don't tell me beacuase i don't believe in God, ... i want to know why don't you believe in him? Did something happen in your life that made you change?
2006-07-24 07:34:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is like asking why you don't believe in Santa Claus. I grew up and accepted that I had to be responsible for myself, and my choices.
I appreciate my life and the earth, my family and friends, and I don't have to understand how everything works to enjoy it.
I don't buy a personal guy that "makes a list and checks it twice," that I can make deals with, and pray to. It just sounds silly to me.
I imagine there are things you can't measure with your senses, like imagination, love, fairness, courage, and if you want to call that god, go for it.
Call it the 5th dimension, call it potato salad. I don't call "it" anything. There is no "it."
I'm not going to worship these things, build a church, or pay some guy to explain it to me, and listen to corny music.
I'm not a "the-ist" meaning I think there is a "thing" out there watching over me and who will suspend the laws of cause and effect--just for me-- if I pray right, That makes me an "a-the-ist."
But I guess I am an agnostic, studying to be an atheist, because there is a lot I don't know.
2006-07-24 07:57:29 · answer #1 · answered by Lottie W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, the answer is that, I just don't believe in god. It's like not believing in Superman or the tooth fairy, no need of deep reasons about it.
There are no particular events that made an atheist, apart from the fact I always was curious and liked to question about everything. I was raised a believer, but the whole story provided by religion and the bible wasn't plausible. I checked other religions once I was a teen, they weren't plausible either. I liked my small contact with buddhism, but they sounded quite an agnostic religion to me, just to not call it a "philosophy". A huge lack of evidence for god(s) and a few years turned me an atheist, it was a matter of time since I didn't have a reason to believe in something where everything indicated me it was a myth, for me Zeus was as real as the christian god.
I didn't become an atheist faster since I was always told atheists were immoral and wicked, so, it took me a while to accept I was one, I was ashamed to admit I was one, since my parents had such a bad image of them. Now I try to be honest and tell people I am an atheist, my parents accepted it with no problems after all, they keep insisting I am not an atheist though.
2006-07-24 15:04:40 · answer #2 · answered by Oedipus Schmoedipus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea that all atheists had some horrible thing happen that "turned them away from god" is, at best, misinformation, and, at worst, propaganda.
Plenty of us, like myself, never really believed in god, not even as little children. I, for one, enjoyed reading Greek myths, and at a very young age realized that the exact same things (Greek myths and Christianity) were being presented to me, but one of them was "belief" and the other was "myth." It was as plain as day to me that there was no difference between Adam and Eve and Icarus and Daedalus.
Geneticist Dean Hamer posits that faith exists on a genetic level. He believes that there may be a so-called "god gene" that determines a person's level of faith in god. If he is right, I seem to lack this gene completely. Now, if he is right, this begs the question: why would an all powerful, all loving creator make something that *cannot* believe in him, especially if Hell is the only possible destiny for such a being?
2006-07-24 15:16:31 · answer #3 · answered by wrathpuppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To begin with, I haven't changed. I've never believed. Now, I think that since there is no direct proof of the existence of God, it would have to be the believers' task to prove there is a god, not of atheists, to prove there isn't any.
Anyway, I don't believe, basically because I don't need to. I have always been okay as a non-believer, so I don't see why I should change.
2006-07-24 14:41:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an atheist. However I do not believe in "God". I believe there are many many things we do not understand about ourselves, our origin, and how we came to be. I think it is very arrogant for anyone to pretend they have "the" answer(s). This has always been my view. Nothing has change it.
2006-07-24 14:41:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Catholic, did a lot of research, and made up my own mind.
2006-07-24 14:41:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew a brain. Try it some time.
2006-07-24 14:38:38 · answer #7 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