2011-05-13, 01:22 PM
Dusk Wrote:Do atheists fear for their soul at all? It's easy to claim to believe only in logic when you're young and your mortality isn't ever on your mind. But science doesn't explain everything, and as human beings, we fear the unknown. So logic aside, are you comfortable with the idea that humans are nothing more than a certain arrangement of atoms, and that your consciousness doesn't exist? Do you foresee your views possibly changing in the future?
Not at all. I don't really think a 'soul' can really exist, if you mean it in the most literal of sense. When I look at people, I just see hunks of human flesh as well as blood, a brain, a heart, etc. You name it. I don't think my views will ever change, because there's really no right or wrong way to look at religion. No one's ever going to be able to solve this mystery. I don't blab out the fact that I'm Atheist, but I hate it when people bring up religion. I really don't know why, I just can't stand it, because it's like they're trying to make a point about something that hasn't been proven nor solved.
I really don't think my body is anything more than logical processes of thoughts, and my body is just 'atoms', like you just stated. It's just a bunch of compounds put together to form 'me'. I don't believe that a higher up being gave me a soul and a physical form, in all honesty.