Atheism is the natural state of a normal person. What is Atheism and who is an atheist? Esoteric view

What is Atheism? Is it a harmless philosophy, a natural worldview for a person, or is it a religion directed against God and against human nature? Is atheism so harmless, as its representatives atheists write about it, or is it really not so at all? Lots of questions that need answers.

There is one more question - who is an atheist? Of course, it cannot be denied that among atheists there are normal and even very worthy people, this is true. After all, atheists are not animals, not maniacs, they are people who deny their own soul, deny the divine nature of man. A truly believing person knows for sure that he has a soul, because he feels it in his heart. And a sincere Believer can only sympathize with an atheist who does not hear his soul.

We will look at the esoteric aspect of atheism and how atheists are seen by those with open psychic abilities - and psychics.

What is Atheism

I repeat that one can very beautifully describe, explain, justify any worldview, as atheists did. The whole philosophy of atheism is presented so calmly, peacefully, even in a certain light and positive. But we must not forget that the Devil, including his abilities of temptation, is able to speak in whole verses from the Bible and scriptures, and at the same time speak in his own way, bringing evil and destroying a person’s faith, mislead people, plunge into, skillfully justifying any evil .

Therefore, do not just believe the words! After all, in fact, it was atheists-atheists during the Soviet period in the USSR, in Cambodia and other communist countries that killed more people than in all the last world wars combined. Moreover, these wild atheistic regimes did not destroy enemies, but their own people, their own people. In Empires and states where there was any religion at the core and there has never been such cruelty, inhumanity and such atrocities in the entire history of mankind. "Peace-loving atheists" destroyed not only people, but also the entire cultural heritage of their own countries - churches, temples, monuments, icons, books, and more. etc., that shrine, which was the basis of the faith and traditions of entire peoples. That's what brought the "peace-loving atheists" to their "harmless" atheistic worldview.

Answer to the question: “Why can an Atheist be very worthy and a moral person even though he denies the nature of spirituality?”- there is also and we will give it!

- philosophy, doctrine, worldview directed against God. It is based on the denial of the existence of God, and, accordingly, of His Laws, and the immortal divine soul of man. This denial cannot but have consequences. And he will pay for the mistakes of a person.

- this is also a faith (belief system), also a religion. It is simply a religion that is directed against God and leads, accordingly, to His opposite. And who in this world opposes God? That's right - these are forces (Satan). Therefore, any sane psychic who distinguishes between good and evil will answer you that atheism is the same Satanism, only in a different wrapper. The wrapper is different, but the filling is the same.

And for those who naively believe that Good and Evil are relative concepts, I recommend that you carefully read and follow the links.

Who is an Atheist and how does he look on the energy plane?

Atheist- an atheist, a person without the protection of God, a person who has renounced his nature and his source. And this means that he was left alone, on his own. But by itself, a person never remains, which means that other forces from the opposite camp take him under their wing. It is not for nothing that most Healers do not even undertake to help a person if he is not baptized (not under God).

What does an atheist look like on an energy level? In fact, any seeing healer or good psychic with abilities will tell you about the same thing. If a person does not believe in God, a block hangs on the energy one above his head, often in the form of a reinforced concrete slab, which blocks the flow of the spirit (energy from God), cuts off the connection with the Creator. This deprives a person of protection and help from outside and, and makes him vulnerable to. Such a person is easy prey for the Dark Ones, and he quickly becomes their slave.

The patrons of such a person cannot be bright. They are either gray, if the person is more or less good, or dark, if the person is negative (evil, dark).

The soul of an atheist is as if conserved (as in a tin can) or squeezed into a straitjacket, it automatically falls into the power of dark forces. And after the departure of an atheist to the world of another soul, as a rule, there are exceptions, a person is taken away by the Dark Forces (they have the right, because a person himself refused God and his own soul).

An atheist always has many blocks in his heart and soul. It has severe limitations on the ability to love and feel in general. His sensitivity moves much lower - from the level of the heart, to the energy centers () responsible for emotions, sexual pleasure and physical sensations. In other words, such a person basically lives materially.

