zombie;7310265 said:
soul rattler;7310238 said:
kingblaze84;7310011 said:
zombie;7309900 said:
soul rattler;7309565 said:
The question was posed as what kind of successful lives do atheists have, not what individual atheists say or do after it is established that they are atheistic and successful.
That's not the question that was posed. Bill gates came into the discussion as a faulty example of person whose atheism motivated him to get rich that of course made no fucking sense because atheism did not motivate bill into starting and running his business.
atheism as am ideology by itself does not push humanity to do anything except annoy those of us who choose to believe.
Jehovah's Witnesses are far more annoying then any atheist I've ever met....
Shit... Crusades, slavery, and genocide are annoying as fuck when you just want to be left alone.
None of that shit has anything to do with the point that was made, but yes religion was a motivating factor for some of the people involved in those things.
but my overall point is that religion actually does something it motivates for good or for bad while atheism alone does nothing
You say that because you don't know what the underlying principle of atheism is: The idea that we are a self-evident species who lives, dies, succeeds, and fails by our own hands, not that of an extraterrestrial entity. Atheism rejects the idea of a supreme orchestration of reality
It's the opposite of theism, which inherently attributes every person, place, thing, action, event, and thought in the universe to a deity or deities.
Atheism really isn't a hard concept to grasp.