Atheism maintains that there is no single Divine Identity which governs the whole spectrum of existence. Such a philosophical position is perfectly reasonable, especially in reaction against the anthropomorphic Sesame Street types who imagine some well-muscled white male sitting on a cloud as a handy way to come to terms with infinity and spirituality. Especially an old bearded white guy who not only sees everything in the universe but is ALSO intensely interested in your personal sexual pecadilloes. Talk about untenable scenarios!!!

SOME atheists, of course, are also pure materialists who entertain the equally ridiculous extreme that all spiritual and creative phenomena are entirely attributed to accidents of intersection between electronic fields, atoms, molecules, and mass. Oy!! The sheer mathematical impossibility (compared to the number of changes that woulkd be required to culminate in our full spectrum of operational species just hereabouts in spaace and time) is mindboggling -- probably something on the order of winning the Venusian Lottery telepathically!!

Oh, I know, someone is going to pop up and remind me that they DID win the Venusian Lottery telepathically. Sorry!! :>)

But to speak to the topic of this thread, by definition a believer can sing anything he wishes to. This is a silly question -- it is like asking if Richard Burton could act the role of a 15th Century Dane while still not believing he was, himself, Danish. Dohhh!!!

The very question implies a very ungenerous impression of the capabilities of the human spirit indeed.

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