Statistics. P about statistics, Atheists are much more nervous and unbalanced than believers, they get sick more often, smile less and lose their minds (go crazy) much more often in old age. They are deprived of their soul before death and their consciousness is destroyed by the fear of death, the lack of meaning in life, and the accumulated negative emotions and conflicts of consciousness. I have seen more than once what happened to a person,in which there was no faith in God, before his death. Atheists and doctors call it madness , but in fact - this is, demons and devils tear the human mind to pieces. Let me tell you, it's scary!

The Dark Ones almost always stand behind an atheist, waiting for them to finally get his soul. But I also saw how a person changed, who, being an atheist, gained Faith, and his spiritual heart came to life in him. It was as if his soul suddenly threw off its fetters and opened its wings, and the dark ones lost power over it.

Instructive story from my life. My father was an atheist fanatic and it drove him to painful colic,due to kidney stones and before hospital bed. He could not even think and swear because of the pain, he could not even get angry, there was no longer any strength. Right in the hospital, reading S. Lazarev's books about Love for God and (which I gave him), in one day my unbelieving parent was completely cleansed of centimeter stones! The next day, the ultrasound showed that everything was clean, and the urine test was like that of a baby (my father was 47 years old at that time). The doctors, as always happens, shrugged and discharged him. The Pope said that he prayed all night for the first time in his life and the main thing for which he asked for forgiveness was that because of his pride (pride) he did not want to recognize the existence of God. Now my father is over 60, over the past 10 years he has never been sick with anything, dad is always in a good mood (I have not seen him sad or nervous in recent years), and he also runs a marathon (42 km). So much for Faith in God... True, my father not only believes, he has taken the path of development and works on himself every day:prayers, self-hypnosis, meditation, etc.He also participates in social activities.

And, as I promised, I answer the question - how is it that among atheists there are worthy and even spiritual people? It's simple, it's not their merit, but their souls! If the soul of an atheist in a previous incarnation went through a serious spiritual path, for example, the path of a monk in a monastery, then the spiritual power accumulated in a past life (corresponding moral principles and qualities, love, kindness and light) will be manifested in this person. Of course, this light of the soul and kindness will manifest itself in a person even if he is an atheist. And Most often, these people themselves do not know why they are the way they are.But the thing is that this light quickly ends when a person stands on the opposite side from God.

Of course, you can choose what to believe in - in God or in His absence, but I highly recommend you talk to believers who used to be atheists! Ask them - what has changed in their lives and in themselves after they gained faith and ceased to be atheists?

Atheism(from Greek ἄθεος - godless, atheist) - 1) direction of philosophy that denies existence; 2) godlessness, denial of God.

Atheism can also be seen as a form of suicide, because atheists consciously reject God, the Source of life. A person's commitment to atheism makes him spiritually blind, limits his life horizon to the physiological and spiritual levels of being, prevents the comprehension of the higher meaning of life, the realization of the higher destiny.

In essence, atheism is a faith, because its fundamental provisions are scientifically unprovable and are hypotheses.

From the point of view of Christianity, materialistic philosophy is one of the forms of pagan pantheistic philosophy. Like all other forms of pagan pantheistic philosophy, it sees the first principle of being in impersonal nature, absolutizes the impersonal being of nature, endows it with Divine properties. As a form of pantheistic philosophy, materialistic atheism was considered by many representatives of Russian religious and philosophical thought - N. A. Berdyaev, N. O. Lossky, S. A. Levitsky, and others.

S.A. Levitsky:
Atheism, which denies God the Creator, cannot fail to see the root cause of the world in the world itself. For an atheist, the world is not created, but has existed and will exist forever. Everything in this uncreated world is explained by the omnipotent "laws of nature."

However, the laws of nature can (theoretically) explain everything except the existence of the laws of nature themselves. It is enough to ask an atheist the question of the origin of the laws of nature, how he will have to answer with a tautological, i.e., meaningless reference to these laws of nature themselves.

In other words, the atheist will have to transfer the predicates of the Absolute (primary essence, primary cause, eternity, unconditionality, etc.) to the world itself or to the laws that reign in it.

Thus, the negation of the Absolute avenges itself by absolutizing the relative. In other words, it is easy to lead an atheist capable of consistent thinking, provided he is intellectually honest, to pantheism as a doctrine that deifies the world as a whole.

So, atheism is unconscious; as such, atheism is just as logically untenable as pantheism.

