It would be interesting to hear the blackpill from a religious perspective:
@ElTruecel @IronsideCel @VitaminS
Thank you for tagging me.
I am appalled that you really just used the term 'based' and 'islam' in the same sentence. Islam is Mormonism for the middle east. Its barbaric warlordism with illogical, violent, and unnecessary legalistic and Arian heresies. Everything you just said is a great reflection of your knowledge on Abrahamic faiths, and being that you are 14, it is evident you dont know anything other then shitty propagated lies you feel for.
"The west makes religion cucked!". The western world you idealize was built on religion. I don't even know why you are saying western religion is gynocentric because I have never heard that before. Before Christianity women were whores and prostitutes. In the times when Christianity reigned supreme, it introduced traditional gender roles and the institution of marriage that built Europe. Europe is the home to Christian monarchs, art, empires, etc. Upon the current throne of Rome is the pope. Read history from an unbiased and uncucked view.
But don't worry... Ive been searching theological truth my entire life and went through an edgy atheist soy teen phase too.
My first piece of advice to you
@Shinichi is, if you have it, delete reddit. You do not want to go down that path. Simple observation of Reddits users is enough to get you off.
"yeah.. heh... I trust the vax and want science soy and seed oils are reported to be good for you!" I hate to break it to you, but science has been pioneered by the Catholic Church + Most scientists are theists. The reason they are not Christian is because they are not historians. The current man who hold the world highest IQ is a Christian.
The view that science can or should provide the answer to every question is known as scientism. It claims that we should not accept as true anything that we cannot prove scientifically.
This view is incorrect. There is any number of things that science cannot prove. Among them:
1. The laws of logic or mathematical truths. The natural sciences presuppose logic and math, but they cannot prove them.
2. Metaphysical truths. Science can’t prove the external world is real or that the universe did not simply spring into existence five minutes ago complete with the appearance of age, including our memories of a past that never happened. These are rational beliefs, but they cannot be proven scientifically.
3. Statements of an ethical nature. Science cannot show that helping a starving child is good or whether Nazi scientists in concentration camps did anything evil. Good and evil cannot be measured in a laboratory, and so moral principles lie beyond what science can prove. That includes a principles used in science itself, such as, “It is wrong to fake your research findings.”
Short answer to your main question: no.
Atheism is not a belief, rather a lack of in all regards. It is for those not willing to think and quite telling of the individual. Atheism is a nihilistic creed and asserts that nothing has value. Atheism is one of the most evil things to exist. If you are an atheist I suggest you read the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Atheism is severely illogical and is a juvenile way of thinking.
When I was an atheist I wanted to kill myself because I suffered to a great degree, and still do. I would I continue to live if my life is of no value? I am just a random biological entity. This is where I started to question things. God can easily be observed simply through the order and complexity that exists within yourself as well as the world around you. Thinking logically instead of in an irrational way will lead any non-believer to God.
If there were no God, the universe would have no meaning, and neither would we. On the other hand, if God exists, then the universe and the beings that inhabit it do have meaning and purpose.
If there was no purpose to this life, life would not exist. Everything did not come from nothing. There must be a singular source. To assert that everything came from nothing is illogical.
Can an atheist live a 'moral' life or a life of virtue?
"A moral atheist like someone sitting down to dinner who doesn’t believe in farmers, ranchers, fishermen, or cooks. She believes the food just appears, with no explanation and no sufficient cause... Either her meal is an illusion or someone provided it. In the same way, if morals really exist . . . then some cause adequate to explain the effect must account for them. God is the most reasonable solution (169)."
The Catholic Church teaches that unbelievers can live a life of relative virtue without believing in God—that is to say, they can know the behaviors that respect the goods of human nature and living accordingly. For example, an atheist can know that killing an innocent human being violates the intrinsic right to life. But by what do they know life is sacred? The sense of soul in others.
These precepts, among others, make up what is known in the Catholic tradition as the
natural moral law—a law built into the nature of man and knowable by the natural light of human reason.
When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts (Rom. 2:14-15).
