One who believes in God and the one who does not - besides these two, there is a third category of persons. For this class of people, I don't have a single epithet; you may call them believers who do not really believe. A vast majority of people belong to the third category.
Many of us proudly declare ourselves as God-loving and God-fearing persons, yet in our actions we hide our deeds from Him, act in an arbitrary manner, forgetting that God is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. It is this vast majority of people who are responsible for for the sufferings of the common man.
Both the true believers and the true non-believers do not harm others. The atheist, in my opinion, is a very noble person because instead of believing in God he believes in himself. In the final analysis, faith in one's own self is, in effect, faith in God. Those who call themselves theists because they perform 'Yagyas', offer prayers and 'namaaz' without listening to their inner voice are doing great harm to themselves. A true believer in God is a lover of his fellow beings, kind and liberal. Love of God is the real source of happiness. The Sufi, the devotional singer like Mira and Tukaram experienced this happiness. You cannot convert a non-believer into a believer, and vice versa, by logic and arguments. It is a matter of personal experience. Thereis nothing more convincing and scientific than your own experience.
Let there be more and more of true theists and true atheists.
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In my opinion there is no one completely atheist. Yes! some apparently appear non-believer. But they know that this universe is controlled by One, Almighty. Without such belief no one can believe in oneself. Because it is true that one who believes in oneself, he/she can't deny Almighty's presence in him/herself.
--Shailbala Misra.
Belief is nothing else but faith.Atheist believes in himself rather than God.I agree that it's all about personal experiences.It is these experiences that bring you closer to God or away from Him.
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