Reverend:
Pride prevents the soul from entering the path of faith. To the unbeliever I give this advice: let him say: “Lord, if You exist, then enlighten me, and I will serve You with all my heart and soul.” And for such a humble thought and readiness to serve God, the Lord will certainly enlighten... And then your soul will feel the Lord; she will feel that the Lord has forgiven her and loves her, and you will know this from experience, and the grace of the Holy Spirit will testify salvation in your soul, and then you will want to shout to the whole world: “How much the Lord loves us!”.

Deacon Andrew:
The Christian view does not narrow the horizon, but broadens it. Everything that is familiar to secular people is also familiar to religious people. What secular science says is also clear to religious scientists. But apart from the "laws of nature" we really see something different. Yes, a miracle, yes, freedom, yes, hope. But this is not instead of and not at the expense, but together.

from the Greek atheos - godless) - renunciation of God, denial of God; atheism either denies in principle the existence of what is meant by the word "God" (radical atheism), or disputes the position that God, if he exists, can be known to some extent by people (agnostic atheism). Radical atheism in a pronounced form is typical only for the followers of modern materialism, especially for Marxism and positivism; agnostic atheism was already widespread among philosophers Ancient Greece, where he was represented by some pre-Socratics (Democritus and others) and sophists (Protagoras, Gorgias), Epicurus and his school, early Cynics and skeptics. Modern value ethics contains postulate atheism, the main representative of which was N. Gargman, who considered faith in a divine legislator incompatible with the ethics of values. He argued that the final determinism of divine providence denies ethical freedom (and with it the premise of all moral behavior). If we allow the freedom of the individual, then it will inevitably lead to the denial of final determinism. These phenomena are mutually opposite - like the thesis and antithesis.

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ATHEISM

denial of God(s). Since no affirmation is necessarily connected with negation, the concept of "atheism" can be meaningfully defined only concretely historically. In different contexts, atheism can denote diverse phenomena: religious freethinking (freethinking); doubt that God can be known (religious agnosticism), categorical denial of the existence of God (radical atheism). Like any negation, atheism depends on the object of negation, i.e., theism, which also appears in various types: polytheism, henotheism, monotheism, pantheism and deism. Atheism in itself therefore does not exist.

As a "criticism" of religion, atheism is not necessarily an rejection of it, but rather an explanation of the entire religious history of mankind; it is presented in many different forms due to changes in the historical and cultural context. As a sociocultural phenomenon, atheism is determined not only by the object of denial, i.e. religion, but also by the whole set of factors public life and appears mainly in the forms of secular consciousness - philosophical, scientific, political, etc.

In ancient times, atheists were those who did not recognize the gods of the official cult. So, Socrates was accused of atheism, because he worshiped his deity, and not the gods of the "state". The first Christians in Rome were also accused of atheism, since biblical monotheism abolished god in its former polytheistic understanding, a god conceivable in the plural and in particular, as the god of "something" - a state, a city, an estate, a type labor activity or natural phenomena. The pagan consciousness did not perceive the biblical God as a single force standing above everything and directing everything; it was unable to see the incarnated Christian God, to see God in the Jew Jesus of Nazareth. It is no coincidence that in the Nicene Creed, adherents of polytheistic cults are considered as atheists (Eph 2:12): they do not know God and worship "man-made gods", idols. Godlessness in the era of antiquity is represented by the mythological figure of the “impious”, who does not honor God and violates his will, the “god fighter”, for example, in the form of a “cultural hero”, transferring to people what belongs to the gods, generally showing self-will: “The madman said in his heart : "there is no God" (Ps 13:1). Those who said so are atheists, those who “have become corrupted, have committed vile deeds”, among them “there is no one who does good”. Atheism, thus, acquires an "evaluative" character: atheism is presented as an accusation. Naturally, not all those who were called atheists were such in their own understanding. Socrates' answer to the accusation of godlessness was this: if I am an atheist, then I did not introduce new deities, and if I introduced new deities, then I am not an atheist. The pre-Socratic natural philosophers did not recognize themselves as atheists, but from the v. sp. of the traditional mythological consciousness, they were such, since they explained the universe not mythologically, but through the material elements (although they endowed them with the attributes of omnipotence, omnipresence, eternity, and even animation). In ancient Greece, atheism as a conscious position was represented by some pre-Socratic philosophers, and above all by Democritus, the Sophists (Protagoras, Gorgias), Epicurus and his school, the early Cynics and skeptics.

