Atheists...tell me this please?

Question

As a Christian i wonder what some of the reasons are for not believing in God. I am not here to judge you or ridicule you, just very curious to understand some of your points as to why you choose that lifestyle, as opposed to Christianity, Islam, ect ect.

Some of your answers are very interesting indeed.

Answer 1

i wonder that too.....what makes you choose not to believe?
Please be serious and civil, since this man has asked so decently.

Answer 2

The question should be the other way around really.

It's for the same reasons that I don't believe in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. All evidence EVER points towards evolution and the big bang. Why bring a god into it? Sure...hundreds or thousands of years ago people didn't understand lightning...or the "big ball of fire that comes from behind that mountain every day"...but now all these things have been explained by science. No need for some creator...that's just a cheap cop-out for someone that doesn't understand the facts of how life evolved or how crystals are formed or how electron orbits and atoms form matter etc etc.

Plus the bible and other religious texts are very contradictory and don't allow you to question ANY of it. Which is absurd. Things need to be questioned so better explanations can be found.

Answer 3

There are many points that could prove the nonexistence of God..
- The Bible have many contradictory things... dates, facts that never happen.... The history itself proved that bible have no compprobatory contents and is only a part of a big myth that people needed to explain things. People even know what shape have earth... none type of science, and almost everytime the phylosophers were the true cientists of the age...
It means that people could not confirm the true. They have no cience methods... etc..
- The Church, in almost 98% of its time, tried to domain all earth, using it power of convence people, contructing buildings that could make people thought they were smaller than they are.... like the Humanism and many other changes and revolutions on society that tried to change the fact that Church and God commanded all lives.
- In name of God, many people, named Priests, and other ones dizimate many cultures with their power, coverting than, killing the ones who disagree.... "witches and barbarians"... etc..
- The fact that Human Being wasn't built, and have envolved from forms of lives like gorillas... and scientists have all proof that it happens....
- and the fact that everything that gains perfection, reaches perfection must fall.... See all big empires. What happened? they must fall to others continues.. it is the evolution way.

Anything that reach perfection can sustain it. What is the fun to be perfect? All the mistakes, errors and bad things makes the simple and "wrongest" things even more perfect, because in realy they aren't. The Fun of life is that it is not perfect. Also, life to cientists is a thing that can be a instability on perfect thinks... anything that is instable has life. It exists.... so, God, that is stable, doesn't exists.

Other things. God was created by Humans (and other gods too, not only Ala or the Christian god or to have an explanation for their own mistakes, or to have props to keep going being worms.)

"If the Bible is the proof that God exists, then the comics are the proof the Superman does exist too..." but have you met him, by the way? :P


thks

for more information, get the new version of Necronomicon, by Donald Tyson - Llewellyn Publications
and other "prohibited" books by the church, tsc, tsc... as well as those concerning the massacres of "pagans" when the Christians decided to DOMINATE THE WORLD.

Answer 4

Although I am not an atheist per say either, I understand an Atheists point of view alot better than a Christians. I believe there is a higher power that no one can comprehend or fathom. Religion, as humans know it, is mans attempt to understand the world and the miracles that occur in it. Each religion has tried to do this, and continue to disagree over how man, earth, and life was created and why we are here. No earthly religion has gotten it right. By totally believeing in one religion, you are basically saying that all other non-believers are to be banished to hell or what ever that religions punishment is for not following. How could a God do that to people?

Answer 5

There was allready a question "How is it that people don't believe ... ?"
And I answered this:
Why don't I need the concept of God?
Lets say it this way. I'd like to know HOW everything became. I'd like to know what everything IS. I'd really like to know WHY everything is. But I don't. I just don't. And it's ok.

If you still don't understand what I'm saying lets put it this way: When I don't have an answer, I do not tend to make up one just to feel better.

Ok, although it's my personal conclusion that religion comes with the people who are not capable of dealing with unanswered questions, I don't make fun of them and I'm very aware that you won't agree with me. So, lets say religious people don't make up answers, but they just know them, from the heart... I understand that concept, it's very similar with the concept of intuition. So now I'm thinking (or feeling) the way you are - that there must be some higher power (not personificated beeing - I really can not regress into childhood of religion) that created everything that exists... And the first question that comes to my mind is: "And how did that power become?" So, if someone in some point of my life manages to give me an answer that will make me unable to ask another question, then I'll probably become a believer myself.
So I didn't CHOOSE atheism as lifestyle. I just never stopped wondering.

