he or she proves that they do NOT truly believe. Because that is considered "blasphemy", believers are programmed NOT to learn anything outside their dogmatic, mind-set belief. Learning reality does NOT require repentance or apology.
Ernestine Rose: It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
When a suspect is brought into court, the prosecution has already come to the conclusion that the suspect is guilty - or the suspect would not be in court. It is the prosecutor's job to then prove the suspect's guilt to the jury. I have concluded that the Biblical God is guilty of the C&V crimes documented and listed. The God Murders is my attempt to prosecute and convince a wholly-unbiased jury of the Biblical God's guilt. Good luck - - - right!
In The Beginning of His trial, the invisible Biblical God was asked if He was guilty of these crimes. He refused to answer. His defense representatives (believers) stated that whether the Biblical God was guilty or not was irrelevant, as He was to be considered innocent in that He was God.
To judge is to make realistic decisions based on evidence, not hearsay nor feel-good dogma.
What has produced the effects of dogmatic brainwashing, conditioning or programming more than religion?
Is death a gift or an enemy? If there is no afterlife - no eternal-damnation - no serving and worshiping a tyrannical God forever, death can be a gift.
Doesn’t God show infidelity and poor character when He breaks His word. All of God's broken promises proved to be conditional.
Malachi 2:1-3 God said: If you do not listen to give glory to my name, I will strew dung (throw shit) in your faces.
Nice talk, Sir God.
Romans 5:13 Sin is not accounted when there is no law.
Believer: God is entitled. God does what He wants, whatever is His pleasure. God is not subject to any laws. He is totally above the laws of man. God makes laws to suit His pleasure. How can God be subject to law if there is no law over Him?
Q: Does that also apply when there is a law; but, it is not popular, acknowledged, nor enforced?
Believer: I don’t want to discuss it!
Do Christian fundamentalists regard "evolution" as a scientific theory or as a symbol of evil?
Ludwig Feuerbach (1841) greatly influenced philosophers such as Engles, Marx, David Strauss, Nitzsche and Max Stirner. Feuerbach considered God to be a human invention and religious activities to be wish-fulfillment. For this he is considered the founding father of modern znthropology of religion.
Atheists simply have no evidence that there is, in reality, a God. Believers claim, without proof, there is a God and condemn Atheists for their doubt and lack of faith. "I believe" means so many things that Atheists rarely use those words. "I believe", to seasoned Atheists, means: "I pretend" - "I gamble" - "I am mind-set and I am committed to". It's such a multiple-meaning and a vague term that it has little substance. "I believe" always admits "I don't know." Why should an Atheist buy into a believer's "I don't knows?" When challenged, and the believer is proved wrong about something he believed, he will cop-out that he said he only believed. He didn't say he knew.
Mindset believers are Atheists concerning every other God but their own. If you ask them to describe their God, they will mostly describe feelings.
Atheists are more likely to be thinkers instead of believers. Intelligence is categorical. One can be intelligent in one category and an moron in many others. Atheists tend to require reality and "making sense" in their thinking. Believers tend use unrealistic "leaps of faith" in their debate.
A Leap Of Faith?
Richard Francis Burton: The More I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Karen Armstrong: Religion should be studied with the same academic impartiality and accuracy as the economy, politics, and social customs of a region, so that we learn how religion interacts with political tension, what is counterproductive, and how to avoid giving unnecessary offense.
How realistic are Christians? How many Christians believe in the "Virgin Birth" and the "life after death resurrection". How realistic do believing Christians prove to be?
Would you believe in Jesus if no obedience was necessary?
Epicurus: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then is God impotent. Is God able, but not willing? Then is God malevolent? Is God both able and willing? Is God evil?
Revelation 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses.
Should Atheists believe that there are killing armies and war horses in Heaven? Evil religious people may believe it - but, should Atheists?
Believers feel supported when other believers commit to the same unrealistic dogma they commit to. That is strange to a thinking Atheist. GWD
Poly-Atheism
By
Gary DeVaney
Christian: Tell me, sinner, do you believe in God?
Atheist: No sir. I am an Atheist. I don't have any evidence of any God.
Mr. Christian, you tell me, do you believe in God?
Christian: I most certainly do.
Atheist: Which God do you believe in?
Christian: There is only one God, the God of the Bible.
Atheist: If an Islamic believer approached you, to convert to Islam, how would you feel?
Christian: I would be offended!
Atheist: How would you feel if he pressured you to convert?
Christian: I would soon tell him where to get off.
Atheist: What would you do if he threatened you with "eternal-torment" if you did not convert?
Christian: If I were a violent man, we might come to blows. I would tell him, "Satan, get ye behind me."
Atheist: What if you saw him try to convert other Christians?
Christian: I would strongly intervene.
