Atheists...tell me something and i'll try not to say your wrong...?

Question

This time I'll TRY to be nice to all of you atheist/others:

Ok, what makes you so sure there isn't a God?I mean isn't believing there isn't a God just as weird as there is?Did you just come up by yourself that there wasn't a God?Were you raised up religous?What's wrong with believing there is a God?Since when was *most* of the stuff in the bible false?

Try to answer these questions without saying"How can you be so sure there is a God?" I am not trying to force you to believe in him just tell me why you don't believe in him.

I hope I wasn't offending there as I might have done in other previous post. I just wanna see what you think

p.s. I won't say ur gonna go to hell or anything just be honest and try not to dis me so much, I was trying to be nice when I wrote this.
p.p.s. I haven't talked about monkeys and I won't
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God bless you---Angie(Trying to be nice to atheists/others- Christian)

Answer 1

well, I was a bible thumping christian for 23 years-old. Then one day I woke up and realized that all Christian's do is judge and say how everyone is going to hell if they don't believe in GOD. Who gives them the right to say that. I also realized that you can't force others to believe in what you believe in. I was always being asked by fellow church members on why I didn't have a visitor at church or why I wasn't persistent on sharing my faith with others. I just got tired of it and left. No one should tell you how your relationship with god should be like, even if it's not to their standards. I also realized that the money I thought I was giving to god wasn't going towards his work it was going into the pastors pocket, There were single mothers in our church who could barely feed there families and the pastor has five kids and a two story house and he is able to write off food and bills when it comes to taxes, cause the Church pays for it. Yeah the CHURCH me and my money pay him so he can live like a king. so F***religion. I couldn't be happier with out it.

Answer 2

Try hard, sweetheart.

I was raised in a religious household, and am familiar with descriptions of what people feel when they "find" Christ. That never happened to me. How can I have faith in something for which I have no basis to even suspect exists?

There is nothing wrong with believing in a god. Note that to take that stance, it is my argument that you must be willing to concede that there is nothing wrong with believing in ANY god, not just yours. Aggressive proselytizing gets annoying, however, as does listening to the sweeping condemnation of non-Christians in the media by Christian leaders.

The thing about the bible is that it requires faith. I am willing to accept that some things can be proved and that some are supported by at least circumstantial evidence. The heart of the bible, however, is based on the New Testament's message of salvation - and that does require faith. Since I have none, I pronounce that message false.

Answer 3

Mangie, no dis is intended, but don't you think it's probably wiser to approach reality with as little myth as possible? I don't mean you should get rid of ALL your unproven (or unprovable) notions. I mean that it's not intellectually healthy to ASSUME the truth of the unprovable.

Worse than that is the unexamined quality of this type of thinking. Work with me here: How does the concept of ONE God make any more sense than say, the concept of TWO gods? My point is that once you slip into mythological explanations, any one of them can float your boat.

You should have become suspicious once you realized that there are perfectly sane, intelligent, nice and caring Hindu folks who are totally "convinced" their Christian neighbors are sooooo wrong - while the Christian neighbors have the same opinion of the Hindus.

You should have become even more suspicious when you realized that the vast majority of people believe in the same god (or gods) as their parents. In short, does "rightness" come from parents, or culture? Isn't it far more likely that your religion is more like your language, which is neither right nor wrong, but just something produced and perpetuated by your culture?

Answer 4

Wow! You turned polite! Very nicely done. Yes, your last question was on the rude side. I am not an atheist, I believe that all religions have some grain of truth, but the people who follow religions tend to not question what they are taught, and become angry when faced with any differing ideas. I do not believe there is a god who exists separately from ourselves. I think that we are all god; on a higher level, we are all one being. We exist as individuals as a way for the One to perceive all the little myriad details of existence. No other person will ever experience life through your eyes; what you experience is added to the entirety of god. Thus god is bigger than pagans, bigger than christianity, bigger than atheism. God is All. This is heaven. How you choose to express your part of it is up to you. What will you contribute to god?

Answer 5

Years ago, I was doing my reading about neurons in the brain, and that brought me to believing that my soul is nothing but neurons firing, synapses snapping and neurotransmitters working OT in the brain.

I believed that while I was theist. One day, I was doing a prayer ritual and that felt more like a "chore", and not something I enjoyed. My Conscience spoke up saying "If you are not getting anything positive from this, then WHY are you doing this?" It is not something that happened out of the blue for me. It was a gradual process.

I was not raised in a religious home. Parents did send me and Brother to bible school as wee brats, but that was about it. They never forced religion on me or Brother. Today, Brother and Sis-in-Law are at least, non-practicing catholics. Today, I like learning about religions. I do not hate religions in general. I just don't believe in the majority of them.

