Today, I tweeted at my Twitter site http://www.twitter.com/rahulbemba:
Anyone who claims to be an “atheist”; is in fact a “believer”. - Rahul
Someone asked me “how?" Here was my explanation:
If we think, atheism is also a “belief”. The person, who takes care not to believe in the conventional religions or wisdom which are at the end a “pattern”, can also be believing in a “pattern”. His anti-belief is also a belief; his anti-pattern is also a pattern. For example, just like devotees salute in front of the deity as a practice, he makes sure that he doesn’t salute – as a practice too! He thinks he is doing something new, but it is the same old in a different mould.
My own thoughts on this is that we should be free from the dogma, even if we call ourselves religious. Also, I believe we should be free from both pro- and anti- things... We don't have to be opposite of anything, but we should be free from all patterns, even from atheism... As you would observe, anything ending in an "ism" is a pattern, including atheism... Anything which can be described in an "ism", like atheism, is a pattern, and hence has a belief system… This is why I say, those who call themselves atheists, are in fact believers…
- Rahul
