Atheism does not exist
This statement may sound far-fetched, but let’s try to understand what does it mean to be a theist or having a “religion”. The definition of Theist is “a person who believes in the existence of a God or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe.” The definition of religion in the dictionary is “the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods.” Fair enough, but more than all of these definitions, the spiritual life must be something that has a significant impact in our lives. A mere belief in a far away God, is no different than a belief in gnomes or unicorns. It’s just a “belief”.
“God”, is not just something to believe in, God is something to partake, to transform, orient, shape, judge, fulfil us, and give hope, meaning and purpose to our lives. If your mere belief does not include at least one of these characteristics, it is most likely that you are probably just a “cultural theist” (just tell people you believe in something for the sake of culture/tradition). The amount that these characteristics are part of your spiritual life is the amount that you can call yourself a real “theist”.
“God”, is not just something to believe in, God is something to partake, to transform, orient, shape, judge, fulfil us, and give hope, meaning and purpose to our lives. If your mere belief does not include at least one of these characteristics, it is most likely that you are probably just a “cultural theist” (just tell people you believe in something for the sake of culture/tradition). The amount that these characteristics are part of your spiritual life is the amount that you can call yourself a real “theist”.
Humans cannot stand living a life without a purpose/meaning or something to guide them. We are imbedded with a sense of incompleteness and we live our whole lives trying to fill this emptiness in ourselves, either with material things, pleasures, distractions, careers, emotions, etc… We are wired to seek out meaning and purpose in our lives. If someone is a complete nihilist, he would probably eventually kill himself or develop a serious mental condition. Those who proclaim themselves nihilistic usually are just existentialists, creating their own individual life purpose; or becoming hedonists; or adhering to a group or a ideological view of the world.
Anything that you set out as your main desire, your will, your purpose, your meaning, your goal, becomes your God.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24) [mammon = money or possessions]
We seek out meaning in the things we desire and believe. It is as if for a moment we believe that these things can complete us. We all know that feeling of a certain disappointment after we get what we wanted (but did not fulfil us). The same happens with political ideologies, which in my opinion is this century’s religion. It is the belief that once this political system has been fully installed, heaven will be on earth. All that separates us from this “heaven” is this other system and these other people. The contrary belief is sin in their eyes. Most often then not unforgivable sin, that must be punished, by the State (God). What a trade off! A transcendent God that transform us from within, for political/ideological system that “attempts” to transform our life from the outside.
It is the State's interest to take away religion as much as possible out of people’s life. Without religion people will inevitably seek out another meaning for their lives, and then they present themselves as the viable option. All this virtue signalling and political correctness that is flooding our culture is just an attempt to balance the futility of these ideologies into something that resembles the divine. But it usually happens as external forms of morality that are more in the arena of judging others than changing ourselves, or a sense of pride and self exaltation for considering oneself morally superior than others (while preaching equality).
True religion make us let go of ourselves and the world; any other substitute will propose an inflation of ourselves within the world. It's two contrary forces. In the ultimate sense the only enemy of God is the Ego. All other things come out of it and its desires to glorify itself and fulfill itself in material things or ideologies that are usually utopian, materialistic and clothed in false morality. No matter how beautiful your ideology sound to your ears, it can never give what you want and what the world needs. True change only happens from within when our egos are not in control. When the ego is out of the way, we are always one and the same.
Ok, but what about all the "nonsense" of the creation of the world that theists believe??? Well, it’s more complicated than you think.
Take the big bang for example. It is said that it originated from a singularity that existed some 14 billion years ago. But they can’t explain what caused or created this singularity and all of the existing theories involve something else that already existed in order for it to exist. But the question remains: What created the first cause? What was it that had its first existence and the causality of everything else? There’s no answer by science.
After this non-explanation for the creation of the universe, the evolution theory is also full of flaws and miracles in itself. It does not explain the emergence of the first organic molecules through abiogenesis. (the idea that life arose from non-life more than 3.5 billion years ago on Earth)
“Today, most of these organic molecules come from the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) through several carbon-fixation pathways, such as photosynthesis in plants. But most of these pathways either require energy from a living cell in order to work or were thought to have evolved relatively late. So how did the first organic molecules arise before the origin of life?”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200908170535.htm
Then these unexplained born organic molecules combined themselves in order to create amino acids, sugars, which requires favourable conditions to happen. Then they made even further combinations and created proteins, nucleic acids… Then after many other processes, RNA miraculously or as scientists say “spontaneously” emerged from these simple organic molecules like amino acids, creating the first-self replicating molecules. And DNA evolved from that.
There is a critic by Fred Hoyle that compares this evolution process to:
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing-747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there?”
Sounds like an exaggeration?
“Abiogenesis on Earth, or anywhere in the known observable Universe is highly improbable (the odds against are less than 1 successful event expected in > 10^5120 events” Hoyle & Wickramasinghe, 1999
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065266020300079
So, after all of these improbable events, consciousness had to “arrive” into non-conscious organic matter. But science still don’t know how that happened either. Consciousness remains a mystery to science to this day.
So, when you thought science had it all figured out and proven, it is just a collection of several theories that most often than not, cannot be proven, are not agreed as a whole by the scientific community, requires perfect conditions, some unexplained events and some events that are nothing short as being described as miracles or mysteries. Yes, even scientists must have "faith" in their theories.
I’m not here saying that this is not a viable option, but to take away an intelligent force that put all this together, but leaves it to the hands of mere chance and luck, requires much more faith than believing in a creator.
