Hey y'all. So this is kinda beyond the scope of this blog, but it was just something I was thinking about, and well, this blog is for stuff I think about.
So I was thinking about atheism. I like to think a lot, because I'm INTP, and apparently that's the thing we like to do best. In any case, I was thinking about it, and it occurs to me that the big bang and evolution don't really matter. Christians don't like evolution because it's supposed to "science away" God (which it doesn't, because it's possible to believe in both or neither), but then it occurred to me that it doesn't really matter if evolution is true or not. Who gives a crap? I mean, Christians care because by attacking one part of the theology the atheists are trying to attack the rest, but is such an attack really relevant?
The point of this lays in atheism itself. The thing about atheism is that it's a negative belief system. No, not negative as in pessimistic, but because it is based on a negative: there is no God. There is no positive or additive side to atheism. It holds that someone else's belief is untrue, and that's about it.
So say you one day decide to become an atheist. Okay, then what? What do you do next? How are you supposed to live? What gives life meaning? What's the purpose of life?
It gets even harder for people like me. INTPs don't exactly get along well with others, being so internal and so focused on fixing problems rather than making friends. What good does atheism do me? If there's no God, then the social struggles I go through are nothing. I have no purpose, no point. And all those people who make fun of me can rightfully do so, because they are better looking, better dressed, and have better skills than just simply thinking about random stuff for the fun of it. And they enjoy movies better because they don't have to nitpick.
Even if I was a successful person with lots of friends, what does atheism offer me, other than freedom from morality? Once I die, it's all gone, and there will have been no point in anything I've ever done, whether that be riches fame, or whatever. Even if I do good for others, what does that matter?
Let's say I save a country from an oppressive regime -- shoot ahead to the extreme, y'know? Saving a nation doesn't last forever. It can just get conquered again. Or maybe it becomes a morally depraved, glitz and glam shallow society. Or maybe it turns into one of those dystopian stereotypes Hollywood likes so much. Or maybe the relative safety of my newly saved country ends up being the home base of the next Stalin or Hitler, because it's just too dang nice to execute people.
So what I'm saying is, there's nothing you can do that can't be destroyed. Isn't that the second law of thermodynamics? Everything is in a state of decay. It'd be kinda nice to know that there's a heaven somewhere, and that stuff there actually lasts.
So that's my rant for today.
So I was thinking about atheism. I like to think a lot, because I'm INTP, and apparently that's the thing we like to do best. In any case, I was thinking about it, and it occurs to me that the big bang and evolution don't really matter. Christians don't like evolution because it's supposed to "science away" God (which it doesn't, because it's possible to believe in both or neither), but then it occurred to me that it doesn't really matter if evolution is true or not. Who gives a crap? I mean, Christians care because by attacking one part of the theology the atheists are trying to attack the rest, but is such an attack really relevant?
The point of this lays in atheism itself. The thing about atheism is that it's a negative belief system. No, not negative as in pessimistic, but because it is based on a negative: there is no God. There is no positive or additive side to atheism. It holds that someone else's belief is untrue, and that's about it.
So say you one day decide to become an atheist. Okay, then what? What do you do next? How are you supposed to live? What gives life meaning? What's the purpose of life?
It gets even harder for people like me. INTPs don't exactly get along well with others, being so internal and so focused on fixing problems rather than making friends. What good does atheism do me? If there's no God, then the social struggles I go through are nothing. I have no purpose, no point. And all those people who make fun of me can rightfully do so, because they are better looking, better dressed, and have better skills than just simply thinking about random stuff for the fun of it. And they enjoy movies better because they don't have to nitpick.
Even if I was a successful person with lots of friends, what does atheism offer me, other than freedom from morality? Once I die, it's all gone, and there will have been no point in anything I've ever done, whether that be riches fame, or whatever. Even if I do good for others, what does that matter?
Let's say I save a country from an oppressive regime -- shoot ahead to the extreme, y'know? Saving a nation doesn't last forever. It can just get conquered again. Or maybe it becomes a morally depraved, glitz and glam shallow society. Or maybe it turns into one of those dystopian stereotypes Hollywood likes so much. Or maybe the relative safety of my newly saved country ends up being the home base of the next Stalin or Hitler, because it's just too dang nice to execute people.
So what I'm saying is, there's nothing you can do that can't be destroyed. Isn't that the second law of thermodynamics? Everything is in a state of decay. It'd be kinda nice to know that there's a heaven somewhere, and that stuff there actually lasts.
So that's my rant for today.
