why Atheism is Bad Philosophy

Atheism is a Parasitic Philosophy

"A given ideology creates a morphic field around a network or group; the ideology is a myth, a saga, a hope for humanity. Ideologies have unlimited power; they give us reasons for living. They are our most prized possessions, but also our most dangerous liabilities, for they operate with an hypnotic magnetism far from consciousness. Ideologies are not only frameworks offering us meaning, but can also become rigid systems, perhaps even prisons, for all who do not obey. They inspire and inhibit, give us vision yet blind us to events which do not fit."

- Arnold Mindell

The root philosophical problem with atheism is that as a negative ideology it stands for nothing intrinsic but the negation of another idea. Theism by comparison stands for itself. For all its ambiguities and paradoxes of the absolute, theism negates nothing. It places all things in an eternal hierarchy. Atheism on the other hand requires additional ideologies to give it positive form, principally Humanism. Atheism is basically a fundamentalist version of Humanism. One that prefers to deny its Romantic and religious roots and which does so by claiming only empirical knowledge constitutes real knowledge. Yet the most important knowledge for the living individual is the knowledge that arises from the subjective experiences of their own life, and this knowledge is anything but empirical .

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with ideology. There is no human mind without its ideological basis. However the coherence and adaptability of our ideology shapes the coherence and adaptability of our thoughts and feelings, and consequently the quality of our lives.  Further, the more ideologies we have operating together in our minds, and the more unconscious they are, the more inner conflict potentially arises.

Atheism doesn't really produce its own concepts and philosophies so much as it bundles together ideas essentially drawn from scientific materialism under an arbitrary banner.  While theists might be unfaithful to God, theism itself is an internally coherent philosophy. Atheism however is a materialist philosophy which paradoxically has God at the centre. This perverse configuration is maintained by reducing God to a single nucleus of meaning, but the technique completes evades the whole problem of the meaning of God. Which is very unfortunate because the meaning of God is the heart of the matter.

The critical problem for atheism has always been defining God. This isn't the same kind of problem for theism since theism isn't predicated on material proof or rational argument in the manner of atheism. Atheism is trying to critique poetry with mathematical logic. Yet God is the deepest metaphor we have and has more meanings than any other word. read the complete article Here
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