to me formed this opinion: NO reli devotion is what makes people good. The good people it is, regardless if you believe in a god or not, if you inependientemente Mass or not. (Plus many other things that made me suspicious of everything that smelled of religion and has no comment on the case here).
Over time, I've become an atheist. Because I thought . Because I reasoned.
And I am, since I believe that there is nothing after death, I feel much, much more free and happy.
But I found this which defines who I am with words much m á s smart (underlined is my doing because it seems really important):
What is a freethinker?
Unofficial translation
[ original English version / Original version in Inglés ]
Original English-language booklet No. 11 of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
© 1993 by Dan Barker. All rights reserved, Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Translated into Castilian by Sergio .
________________________________________ What is a freethinker? CHT
MLXC is a person who is their views of religion based on reason. Regardless of tradition, authority or established belief. The word "freethinker" groups of atheists, agnostics and rationalists.
can not be a freethinker who demands conformity to a bible, creed, or messiah. To the freethinker, the divine revelation and faith are invalid, and orthodoxy is no guarantee of truth.
freethinkers How do you know what is truth?
Clarence Darrow once said: "I do not believe in God because I believe in Mother Goose." CH
TMLXC Freethinkers are naturalistic. Truth is the degree to which a statement corresponds to reality. The reality is limited to what one can perceive directly through the senses or indirectly through the proper use of reason.
The reason is a tool of critical thought that limits the truth of a statement according to the strict tests of scientific method. For a statement may be regarded as certain testable (what evidence or replicable experiments confirm it?) Not demonstrably false (What, theoretically, the dC Most freethinkers are humanists, basing morality on human needs, not "absolute cosmic" imaginary. This includes respect for our planet including animals, and feminist principles of equality.
freethinkers Do you know the meaning or purpose of life?
Freethinkers know a meaning or a purpose have to originate in a mind. Because the universe does not, and the cosmos is not interested, you should appeal to you to have a purpose. Individuals are free to choose, within the limits of human morality. Some
librepensadores find their purpose in human compassion, social progress, the beauty of humanity (art, music. Literature), personal happiness, pleasure, joy, love, and the advancement of knowledge.
Does the complexity of life does not require a designer?
The complexity of life requires an explanation. The theory of Darwinian evolution, with its "design" of billions of years of cumulative non-random natural selection, has this explanation. A divine designer is not the answer because the complexity of such would also beONNECTING, for example, between atheism and communism. Some free-thinkers as Adam Smith and Ayn Rand were convinced capitalists. On the other hand, has been communist groups have been deeply religious, like the early Christians.
Freethinkers support the separation of church and state.
Is atheism or humanism a religion?
No. Atheism is not a belief. Is the lack of belief in gods. The lack of faith does not need faith. Atheism is indeed based on a commitment to rationality and that can hardly be described as a religion. The
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