Is it the offering plate & getting up early on Sunday morning after a big night of partying, that keeps the Atheist away from God?
2006-07-05 13:32:35 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Greed and selfish can defintiely be motivating factors in leading a person to atheism. Other factors could be things like sexual impurity, dishonesty, lack of respect for others, etc., etc. Note that all of these factors are things that are addressed in Scritpure. If a preson wishes to live a life that includes these factors, then he must reject God - because God convicts such a person through what He has told us in the Bible. No one wants to be convicted, so they hide behind the false premise that there is no God. Hence they become athiests.
2006-07-05 13:51:59 · answer #1 · answered by zunitalks 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Not necessarily, though I suppose that might be a reason some people use. Another is simply that they do not believe in a higher power. For some people, religion is not a requirement for fulfillment or purpose in life; rather than believing that a supreme being has a plan for their lives, they choose their own path and live with the rewards or consequences of their decisions. It is not so much a factor of active avoidance of religion because of its negative side, but rather because they do not feel a need for it, nor do they accept the central mythology inherent in any religion. They do not have faith, in other words, because they feel no need to believe in something they cannot see, and even if there is some higher power in the universe, they don't think anyone has its nature quite figured out correctly yet, if ever.
I'm an agnostic, myself; I admit to the possibility of some higher plane of existence, since my own limited lifetime is not long enough to understand the universe and all its workings, but on the same token, I don't attend church because I don't think any organized religion has it right. Too many contradictory stories and mixed messages for any religion to be completely correct. I'd recommend reading some of the works of Joseph Campbell to understand how people of other systems of belief think, including agnostics and atheists.
2006-07-05 13:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by theyuks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The atheists I know are good people that come from a church background and became disillusioned with or hurt by religion. or religious people. Consider what my pastor suggests as the three top reasons that people are turned off by Christianity: 1:christians 2:christians and 3: christians. I have this rare Peruvian Daffodil that bloomed on the 4rth of July,it's pure white and almost 3 ft. tall,but wow It didn't bloom for 6 years, consider that if there is an atheist you are praying for... God's time table is perfect. And let's meditate on God's priorities, people ,people and people compared to the average christian's which might be our own families, our homes , jobs ,and cars.Let's not get a big guilt trip going or anything , just trying to balance the "greedy,selfish, bad person" view with a "just another person view" a person Jesus loves and died for .
2006-07-05 14:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Wow, seems you already have your mind made up, so does it matter what being an aethist is really about for you?
Greed and selfishness are *human* characteristics. Christians are greedy and selfish just as much as any other person is in some other religion. Those are personal characteristics.
Many atheists give money to charities, get up early to donate their time, have regular jobs, families, and all the usual to worry about. They are no more or less human than any one else. They just don't believe in God.
2006-07-05 15:58:45 · answer #4 · answered by Tray 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed has some thing to do with it, yet no longer on the point you're conversing approximately. Getting a pay-develop, singularly or together isn't Socialism. it quite is named grant and insist. it is the reason nurses are a lot extra helpful paid than they have been 40 years in the past whilst each well being facility, very virtually, had a nursing college the place they have been given their slave exertions!
2016-12-10 05:07:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A(Q1): No, to the contrary - religions are based on greed and selfishness. They are started and maintained for reasons of power and wealth.
A(Q2): No, the reason I would not contribute to the Church is because I don't believe in their cause - its welfare for pedophiles. On the big night of partying point... I may not know of many atheists, but I've never known one who drank. I can't say that about Christians.... I've known several born-again-and-still-drinking alcoholics.
2006-07-05 13:46:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Atheist doesn't want to believe because he/she is looking for the physical personification of God.
The Atheist wants to believe, like everybody else, but he doesn't like this incomplete interpretation of God.
He probably talks about God more than most believer. He thinks of himself as a humanist and a smart human being. He just wants the world to redirect the purpose of religion toward human beings, instead of concepts, politics, money and power.
2006-07-05 13:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by Thierry M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism has nothing to do with greed and selfishness, it's about there being no proof that god exists. I know more greedy and selfish christians than i do greedy and selfish atheists!
2006-07-05 14:42:00 · answer #8 · answered by bobatemydog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be more general: greed and selfishness are the parts of struggle for survival which is the main postulate in Atheism
2006-07-05 13:38:09 · answer #9 · answered by VP 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It's the complete lack of sensible proof that there is a god. Atheism has nothing to do with how selfish a person is.
2006-07-05 13:35:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