Atheist and Theist

A few years back i wrote a few things about the ideas i carry about god and religion.[ here] In the years from then to now, a couple of things have changed my views about these subjects. 

Before i write more, i would like to place myself as a "Questioning Believer". At the same time i carry the view that both atheism and theism are matters of personal choice, one not being superior over the other in any respect. Today i would like to just put a few things into perspective for those atheists who write off every believer using scientific reasoning. 

When my parents where young, if someone would have told them that communicating with a distant land using a device that could be the size of ones palm, he would be considered someone who had had one too many. 

However, by records English caricaturist Lewis Baumer had miraculously got the vision and had painted this in one of his cartoon in 1906. Now, one could discount this as saying that already radio communication was available and he could have just minimized the size whereby nothing much to argue there. 

The point is that if something is not yet scientifically available or proven, but someone believes that it is possible, he isn't crazy. It is his idea or vision, which could be realized some day. 

Socrates the famous ancient Greek philosopher had stated that "What i do not know, i do not think i know". This is something that all of us have to follow, because unless proven untrue isn't true and apt in all situations. Nicolaus Copernicous from Poland, had proposed that earth wasn't the center of the universe. The church condemned him and even banned his work. Great !! +1 for all atheists. 

At the same time everything he stated was also not true. We know that Sun is not at the center of the universe today. Yes, he had experiments and hypothesis that showed that Sun was at the center, but his idea of the universe was as weak as today our idea is about sub-bosonic particle (if existence of such a particle could be proven in future). 

This could perhaps lead to the same surprise that followers of Newton's corpuscular theory of light had when Huygen showed them that light could and would behave as a wave. 

The point is that atheists who make fun of the theists should try to understand that even their own understanding is quite limited. The ideas that the theists carry are the ideas that give them comfort and a sense of well being, some of which could be at some point be scientifically proven. 

On the closing note, i would like to also point out that theists shouldn't also insist that every buys into their idea of god and supernatural powers. The atheists are qualified for their views as much as the theists are to their beliefs, howsoever absurd it may sound. 

So in the end, as long as we are not inflicting pain, misery and problems to the other group, each is free to hold their views on the topic. 

Note: In one of my previous post Rags had posted a question in the comments. I have been since then trying to find the answer to the question. Some recently acquired knowledge seems to help me comment on that topic. But that will be the content of following posts.