Answer 6

You need to read "Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan. Then you will understand perfectly. People have always clung to wacky ideas to explain the world around them. If you are sick you can pray or you can take medicine. You can turn to religion or science. I'll choose science and I'll get better. Someone else will choose religion and they will not get better, but then they'll just say that it was God's will that they stayed sick. That is just one small example of the contents of that book.

Here's a link to a brief synopsis:
http://www.2think.org/dhw.shtml
And to order it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/102-9215528-0022504?v=glance&n=283155

Also, atheism isn't a lifestyle, it's a belief set. My lifestyle is probably exactly the same as most Christians. I don't smoke or drink. I'm married with kids. I give to charity. I don't break any major laws. I graduated from university. I have a good job. etc.

Answer 7

I think there are too many religions around the world for me to think any one could be more true than the others. And I think there has been too much time that religion has been passed down from person to person that there is too much room for error. Within these errors there could be the truth that God doesn't really exist after all. It's like playing telephone on a much grander scale.

Check out the new book "Misquoting Jesus". It's about how, and why, the bible was rewritten through it's journey. A facinating read.

Answer 8

It is as plain as day to me that religion was invented by man to explain things that, at the time, seemed unexplainable. Now, with an expanded knowledge-base, we have some of the answers to things that religion has historically tried to explain.

As we continue to grow and gain knowledge we will realize that these superstitious explanations simply do not cut it any more. We've already seen this happen in regards to the arrangement of the solar system. The future will shatter more and more of these long-held, mistaken beliefs.

Answer 9

1.- I cannot believe, unless you prove it.
2.- I think religions close your mind.
3.- I haven't chosen my lifestyle. It's not a choice. It's a natural consequence of the way you've been raised, the experiences you've had, etc.
4.- I have never felt the need for a religion.
5.- I see a lot of hypocrisy in Christian religions (basically, the Catholic church, which is predominant here in Argentina).
6.- The Catholic Church has been an accomplice to the worst crimes you can possibly imagine here. They've turned their back to victims of torture, several priests have been found guilty of child abuse, and the church still protects them, etc.
7.- I find the churches in general very repressive in connection with sexual matters (pre-marital relations, homosexuality, condoms, masturbation, porn, legalisation of abortion, sexual education, legalisation of prostitution, etc.) And altough I am not interested in ALL of these things (only in some), I dislike an institution that doesn't want me to do things which are not wrong themselves (as opposed to states which want me not to kill, which is a really bad thing to do).
8.- Churches expect you to be almost perfect, and they make you feel guilty when you obviously aren't. And through this guilt, they manipulate them.
9.- Churches believe I am a better person if I don't do certain things (as those mentioned in point 7) which don't really harm anybody.
10.- Churches promise salvation in the future, but they condition your present life.
11.- Some religions expect you to worship a deity of whose existence you cannot even be sure. I mean, even if there is a god, why should that mean we need to worship him constantly. Is he so vain and narcisist that he needs you to keep saying "Thank god" for everything? And is he so vindictive that he'll punish you if you don't?
12.- Religions cause deaths (still) by their indirect action: for example, when they won't let you use a condom, they're forcing a woman to become pregnant (because no one can REALLY expect that people will not have sex). If that woman is poor, she might not have the money to feed her baby, and it will die or be malnourished for life. BTW, the church will expect this woman not to abort, but it will not care for her or her child once she's given birth.
13.- Christian churches are the main force behind most cases of censorship. I mean, I admit some things may not be nice for a Christian to see. I also admit that some things are even straightforwardly insulting for them. But even then, Christians should keep from seeing them. Religions should advise their followers not to see them. They might even impose penalties for those who go. And of course, they should be granted the right to say publicly what they think of it. But don't make us nonbelievers not go. Don't shut it down for us. We want to see that. I mean, there are plenty of things that insult nonbelievers, and we don't expect you to close it down. As a matter of fact, churches insult me for all of the above, but I would not want churches or religions to be banned. My dream is that one by one, all believers woke up and saw what I see, and they left their religions for good. But I'm not going to accept a single church to be closed down by non-religious intolerance.

Answer 10

vice versa why do u choose to believe...it is way easier to not believe than to believe and why must someone believe in something that they cant see cant touch cant talk to dont even know if it exist in the first place no sicentific evidence to support it instead of a book or scriptures...we live very much the same way regardless of what we believe so it is not impossible to not believe in anything and be normal...its all a trend if u ask me

Answer 11

Read your bible without your beliefs and notions. It's pretty far fetched. All holy books I've read are, including the Quran, and the Torah and Talmud. I'm not an athiest perse, as I do believe in dieties and the devine. I just don't buy into the "one all knowing god who created all" theory.