Atheism Essay Examples

An atheist and a theist happened to sit beside each other on a park bench one sunny morning. The ensuing conversation between the two was not the usual chummy stuff but something to start your day with an unusual perk. Theist: What a fine morning the Lord has made! Atheist: Oh did he?  Who of…

Atheism is the criticism and rejection of the core beliefs of all forms of theism. It challenges the notion that a supreme being, who is separate from and has power over everything in the universe, is responsible for creating and sustaining all aspects of existence. Atheistic Principles: Philosophical atheists reject the assumption of the existence…

Explain the reasons for the rise of atheism There are many different reasons that are seen as factors for the rise of atheism. However, many peoples description of atheism is different. Some people think of it is as not believing in a God at all, but others see it as being confused about your religion…

H. J. McCloskey’s work “On Being an Atheist” seeks to prove that atheism is a more rational and comforting belief than Christianity. In his analysis, McCloskey critically evaluates three well-known theistic arguments: the cosmological argument, the teleological argument, and the argument from design. He focuses on the existence of evil in a world supposedly created…

When I was given this assignment on the first day of class I was concerned about how someone would take it if I walked up to them and said “You’re black and I’m white, want to do an interview on it?” or if I walked up to a gay person and said “You’re gay and…

It is a affair of argument whether my deficiency of belief in the being of an Omnipresent. Omniscient God is due to my chesty pride and amour propre. It ne’er occurred to me that sometime in the hereafter I would be involved in polemics of this sort. As a consequence of some treatments with my…

In “Good Country People,” what it means to be educated is to be in control of the physical world as evident by Hulga’s professed outright atheism beliefs and disdain for her mother’s faith in platitudes. The audience can hold the perspective that the highly educated Hulga is blind to intellect as apparent by her total…

Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay, now Mumbai, India in 1924. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith, though he had friends of many different religions. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation…

In his 1968 article, On Being an Atheist, H. J. McCloskey attempts to refute the arguments of God’s existence and explain how “atheism is a much more comfortable belief than theism. ” (McCloskey 1968) He first attempts to discredit the Cosmological and Teleological arguments for God’s existence, then he turns to the existence of evil…

C.S. Lewis, who converted from atheism to Christianity, puts together various arguments about Christianity in his book Mere Christianity. There are two chapters in Book 2 that I found interesting and will analyze; Chapter 1, The Rival Conceptions of God and Chapter 2, The Invasion. Each chapter presents different views on Christianity with respect to…