Do Atheists believe in Love?

Question

Or do you believe it is just hormones/chemicals int the brain?
This is a spin off of a another question about Atheism and
Marraige. Tell me what you think Love is. Again this is
just curiosity-because love cannot be proven scientifically.

Answer 1

well most athiests are "freethinkers" so we don't all think the same ... Therefore, I can only speak for myself.

I believe that love is a label for robust concern about people or things.

I'm married and have a 2 year old daughter and I love them more that anything... Being an athiest has nothing to do with love or morality...

Answer 2

I suppose some would say that it is just hormones/chemicals in the brain, exactly like any other emotion experienced by humans. This is what I feel it is personally although I am not an atheist, but also by no means a believer in the Bibles's inconsistancies and stories of hatred and bigotry. If it was created by God however, he apparently granted this gift to all persons, those who believe in him and those who don't and made it function in them in the same way that all the other emotions work as well.

This question sounds like it came from someone who has been trained by ultra- conservative "Christians" to believe that atheists are vile and disgusting creatures who spew venom and hatred at everyone everywhere they go. It suggests that without God, man is incapable of feeling love for anyone or anything, but the judgementalism of the Old Testament that is shouted so loudly today is hardly what I ever understood to be love. Atheists are hardly the serpent that was supposedly tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. They are simply people who do not believe in the existance of God and that is all the term implies.

I wonder how love could be considered anything else but an emotion common to all persons that does not depend on a belief in God. People such as the Vikings knew love (and Marriage) while they still had their own Norse gods, long before their people were converted to Christianity. Marriage is obviously a worldwide cultural institution that has not depended on God for its creation. That is the reason that the subject of gay marriage infuriates me so, as it is such common Christian rhetoric to speak of marriage as an institution created only for one male and one female by their own favorite version of God.

It seems to me that man is naturally endowed with the capacity to love, wherever it came from or however it came to be. Those who would claim that love can only be experienced by those who believe in and love God appear to be doing nothing more than attempting to justify their religion. Neither the nature of love nor the existance of God can be proven scientifically, so please don't hold up either to a higher requirement for proof than the other.

Answer 3

i'm not an atheist, yet I not in any respect understood love. favor, certain. Love, even as it become showered upon me yet for me to love someone, i did not understand this emotion interior of me. I had and characteristic very much of interest specifically issues and people, i assume which will be love...yet I not in any respect understood the idea of love completely....i have continually felt this lacking from my nature like i become born without a million/2 a body or something. sry...I rambled.

Answer 4

iam so sick and tired of some of you crazy chrisitians that want to say everything good on this earth is due to god, oh and i guess all the bad stuff it the Devil. marraige is not just about religion you can get married without involving the holy sacrament sh*t, religion has nothing to do with love or marriage, have you ever heard of people that go to an office and simply sign papers saying they are married you dont have to do it in a friggin church.

Answer 5

feelings of love are just chemicals in the brain. But there is something that causes that. Not that love is something magical between two people, but love is felt through trust and caring.

Answer 6

Hormones & chemicals in the brain is sexual atraction. Love is good will towards whomever. Yes, atheists or anyone can belive in love.

Answer 7

There's a chemical reaction involved, yes, but that's only the beginning of it. And that's all I understand about love. :-)

Atheists believe in everything. The only thing atheists don't believe in, is Nothing -- and god is nothing.

Answer 8

Love has nothing to do with Atheism or Theism. It is a biological reaction to people or items we care about or like. It has nothing to do with God or any such hocus pocus.

Answer 9

Atheists believe that there is no god / afterlife. Love on the other hand is up to each and every single person.

Answer 10

Even if gawd does exist, how does that change the fact that all emotions are neurological processes, just like everything else we think?