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How might an atheist view religion with a positive perspective?

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  • Human fellowship/togetherness
  • Religious art and music
  • Created a lot of history and culture for the Britain
  • Religious charities do a lot of good work
  • Wisdom through scripture
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How might an atheist view religion with a negative perspective?

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  • Forces people to follow rules all their lives
  • Forces people to rely on outside authority, therefore people are not responsible for their own actions
  • Prevents people from thinking rationally
  • Causes war and conflict which brings much death and suffering
  • Religion gets people to believe something that is untrue and base their entire lives on a lie
  • Obstructs scientific research
  • Wastes time and money
  • Doesn’t give equal treatment to women or homosexuals and offends human rights
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What do you think the difference is between the morality of an atheist and the morality of a Christian?

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  • Often atheists are just as moral as religious people
  • Christians may have a moral lifestyle because of the teachings of the Bible, whereas an atheist might feel they can come to their own decisions of morality without God
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What are the basics of Atheism? (4 things)

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  • Not believing in any Gods or spiritual things
  • Don’t use God to explain the existence of the universe
  • They say that human beings can devise suitable moral codes to live by without the aid of Gods or religious texts
  • Believe more in evolution theory by Charles Darwin
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Why might a person be an atheist?

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  • Religions are uninteresting to them
  • The world is such a bad place that there can’t be a God
  • They think that religion is nonsensical
  • Lost their faith
  • They don’t find enough evidence to support any religion
  • Religions seem to have done a lot of harm in the world
  • Brought up/living in a non-religious culture/lifestyle
  • Religion does not seem relevant to their lives
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What does a secularist atheist believe?

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They don’t want to be ruled by a government following a religious code.