| Line 22: |
Line 22: |
| | {{cquote|Atheism is what is called a "[[universal negative]]." One of the laws of logic is that you can't prove a universal negative....You would have to examine every part of the universe.... | | {{cquote|Atheism is what is called a "[[universal negative]]." One of the laws of logic is that you can't prove a universal negative....You would have to examine every part of the universe.... |
| | | | |
| − | By the way, you would have to be very, very fast because, who knows, this God, these angels....may be very, very fast, and just after you get somewhere, they may have left for another part of the universe. Therefore, those who believe in God have created a system of reasoning which cannot be disproved. | + | By the way, you would have to be very, very fast because, who knows, this God, these angels....may be very, very fast, and just after you get somewhere, they may have left for another part of the universe. |
| | | | |
| − | This means that you would have to be [[omnipresent]]. You would also have to know everything about every part of the universe, so you would be [[omniscient]]. Then, just at the point when you proved that there was no God, you would also have proven that you were one. However, if one believes in God, one cannot prove God exists, therefore creating a belief in something that may be a figment of the imagination, therefore becoming just as illogical, if not moreso, than atheism.<ref>http://www.kennedycommentary.org/default.asp?pg=topicmessage&id=1419</ref>}} | + | This means that you would have to be [[omnipresent]]. You would also have to know everything about every part of the universe, so you would be [[omniscient]]. Then, just at the point when you proved that there was no God, you would also have proven that you were one.<ref>http://www.kennedycommentary.org/default.asp?pg=topicmessage&id=1419</ref>}} |
| | | | |
| | ==Tenuousness of Atheism== | | ==Tenuousness of Atheism== |
| Line 61: |
Line 61: |
| | | | |
| | [[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."<ref>http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm</ref> | | [[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."<ref>http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm</ref> |
| − |
| |
| − | However, this does not mean that all atheists are communists. In fact, many atheists are very liberal. It is the ultra-conservatives that are closer to communism.
| |
| | | | |
| | ==Atheism and Questions of Origins == | | ==Atheism and Questions of Origins == |