Atheism

(Alphabeat - Fascination)

Atheism
Or how religion descended into chaos and how truths got lost in a battle of façades. As a start, lets make one thing perfectly clear. I have been born in a non-religious family. I was raised without religion, but was taught about the 7 largest religions either way. It is wat makes me an implicit atheist. But in all honesty, as a theoretical physicist, I have never even understood the use of any deity whatsoever. For it has no use in my life. And I am a very happy person.

In my personal life therefore I can only look upon this discussion of believers and non believers as 'not my battle' and I stand outside of it. I can give arguments pro and con, and frankly like to make people doubt. Religious people debate as if it is their right to believe what they want and are therefore not needed to listen to reasonable arguments. And many atheist have the belief they are talking to a wailing wall and are not listened to, and not taken seriously at all. Thing is, that this is true.

In Religion there is not place for atheism. If its believers were to be able of casting doubt about their religion, then the by far larger portion would not have intellectual capacity to see religion for its true form and choose, but instead just get wildly confused about the matter.

So, what is religion? Well it is not much different from science, or Atheism. They are all a choice to a simple thing we must all work out somehow. They are an answer to the question: 'What do I believe?'.
In mathematics there is Gödels incompleteness theorem, though from a strict mathematical point of view it has little to do with this subject but it is a striking example. First of all the theorem proves that no set of axioms can exist without contradicting itself. And let us for now assume that this is the case. I will get back to it in a while. But these Axioms, what is their real life equivalent?
Axioms, are choices, assumptions, beliefs, they are the things we assume in order to set out reasoning the truths. And it is these axioms or beliefs we must all choose. Some people choose to belief in an all-mighty god, some people choose to believe in re-incarnation etcetera etcetera etcetera. Scientists belief in something really simple: they believe that what they observe with their sight, eyes and touch is truth, empiricism mostly.
 

So, if we all just made different choices, how come we cannot except each others choices? There again, we go back to the mathematical theorem. It is actually very simple, there is nothing wrong with any belief, if you accept that every set of choices, axioms, will always contradict itself somehow. No matter what you choose to belief, there is always a reason why your belief is not true. That is a universal fact which you can choose to accept, or choose to reject. If you reject it, well no reasoning you ever make will quite be complete. It is like you look at a painting but refuse to believe the back isn't painted. There is two sides to every belief, a truth and a reason why it isn't truth.
Then it is simple, the only reason why you would believe you are right, and the other is wrong is because you refuse to see why your assumptions are wrong.
In case of the science argument; What if I live in a matrix? And all my brain functions are controlled?

So, whatever you believe in, understand that you are wrong too. We all need some choice to preserve our sanity.