How would you feel it you knew there wasn't a God?

Answer 1

It wouldn't matter much to me one way or the other. However, I think to most the lack of a higher power means we have to accept:

- Responsibility for learning, instead of defaulting everything to God
- That we are alone
- That bad things happen without an evil force to guide them
- That good things happen without a just force to guide them
- That there is no divine justice
- That there is no afterlife. When we die, we're done.
- That we cannot seek comfort outside of our own society
- That we cannot change unfortunate events, or inspire fortunate ones simply by praying.

That's a LOT for people some people to deal with. So, I think it would be easy for those who have already dealt with some of these things, and devistating for those who haven't.

Answer 2

I already know there is no God, and I feel great. Life becomes much less complicated once you accept that there is no genie in the sky who will rescue you from your troubles. It also becomes emotionally freeing--just think of the baggage of guilt and fear that Christians carry around with them, knowing that every time they sin they incur their deity's wrath and that they can never, ever please him no matter what they do or how good a life they lead. Think of the children being taught that they are evil, guilty, worthless creatures whom God can never accept. No wonder kids have so many self-esteem issues! Get rid of it all, I say, and be free of such nonsense.

As for God being love...please, show me in the Bible where God demonstrates that love. Show me where God does anything nice for people WITHOUT accompanying it with death, destruction, fear, bloodshed, or threats of violence. Sure, there are verses where God says that he loves the Israelites--and ONLY the Israelites--but he never actually proves it. Then there's that "For God so loved the world..." BS line, which again is accomplished only by bloodshed and violence against the innocent. If you would read your Bible with an open, inquiring mind, instead of parroting "God is love!" like your pastors teach you to do, you would see the truth of the matter--and that truth is that BibleGod has nothing to do with love.

Answer 3

I tend to believe that there is a higher power, but I'm not sure if it is God. I believe that possible Jesus was God. But the more and more that you listen and watch things like the discovery channel the more and more that it makes sense that we did evolve. No where in the bible does it mention that and we have proof because we have bones and artifacts. Has to how it would affect my life, I think that maybe I wouldn't be so scared. Maybe then I would live my life as I probably should now....without a care in the world. I would have more confidence in myself, to know that there isn't anyone that is out there looking out for me but myself. You don't need religion to be a good person.

Answer 4

It wouldn't matter.

Whether my reasons for living a productive, helpful, fulfilling life come from belief in an external diety, genetic traits, social conditioning or all or none of these, the goal and, to a large extent, the processes, are still the same.

The sense of awe and wonder I feel when contemplating God is very close to the sense of awe and wonder I feel when contemplating the cosmos, the quanta, or the amazing reality of a newborn's fingernails.

As to religion, although I have chosen from among them a personal set of guidelines which closely match those of a particular organized religion, I believe that almost all of them work as a firm framework from inside of which one can construct a good life. If I never have to wrestle with a decision, for example, of whether or not to steal, my energy can be devoted to my own growth and that of those around me. All religions provide answers to many such problems.

I CHOOSE to believe that the belief system to which I adhere is ordained by God, but if it could be proved to me that God did not exist, this system would work just as well for me, as my motive is not simply to please God, but also to contribute some little thing to my own happiness, and that of those around me.

Answer 5

I'd feel exactly as I do now, as there isn't one.

I think we should take responsibility for your own life, live it well, share happiness with friends and family and leave the world better than it was when you got here, and I don't see how creating some artificial construct just to give you basic rules by which you should be living your life anyway makes the blindest bit of difference.

Answer 6

I have never felt better. I can operate more effectively, am more interested in the truth, no matter how painful it may be. The nightmares are all gone forever.
Self efficacy and self respect have come to my life.

My "being" needs are all that concerns me now. They are: (truth, goodness, beauty, unity and wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, perfection, completion, justice and order, simplicity, effortlessness, playfulness, self-sufficiency, and meaningfulness)

The worst thing that anyone has ever done to another human being is teach them that God and\or Gods are real. This keeps us in a deficit.

Answer 7

Hopeless because God is everything and I know without a doubt that He exists. How would you feel if you found out there was a God but all along you denied His existence?

Answer 8

I would feel like a fool. Psalms 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. That what people are that say there is no God "FOOLS"

Answer 9

Most religious leaders are atheists. They have broken through to the level that they know there is no god, but the god THEY TELL people about.They know that they are their own authority and they should not, cannot seek guidance from persons and authorities outside themselves.

Answer 10

I know that there isn't a god, and I'm relieved. I get to focus on my life and on being a good person by myself without all the limitations and worries that come with religion and deities.