Personally, I find nothing wrong with believing in "god" if it is what someone chooses to do. :-) _I_ cannot believe in "god" without being dishonest with myself. If I am being dishonest with myself, then I am being dishonest with the world around me. I would rather be an atheist if that meant I am far more honest with myself and the world.

Bible? I have the NT, Book of Psalms and Book of Proverbs on my bookshelf. :-) I don't see them as "false".....but I do see them purely metaphorical and allegorical, not literal. I don't believe the bible has a lot of historical or factual truths in it.

Answer 6

Okay, question by question.

1. I wouldn't say that I'm 'sure' that there is no God, but this is what I feel and believe in my heart and this is what all of my experiences have brought me to believe.

2. I would disagree. Objectively, believing in a god seems to me to be further-fetched (or 'wierder') than not believing. Have you heard of Occam's razor?

3. Do you mean did I independently decide that there was no God? I guess so... I never had any atheists force me to believe that.

4. No. I lived in a very secular household. My mother believes, but she doesn't force it on anyone. I love her and respect her decisions very much.

5. Nothing really, if you truly do believe it in your heart and are not justtrying to make yourself feel better. Additionally, if you behave in a positive and helpful way to other humans regarless of their beliefs, then nothing is wrong with it.

6. Since it was written. If you'd like to speak point-by-point about it, we can.

Good luck with everything in life and thank you for trying to be open-minded. If you have any further questions, I'd be happy to help. I can be contacted by clicking on my avatar.

Answer 7

Okay, here's one argument that I have encountered recently.

1. God is assumed to answer prayers.
2. God sometimes heals people when they pray to him.
3. God is good and loves his creations.

Why then, in the history of the world has no amputee who has ever prayed had his limbs restored? Can we assume that god has something against people who have lost limbs? Presumably not, since he heals people with cancer every day (if reports are to be believed.) Why is it that even the devoutest believer, if he gets into a car accident and loses his legs, will never be healed?

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Answer 8

I went to a Catholic school for about 6 years and went to church every Sunday, so I guess I was raised religiously (even tho my parents weren't Catholic, I was). Wow u have a lot of questions... So here goes my answers... No I don't believe in God anymore. What makes me so sure is because I don't see any evidence at all. I'm not trying to be offensive (really I'm not), but maybe God or Jesus was some psychotic person who had their amygdala damaged which is why that person felt so spiritual/religious and got a bunch of ppl to believe him. Also, if God is so good, then why is being gay wrong? Why do good ppl die? Of course everyone sins, but why do the worst sinners live? Why does a rapist get to live while the mother that's struggling to raise her 3 children, dies, leaving her children to fend for themselves. Some ppl say that it's because God can't control everything, but if that were the case, then why did he make the world so complicated? How could someone make everything in 7th days? And he doesn't seem so humble if we have to worship him every 7th day. Believing there isn't a God isn't as weird as believing there is a God because I really don't see any evidence for believing in God. There's nothing wrong with believing in God. I think it's good for ppl to believe in something. It keeps ppl moral and deters them from giving into crime. Honestly, I have always wanted to believe in God. I've wanted to believe in a Savior so that I could turn towards him in troubled times and be thankful for all he has given me, but I know that deep inside, I don't believe. I have tried, but I find it hard to believe. I guess it's like... trying to believe in Santa Clause. You really want to believe in him, but you know he doesn't exist. Finally, your last question. Since when was most of the stuff in the bible false? I don't know that one because I haven't read the bible in at least 10 years, but anyone can write a book...

I was not offended by your questions at all and I hope you were not offended by any of my answers. I think your passion in trying to understand why ppl don't believe in God is as equal to my passion in understanding why ppl do believe in God. But I'm sure we all just want peace in the end. We all just want to live purely and be kind and loved. Have a nice day Angie.

Answer 9

im not goin to say that do or dont believe in God, but ive bin doin God stuff in RE and we did cosmology, creation of life. And i have come up wiv a possible theory, may sound really stupid, most likely is but here it goes.
Maybe we were created by a living being but not as the God that people think. mayb some living being in some sort of lab has conducted an experiment with antimatter and has made our universe, planet and life as a result and that living being is our 'God'.
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Answer 10

I am not an athiest, but there is no proof that there is a God. It is a matter of faith.

One could argue that churches use the threat of God and an after life to maintain social order, make a lot of money and even justify evil things (Inquisition, 9/11, Holocaust)

There is nothing wrong with believing in God, and in fact acknowledging the lack of physical proof of God shows the strength of one's faith. This could lead to a better relationship with God.