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Originally Posted by Sickntiredofliblies
The atheist idea relies on proof. There are no other possibilities to consider except for those that humans have created without any proof.
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The fact that life exists in the first place, and science can't explain why, is a form of proof that science only explains a tiny chunk of the overall truths of life.
There's no scientific proof or theory to explain why we have drive, imaginations, spirituality, love, and many other qualities that clearly point towards the existence of a soul in each of us.
Take a closer look, and you'll see there's more proof of the existence of a soul and higher power (what you choose to call it, God or whatever, it doesn't really matter), than there this is proof that we are just a result of one gigantic accident (the only theory an atheist could muster, and one which lacks any proof or thought).
In my opinion, reincarnation, as a theory, has the most proof to back it up. It answers many questions, such as:
Why are people born with natural abilities that were not taught (you could say "genetics", but then you're left with explaining what built those genetics in the first place.)
Why do people and animals naturally fear certain things, even if they have no experience relating to what they fear?
Why do we want to survive so bad? What's in it for us, if we have no soul?
And the money question: how did all of us end up here in the first place. Without some type of reincarnation-based theory, science has nothing to answer this question.
So you can claim that "atheist" rely on "proof" (whatever that supposed to mean, as science has provided no proof when it comes to the bigger questions), but if you really sit down and think about it, there's too much evidence that a soul and a higher power exist to possibly deny that there's something more to life then animated matter living for 80 years then rotting forever.
I believe it's not accident that every human culture has a foundation in spirituality, it's simply a result of the fact that we all, somewhere deep down, no the truth about the nature of the soul and the universe. But we keep it hidden from ourself, most of the time, so we can enjoy the moment.
On top of that, the atheist idea that we're all soulless zombies just doesn't make sense in the grand scheme of things. We're to complex (just look at the intricate design of the brain alone) for that to be a viable explanation. If you're about proof, show me some proof that humans are nothing but zombies that materialized from a random "big bang" explosion (that seems more far fetched than any religious myth).
We are born with the instinct to survive, which causes us to block off these types of truths (if we all knew we could get another chance at life, there would be too many suicides), so it's in the soul's nature to hide these truths from the brain (and atheism is the most extreme result of the brain being spiritually blocked from the truths of the universe). But it's also dangerous, because people who believe we have no souls are more likely to act soullessly, and have apathy towards all other living beings (which leads me to believe that many so-called "Christians", such as the hate filled neocons, are atheists in practice, as they show little regard for the lives of humans or other animals; they behave NOTHING like the man that their religion is named after).