Atheist requires a certain
amount of
faith. The disbelief
in god is only
conditional on the fact
that there is
and never will be solid
proof that god
exists. Atheists
have no proof – lack
of proof is hardly proof.
Those adamant
that god does exist
have faith through
whatever means of reasoning,
but
Atheist must also have
faith. Although
I wouldn’t conclude
Atheism to be a
religion – it’s like
judging the hair colour of a bald man, it is a
system of belief.
There must surely be degrees of Atheism from devout Atheist to indeterminate
Atheist [someone who doesn’t really think
about it so much but
just believes god doesn’t exist].
I am not Atheist by any
means although I thought I was for a while. I’m inconclusive on facts
of god, meaning that I do not BELIEVE in god, nor do I DISBELIEVE.
It’s the details of religion that I don’t agree with. However the
concept of god itself – untainted by human’s concepts of what it should
be, stripped to maybe the core elements of a creator, one that knows and
“watches” all, a divine entity, yeah that I can deal. But while I
can understand it and accept that it is a possibility, I have no faith.
Nor do I have faith that lack of proof means there is no god. I don’t
believe in a god that resembles white bearded old man, but one that takes
no particular shape or physical form. More an essence - something
that we can’t really describe because we have not the words nor the senses
to describe and fully ‘see’, ‘hear’ or ‘feel’ it.