Daemon Sophic
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Fortunately for everyone, the world has been getting more and more secular, and less religious over the last century. As it becomes less religious and the power of religions to inflict pain and death upon agnostics and atheist lessens, more than more people feel free to speak out that they are not religious, and in fact not even theistic.
However, I believe that I see several different camps of atheism, and I’m wondering if other people see this too.
Often, at least in Christian communities, are people angry at one or more articles of dogma in their religion that drive(s) them away. Effectively they are saying, “Oh yeah?! Well if that’s the way you’re gonna be, then I’m outa here! In fact, I don’t even believe in you! So there!”
Often we find these young people becoming seekers; drifting from religion to religion while claiming to be “atheist”, more out of anger then out of understanding. I believe that subliminally they hope to find what they believe to be the true message of God somewhere out there. And of course this means that they never really ceased believing in the divine. Truly they are deists, searching for a way back to understanding their God.
This group is not as small as one might think. For these include people who are angry with their perceived God because of some tragedy in their life. They see disease and horrible death, violence and intolerance, and they cannot imagine a loving God allowing such suffering to continue/exist in this world/universe.
Personally, I don’t really consider these people should be counted among atheists or agnostics. And I wonder what percentage of the census tracking of such matters is muddied by the presence of these “angry atheists”, who are effectively acting like upset children and turning their backs upon their childhood religions, and likely who will return to a religion again, once they get over whatever initially upset them.
True, while they are in this period of freedom from the brainwashing of their church/synagogue/mosque/etc.... they may go on to study the wide range of evidence and logic which points toward a true lack of existence for any divine being, and actually become agnostic or atheist in full, but that is likely far from 100% of them.
Your thoughts?
However, I believe that I see several different camps of atheism, and I’m wondering if other people see this too.
Often, at least in Christian communities, are people angry at one or more articles of dogma in their religion that drive(s) them away. Effectively they are saying, “Oh yeah?! Well if that’s the way you’re gonna be, then I’m outa here! In fact, I don’t even believe in you! So there!”
Often we find these young people becoming seekers; drifting from religion to religion while claiming to be “atheist”, more out of anger then out of understanding. I believe that subliminally they hope to find what they believe to be the true message of God somewhere out there. And of course this means that they never really ceased believing in the divine. Truly they are deists, searching for a way back to understanding their God.
This group is not as small as one might think. For these include people who are angry with their perceived God because of some tragedy in their life. They see disease and horrible death, violence and intolerance, and they cannot imagine a loving God allowing such suffering to continue/exist in this world/universe.
Personally, I don’t really consider these people should be counted among atheists or agnostics. And I wonder what percentage of the census tracking of such matters is muddied by the presence of these “angry atheists”, who are effectively acting like upset children and turning their backs upon their childhood religions, and likely who will return to a religion again, once they get over whatever initially upset them.
True, while they are in this period of freedom from the brainwashing of their church/synagogue/mosque/etc.... they may go on to study the wide range of evidence and logic which points toward a true lack of existence for any divine being, and actually become agnostic or atheist in full, but that is likely far from 100% of them.
Your thoughts?