There was no place for atheism in the cultural lexicon of the early Middle Ages. While the symbolic system of dogmatized Christian monotheism dominated the medieval cosmos and served as the only cultural matrix, dissent was closed within theism: true religion was opposed by "false", orthodoxy-heresies. When the mind was admitted to the knowledge of God (Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas), godlessness appeared as a denial of the existence of God as the “first, rational and immaterial cause” of created being, and, moreover, as a greater, in comparison with idolatry, evil: “because the latter leaves the existence of virtues, which, on the contrary, do not exist in the system of atheism, and are useless ”(New word interpreter, part 1. St. Petersburg, 1803, p. 275).

The decisive factors that determined the content and functions of atheism in modern times were the birth of science and the formation civil society. The problem of atheism in the sociocultural context of the formation of post-medieval civilization was posed in a new way and included two main questions: the question, firstly, about whether the scientific picture of the world leaves room for God, and, secondly, about the political and ethical implications of faith in the Christian God, about how this belief relates to human freedom and responsibility.

Criticism of religion focuses on the problem: what role does religion play in society and whether it can exist without religion. P. Bayle was the first to admit the possibility of a moral society consisting entirely of atheists; F. Voltaire, on the contrary, assures that social order is impossible without religion. The revolution of 1789 takes place under the sign of political atheism. But still, an “enlightened person” can be not only an explicit atheist, but also a deist or agnostic. It is important that religion does not contradict reason, that it is “natural”, that it corresponds to human nature.

The growth of the influence of atheism in the Enlightenment was due not only to socio-political factors. The emergence of a mechanistic picture of the world played a significant role. Christian theism was transformed into deism, which preserved God as the first principle, but denied his intervention in what is happening in nature and society. Mechanism combined with materialism led to the radical atheism of the French materialists of the 18th century.

In Germany, the overcoming of deism proceeded differently. In the critical philosophy of I. Kant, in the philosophy of history of J. G. Herder, in the Spinoza pantheism of F. Schleiermacher and J. W. Goethe, it was not about the denial of God, but about how to understand him. J. G. Fichte in "The Dispute about Atheism" (1798) identifies God with the moral world order. In early romanticism, in Schleiermacher, God becomes an experience of the human soul, a sense of the presence of the Eternal, the inclusion of the individual in the Whole.

While classical romanticism and German idealism (F. V. I. Schelling) return to philosophically interpreted theism, atheism finds ground under its feet in new philosophical currents - A. Schopenhauer and L. Feuerbach. In the first case, this is philosophical irrationalism, in the second, materialistic anthropologism. Following Feuerbach, K. Marx also argued that it is not God who creates man, but God's man. However, Marx offers a different view of religion: since man should be considered not as a natural, but as a social being, religion is an illusory consciousness, not because it reflects the world wrongly, but because it reflects a wrong world, which is yet to come. solve the problem of "human emancipation", overcoming alienation in all forms, including religious.

In parallel with Marxism, positivism (Comte, Spencer) also considers religion as a social phenomenon. In the 19th century scientifically oriented atheism, based primarily on biology, Darwinism, will become widespread. It appears in various forms: vulgar materialism (Buchner, Focht), agnosticism (Huxley), monism (Haeckel). In all its forms, the atheism of that time was associated with the unevenly developing process of modernization of European society, with the process of secularization that also affected the spiritual sphere, which began with a “reassessment of values”, including Christian morality (Nietzsche).

In the 20th century atheism develops, on the one hand, in the context of the problems of existentialism: a person gaining freedom and courage to be himself in the face of depersonalizing forces that deprive his life of meaning is the line of development of atheistic thought from F. Nietzsche to J.-P. Sartre and A. Camus. On the other hand, in dialectical materialism, atheism becomes an integral part of communist ideology, state doctrine; becomes anti-theism, a means of counteracting ideological dissent in a religious form. By discrediting atheism in the public mind, militant anti-theism contributed to the fact that the spiritual resistance to totalitarianism was largely directed towards a religious revival (not only in post-Soviet Russia, but also in other countries of the former socialist camp).

