All non-believers, it is obvious that you are dissatisfied with your life or you wouldn't ......?

Question

be so angry and find fault in others. If you are so content in your beliefs why even question us. You all say you're happy, right?

Answer 1

How do you not understand this?

We live in a democracy. The citizens make the rules based on their beliefs so it really does matter what people think.

Wacko fundamentalists are trying hard to turn this country (the U.S.) into a theocracy. They want to tell us that a single cell is as valuable as a human life. They want the absurdities of creationism taught in our science classes. And they want to discriminate against consenting adults who love one another just because they are the same sex.

These are the things that happen when people base there "morals" on myths. They (at least) need to be reminded that their beliefs are myths and that they should be more careful when passing laws that effect others.

BTW, yes, I'm very happy but it doesn't mean I won't stand up for my rights and the rights of others.

Let me ask you, what would you do if you lived in a country where people believed in pink elephants?


Great answer shellers!

Answer 2

Well I was going to answer with something like what mbezlr said . Any hew....

In recent years the number of non-christian (atheists , pagans and so many others) has grown to the point where its just foolish for christians to believe only they are following the right path .

Your still prosecuting even if its under this newly created guise of playing the victim . Your kind started the intolerance (in Europe at least) the rest of us are just trying to wipe that my-****-don't-stink grin off your face and finally accept that your all just doing the same thing we are , trying to find answers for hard to explain questions ; How are we here ? Why are we here ? And how to we go on from here.

I for one am not unhappy with the path I've chosen , but yes I will belittle/argue your beliefs and will continue until the day christians finally accept that they can not change human law to suite their religious needs , accept that people different from you are no less , no more moral then you and to accept the fact that there can be scientific proof against certain aspects of your religion just like there is for countless of other religions .
By saying that the christian God , your precious bible passages and all other christian laws are above scientific , government and physical law is no less insulting than saying " we're above the rest of you" , and I'm sorry but I take that as a personal insult .

Answer 3

I am Jewish and I proudly do not believe in Jesus. I tend not to like most "Believers," for the following reasons. 1. 2000 years of religious persecution. 2. The western world looking the other ways while 6 million of my people were killed during the holocaust. 3. The religious rights support of Israel, hoping that we will start a holy war; all die, and bring about the resurrection of Jesus. 4. The general attitude that I should know my place. 5. Constantly having to deal with people trying to convert me. 6. Having to deal with the ever expanding Christmas season, would it kill ya to have some good Christmas music. 7. At a recent Southern Baptist convention, they compared Judaism to cancer. Looks it up on Cnn.com. There are a ton of more reasons why I do like "Believers."
As for my life not being happy, well for the last year I have been working at a job where I earn a very good salary, the stress is very low, and I enjoy the people that I work with. I have a wife that I find very attractive and the sex is very very good. We have an amazing marriage and unlike 90% of the couples in this country we do not fight about money. I am in better shape then I was five years ago and work out three to four times a week. My philosophy on like is that I do not believe in g-d I believe in myself. If my like isn't great, I do not know what is!!

Answer 4

in non-believers do you mean in Christian or Pagan or what? Well I'll guess Christian..... I am not Christian anymore. But I am very happy. much happier now than ever and my family is getting alone more and I am finally finding joy in my life. I try really hard not to find fault in others. I guess we all question others to find out more. I am still learning and always will. I think everyone is. But i just wanted you to know I am NOT dissatisfied with my life..... I have a beautiful life..... everything is going so good now. When I was Christian I was very depressed all the time thinking I was going to hell, for no reason. It was destroying my marriage. after a few years of studying, going to churches -I found my place, and my marriage has never been better. So good luck in your life . hope you are satisfied with yours. I am Pagan. (and still learning with an open mind)

Answer 5

Anger and fault finding is just wrong and none should express their concerns in this fashion. I see the connection between non belief and the idea of being content in beliefs as contradictory. Happiness is transient at best, can any one be happy all the time; I think not. I think there is a degree of generalizing in your sub text that if considered is difficult to support in that non believers don't organize themselves the way a worship based church would for example. Such being the case it stands to reason that the non believers would have a wide range of feelings on a number of subjects and speak with separate voices as to their state of happiness or other emotions. I feel satisfaction with life is very internal and for myself God absolutely factors into my state of being. I don't particularly care one way or the other if non believers share my views or not. I don't really care what they are non believing about, heck by the standards set for Christianity I'm a non believer and I believe in God. I question everything, not just Christian view points or logic based on faith. I don't want to offend any one or hurt Christian feelings if they are sensitive to questions. It seems to me that questioning another about their belief is an opportunity for both parties to better understand each other and what they think. I hope that your not an angry Christian, that just wrecks your good thing; and you shouldn't have to spoil your enjoyment of Christianity to address perceived slights from folk you don't know. Take care.

