What are some positive teachings in Atheism?

[_bcspace]

Atheism doesn't have any teachings, unless you're willing to admit it's a religion.....

[_Morley]

Atheists don't don't take a "It's gonna get worse before it gets better" attitude. Why wait for Jesus to return to solve all the world's problems when we could be solving them now?

I think that not all, but many Christians, Muslims, and Jews are waiting with baited breath for their God to return and kill or silence all those that don't believe in their faith which is disturbing to me.

Very few Jews have bated breath waiting for God to return.

[_palerobber]

given the contradictory demands of the theists' various gods, atheism is the response to Pascal's Wager most likely to produce a positive outcome.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Atheists are among the most Christlike people on earth.

wat

Did you miss the 'T' or were you asking me something.......

I guess that was ambiguous, this photo essentially captures what my face looked like when reading that post:

I can't think of any wars started in the name of atheism.

How about persecutions? I can think of a few brutal ones.

Atheists don't don't take a "It's gonna get worse before it gets better" attitude.

There is a large population of Marxists who would be an exception to that.

[_SteelHead]

Is marxism...... A religion? ;)

[_MrStakhanovite]

Is marxism...... A religion? ;)

Strictly speaking, it isn’t. One can certainly level critiques against Marxist thought and action as being very religious in nature, but that boot doesn’t always fit.

[_SteelHead]

It changes the worship from an unknown deity to worship of the state and the blessed leader. Just look at North Korea....

[_MrStakhanovite]

It changes the worship from an unknown deity to worship of the state and the blessed leader. Just look at North Korea....

There is no looking at North Korea, there isn't a perspective yet that allows observers to examine the people as they see themselves sans state presence. But your example misses the point, calling Marxism a religion in toto would include a wide variety of people who don't fit that mold. There is nothing religious about Blixa, for example.

In anycase, calling some forms of Marxism a religion creates a category of atheistic religion, which is counter intuitive to what people are trying to do in this thread (for reasons beyond me).

[_SteelHead]

Besides North Korea isn't a Marxist state, it is a deformed Leninist state.

Semantics.....

[_son of Ishmael]

I can't think of any wars started in the name of atheism.

How about persecutions? I can think of a few brutal ones.

Can you be specific?