ATHEIST & RELIGIOUS PLZ:can u tell me..............?

Question

for atheists:can u tell me why u do not believe in god ?
since i noticed that a lot of u are atheists coz they do not believe in what the christians say but what about the other religions.
N.B: all my respect for u even if u do not respeact me.
for relgious in ur opinion:why are atheists do not blieve in god?

to ''HEMICHRONICHAL''
u are wrong to think that mammy and daddy told me that there is a god so i believe in him,i searched a lot for his love and i found it

Answer 1

I think they refuse to believe because they just do not understand or care to understand. I believe that what we believe as adults is a reflection on what was imposed on us growing up. IE: Religion as child usually equals religion as adults. No religion as child usually equals no religion as adult.

Also it could be that something bad happened to either them or their family and they have decided that its all a lie and they do not want anyone to help them search for the right answer.

This is only my opinion.

Answer 2

I do not believe in god because the concept does not make sense to me any more. The more I learned about science the less room there seemed to be for a god.

I have come to believe that god is an idea that ancient people dreamed up to try to explain a mysterious and scary world. Having a god to worship and pray to gave them a sense of being able to have some control over their lives. God is probably one of humanities oldest ideas.

However if you think about it carefully the idea of a god raises a lot of questions that I think have only bad answers. God is usually portrayed as the all knowing and all seeing all powerful creator. There are a few paradoxes this idea creates that I have never heard a satisfactory answer too and that I think have no satisfactory answers.

1) Where did god come from? Based on everything we know about the Universe it appears that it had a beginning and it will have an end of a sort. But if nothing created god, it must always have existed. I find that idea very unsatisfying. Even worse is the idea that something else created god. That immediately becomes an infinite regression of creators.

2) The problem of god's omnipotence and the fact that it implies predestination. The bible tells us that man has free will and that he is tested by god for his loyalty. It also discusses many tests and punishments for men who failed god, the flood for instance, the expulsion from garden of Eden for another. An omnipotent god would have known what was going to happen before even creating man. The trials then must be a charade. The whole concept is not self consistent. Something about it must be wrong.

3) Why bother to make the Universe if you know exactly what will happen over all time? It is a singularly pointless exercise. The solution can only be that god is not omnipotent. If that is the case then god must be in some sense part of Universe subject to physical laws just as we are. That revives the question of how god came to be. Again we find our selves in inconsistent circular logic.

From all of this it seems to me to be a cleaner and more logical explanation that there is no god and that the Universe is just what it appears to be nothing more and nothing less. For me it is trivialized by the notion that some absent landlord god created it for some inexplicable reason. I think that the miracle of life and this Universe is made much more special knowing that it somehow created itself.

As Darwin said: "There is a certain grandeur to this view of life". I could not agree more.

Answer 3

Why do Atheists not believe in God? Perhaps their concept of "God" is different but they still have not yet fully defined it and are still basing the word "God" by the defination that others give it. Thus, when they say they do not believe in "God", they are merely saying that they do not define that word the same way you do. As a Hindu, Hinduism makes mention that all of us have different spiritual goals. Some seek heaven, some moksha/nirvana, some just want to get through this life and aren't too worried about either, some are spiritual but their goals are still focused on this world and spirituality as reflected here. There are many goals. And Hinduism teaches that because of the vastness of God, the infinite nature of God, that all of us merely grasp a finite part of the Whole. Thus everyone has a different perspective on God because we experience God differently.

I don't really have an opinion as to why Atheists don't believe in "God" or Agnostics question "God" or why people believe what they believe. I just accept that they are who they are. Hinduism says everything manifested from God and retains the divine spark so I strive not to question why Atheists don't believe in "God", but rather to see God in them. and to treat them and everyone else with the same respect that I give to God.

So that's my approach. Peace be with you.

Answer 4

I dont believe in god for many reasons. (More reasons that I have time to type!)
For one thing, mountains of medical, scientific evidence prove that consciousness, memory, will, and so on are functions of the brain. Anger, jealousy, love, etc also require a brain. A brain is a physical organ and is a product of evolution. To imagine a god that existed with these brain-dependant traits before the rest of the universe is simply to project human/animal traits back to a place in time where thoughtful analysis will tell you they do not belong. Its a case of "man creating god in his own image".

Many gods which people previously believed in have been proven not to exist (The ancient Greeks believed the sun was the flaming chariot of Apollo treking across the sky, for example.) When we realize that belief in historical gods was simply a matter of people wanting to believe in them (rather than admit that they didnt know what the sun was, for example), we can easily see the same flawed thinking in today's believers. When I tell someone I am an atheist, their first response is often, "Then were do you think the universe came from?". Their insistence upon having an answer ("God made it") rather than being able to deal with an unknown ("We dont know yet where the universe came from") is identical to the attitude of the believers in Apollo, Poseidon, etc.