Personally I do believe that the material world was created through a sort of Big Bang and evolution occurred in this process; But it wasn't by chance, it was all part of a divine creation/plan. Coincidently, the origins of life and consciousness (both matters that science cannot not explain) are both definitions of God. God is consciousness and life. You just can’t take God away from the creation process.
There is a Brazilian scientist and philosopher called Bernando Kastrup, which is a relatively unknown figure, despite his impressive resume. He worked at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the one responsible for the search of the “God particle” (Higgs boson particle)). Kastrup believes that consciousness and physical reality are intertwined. He argues that the physical world is a holistic, interconnected whole grounded in consciousness, and that the behavior of subatomic particles, including quarks, is influenced by consciousness, rather than fully determined by physical laws. It is very interesting theory, but definitely not an easy read.
What he is saying is what several religions of the world said thousands of years ago. Consciousness is the ground of all matter. Matter is seen as a projection or manifestation of consciousness, rather than a separate and distinct substance. Take vedanta for example and how it says the process of creation is a kind of cosmic vibration or pulsation, which expands and contracts in a cyclical manner. It’s Brahman’s dream, a manifestation of his consciousness projecting this illusory world. Everything is made up of Brahman (Consciousness). But consciousness itself is unmanifestable, unconditioned, undifferentiated, without form and beyond any attributes. It’s its manifestation in the physical world as energy that creates this illusory world of matter. Energy is nothing other than consciousness in its manifested form.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” - Max Plank (founder of Quantum Physics)
Quantum physics estates that materials exists in 2 forms: particles and waves. But as far as waves, it has no definite location in time and space. The wave form is understood as being everywhere all at once; spread out in the entire universe. One object as particles is a thing. But the same object as wave is pure potentiality. (Research the double slit experiment).
The double slot experiment proved not only that materiality was both particles located in space and waves which were everywhere and all at once. But whether they appeared as particles or waves was determined by human consciousness.
Personally I do believe that the material world was created through a sort of Big Bang and evolution occurred in this process; But it wasn't by chance, it was all part of a divine creation/plan. Coincidently, the origins of life and consciousness (both matters that science cannot not explain) are both definitions of God. God is consciousness and life. You just can’t take God away from the creation process.
There is a Brazilian scientist and philosopher called Bernando Kastrup, which is a relatively unknown figure, despite his impressive resume. He worked at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the one responsible for the search of the “God particle” (Higgs boson particle)). Kastrup believes that consciousness and physical reality are intertwined. He argues that the physical world is a holistic, interconnected whole grounded in consciousness, and that the behavior of subatomic particles, including quarks, is influenced by consciousness, rather than fully determined by physical laws. It is very interesting theory, but definitely not an easy read.
What he is saying is what several religions of the world said thousands of years ago. Consciousness is the ground of all matter. Matter is seen as a projection or manifestation of consciousness, rather than a separate and distinct substance. Take vedanta for example and how it says the process of creation is a kind of cosmic vibration or pulsation, which expands and contracts in a cyclical manner. It’s Brahman’s dream, a manifestation of his consciousness projecting this illusory world. Everything is made up of Brahman (Consciousness). But consciousness itself is unmanifestable, unconditioned, undifferentiated, without form and beyond any attributes. It’s its manifestation in the physical world as energy that creates this illusory world of matter. Energy is nothing other than consciousness in its manifested form.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” - Max Plank (founder of Quantum Physics)
Quantum physics estates that materials exists in 2 forms: particles and waves. But as far as waves, it has no definite location in time and space. The wave form is understood as being everywhere all at once; spread out in the entire universe. One object as particles is a thing. But the same object as wave is pure potentiality. (Research the double slit experiment).
The double slot experiment proved not only that materiality was both particles located in space and waves which were everywhere and all at once. But whether they appeared as particles or waves was determined by human consciousness.
Atoms are known to be 99.999999999999% empty space.
But if matter is empty space, Why does it feel so solid, located and real? Quantum Physics claim it is caused by an undefined repulsive force between atoms. This force is similar to magnets pushing away from each other when two of the same sides are put together. So we don’t touch anything solid, it is this repulsive force that gives us this illusion of touching something solid.
The problem nowadays is that we don’t think about these things… They are not presented to us as something relevant. We are too distracted with funny videos on tiktok and fed by a culture, intellectuals and media that has a very materialistic view of the world. Why believe that anything spiritual is mere ignorance? Why do you believe in what you believe? These are all things we must ask ourselves.
“Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. … Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion… I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” - Einstein
So, there are no atheists. People just usually don't call their belief "God", but it guides their life, their will, their hope for fulfilling their emptiness, it gives their life meaning and purpose; You can either choose between a God of reality and truth itself, or an ornated god of illusion and matter.
But if matter is empty space, Why does it feel so solid, located and real? Quantum Physics claim it is caused by an undefined repulsive force between atoms. This force is similar to magnets pushing away from each other when two of the same sides are put together. So we don’t touch anything solid, it is this repulsive force that gives us this illusion of touching something solid.
The problem nowadays is that we don’t think about these things… They are not presented to us as something relevant. We are too distracted with funny videos on tiktok and fed by a culture, intellectuals and media that has a very materialistic view of the world. Why believe that anything spiritual is mere ignorance? Why do you believe in what you believe? These are all things we must ask ourselves.
“Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. … Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion… I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” - Einstein
So, there are no atheists. People just usually don't call their belief "God", but it guides their life, their will, their hope for fulfilling their emptiness, it gives their life meaning and purpose; You can either choose between a God of reality and truth itself, or an ornated god of illusion and matter.
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