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January 22, 2010

Atheism is a profoundly Christian position?

I read the below comments this morning from 'An Orthodox Heresy' by Peter Rollins:

"...a philosophically coherent atheism can be described as a profoundly Judaeo-Christian position, for it is a position that refuses to let any description colonize the source that we call God, a source that stands outside temporal duration and spatial location. Once we understand this, we can stop arguing about God and...dedicate our lives to being the manifestation of God."

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Jan 22, 2010

Sam Radford said...

A few further reflections on this is response to a comment from a friend on Facebook:

Athiests = don't believe 'God' exists
Theists = believe 'God' exists

BUT the question that can be asked of both these positions is: which/what 'God' do you or don't you believe in?

People who believe in God usually have a concept or name for the God they believe in. More often than not the God that the atheist says he/she doesn't believe in is also a God that I too don't believe in.

The God of the Bible is bigger than the concepts and names and ideas that we attribute to him. And in fact God's total repulsion of idolatry is all linked with the idea of creating anything that tries to portray God somehow - physical or mental - because inevitably it fails to portray God because God 'stands outside temporal duration and spatial location'. The God of the Judaeo-Christian faith is bigger and beyond all descriptions, concepts, representations, etc.

There is no way that an atheist will ever manage to prove the non-existence of God because it is impossible to find an atheism that is able to reject every single possible conception of God.

A true form of atheism though would be one that simply rejects outright any and every conceptual description of God. And that, it could be said, is not out of harmony with the Biblical view of God being above and beyond anything man can attribute to him.

Feb 10, 2010

Vijay Kumar said...

No matter how much we debate or discuss... the existence of God Almighty can never be denied! If we exist... if human beings exist so do God Almighty... the creator of all things cosmic! Why? Every human being primarily is a soul atman on its cosmic journey of 8.4 million manifestations (an earthly life cycle of 96.4 million years)! Every soul atman manifests the human form to work out its karma... remove dross impurities within!

It is only when God Almighty explodes self with a big bang... the whole cosmos gets created! The simple definition of God Almighty is... the cluster of all purified souls atmans in the cosmos at a given moment of time! The sacred Bhagavad Gita of Hinduism is absolutely clear on this point!

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Atheism is a profoundly Christian position?

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