Prabhu Mohan said…
“ATHEIST is the one who do not believe in the presence of any omnipotent ,omnipresent and omniscient God.
Reply: If you believe, that there is no gravity, and jump from the 10th floor how crazy it will be! Your argument is like this.....non belief in God doesn't mean, there is not a God. Then, how do you know that God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient? from what source?”
Anuj said…
Hi Prabhu,
If you believe there is “GOD”, who will save you and, under the same impression, you jump from the 10th floor… how crazy will that be??
Belief in God doesn’t testify the existence of GOD...
I never said GOD is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient… in case you understood it that way, then I am sorry, it is defective communication, probably, on my part…
“GOD” is a word customarily used, since time immemorial, to connote something/someone which/who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient… (The fact of the same is evident form Holy texts including Geeta, Bible, Kuran, etc…)… and it is that sense of the usage of the term “GOD” which I used in my article “yes, I am an atheist”.
I am not allergic to the term “GOD”… I can call any living/non-living being/thing as “GOD” provided it doesn’t get super-natural treatment/implications…
I do not abuse “GOD” for abusing GOD means giving an identity to something which doesn’t exist… I do not hesitate in going to Temples/Mosques/Gurudwaras as they are, in fact, generally, beautiful piece of architecture…
My reasons, amongst other, for not believing in existence of any “omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient” unit or “GOD” (term as is used in its usual parlance) are:-
1. “GOD” is a creation of weak/selfish human minds… [Weak minds- who need some imaginary support at the time of distress…. Selfish minds- who want to make innocent people fool and earn unworthy income/benefits]. “GOD” is used by oppressors to make people feel better about the distress they experience because of being poor and exploited. In other words God, which generally is the foundation for religion, is nothing but “opium of the masses”.
2. “MIRACLES”, which are generally attributed to the “deeds of GOD”, are deficiencies in the scientific knowledge of human beings and it is, in fact, a “scientific-sin” to attribute “anything unexplained” as “deed of GOD” for that becomes the real impediment in the motivation for expounding the converted reason-based-explanation behind the same…
In any case, I am not against “GOD”… and it is just a matter of belief… however, convincingly-reason-based, atleast for me!!
Anuj!!