Well that is just two reasons, and I dont have time to type more. See ya!

Answer 5

For some people, God is one of those things that is too good to be true. For others, they have been through so much pain and suffering in their lives that they don't understand how a higher power could allow such things to happen. Some people don't believe there is a higher power because they are trying to defy their parents or be a rebel. I would say that most people don't believe in God because of science. It's always been a battle between science and religion. Some people just give in to one side or the other.

Answer 6

There was a fun line in an older movie. Two dogs and a cat got separated from their owners and were making their way home. On the way, one dog talks to another about various things and asks if the older dog thinks the things on television are real. The old dog answers, "Can you smell it?" Of course, the implication is that a dog thinks that if something has a scent it is real. People likewise have similar, as we say, "sniff tests". The Atheist says, show me your God. But God seems inclined not to do an awful lot of showing Himself for those who believe in Him. God sets out the message, gives some good hints here and there (which we tend to call miracles), and expects us to either trust HIm or not. The Atheist says "Not".

Jesus walked the earth about two millennia ago. He could do those things one might expect someone who was either God, or very, very close to God would be able to do. He healed people, fed people, even resurrected dead people. On several occasions people were sent to arrest Him, but He simply disappeared to those arresting persons and walked through the crowds. But He had a purpose and He purposed to die for humanity, to satisfy the basic law of God, "The soul that sins, it shall die" (look in Ezekiel 18). The night He didn't just disappear before his accusers, He asked "Who are you looking for?" The group said "Jesus" and Jesus used an expression that included an ancient name for God, "I Am". The crowd fell back under the power of His very words, but they were still intent on their mission. Since He was intent on His mission, he permitted them to take Him away and kill Him. Someone had questioned His plan earlier and He said he could but utter the words and God would send armies of angels to protect Him, but that was not His plan.

Does that sound crazy? I can understand how someone might think so. Many atheists today balk at the whole story because, remember the 'sniff test', they weren't there to see it.

Woody Allen, is a comic who is also an atheist. He even is of the same people group that Jesus was from. He said something in New York City once that tells the story, "I would like to believe God. I would like to see a miracle. God could roll back the waters (like Moses did of the Red Sea in the Bible Book of Exodus) of the East River (part of the Hudson River that makes his home island of Manhattan an island) . Or maybe make my uncle Mordechi pick up the check at dinner (reference that some of his people have a reputation for being stingy with their money)." It was funny when he told it, but seeing, and recognizing, a miracle is what some Atheists say they want. They have their own 'sniff tests' and since God doesn't pass their own tests they say it is impossible that there is a God. That doesn't change anything. If someone sneered and scoffed at me and then expected me to do something extraordinary for them, I probably wouldn't bother with them either. You see words on a screen. How do you know that there is some human using the label "Rabbit" who wrote them? What if these words were just a computer glitch? Do you have proof I exist? You don't really even know if I am human or a real rabbit, except that you make some logical guesses and assumptions. Atheists do too. But I am real, and I really am not a rabbit. But how do you really know? What are your sniff tests?

Answer 7

Actually, the real question would be why do you believe in a god? Because your mommy and daddy told you so? Can you cite any single peice of evidence to support your claim that there is a god? Anything at all? Why would the onus be on us to explain why we don't believe in God. If you came up to me and said there is a herd of unicorns on the far side of the moon, would it be my job to prove that there are no unicorns on the far side of the moon, or would it be your job to prove that there are?

Its simply. You have warm fuzzy feelings instilled by your family and your culture that you equate as evidence of gods love. Some of us just aren't that lucky.

Answer 8

In short, I am an atheist for the same reason that you do not believe in Zeus, Odin, or Ra. These are clearly mythological figures who do not exist. Jehovah, Allah, Yahweh, whatever you wish to call him, is exactly the same. There is no proof that any of these deities ever existed. The evidence that the creation stories are just myths are overwhelming.

That's why I don't believe in god or gods.

Answer 9

I think everyone has their own reasons for welcoming atheism into their lives. My personal reason is that I used to be a very religious christian, and when I was 12 years old I flatlined in the emergency room after having a severe asthma attack and was revived. Before I was revived, there was no light, there were no feelings of peace, no angels, nothing. I guess I just sort of lost faith after that...I guess everyone would like to have that idea, that it'll all be alright once their lives are over. To me it just seems to like a scam that's too good to be true. Someone was just trying to trick the masses into doing what they wanted, and they succeeded.

Answer 10

I'm an atheist and don't believe in god because of all the things that are wrong like diseases and the unfairness of life. Ex. some people born into rich family or people born without arms and legs.

Answer 11

I'm atheist and I don't believe in any gods because there isn't any evidence, other than biased religious works, that supports a higher being.