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Can Atheists accept God?

 

Can an Atheist accept the value of God?  

I am an atheist, however, I believe in the value for those who believe in God existing.  I am wondering if that value, through poetic understanding of this religious icon, can be learned in a way Atheists would accept it.  This is a new thought I had which I am only recently undertaking, but I thought it might be nice to get other atheist's perspectives on it.  

 

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Very few go'd m'n can accept what's beyond them ... in myth?

 

Sum understanding required ... IT's bi Bli'qal ... fear 've th' alien ... just a word in mani cases ... nuit 's casidea? Dark wiZ dumb, Loe Veis unexplored ... without Piscine fer aGUI clue o' phi've! That's one hand up ... John, or Yahn, Yah want out've that hot water ... get a Kole th'ought ... like a chill down yer spine when yah seize what yer gett'n into ... Lil'eth Black Water PoeL ... small sign of nothing ... that's bigger'n eu Gnoes .. ESS Torah opposing th'grandest lies 've aL time ...

 

One must dig into IT to be integral ... as parse ...'n Oenon ... o'bit've deadly Eumerus, satyrical perspective on the hard Roues of M'N (meme-non)! Id's that unknown we'bit inside oliveus ... poe Pi'd X-As's taunt pyre ... unscene Light L'amish nature?

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For me, I guess it is kind of like liver.

 

For people who like liver, they seem to like it a lot.  And I guess I am a little jealous - so I keep trying it - hoping I'll like it - it just bugs me that I seem to be missing out on something they like so much.  Wish I could like it as much as they do....

 

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 For me the question has become one of definition.  To be any sort of Theist one needs a Theos or divine being.  What happens when your God ceases to be a being, ceases to be external to existence as a creator and instead becomes the sum of the parts?  I have no theos.  I don't believe in God as a divine energy with a will and purpose of it's own running the universe somehow.  And I especially do not believe in a God that is a person with a gender and personality and mind.  Since my conception of ultimate reality has nothing that could be described as "God" I find myself as an atheist.  Spong's New Christianity and Harpur's Pagan Christ helped me with that, but I was heading there anyway.  

Or is your question existential and not epistemological?  The acceptance of something that you know isn't true...  Isn't that Christianity summed up in a nutshell?  I forget where I read that, but that was how some kid described faith.  But what does acceptance mean?  Can I believe that Muhammed didn't really hear anything out there in the desert...  Well, nothing other than his own ideas about the meaning of life?  If I believe that but still accept his teachings as somehow divine in that they tease out ultimate realities in some way or other have I accepted Islam without believing it?  Does that even work?  Can one accept Buddhism and not believe the history of the Buddha and his re-incarnation?  If so, why not God?  Why not Jesus?  Why does intellectual dissent seem to be such a barrier to finding value and truth in an idea or dream?

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Is God just a metaphor for the infinite?

 

Then how could a mortal deal with such a vast realm beyond their comprehension? Then beyond is a metaphor for myth and mankind can't accept that either so the infinite must be in Amon ... if only an infinitisimal wee bit .. prompting the Celts to make comments about respect for the wee ones ...

 

It's an out-tae-bodai pre cept ... bloody light as all inside is a shadow in powerful religious rules one is not to look inward. It is a dictate that got Da Vinchi and Mchaelangello in deep chi-ite, as they wrote stories about their work for the Midici's of Genoa ... the doctrin' powers of the dae. Could anyone go up against them as the richest folk in social order and they didn't wish to share any of their lies ... they could be incriminating in the field of what those know-it-alls didn't know. Thus the proverb when someone says why ... ask why not? It is biblical (I Thess 5:21) but then many religious sorts would say you are not to question God, if you did you might know more than the religious sort and they wouldn't like that. Does the script also say something about Jealous Gods and blind men? Perhaps we should enlighten ourselves with some care about our surroundings? Then maybe it is alredy too late as we are all caught up in the present moment and never raised a thought (TheO) about our future!

 

Ain't that the Pits that fall out of space get into with out Levity (derived from Leviathon, a big word that we do not understand well) ...? Well at least a shadow from the light of the infinite's Ayin! Then if you do not believe anything is beyond ... how would you ever get out of this chi-Tiye place of corrupted ESS Torah's? Lying flat out in stone without a drab 've water to cool the heat've such h'llish land-Os!