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Atheists Don’t Exist

It is very easy for some people to out rightly deny the existence of God. Their life. Their choice.

This tendency is somewhat being seen in Muslims nowadays. What with the Existentialist philosophies looming over our heads and the increasing intolerance among people, it paves a sudden behavior of denial. An interesting thing to note is that most of these people have studied philosophy in great depth. And have maybe also studied a considerable amount of Modern literature and Existentialism.

Here is my argument. Atheists don’t exist. God exists. But I do not believe in atheists. If they do, then what is the proof of such an assertion? Visibility or solid appearances have nothing to do with proof. Who is to say that they are not a figment of my imagination? Remember Professor John Nash and his imaginary friends? They were real and solid enough to him.

It is God who makes my heart beat. It is God who gives my heart contentment. I never get that from people. So what can persuade me to believe in people? I have always been disappointed in them. So that logically means that I should stop believing in them. People forget that there is such a thing known as a test from God. All is not smooth and easy in this world. We have to qualify ourselves as being worthy or unworthy of god’s approval. That cannot be done without any trials and tests. Denying the truth is the easiest way out. And the most costly.

God is Unseen and yet Apparent. Only God can possess that attribute. Only God is above the petty idiosyncrasies and behavior of people. When Muslims turn into atheists, God keeps giving them from His bounties. He does not like this deviation in people. But He is the Mightiest. People cannot harm or affect Him.

Denying the truth to its face… is there any way of even describing such an act?

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19 responses to “Atheists Don’t Exist”

  1. A.O. Avatar
    A.O.

    Yeah, Atheists don’t exist just like water doesn’t exist. Get fucking real will you.

    I’m not an Atheist. I’m a Rationalist and a Secular Humanist skeptical of ALL religion, and I see your post as downright stupid.

    Stop judging people based on whether they believe in a God or not. If there is a god, that’s his job, NOT yours.

    Learn to live together in peace. Don’t point fingers at freethinkers who simply don’t see a need for religion and the supernatural. That’s childish and stupid of you. “Atheist’s Don’t Exist”, give me a fucking break and grow up. I’m digusted by your bigoted views.

    People should be judged soley on their moral values and how they treat those around them, NOT by what they believe. If the Non Believers arent hurting anybody, LEAVE THEM ALONE. Do your goddamn research to why many of us harbor these views so you can understand us, and THEN engage in a constructive argument if you must.

    All morals and values are to be secular. Religion should not interfere in personal or state affairs under no circumstances. Keep your faith to yourself. All religious beliefs should be totally personal, end of story…

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  2. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Dear Ms. Fatima,

    I suppose you’re one of those people who’ll argue that there exist round squares and spherical cubes! I’m not trying to smart you off, but as I was reading what you wrote, this is the first thing that came to my mind. I have nothing against the fact that you believe that God can make round squares and construct a task that He himself cannot perform. But if you believe in these things, then you’ll believe in anything! Yes, we exist whether you want to believe it or not… I think that it’s nice that you feel good about believing in God…that’s great! I’m glad you’re happy. But if I don’t share your views, then you will excuse me…

    -I.

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  3. shapeofdespair Avatar
    shapeofdespair

    and moreover, me purposely breaking the window of a car is NOT a random event. Mutations are supposedly random and that further discredits and breaks the radically fundamentalist evolutionary argument.

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  4. shapeofdespair Avatar
    shapeofdespair

    and ooh, before any atheist brings in the argument about “silent mutations,” which can prove to be the useful in future environments and harmless at the time they were created, I would like to discredit that argument already. I have yet to come across any example of beneficial mutations. People often give example of malaria resistance in humans who are heterozygous for sickle cell anemia, but how is that beneficial. If such individuals are left in a situation where malaria is rampant but also wild animals are rampant, how would they survive when they cannot breathe properly due to higher metabolic rates in stressful activities? What benefit “malaria resistance” has in such conditions? And “running” is a response of protecting oneself from almost all dangers. Then how could a particular aspect (malaria resistance) be perfected at the expense of a general aspect (increased metabolism and oxygen requirement)?

    Furthermore, silent mutations occur in areas in protein which are not critical to maintaining the tertiary/quarternary structure or function of a protein at the time of mutation. how stupid it is to say that in future, those mutated areas MIGHT become sites which can perform a new function? Please dont tell me that if I break my cars window, and it is at least neutral (neither beneficial nor harmful) to me at the moment, then it will become beneficial in future when the environment changes. The atheist will say well if global temperatures increase the window opening mechanism of my car fail, then this broken window, which was broken in the past, can become useful. I say that what if air-borne bacteria enter the car through the broken window right before global temperatures increase, what would happen? So you see, its all speculations without any material! Spreading of an epidemic is as probable as any other event!

