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A letter to an Atheist
Dec 2nd, 2010 at 12:25am
 
•A letter to an atheist by Alan McDougall

Is there a reason for living that goes beyond that of our earthly mortal life on earth? I say there is, how you can be so sure that there beyond life. Why not just try to consider that there just might be a god.

Life after death is unfortunately something neither I nor someone else can ever prove to, I, however, strongly believe we continue to exist in some form or other in dimensions of purpose, reason, beauty and that our consciousness continues to exist eternally after death. Otherwise our earthly fleeting life is nothing but a cruel joke of nature

Have you ever thought that to be an absolute atheist takes more faith and is more difficult to rationalize than one like me who believes there is a creator? How could nothing evolve from nothing and become everything?

This logic demand that dark nothing morphed into everything, nothing created energy time matter and finally life out of inanimate energy. I see this as a ridiculous assumption; I am left to believe that all existence including mysterious life evolved without reason or purpose. Do you really believe this as a fact?

Let us consider, what life is, how could the unimaginable almost infinite complexity that the DNA molecule allows a variation of living things to life came into existence so quickly in relation to cosmological time. Life existed on the primordial earth just a moment after its creation, again in cosmological time?

The universe is unimaginable complex and sustains itself by exact precise fundamental constants, if this harmony differed in the infinitesimal fraction we would simply not exist; indeed the earth itself would not exist.

A billion trillion googolplex monkeys typing for eternity would not produce even one of Shakespeare sonnets. Another analogy, if we took a billion airplanes, filled them with water, concrete and bricks and dumped the whole continuously on the earth for a billion years, would it magically and randomly form the beautiful Taj Mahal or the Sydney Opera house? But you insist I must accept the beautiful universe a of unimaginable precision came into existence this illogical way

When life needs to evolve due to changing circumstances, does it tell itself to alter its own DNA for the new conditions or could there be a watch maker resetting the watch
I see god adjusting the DNA overlooking his own experiment if you like

Our breathtaking beautiful is expanding and anything that expands must have a beginning. Can you prove there is no god of course you can’t, can I of course I can’t, but at least I can offer circumstantial evidence... Atheism is a faith belief system just like anything that requires belief without evidence.

As an amateur astronomer leaves me with an unshakable belief that am awesome intellect created the universe and everything else

Look out the sparking water that quenshes your thirst, the fruit that feeds you, and invigorated your body. There is beauty everywhere and you must search for real ugliness. Go outside on a moonless night and reflect on the wonder of the cosmos that sparkles above you. the great snow capped mountains and streams, the blue sky and the rise of the sun at dawn and its golden glow as it sets. In the early morning go and listen to the sounds of nature, birds chirping like tiny electrons in the mind of god. The wind that you breathe the precious nourishment supplied by mother earth.

Then explain to me how chance can bring this all about. To me there is a wonderful creative behind all this glory if only we would look at it.

Like all things the universe has a beginning and this demands a creator, for nothing can exist with a prime cause. The universe will end but for that we will just have to wait

Even atheism scientists say our universe is precise, ordered with beautiful mathematical constants. One great astronomer said the universe was less like a great well oiled machine and more like a beautiful ongoing thought

I believe in God, what you believe is your right but to me a godless creation is bleak and cold

What do you people believe, No god or God?

Alan
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Reply #1 - Dec 2nd, 2010 at 3:25am
 
God, no.
Reincarnation, yes.
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Reply #2 - Dec 2nd, 2010 at 4:18am
 
... its not whether you believe in God but which God you believe in !
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Reply #3 - Dec 2nd, 2010 at 12:00pm
 
I just don't care for the word "God". It seems to express something outside or beyond the greater Self and my mind just can't make sense of it...and that realization is after years and years of debate from within. I am... is all there is. Consciousness is primary and it makes choices based on interpreted information. All worlds are virtual and created by the collective. I guess you can call that "God" or you can call it Consciousness, but like I say, "God" seems to imply something that restricts consciousness and I don't buy it in that package. You know, for what its worth.
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Reply #4 - Dec 2nd, 2010 at 8:43pm
 
