Nggak usah gentar mas, para Atheist itu dasarnya wong bingung bukan gendeng ya,
yang kurang gawe......dan maunya nentang melulu. Misalnya dia lihat org
sembahyang Jum'at dan dia malas nah mulai lah dia mencari alasan karena dia
pikir dia jenius....Tapi karena kemana-mana dia pergi yg setuju dengan dia
nggak banyak maka mulai nyentrik dikit. Mereka itu wong usil...coba kalau
bininya atau lakinya atau simpanan atau apa deh nama org yg disayanginya sakit
parah mau mampus...Tuhan yang dicarinya.....nyembah di WC juga mau dia...
Lalu misalnya karena nasibnya kurang mujur nach Tuhan yg nggak salah dicaci
maki.
----- Original Message -----
From: kamal mustakmal
To: zamanku@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [zamanku] The march of the atheist movement
Dear all,
Mari kita berandai-andai saja, ga perlu pake dalil berbagai sumber.....
Seandainya dugaan penganut faham ATHEIS yang mengatakan 'Ada
kemungkinan bahwa tuhan tidak ada" sehingga mereka bebas berbuat semaunya tanpa
ada kekhawatiran. Secara logika saja, maka semua umat manusia bebas dari
siksa dan pembalasan. Karena itu manusia bebas berbuat kejahatan dan apapun
saja tanpa peduli terhadap orang lain. Wah ...enak dong. Sebagai umat Islam
yang mengerjakan Islam baru setengah-setengah dan belum kaffah (karena masih
dalam sistem Toghut) juga aman dan bebas hisap, karena TIDAK ADA TUHAN yang
akan menghisap..?
Tetapi,karena sebagai Moeslim, kami yakin dengan Hakkul Yakin akan
adanya Allah SWT dan ini Hak kebenarannya, maka CILAKALAH manusia yang tidak
mempercayai adanya ALLAH SWT. Kekallah mereka dalam NERAKA yang telah
disediakan oleh Tuhan ALLAH AZZA WA JALLA. Maka beruntunglah Moeslim yang taat
kepada perintah Allah SWT dan menjalankan semua petunjuknya sebagaimana yang di
wahyukan dalam Al-Quran dan dicontohkan oleh Nabi besar Muhammad SAW yang dapat
kita lihat dan amalkan dari As Sunnah (Hadith).
Salam,
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Sunny <am...@tele2.se> wrote:
From: Sunny <am...@tele2.se>
Subject: [zamanku] The march of the atheist movement
To: undisclosed-recipi...@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 5:03 PM
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/uk/this- britain/the- march-of-
the-atheist- movement- 1627061.html
The march of the atheist movement
First it was a bus, now a student body has been formed to spread the
secular word
By Jerome Taylor
Friday, 20 February 2009
AP
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, supports the bus campaign
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In the rush-hour traffic on High Holborn, commuters were getting off
one of many London buses that carry an advert proclaiming the beginning of
Psalm 53: "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God."
But, in a theatre down the road, hundreds had gathered to proclaim
exactly that – that there is indeed no God and those who think there is one
are, in fact, the real fools.
Greeted by a cardboard cutout of Darwin, they gathered in Conway
Hall, the headquarters of the Ethical Society, for the creation of the first
national student body to represent and lobby for the rights of young British
atheists.
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The launch of the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and
Secular Student Societies – which the founders have agreed to shorten to the
abbreviated AHS – is the latest in a series of pro-secular movements that have
sprung up to oppose what they believe is a growing pandering towards religious
groups.
With scientists and rationalists celebrating the bicentenary of
Darwin's birth this year, the timing is more than apt. But the creation of this
latest manifestation of atheism reveals a renaissance over the past three years
for secular and humanist ideals that began with Richard Dawkins' book The God
Delusion and only recently manifested itself in the popular atheist bus
campaign, in which double deckers carried the message: "There's probably no
God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."
There was once a time when those ideals were, of course, commonplace.
Two centuries ago, progressive intellectuals of the post-Enlightenment age were
all too happy to predict the end of religion, that the triumph of science and
reason would win out and that man would turn away from God. Throughout the
1960s and 1970s, meanwhile, student atheist groups were a vibrant and
influential part of university life. Thinking the battle had been won, they
largely died out two decades ago .
