{"id":8576,"date":"2011-01-25T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T09:53:46","slug":"any-atheius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/01\/any-atheius\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Atheius?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8572\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/12.jpeg?resize=95%2C94\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Something funny I came across online:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question:<\/strong> How can Atheism be true when there is no evidence of Atheius?<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: <\/strong>Of course its true. I bought a blank book and I wrote &#8220;Atheism is the only truth&#8221; on the first page.\u00a0It is written in &#8220;the book&#8221; and therefore it must be true. I&#8217;ve also decided that I only need that first page and I will apply my narrow little viewpoint to everything and everybody I come across.\u00a0So there.\u00a0(Linda G)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Atheists can be dogmatic and narrow-minded in their thinking too.<br \/>\nBut must it be a case of God or not?<br \/>\nThere are so many other logical possibilities:<\/p>\n<p>1. There is more than one god; there are many gods.<br \/>\n2. Some of these gods assume they are omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent creators.<\/p>\n<p>The Buddhist perspective encompasses both points above.<\/p>\n<p>1. If there is a creator (which Buddhism does not subscribe to) who made  us able to act with choice, we are still choiceless, as we are forced  to &#8216;be able to choose&#8217;.<br \/>\n2. And interestingly, all of us are  supposedly forced to choose wrongly continually&#8230; beginning from the  &#8216;first humans&#8217;, who supposedly unfairly passed the &#8216;original sin&#8217; to us.<br \/>\n3. If there is a creator, it would be more logical to create all to  be choiceless but happy in the first place, instead of being mostly  capable of choosing badly, which leads to unhappiness.<br \/>\n4. Being created without being asked is also a kind of choicelessness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Can a &#8216;Creator God&#8217; be Created?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2010\/03\/can-a-\u2018creator-god\u2019-be-created\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2010\/03\/can-a-\u2018creator-god\u2019-be-created<br \/>\n<\/a>The Bird that Flew Too Far<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2009\/12\/the-bird-that-flew-too-far\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2009\/12\/the-bird-that-flew-too-far<\/a><br \/>\nAre Buddhists Atheists?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2010\/11\/are-buddhists-atheists\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2010\/11\/are-buddhists-atheists<br \/>\n<\/a>Did the Universe Have a Creator?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2010\/12\/did-the-universe-have-a-creator\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2010\/12\/did-the-universe-have-a-creator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something funny I came across online: Question: How can Atheism be true when there is no evidence of Atheius? Answer:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-gods","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}