In modern studies, the phenomenon of atheism is presented in many ways, both in time, with the allocation of historical stages and forms of manifestation, and typologically. It is customary to distinguish between practical and theoretical atheism, and within the framework of the latter, scientific, humanistic and political. Despite the conventionality of this typology, it has a certain cognitive value.

The most common type of atheism is the belief that there is no room for God in the world as it appears in the scientific picture of nature and society; the development of science abolishes God as a natural-scientific, sociological and philosophical hypothesis. Atheism of this type is represented by a materialistic worldview (La Mettrie, Holbach, Feuerbach, Marx) and "methodological atheism", that is, as a principle scientific explanation the world from itself (an illustration could be the words of Laplace that he did not need a reference to God to build a cosmogonic theory). In a softened form, this position is presented as an agnostic by Huxley, who distances himself from both theism and atheism, since the very word "God" from his point of view does not have a reasonable meaning. Similarly, neopositivists believe that propositions affirming and denying the existence of God are equally unverifiable (Carnap, Schlick). The question of whether science leaves room for belief in God remains open and is solved in different ways, but in any case, science replaces religion as a way of knowing and explaining the world.

Another type of atheism is based on the perception of the world, in which a person acts as the creator of himself and his history. This may be the perception of the world as rationally ordered and self-sufficient, in which a person, with the help of reason, relying on science, solves the problems of his being himself, which cannot be solved with the help of faith in God (Russell B. Why I'm not a Christian, 1957). But atheism can be based on the experience of the imperfection of the world and the denial of God in view of the evil reigning in the world. A person either takes on the task of arranging the world, considering it fundamentally achievable on the paths of scientific and social progress (an optimistic-humanistic option), or chooses as the only worthy position a heroic opposition to the world of absurdity, the meaning of which is in gaining freedom by a person.

The content of atheism is the drama of man's liberation from the power of God: man must free himself from it in order to become free and take his destiny into his own hands (Nietzsche); if there is God, there is no man (Sartre, Camus); faith in the divine legislator denies ethical freedom, is incompatible with the ethics of values (N. Hartman); the problem of atheistic existentialism is the problem of a person's realization of himself, overcoming his "homelessness and orphanhood" (Heidegger). Rejection of God is the price of human freedom.

At the origins of this type of atheism is Marx's concept of "human emancipation" through the overcoming of alienation. The affirmation of man, according to Marx, is achieved not through the denial of God (as in Feuerbach), but through the elimination of the socio-economic foundations of alienation in all forms, including religious. Program atheism, from the point of view of Marx, is unacceptable for the socialist movement: political atheism exhausts itself with the solution of the problem of "political emancipation" in bourgeois revolutions, where the modern system of political power is established (the rule of law, human rights, etc.).

In a consciousness for which the denial of God loses any serious significance, atheism gives way to a-theism, i.e., religious indifference, non-religion. Consciousness of this type is formed in those areas of activity that become autonomous in relation to religion; for example, science explains the phenomena it studies as if there were no God, leaving the question of God outside its competence, i.e., without turning methodological atheism into a worldview. In such a consciousness it is found that along with theism, atheism in the proper sense of the word, as the denial of God, also loses its meaning. It turns out that the mechanisms developed by culture, the ways of satisfying human needs, developing values, regulating behavior, etc., go far beyond the limits indicated by the opposition "theism - atheism", and these concepts themselves are gradually "dissolved" in the concept of culture.

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An atheist is a person who believes that God does not exist. This worldview concerns not one single religion, but all known beliefs in general. Because of this position in life, atheists have become enemies of believers, which, in fact, is not surprising. But the problem is that many do not understand the whole essence of atheism.

Therefore, we will consider this issue in more detail, discarding prejudices and established views. After all, this is the only way to understand what is actually hidden behind this loud concept.

What is atheism?

Atheism is a special way of life, which is based on the fact that there is nothing supernatural in the world: God, devil, angels and spirits. Therefore, an atheist is a person who fully supports this philosophical concept.

In his convictions, he denies any manifestation of divine forces, including the creation of the world by the will of the omnipotent Lord. He also denies that a person has a soul, at least in the form in which the church presents it.

