Positive side of Atheism - Humanism

When atheists say that God does not exist, religions are unwanted, spirituality is a fraud, etc. they are marked as reactionaries have nothing original to say without referring to the trendy religions and theism. This is right, up to some extent but not in its wholeness. In fact, they negate theism only because these are keeping a strong hold on the humanity and the humanity need be pulled out of this grip to have subscribers from the humanity. After all, they will not create anybody outside of humanity to be their supporter. So, the 'reactionary' label on the atheists is correct but there is nothing wrong in being a reactionary.


I have always been insisting that atheism is humanism while all religions divide the human society into fragments which go against the spirit of humanism. Theism has introduced competitiveness to human society while the humanism brought social order to itself through rejuvenating cooperation which was in peril in the days of wandering humanity.


The cooperation evolved by humanism is being thwarted by theism through religions for serving vested interests. Thus, even theism is also a reactionary development against humanism. Indeed, there was no need for coining the word 'atheism' to counter theism. What people against theism were needed to do was and still is to insist on humanism to suppress theism.


Humanism is basic and original to humanity and theism was created to oppose its spirit of cooperation in the humanity. It is same as science being original for humanity and faith created to oppose the spirit of science. Science is basically the process of knowing through senses, while faith is not knowing but believing what others say. Thus, tussle between humanism and theism is same as tussle of science versus faith, and now the tussle between atheism and theism.


Another difference between science and faith is that the science evolves out of curiosity of humanity and so is dynamic while the faith is constructed and the construction remains static. For this reason, all faiths have remained the same after their origins while the science has been continuously evolving adding more and more to knowledge base of humanity. This however gives advantage to faiths for the human inertia to adapt to changes. For this reason, today the faiths have more subscriber while the sciences have a few. In the democratic world where numbers matter rather than quality, faiths have gained supremacy over sciences.
Science & Faith


In-spite of the apparent supremacy of faiths over sciences, no human-being is living without getting advantage of the scientific developments while the faiths are ditching the humanity by raising partitions within each society and group of people.