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  5. shapeofdespair Avatar
    shapeofdespair

    @ DureSameen: Philosophy is an enemy of Islam. Likewise Islam is an enemy of philosophy. Philosophy is a waste of time and energy. It has theories based on no evidence. Scientific method might have been an off-root of philosophy, it has nothing to do with philosophy. Scientific method does not answer questions without empirical and material evidence. Scientific method is arch-enemy of philosophy. More specifically, religious philosophy. History testifies that philosophy has never been a part of Islam. The so called “Islamic philosophers”, which we so boastfully present to the world today, were labelled heretics by the mainstream/orthodox Muslims except few which include Asharites and Imam Ghazali. Asking questions about God and then answering them on “theoretical reasoning” is as absurd as me making comments about your appearance from your writing style. Science and philosophy has nothing in common. Heck, I am an orthodox Muslim scientist and yet despise philosophy because it does not help me in understanding science.

    @ Abeer Fatima: The atheistic argument use evolution as a means to propagate its message. Mother nature follows scientific principles and thus life was created. Its as simple as that. But many questions remain unanswered. If the species that exist today has come to exist because evolution perfected their behavior then how did they exist before attaining perfection? Natural selection filters out “imperfect” beings which do not suit the surroundings. If, for example, bees are present today, it means they had survived in the past. If the survived in the past, then they were also “perfect” in the past. A fossilized hive that is 65 millions years old is exactly the same as the ones found today. Thus, if bees evolved from some other species, then it means that “other” species was not perfect for its environment. If it was not perfect, how could it evolve in the first place because nature would have eliminated it. Evolutionist argument keeps on rotating in circles.

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  6. Abeer Avatar
    Abeer

    Thank you Dure Sameen for your opinion. I appreciate it. It may be deviant to my observations, but, you have a valid point nevertheless.

    John, you reject the One who produced you, how can you ask me to produce the one u reject? u deny the very basic truth. No argument is logical, or insightful after blinding urself to the sole fact. A dead end at the beginning.

    Thank you Zohair and Farhad for your comments.

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  7. Farhad Ahmad Avatar
    Farhad Ahmad

    I really liked the way you described the qualities of God, especially in the last paragraph “Hes unseen and yet apparent” me likey!!!
    God must be proud of you to be praising His greatness in a way that only He could have let you write in.

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  8. John the Atheist Avatar
    John the Atheist

    On the issue of worship: Worship means unadulterated, unffetered devotion in something or someone. Before accusing atheists of worshiping something, you have to be specific on what it is. A person use money to acquire something, they don’t worship it since you don’t give an unfettered devotion to money. same as to women or liquor. being adicted to them doesn’t constitute worship. Therefore these things are not considered a gods.

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  9. Zohair Avatar
    Zohair

    Everyone has a god, even if he does not know it. It may be money, it may be women, it may be drinking. Anything which a man would give value and would follow for its sake would be his god.
    Allah has told us to believe in him, and to reject all worldly thing, so that we may be spared the humiliation of worshipping physical things. He has given us an idea that we should believ in it, so that we may not waste oursleves in the pursual of useless things.
    If someone says he is an atheist, he is dead wrong. He most certainly worships something. And that thing is his god.

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  10. Dure Sameen Avatar
    Dure Sameen

    Well Fatima, I don’t agree with you. There is no relation between philosophy and atheistic. Philosophy means, rejecting myth and believe in reasons, it’s also the parent node to science. There were many philosophers who were firm God believer like democrats, Pythagoras. They are not bad they give common ethics, innate moral values lesson to humankind. http://www.iep.utm.edu/

    Islam has no fight with philosophy or science, God has said he don’t like breaking his own system or showing miracles. What we need is, removing myths from our religions and taking it as natural, reasonable, humanistic as science. God wisdom is not as materialistic as we perceive, we mislead by taking the first hand meaning of his saying without understanding the root and soul of message.

    I believe all prophets, philosophers, scientists and poets belong to same class, they follow same path, worked to make human being better. In history at every phase we needed them with a very clear purpose no matter you think them right or wrong but they were right in their own time frame. We need not to afraid of any; we should give our young freedom to get disagree, reject, think abstract and then finally get the reasons to believe Islam fully with deepest love and respect. They just need space.

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