But, as religious conflict spreads once again throughout the world,
throwing the Western world into a so-called clash of civilisations with radical
Islam, the time is ripe, according to secularists, for a new religion – a
live-and-let- live brand of soft atheism.
Dressed in a sharp suit and sporting a carefully trimmed goatie,
24-year-old Norman Ralph, the newly anointed president of AHS, explained why he
feels it is time for Britain's atheists to unite. "I firmly believe that the
secular traditions of this country are being openly challenged on all sides,"
he said. "But I also think there is a growing wave of British atheism sweeping
the country and we need to ride that wave. Ever since 9/11 people are being
challenged to pick a side. There is such a push at the moment to be politically
accepting of religious views that those who don't have a religion are, in fact,
missing out. That is a message that I think will be popular to many people."
If the recent atheist bus campaign is any indication, he may be
right. When Ariane Sherine, the young comedian behind the adverts, somewhat
jokingly suggested that atheists should all donate £5 to sponsor a bus campaign
that would spread a secular message rather than the usual Biblical extracts,
she was flooded with donations and letters of support.
Her original aim was to raise £5,500 to run 30 bus ads across London
for four weeks. Within weeks, the campaign had managed to raise more than
£150,000 thanks to a huge response from the public and the financial clout of
Dawkins who agreed to match any donations. Over the past month, more than 800
buses across the country have been driving around with the "There's Probably No
God" slogan and plans are afoot to place 1,000 more adverts on the Tube system.
The idea has also spread abroad, with secular groups in America and Spain being
prompted to take out their own bus adverts.
Considering his prominent involvement in the atheist bus campaign it
was perhaps no surprise that Professor Dawkins attended the launch of AHS and
announced that his charitable foundation would be willing to give support to
students who wished to set up an atheist society at university.
"University is a place where people think, a place where people
evaluate evidence," the former Oxford don said. "Public statements of
non-belief are treated as threatening, an affront to the religious, while the
reverse is not true. More concerning is the enduring assumption that religious
belief does not have to earn respect like any other view, an approach that has
caused politicians and public figures across the UK to withdraw from asking the
vital question: why is religion given such special status in government,
culture and the media? Why is belief in a higher power an indication of greater
moral fortitude, character and acumen? No opinion should be protected from
criticism simply by virtue of being religiously held."
Chris Worfolk, a 22-year-old Leeds University graduate, was one of
many students who travelled to London for the launch. He said atheists in Leeds
initially found it difficult to form their own society because of opposition
from students' groups like the Islamic Society and the Christian Union. "It
took us a long time to get our society up and running. There was a lot of
opposition," he said. "One of the issues we are trying to lobby the university
on is the serving of halal meat in the canteens."
Chloë Clifford-Frith, who recently graduated from St Hilda's in
Oxford, said students today had a duty to promote atheist ideas: "We live in a
world where religious governments execute adulterers and homosexuals, deny
women and minority groups basic freedoms, circulate fraudulent claims about
contraception and scientific research and create laws that protect them from
criticism," she said. "We are privileged, in such a world, to live in a country
where we can even have this debate. As such, we have a duty to bring it into
our universities and beyond."
Taking a stand: Notable non-believers
Diagoras of Melos
Often referred to as the "first atheist", Diagoras was a poet and
sophist who openly spoke out against religion in ancient Greece and was forced
to flee Athens for doing so. Unfortunately, little record of what he thought
survives although we know that he publicly questioned the Eleusinian Mysteries,
an elaborate series of ceremonies.
Albert Einstein
Einstein was regularly asked if he thought there was a god. In
developing the theory of relativity, he realised there must have been a
beginning to the universe. The question he struggled with was what came before
the beginning? He concluded: "I do not believe in a personal God. If something
is in me which can be called religion, then it is the unbounded admiration for
the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
Mark Twain
A fearsome critic of organised religion, Twain wrote many of the
soundbites atheists repeat today, such as: "If Christ were here, there is one
thing he would not be: a Christian." Born in 1835, a year Halley's comet was
seen, he ironically predicted "the Almighty" would take him next time the comet
passed near Earth. He died in 1910, two weeks after the comet was spotted once
more.
