Atheists Please Answer

[AlexB]

Re: Atheists Please Answer

@psyah

Peace AlexB

It has nothing to do with that … That would be the concept of fitrah … The concept I was referring to is in Islam the fact that someone chooses to deny God they are putting themselves in the place of God in which case “your God” according to Islam is your own intellect - or the fact that you ascribed characteristics to your intellect that would otherwise be ascribed to God - you in effect become your own God. Atheist may mean something in the way of not believing in a Deity, but essentially we say that you have deified your self, to which you will disagree from your perspective you - an atheist, exist … from our perspective you are just a Mushrik (person who associates partnership or replaces God)

Not at all. The atheist worldview does not need a concept of deity of any kind, and acceptance of limitations of the human intellect is a basic tenant. It’s not based on faith, but routed in epistemology - the human knowledge is fundamentally imperfect. So, no self-deification takes place. Any true atheist will tell you that our knowledge of the Universe is imperfect and we can try our best to understand it using logic and experiment, but we do not need to make the answers up and believe that they are the absolute truth revealed to us by our benevolent imaginary friend. There is nothing more harmful to an intelligent quest than self-delusion. In fact your argument is a perfect example of applying a theist methodology to an atheist philosophy, inevitably leading to misconception.