History of atheism

The atheist and the believer are two opposing sides that appeared at the same moment. After all, there have always been people who question the words of a leader or priest, seeing in them selfish thoughts and a thirst for power. As for more accurate information, the first written evidence of atheism is a harpist's song written in ancient Egyptian. It describes the poet's doubts about the afterlife.

The following signs of atheism can be seen in the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Diagoras, who lived at the time of Plato. The same opinion was shared by the Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Car, born in 99 BC.

When the Roman Catholic Church came to power, the followers of atheism diminished, because no one wanted to anger the already violent Inquisition. And only with the weakening of the authority of the Pope, science, and with it atheism, began to develop rapidly again.

Fundamentals of the worldview of atheists

Religious people are sure that an atheist is a person who believes in the absence of God. That is, atheism itself is also a kind of religion, but instead of a deity, its supporters worship the cult of man, and dogmas are replaced by scientific articles and theories.

A thinking atheist, having heard such a statement, will only smile, because if you follow this logic, then baldness is also a kind of hair. There is even a humorous expression: "If an atheist does not smoke tobacco, then he smokes its absence." And yet the position of believers on this issue remains unchanged, despite all the convictions of their opponents.

As for the foundations of the worldview of atheists, they are all quite simple and can be easily formulated.

Everything in the world can be explained with the help of science. And this despite the fact that there are a huge number of questions that scientists still cannot answer accurately. But atheists are sure that this is more likely due to the low level of progress than with the divine principle of certain phenomena.
There is no God, at least in the form in which modern religions present it. According to atheists, all beliefs are absurd, as they are invented by people.
Man is considered to be the highest creature, therefore life must be lived in the study of oneself, and not in the service of an invisible being.

These are the main principles of atheism. But you need to understand that, as in any philosophical movement, there is also room for disagreement. So, there are non-believers who are inclined towards humanism, others are closer to naturalism, and still others are completely radical in relation to the clergy and their flock.

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Now let's touch on the disputes with believers themselves, or rather, what prevents any of the parties from definitively conveying their correctness to their opponents. Everything is simple - the lack of direct evidence.

If we take believers, they cannot present real evidence of the existence of God. Sacred texts are written by a human hand, miracles are just stories from the lips of the righteous, the afterlife - if it exists, then none of it has yet returned. All religion is built on blind faith, therefore, it is virtually impossible to prove it.

But atheists have the same problem. Let the scientists be able to explain what a rainbow, rain, shining stars and even death are, but they are not able to do the main thing - to bring real evidence of the absence of God. After all, God is a transcendent being, therefore, it is impossible to measure him using the methods known to science. Therefore, the theory of higher powers cannot be denied at this time.

Based on this, the dispute between atheists and believers is a double-edged sword. True, in recent times the church has begun to lose its positions, and the reason for this is the rapid progress that can shed light on many divine questions.

The main arguments of atheists

Both atheists and believers always strive to win over as many people as possible to their side. Not surprisingly, there are former atheists who have adopted a particular religion, as well as vice versa. It all depends on what arguments a person considers more reasonable.

Consider the most common arguments against believers.

An atheist is a person who looks at the world through the lens of science. Therefore, it is not surprising that many of their arguments are based on explanations obtained through the research of scientists. And every year this approach becomes more and more effective. After all, now a person can logically explain how the universe, planets, and even what led to the emergence of life on Earth. And the more secrets science reveals, the less room for evasion remains for the clergy.
Also, atheists are always interested in believers why they consider their religion to be true. After all, there are Christians, Muslims, Jews, and also Buddhists - which of them is closer to the truth? And why does the true God not punish then those who believe differently?
Why create evil? Atheists often use this question, because if God is omnipotent, why is he inactive when there is so much suffering in the world. Or why did you have to invent pain at all? The same applies to hell, in which souls will be tormented forever. Does this look like an idyll of a good Creator?

Notable atheists

There are atheists whose names are known to everyone. Whether their worldview was the reason for their success is difficult to answer. But the fact of their glory remains undeniable.

Notable personalities include Bill Gates, Bernard Shaw, Clinton Richard Dawkins, Jack Nicholson, and Sigmund Freud. And the famous atheists of Russia are Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Ivan Pavlov and Andrei Sakharov.

As for ordinary people, here everyone must decide for himself: to be a believer or to accept the arguments of science.