I agree with you, Beau, that God is a loaded word. I just find it strange that people argue and even kill eachother over 'God' when people don't even define what they mean by 'God' ! On the whole I agree with you... I would use something else such as 'source' or 'higher conciousness'... less loaded.
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Without a "Source" or "Creator" or "God" as a sense of all collective consciousness, what is there?  I have had a sense of an all knowing consciousness around me for as long as I can remember and have benefitted from the connection to it...not that I have prayed and hoped and begged, but rather I simply asked for what I would hope to happen, and it did.  There was no way my hope would be granted and it was.  It happened again, and again and it will happen again.  There is something, and leaving semantics aside, whatever you want to call it, when you believe in it and work with it, it makes life an amazing adventure with no downside.  Right now I am going through bankruptcy and am about to undergo a divorce...I have two children 16 and 11, and they are my primary concerns...everything is going the way I would plan it because of my connection to the "God/Consciousness/Source"...I ask for inspiration and am told the direction I should take and it works every time.  My children are taken care of, largely by me, and I have a whole new world to face and enjoy.  While I weigh 189 pounds, I feel incredibly light right now...wow!

As for atheism, whatever...sooner or later they'll come to their answer, and I don't have time to argue...I'm too busy living!
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Reply #6 - Dec 2nd, 2010 at 10:01pm
 
Ok, if we are talking "Creator", why isn't it possible that more than "Creator" emerges of out some kind of raw substance. Sooner or later they might meet, or they might not.

But why only one "Creator"?
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Reply #7 - Dec 4th, 2010 at 4:08am
 
heisenberg69 wrote on Dec 2nd, 2010 at 8:43pm:
I agree with you, Beau, that God is a loaded word. I just find it strange that people argue and even kill eachother over 'God' when people don't even define what they mean by 'God' ! On the whole I agree with you... I would use something else such as 'source' or 'higher conciousness'... less loaded.


My idea on God is that he is my heavenly father, the uncaused cause, the Alpha and Omega points, the Source of all existence, the Divine mind the unmovable rock from which all things emerge, the primordial intelligence, the First Thought, the creator of the universe, the great mathematician. The Great teacher, The Light that illuminates the darkness, my companion

The lover of my soul,

"Life"

Love

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No god


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Reply #9 - Dec 4th, 2010 at 10:31am
 
Supermodel,

It would not surprise me in the least if what you've written is the case. I don't see the "afterlife" as some sort of hierarchy either. I don't think a CEO of the heavens is necessary. It's just our earthly way of looking at something beyond explanation that colors our perceptions.

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If there is one I hope She's Goddess.
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Beau wrote on Dec 4th, 2010 at 10:31am:
Supermodel,

It would not surprise me in the least if what you've written is the case. I don't see the "afterlife" as some sort of hierarchy either. I don't think a CEO of the heavens is necessary. It's just our earthly way of looking at something beyond explanation that colors our perceptions.

Yours,
Beau



Did I ever tell you you're one of my favorite posters here?


I just don't get the point of posts like this. We all differ in our beliefs and opinions and it should just remain as such. I'm never going to post something addressing Christians or Jews because I simply don't care enough.

Frankly if there is a god after all this, I doubt he/she/they/it cares if I believe/worship or not.
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Reply #12 - Dec 5th, 2010 at 6:24am
 
supermodel wrote on Dec 4th, 2010 at 8:46am:
No god


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Are you sure that there is no god?
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Reply #13 - Dec 5th, 2010 at 10:35am
 
Alan McDougall wrote on Dec 5th, 2010 at 6:24am:
supermodel wrote on Dec 4th, 2010 at 8:46am:
No god


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an atheist


Are you sure that there is no god?



oh Brother.

I like you Alan. I really do.
But why do you CARE?
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Reply #14 - Dec 5th, 2010 at 10:38am
 
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