Answer 6

I would question any who state that their way is absolute, or would even go as far as to say that your way is "best". The only truth of value is that which you discover for yourself. No one has the right to force their beliefs on another being. I believe very strongly in free will...in fact, it's the only thing I truly believe in. This conviction leads me to challenge any who are so certain of their righteousness that they would proclaim that their way is"right". If your religion works for you, fabulous...but do not preach to others simply because their beliefs are different. The truth that you discover in this universe, whatever it may be...is for you and you alone. I have no set system, and I fully acknowledge that my system will never be right or true for anyone but me. I do not believe in a universal truth, but there is one thing that I think would make this world a better place: "live and let live". As long as the system you live with is correct for you, who gives a damn what anyone else thinks about it?

Answer 7

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that many believers like to tell us we can't be happy without Jesus, and even if we are happy, it won't last because we're going to Hell when we die, or that they feel it's perfectly all right to tell us to our faces that they feel sorry for us because we don't believe. Or that they feel they are automatically morally superior to us and, again, don't see why we get upset when they tell us this. Or maybe it's because a segment of them, admittedly a small one, but an influential one, keeps trying to change the laws to suit a Biblical paradigm, one which we don't agree with.

Case in point: there is currently a vaccine available for the HPV virus, a virus which is the primary cause of cervical cancer. The FDA has recommended it be made part of the medley of routine vaccinations given to children like smallpox and measels and so forth. However, religious groups such as Focus on the Family, (again, not necessarily representative of Christianity in general, but among its most vocal and influential members) are lobbying against it, because HPV is sexually transmitted, and issuing a vaccine for it, they argue, promotes promiscuity because it "sends the wrong message". They would rather women die of cancer than risk even the possibility that some woman might misconstrue the use of a vaccine as a license to go out and whore it up.

This is the same group of people that insist on abstinence-only sex-ed despite the mountain of evidence that it doesn't work, leading to more STDs and teen pregnancies, which means, you guessed it, more abortions, all because it "sends the wrong message." Maybe we're sick and tired of people dying needlessly because a small group of people are uptight about sex. I won't even get started on all the truly awful **** the Muslim world does to its people in the name of religion because I need to go bed soon and it'll just get my blood up.

You may not be one of those obsessively religious people and, if so, good for you. But you wanted to know why it is believers piss us off so much. I hope that sheds some light on it. We're aware that not all believers are like that, but the ones that are like that are bad enough to make the whole concept of religion seem like madness.

Answer 8

It's arrogant things like what is in your question that makes us mad. The assumption that we are dissatisfied with our lives is inaccurate, the majority of people who are non-believers in Christianity are quite satisfied with their lives. In the US, those of us that are not Christian are constantly having to deal with being treated badly, being discriminated against, people trying to force their beliefs on us, people telling us we are going to hell and wrong, people constantly trying to convert us, intolerance, harassment, etc. Sorry, but after a while all that gets old and it tends to upset you. If Christians would leave US alone and treat us with respect they would get the same in return.

Answer 9

Most of Christianity is borrowed from other religions, so why not just believe them anyways? Your way of looking at the world cannot be proven. It is based on events which supposedly happened 2000 years ago. But why 2000 years ago? Why not today? And why did "Jesus" appear only in one area of the world, but make the "requirement" that you had to be his follower to go to heaven? How could other people (asians, etc) known of his existence to even begin to think in "Christian" terms?

And yes, I am quite happy. :)

Answer 10

Not exactly. We are angry because 'believers' do stupid stuff and push their stupid stuff off as 'rational' thought. I get angry because people who have Blind Faith in God move on to harder drugs, like Blind Faith in government, Blind Faith in tax cuts, Blind Faith in competition, and Blind Faith in Systems.
My beliefs aren't the problem, and your beliefs aren't the problem. It's the actions of believers that are the problem. The only true Evil in the world is action which is taken based on Blind Faith, such as people sending money to corrupt evangelists, or crashing airplanes into buildings, or voting for a straight ticket in an election because they have no clue about the character of who they vote for, just an opinion based on ranting radio hosts (either liberal or conservative) or prejudiced parents and idiot coworkers.
I'm NOT happy, and if you ARE happy, you aren't paying attention to the future of our world, you are probably just planning for the Magic Marketing Afterlife.