Why do christians believe in god and why atheists don't?

Answer 1

Blessed are those who beleve who have not seen. -Jesus

Answer 2

Spitting on God's teachings is the latest fashion. You can't be a genuine 'emo' kid if you don't defy God and Christianity.

Most atheists stopped believing because that's the trend. If you want to trendy, you have to destroy every human value and become monkeys.

It's not education that breeds atheism. It's inculture and down right ignorance. It is part of the new generation that dislikes the fine arts, replacing them with other, more brutal hobbies.

With these comes the need to deny religion. How can an emo kid be properly depressed unless he believes death is the end to everything? He can't exactly complain about life if there's more to it, right?

Have you watched the news recently? There's sexuality and violence everywhere. And we wonder why the crime rates are so high.

It only proves that the End is getting near.

Answer 3

Christians have religious beliefs whereas atheists may or may not have been christians at some point but many atheist have actually studied and carefully researched the Bible and have come to their beliefs because of the numerouse fallacies, inconsistencies, and contradictions found in the Bible. By the way, I am neither a believer or non-believer, I am spiritual. The only thing religion has done is divide the peoples of the earth.

Answer 4

To truly answer that question, we would need to actually know whether or not god exists.

If there is a god, Christians believe because he is the ruler of heaven and earth, and Atheists don't believe because they are disconnected from God.

If there is no god, Christians believe it exists because they need to know there is a stable, unquestionable authority that manages the universe in order for them to feel comfortable being alone in it, and Atheists don't believe it exists because there is no irrefutable evidence of one.

Answer 5

Atheists have a more logical and skeptical mind. Religious people who believe in a deity, do not rationalize the feasibility of a God the same way as atheists do.

Answer 6

Why do vegans eat strictly veggie and omnivores eat everything?

People will say it's because one group is more informed than another. Others will say it's lack of integrity. Some will say sheer stupidity. I will say it's personal preference and expected.

No two people agree on the same thing and of course no two people will agree exactly on God or lack there of.. however they see it.

No one can say that one group is more informed then another. Or that because of a person's beliefs they are stupid, ignorant, indifferent, or intolerent.

We all believe different things and as humans we always will.

I myself believe deeply in God and creation. Not because I was told to believe but because I chose to through personal expierience, sight, sound, touch, and research.

Answer 7

Because atheists ignore such evidence as Thomas Aquinas "Five Ways":

The five ways are based on human ability to know reality. There is careful observation of data. 'The first way focuses on potency and act. 'Some things in the world are in the process of change'. A thing cannot change itself. It must be changed by sometime else. This something else if in process of change is also being changed by something else. There must be a first cause of change, itself unchanging. This is what everyone understands by God. God is pure act.

'The second way considers cause and effect. In the observable world causes are found to be ordered in series. We never observe something causing itself. There cannot be an infinite series of things caused by another. One is forced to conclude that there must be a First Cause. To this 'First Cause' Himself uncaused, we give the name God.

The third way considers necessity and contingency. 'Some of the things we come across can be but need not be, for we find them springing up and dying away''. Everything that need not be at one time was not. Even an infinite series of contingent beings if such were possible would still be contingent. There has to be something that must be which does not derive its necessity from something else. We give the name God to this 'Necessary Being'. His essence is existence.

The fourth way centres on the degree of perfection to be found in things. 'Some things are found to be better, more true, more noble, and other things less'. Comparative terms imply degrees of approximation to a superlative. There must be something that is the cause of the goodness that is found to varying degrees. This something that is the source of every quality we call God.

'The fifth way is based on the observation that there is order and plan in the world. .'An orderedness of actions is observed in all bodies, obeying natural laws, even when they lack awareness'. A plan or purpose is the signature of 'Intelligence'. To this intelligence we give the name God.

Answer 8

because by definition christians believe in god and an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in god.

Answer 9

Religions arose to address two (or arguably three) needs:

1. To explain the observed but unexplainable (of which historically there has been a lot of - people saw lightning or shooting stars, for example, and wanted the reasons to not be unknown).

2. A deeply seated and instinctive aversion to death (requisite for the survival of any species) coupled with the capability for abstract thought (i.e. the ability to contemplate death even when not facing its imminent arrival) created a strong desire to believe in some form of immortality.

3. This is the more contentious point. With direct oversight and law enforcement all but impossible for logistic reasons, early rulers needed an alternate way to impose stability and order. What better way to do this than by telling people that they will ultimately receive great rewards if they behave in a desired manner, and will never fail to escape great punishment if they behave otherwise? In support you see many examples in history of monarchs trying to bolster their legitimacy by claiming they were divine appointees (if not children or manifestations of divinity); of the establishment of basic, socially desirable, behavioral rules (do not kill, do not steal); and of admonishments to maintain social stability (do not revolt against us exploiters and robber barons - be meekly satisfied with your fate instead, for the meek shall inherit the Earth).

Obviously, all three reasons have gradually diminished over the years, which is why the number of people who strictly adhere to the dogma of organised religion has decreased as well (and the dogma itself has become less dogmatic - no more stoning of people for working on the Sabbath, for example, as Leviticus suggested we do). Instead, religion is more passed down from parent to child as a cultural artifact. Again, this is easy to objectively prove - if all references to, memories of and evidence for a particular organised religion were destroyed, the religion would NEVER AGAIN resurface in the same form it is present today. Indeed, not even close. Note that this is not saying that the concept of God will not resurface, but that stories of three kings showing up in a barn, or of water being turned to wine will not.

This contrasts very much with all of our non-religious knowledge which WOULD be re-derived to reach its present form, not matter how many times it is completely destroyed.

So the above is why deists believe.

Why do atheists not believe? The fault is largely that of philosophical empiricists and the scientific method. Both first suggested, then proved that things for which we have clear, objective and testable empirical evidence are likely to be true, and things for which we lack the above are likely to be false.

Quite clearly, there is clear, objective and testable empirical evidence for God - had there been it, we would not have five or six VERY different religions, each with at least hundreds of millions of followers.

Answer 10

Christians or anybody that believes in God have seen the miracles and the unexplainable things in life and attributed it to a higher "divine" power. Athiests on the other hand go through life ignoring the miracles of life and complaining about life is a hell and reality blows. (hence, they do drugs and alcohol to escape the "reality" they have created for themselves but it only helps to make the situation worse)
I on the other hand believe that you make your hell and heaven. Christians have made their God so they can go to heaven. And Athiests have made their "reality" to live in hell.
(I live in a wonderful place called planet earth where people like Christians and Athiests exist.)

Answer 11

if there is no god then there is no purpose of life and if there no purpose of life , i outta just kill myself cuz it wont matter.

also lets say theres a 50 50 chance of there being a god. if you dont believe and your wrong, you go to hell. if you do believe and your wrong, its not like you wont live life to the fullest anyways. studies have show people with religion live longer happier lives overall. true fro most situations. if you dont believe and your right, nothing happens. but if you do believe and your right, you most likely will have a better life plus go to heaven.