Re: Why do you not pray?
Peace Theorist
From an evolutionist point of view to just give makes no sense … Unless it is tied in to some personal benefit. Why should it make us feel good to give? You see I’m not saying atheists cannot give, but I am questioning why they should give? Why should they if not driven by some internal need for justice … Where does that sense come from? So there may be examples of where people are doing that, but by doing that they don’t make themselves look better for it, they are just demonstrating that even atheists will do things out of “feeling” and “empathy” just like theists … Although I do see and have seen empirically that many atheists will subdue their nature in giving for the sake of it … Just like they subdue their nature for worshiping God. If there are modern movements that are trying to show atheists are as sacrificing or charitable or more so than theists this is purely to counter the theists in their arguments and they have a reason to do this too … It is to get more people on their side … Atheism is a missionary movement many people are seeking out others to convert, because they feel ‘wrongly’ that theism is to be blamed for lots of human problems … But the reality is they want to eliminate Divine authority and put themselves in that position … Atheism from above is simply the modern Pharaoh movement …
My my opinion regarding motive and reason … Is the very thing that atheists use to argue there is no God … So consistency is important … Much is being done in recent days to make atheists look like angels … I have seen in real life that is not the case …