What are the issues? The veracity of the Bible, the morality of the Bible, religious imposition on "free" society, religion suppressing other ideas etc... What do you think should be on the list?
2006-07-10 04:00:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-07-10 04:02:32 · answer #1 · answered by Kimpossibrr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist, I have many objections to religion. First of all, I think that there is the problem of evil. If God is a good god, and a perfect one, then why do babies die? Second of all, I believe in casual realtionships and determinism. This means that I do not believe in the whole free will doctrine as an answer to the problem of evil. Third I think that religion does some bad for people and very little good. For the bad, religion serves as a justification for holy wars, in other words religion can justify the hegemonic view that my society is better that everyone elses, my god is better than your god(s), etc. For the good that religion does, I feel most of the ten commandments can be boiled down to morals that we should have based on the golden rule. Although I am an atheist, this does not mean that I do not follow the golden rule and have strict moral guidelines based on this rule. I feel that religion is "an opiate of the people" as Karl Marx would say and that it serves as a crutch to people in bad times. In other words, when a person dies it is much easier for a person grieving to think "oh, its okay this person is in heaven with the rest of my dead family" than to take no comfort in the fact that the person is dead, there is no such thing as a soul, and we are all just energy. I could go on for hours....but these are mainly my points on why I have issues with organized religion.
2006-07-10 04:17:28 · answer #2 · answered by Nirvana 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an atheist . However This current administration has swayed my belief. No where in the bible is it said to kill . The religious will site certain scriptures ignoring a COMMANDMENT . Today's religion is more like a cult . We should be free to choose in this country without the churches approval . The churches today would have the government legislate morality . Morality is taught in the home not at the white house . Do you think our senators and congress are a good way to achieve this . In summary the point is today's religion is so obscured that it is easy for a person to see through true faith ..
2006-07-10 04:18:59 · answer #3 · answered by J D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I really started thinking about religion, it sounded like a load of crap, the stories, the reasons, and it just smacked of mind control. The Bible in no way sounds true to me, and I think religion has caused more problems than it ever solved.
2006-07-10 04:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your list and wouldn't add much to it. I have many reasons for why I personally don't believe in a religion...but I'm also not so narrow minded that I don't understand why others would believe. So, I don't have much against religion other that what you said, adding that a lot of religions don't support free thought.
2006-07-10 04:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The forcing of it on people through law in government is my chief and only contention. Legislating righteousness is wrong.
I also don't like the way they try to push it on you through other means such as knocking on your door, trying to bring it up in conversations that aren't about religion, etc, but those are just annoying and I can live with that
2006-07-10 04:05:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the religious want to have their religion, it's fine.
When the religious want *me* to have their religion, it's not.
The religious do not have the decency to keep their twaddle to themselves. They use made up rules they claim were issued by a made up "god" to rationalize and justift hate, violence, murder, theft, rape, and all sorts of assorted and sordid crimes.
The only ethical christians I have ever met are the ones who kept their religion to themselves until I found out by accident. Those who spew religion the most spew the most hate.
2006-07-10 04:09:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask not what athiests have against religion. Ask instead what have the religious got against athiests. After all they simple choose not to follow any religion.
Athiests tend to defend the rights of others to freedom of expression and religion. Christians particularly but other religions too all seek to belittle and dictate to athiests. Very, very unchristian of them.
2006-07-10 04:12:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I reject any social institution that demands that I reject myself as the natural born sexual being that I am, I will be celibate unless I am trying to reproduce and use no birth control and hate myself with shame and guilt for no God,and no man, I will let some closedminded hypocritical society impose it's will on my personal life,never.
2006-07-10 05:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two MAIN stumbling blocks for ALL people that do not believe in God are:
1) They cannot believe in a God they cannot see.
2) They have been given grace of which they cannot earn.
2006-07-10 04:08:17 · answer #10 · answered by divprod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My biggest contention is that it promotes the concept of faith, which is a form of voluntary insanity, and it promotes authoritarianism.
Once you accept faith in religious life, it's hard not to accept it in other aspects of life, such as politics. Once you accept that you are a sheep and that kings are good things in religious life, that tends to spill over into political life as well.
2006-07-10 04:04:23 · answer #11 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