Adherents of atheism may be categorized into various sects and sub-sects. Jeffery Jay Lowder has written: the “atheist” movement keeps shooting itself in the foot by failing to reach a consensus regarding the meaning of “atheism.” Sect 1:
There are various sects within atheism. Generally speaking, atheism is a faith based belief system that holds to the belief that God does not exist. However, this requires a belief in a negative that cannot be proved. Therefore, some atheists have redefined atheism as not meaning that God does not exist. They claim that they …
1. There is no God. Islam’s dogmatic statement: There is no God but Allah… Atheism’s dogmatic statement: There is no God. 2. There is no supernatural: no God, no miracles, no soul, no afterlife. 3. The overwhelming majority of the entire planet’s population, regardless of chronology, geography, or theology, have been absolutely wrong about that …
One time atheist, C. S. Lewis, offered a classic response to Hume’s arguments against miracles:
Despite their dogmatic assertion that there is no God, Atheism has, nonetheless, produced a plethora of theistic concepts. These concepts have one thing in common-they are not theological concepts in the strict sense but are rather conveniently concocted concepts that are built in order to be torn down (a straw man argument).
Keep in mind that these are generic and simplified… Christianity: Believe in God by faithAtheism: Believe there is no God by faith Christianity: Have been raised to believe in GodAtheism: Have been raised to believe in atheism and Darwinism (see Natural Born Atheist)
This is a succinct list of argument that atheists should not use. Some of these arguments have faulty premises. That is to say that the following should not logically develop beyond their fallacious or simply missing foundations. Some are simply contradictory when taken to their logical conclusion. Some, I will comment on from perspective of …
Atheists generally claim that morality is either derived form nature or is a human invention. This may be better stated as a human concept derived from nature through evolution. Deriving one’s morality from nature is a very dangerous thing to do.
Atheists will sometimes argue that we are all born atheists and only end up believing in God because someone taught us to do so. This is a clever quip, yet it is faulty for various reasons.
Some atheists argue that theists have ulterior motives for “doing good deeds” since these are based on fear of God. They claim that, in counter distinction, atheists are the only people who have pure motives since they do not believe in any higher power (they themselves being the highest power), they thus do “good” for …