RichardY Posted December 11, 2017 Posted December 11, 2017 Atheism - There is No God, Area 51 does not exist. Conspiracy theories are a lie. "Tonight you sleep in Hell, There can be Only One!!" ("Highlander", The Kurgan beheading a preying Ramirez) Deism - God took one big dump/creation that he no longer interferes with. Functionally identical to Atheism. Any ghost self respawn would ultimately mean Pantheism. Were the Founding Fathers true deists? Or did they just say that to avoid political repercussions of being in an overwhelmingly Christian country. Theism - God can intervene in creation through miracles and revelation. "The Pulp Fiction Bible" "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." Pantheism (Leftists and Islamists) - God is everything, you are hallucinating reality right now. Brains do not exist, the formulation/illusion of a brain is ultimately something egoic(illusion) that cuts you off from the totality of creation and allows the simulation to run. "You" (If such a thing can be said to exist) are a figment of the mind of God. You are basically in one big video game with respawn. All words are a construction, silence is golden. "Death to Videodrome, Long live the New Flesh!" (Videodrome) How can Freewill be reconciled with Atheism, is it the case that it is only psychologically true? some psychological fluke that results from errors in ones thought process. Or someway evolutionary advantageous way of gaining abstract information from another person. In order to choose something other than, which that might have been chosen, wouldn't there need to be some act of spontaneous creation by God? Otherwise given natural law and causality every action whether perceived as good, bad or Evil doesn't really matter, you didn't have any real choice "you"(If such a thing can exist are a Clockwork Orange) only thought/projected you did. I can only see Theism, as compatible with freewill. God creates which allows for the possibility of choice, through some Divine Grace, Freewill being a phenomena that has potential to grow and increase consciousness rather than be eliminated as some kind of disorder(which maybe it is). Perhaps eliminating the imperfection of freewill in oneself and others would be a worthy goal? To truly be Atheistic? Perhaps Freewill is the best disorder to have and under no circumstances question or turn it in on itself?
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