Atheist: Based on your answers, how do you think Atheists feel when you try to convert us?
Christian: After this conversation and if I absolutely knew that he or she was an Atheist, I probably wouldn't bother.
Atheist: Mr. Christian, we would appreciate that.
Christian: You are going to Hell!
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Atheist: Mr. Christian, I view that you are a "Poly-Atheist".
Christian: What? I believe in God.
Atheist: Ok, be honest and answer yes or no. Do you believe in the god, Zeus?
Christian: No! I certainly do not! Zeus does not exist.
Atheist: Can you prove that Zeus does not exist?
Christian: No. I don't have to. It is more than obvious that Zeus does not exist.
Atheist: Do you believe in Allah?
Christian: No!
Atheist: Do you believe in, support, promote and finance the war god, Mars?
Christian: Of course not!
Atheist: Do you believe in the gods Neptune, Horus or Thor?
Christian: No! No! And No!
Atheist: Then, by your own admission, Sir Christian, you are a Poly-Atheist because you do not believe in MANY gods.
I too qualify to be a Poly-Atheist or even a Serial-Atheist as I also do not believe in many gods - especially yours.
However, as a regular, not-accepted Atheist, I believe in just one God less than you do.
By the way, the Islamic Allah you claimed not to believe in is the same "God of Abraham" as your Judeo-Christian God.
Christian: I don't believe that and I will not spread pearls before swine.
Atheist: Sir Christian, are you more upset that I don't believe in your God - or - that I don't believe you concerning your God?
Atheist: I Do Not Believe You Concerning Your God
It seems that Iran (possibly Muslims) are threatening to kill a poor native to Iran, Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani. I view their attitude and actions to be appalling, disgusting, tyrannical, inhumane, irrational and insane. Even US Christians would never authoritatively threaten Atheists or any non-Christian with their God's destruction or something as absurd as Eternal Torment. I'm glad to be in a Christian country where Christians promote equality for all and for all to live and let live without demanding obedience to their beliefs under voodoo consequence or penalty - like Eternal Torment. May secular law, logic and reason continue to bless The United States of America. It is also gratifying to see so many US Christians stand up for this poor Iranian Christian martyr. I am confident that if Iran does kill this Christian Pastor, righteous US Christians will promote the destruction of Iran - maybe bomb a few thousand of their women and children so to teach them not to tamper with the Christian God's chosen. Regards, G
Don't you qualify as an Atheist?
Do you claim that there only one God?
If so, are you an Atheist to all other gods?
Do you claim that Jesus Christ is the one God?
Do you claim that Jesus Christ is the "One God of Abraham"?
Did Abraham know about, worship or speak about Jesus Christ?
If Jesus Christ is "The One And The Only God Of Abraham" and because the Jewish and Muslims religions deny that Jesus Christ is God, then, the Jews and the Muslims all prove to be Atheists.
If the Biblical God and the Koran’s Allah are the same character - then - Jesus Christ is Allah. Do you believe that Jesus Christ is Allah or are you also an Atheist?
The Church fears Atheism, not because it is adverse to human welfare but because it is adverse to the church's welfare.
Stephen Roberts said: I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Pat Condell tells it like it is:
http://freethoughtnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182:pat-condell-a-sage-for-the-ages&catid=39:atheism-agnosticism
Delos B. McKown: The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
This video shows 10 questions that prove that God is imaginary:
"Why God Doesn't Heal Amputees"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHJ4ztnldQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwwvBygoFA&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfFAYn8bgc&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWKDOikIgIs&feature=relmfu
Margaret Downey: Discrimination Against Atheists
Atheist Statistics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T27kB4BjbEg&feature=related
Prayer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7iXASIOdA&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Some Notable AtheistsThomas Paine, Thomas Edison, Isaac Asimov, Ernest Hemingway, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie, Aldous Huxley, Charles Darwin, Carl Sagan, Robert Green Ingersoll, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, Susan B Anthony
Atheists Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfnbOcmDXxo
Burden Of Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KayBys8gaJY&feature=g-u-u
Atheist Cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0A4_bwCaX0&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Top 80 Best Short Atheist Quotes About Atheism And Religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LHxNaAU-g
Einstein Atheism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEK6WtHxNfw&feature=related
Christian / Atheist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpz8PMcRJSY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhz-F2Qw1w4&feature=BFa&list=ULir5M2XuEROY&lf=mfu_in_order
Jesus' Welcome Back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBEcTeoJYU
Christian: That did it! I'm done! You will not obey! You are going to, Hell!
Exit...
What one person, who you know, would be impacted if sent to this site?
Who do you know has not yet seen Gary DeVaney's "The God Murders" website or "The Shocking God" / "Jesus' Family Values" Youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DmjuxqC1MI
Questions? Corrections? Comments?
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