Why do you NOT believe in God?

Question

I have seen the question posted"why do you believe" and I have read many convincing and appreciated posts as to why. I believe also let's face it all works of art have an artist! I want to turn tables and ask people why they refuse to believe.

For those of you who say you need to see to believe: how sad, have YOU seen the wind, have YOU seen the other plantes? DO you believe in them?WHy you have seen them?

Answer 1

Because religion is what is used to explain what we do not understand. From the beginning of time people have created religions and Gods to compensate for the unknown.

Originally, eclipses, stars, and pregnancy were all seen as works of a God. Now we understand these sciences and can rationalize them in our common knowledge. If you expand this to today, we have a whole belief system setup to explain what we don't understand in today's world. And it doesn't take a genius to think, "Well, these seems to be a process... ...I wonder what happens when we know a bit more, and a bit more, and...".

So to me, a belief in God or a religion is nothing more then an acceptance of intellectual laziness. It's an excuse to look at something you don't understand and say "God did it" instead of "Let's find out how that came to be and why".

Do I think that there could be a God? Sure. But I also believe that there could be life on another planet. Which one do you think we will have quantifiable proof of first?

Answer 2

The only proof is in the Bible. The Bible isn't a form of prove because:
1. We don't know if it's true.
2. It's obviously going to defend religion. It's a religious text.

If I were to see something with my own eyes, I'd believe it (even though that would undermine the whole concept of faith). However, the idea of faith also is a reason not to believe. Faith means believing regardless of circumstances and conditions. By definition, faith would imply believing even if there is no evidence to justify the belief.

In the question, you say that you've seen answers arguing the opposite. I've seen them too and the argument I keep hearing is that the idea of God has yet to be disproven. I believe that I shouldn't believe until the idea is proven.

WHile I'm rambling,I'm confused as to what you mean when you say that all artworks have artists. The only thing I can think of is that you are referring to the creation/ID/evolution debate. If so, I believe that science is based on the princible of forming conclusions based on observations of the natural world (definition is similar to what one would find in a textbook outside of Kansas). Therefore, the will of God, a supernatural being, cannot be measured scientifically. Also, things could be made by chance. The odds that dropping a can of paint onto paper and coming out with a copy of the Mona Lisa are very low. However, there is always a small chance. The odds that when you were born, the exact sperm with the exact mutation reached the exact egg that formed you with DNA differing from that of your parents did not require supernatural interference. It was simply based on probability.

Anyway, my point is that while some wait for God to be disproven, I wait for God to be proven. (I'm not an Aetheist.)

Answer 3

I don't refuse to believe. Like everyone else, I have plenty of beliefs, just not anything that I want to call God.

I was religious for most of my life and studied religions (primarily Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism and also how religions work) for years. My 'definition' of 'God' kept getting larger and larger until it was the same thing as the 'universe' and I decided that I didn't need separate concepts anymore.

So, instead of a divine intelligence, I believe that things happen and humans make up narratives to create a sense of order and purpose. Neuroscience suggests that we do so because it is more efficient for the brain to process things that way.

I believe in cause and effect and that we rarely have a full understanding of how they go together.

Mostly I believe in community, that we create the social world which we live in, subject to physical reality. That we have collective choice as to what sort of society we'd like that to be. And individual choice as to how we respond to and interpret the world.

Answer 4

To say that the natual world must have an 'intellegent designer' is nothing more than an assumption that since humans make things to serve a purpose there must be someone out there who made the universe (and us) to serve a purpose.

It's an age-old inference and think it's just wrong.

Answer 5

The bible was written by man, there is no proof of God, the theory of evolution makes sense....I could go on and on.

But why? None of us has proof that God does or does not exist. It is just what we choose to believe in. Why can't we just believe differently and be happy with our individual beliefs?

Answer 6

Christians consider the existence of their God to be an obvious truth that no sane man could deny. I strongly disagree with this assumption not only because evidence for the existence of this presumably ubiquitous yet invisible God is lacking, but because the very nature Christians attribute to this God is self-contradictory.

It is taken for granted by Christians, as well as many atheists, that a universal negative cannot be proven. In this case, that universal negative is the statement that the Christian God does not exist. One would have to have omniscience, they say, in order to prove that anything does not exist. I disagree with this position, however, because omniscience is not needed in order to prove that a thing whose nature is a self-contradiction cannot, and therefore does not exist. Before we can discuss the existence of a thing, we must define it. Christians have endowed their God with all of the following attributes: He is eternal, all-powerful, and created everything. He created all the laws of nature and can change anything by an act of will. He is all-good, all-loving, and perfectly just. He is a personal God who experiences all of the emotions a human does. He is all-knowing. He sees everything past and future.

God's creation was originally perfect, but humans, by disobeying him, brought imperfection into the world. Humans are evil and sinful, and must suffer in this world because of their sinfulness. God gives humans the opportunity to accept forgiveness for their sin, and all who do will be rewarded with eternal bliss in heaven, but while they are on earth, they must suffer for his sake. All humans who choose not to accept this forgiveness must go to hell and be tormented for eternity.

One Bible verse which Christians are fond of quoting says that atheists are fools. I intend to show that the above concepts of God are completely incompatible and so reveal the impossibility of all of them being true. Who is the fool? The fool is the one who believes impossible things and calls them divine mysteries.

I do not need a complete knowledge of the universe to prove to you that cubic spheres do not exist. Such objects have mutually-exclusive attributes which would render their existence impossible. For example, a cube, by definition, has 8 corners, while a sphere has none. These properties are completely incompatible: they cannot be held simultaneously by the same object. It is my intent to show that the supposed properties of the Christian God Yahweh, like those of a cubic sphere, are incompatible, and by so doing, to show Yahweh's existence to be an impossibility.

What did God do during that eternity before he created everything? If God was all that existed back then, what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete--it needs nothing else. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing that elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.

Answer 7

Hi, I may believe or may not believe in God, I don´t know. Because the world creation is scientifically proved sometimes I don´t believe in God .But other times, I think it could be, we don´t certainly know anything about its existence. It is a doubt. So I may and I may not believe.

Answer 8

If this world is a work of art, it is a pretty sub par work. It has the artistic merit of Hitler's landscape paintings. For a supreme being he sure does screw up alot.

Answer 9

because I havn't found anything convincing enough to change my mind, and let me tell you ahead of time, I don't blindly follow people so telling me its in a book or telling me YOUR reasons for believing is not going to change anything. The day I believe is the day your god comes and shows himself to me. If he wants me to believe, then he will.

and btw *points to answer above* Buddha isn't a god, hes a man who attained spiritual enlightenment, and buddhism is not a religion xD just clarifying

Answer 10

i don't believe in God, because let's face it all works of art have an artist!

now who made God?