Atheism †my personal response Essay

I pilet regulate how one cigarette claim that atheism is a pietism, it is impossible by the very definition. Agnostic would be much apt. A quote from a letter sent to Ruth Crowley seems fitting Calling Atheism a pietism is kindred calling bald a hair colour. It entirely cannot be done. I dont think organized religion doesnt have a place in todays society, I just think that in homoy cases we would be better withdraw without it. As far as Im concerned rescuer is just the word of choice, substitute it for any name. It works just like any superstition. While religion at its fundamental core strength have some important values, there is simply no demand for the complimentary ideals that churches teach. Yes it may be an onerous expectation that schools teach it, moreover minus p bents, they seem the next logical choice. I think it goes without learning, also, that schools and religion should be kept as separate as religion and political science should be. Art has never been , and likely never will be, my forte.Beyond universe aesthetically pleasing, for the most part I see a particular shelf-life for art, as anything more then(prenominal) that, in modern times and would mirthfully go so far as to question its purpose beyond the aesthetic in the past. As to this notion of the afterlife, I hate to say it, but it makes me want to laugh. It is easy to see how the myth evolved. People are reluctant to accept that someone or even something (A pet) they knew and loved is gone. Bernard Shaw sums up the reality of the matter The fact that a reckonr is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and formid adequate quality.While you may have learnt skills and acquired knowledge that you have used. From my perspective, in a correct world, religion should be separated to such a grad that those who choose not to par maintain in it will have no occasion to have to do so. why must a reasoned marriage be accompanied with a religious ceremony? Why not have a separate civil union? Allowing for the legalization of gay unions and also for a separate marriage which is purely religious and confined to the actual places of worship, churches. I cant fathom this model of semi belief in religion, and, as of yet, no one has been able to explain it to me in such a way that I can even accept it as a logical belief. Simply, you either believe or you dont, I cant see how you can fall in between.If you were to say you were unsure as to which religion then I can concede that. But to simply use religion as a mental appeasement for your actions, I cannot grasp. The capacity for religions to reanimate violence between each other is one of the fundamental issues I have with religion. They are at the core reasoning, or at least(prenominal) a participant, of almost every conflict in the recorded score of our existence on this planet. On the idea of butt erflys being a work of god I think Douglas Adams truly epitomised my beliefs when he said Isnt it enough to see that a garden is beauteous without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? To end, I cant but help to agree once more with Douglas Adams when he said I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Sorry for the doubly long response.