Why are non-believers in the Religion section?

Question

That's like gay bashers being in the gay section. Why don't they just say they don't believe in God and that's it? Some non-believers are more mature than others.

Answer 1

To try and make us not believe at least some try to do that.

Answer 2

i think it is because they like to get there say in because they are working for the devil.. and he is out to kill , steal, and destroy..and if they can upset someone that really believes in god by their views that makes them happy.. those out in sin do not have morals and really do not care about many people and their feelings..least that is what i believe..some non-believers are very mature and very smart to..but they chose to believe in another way than what the bible tells us.. and i think if you have not read the bible and tried to know god and do not believe then you are really talking about someone they do not even know.. i hope you understand what i mean by that..some of us was raised by the word of god, and some our not..but sometime they will be accounted for and i pray that more know the lord and reach the home in heaven..and this world and all the evil deeds in it and they make it look so enjoyable but it is not..i lived a short time doing things as the world does.. and i love the peace god can give.. and not going to bars and being around so many un-believers is a blessing to me..in gods word it says they have blinded eyes and can not see the truth...let those that have ears listen and that those that have mouths speak the word of god to others..

Answer 3

What are you saying? That if you don't believe in God, your opinion doesn't count? That would exclude Hindus and Buddhists, from the forum. And If you don't accept Christ as your savior, you could exclude Jews. Now if you can just get rid of those damn Atheists, you could hours of boring conversations talking about nothing w/ people that only think like you do. Aren't you kind of missing the point of a public forum? I think it's meant to be an exchange of ideas. perhaps you should be a little more tolerant of opposing view points.

Answer 4

Some people want to be an antagonist. Gay bashers, atheists, everyone who goes to a site to ridicule is there to get attention and illicit some kind of negative response. You have received some here because of this question.

Answer 5

I am a non believer. I simply come into these areas for good discussion. There are reasons that i do not believe, but i have researched several religions and determined myself that i do not believe. I am not athiest, nor am i agnostic. I don't like to label myself, i simply believe there is no god. I would not tell you not to believe, as i would hope you would push religion upon me, but there is always room for discussion. My only real issue with religion is fanatacism, which does not simply stick to one religion. It affects them all, and unfortunately, they are the ones who get the press.

Answer 6

relies upon on what you mean via non-believers? in case you mean individuals that dont have faith in god( and via god i mean the god of the bible) or individuals that are merely all jointly non religious? And as for numbers till you carry a census you probable wont locate out. yet once you mean individuals that do and dont have faith in god then you definately may well be good. I do have faith, yet no longer interior the god of the bible the gods i've got faith in existed long in the past christianity its self so which you will say im a non-believer.

Answer 7

For the same reason that everytime a headline regarding evolution shows up on Yahoo! News, the related discussion board is flooded with Christian Fundamentalists.


Don't be a hypocrite.

Answer 8

Don't know - if you don't believe then what are you doing here? Trying to make people believe all the nonsense that YOU believe in for one or the other reason - If you have proof, bring it on... But don't shove you opinions down anybody's throat!

Answer 9

Different avenues of thought are always good for the soul. Keeps you on your toes. People who go to the entertainment category aren't entertainers.

****some believers are more mature than others.....flip side of the same coin.

Answer 10

Because being a non-believer is also a religion. you believe in nothing instead of God.

Answer 11

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-- Stephen Roberts
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
--Annie Wood Besant




Nature of God
"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men." - Carl Sagan

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus

"God is not dead. He is alive and working on a much less ambitious project."
-- graffito

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."
-- Tom Waits

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
--[from Usenet]

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen


Religion
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people" - Jesse Ventura

"Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw."
-- unknown

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H. L. Mencken

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions"
-- Blaise Pascal




Faith
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true." - Mark Twain

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin

"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
--Ferdinand Magellan




Skepticism
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." - Bertrand Russell




Science
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asamov

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
-- Chapman Cohen




Christianity
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men." - Voltaire

"Only Sheep need a shepherd!"
-- unknown

"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence."
-- Doug McLeod




Bible
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." - Mark Twain

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw




Christmas
"The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural." - Robert G. Ingersoll





Clergy
"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool" - Voltaire

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"
--Denis Diderot




Children
"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?" - Robert G. Ingersoll




Philosophy
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
-- unknown

"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."
-- Denis Diderot

Intelligence
"As people become more intelligent they care less for preaches and more for teachers" - Robert G. Ingersoll

"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
-- Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri




Founding Fathers (US)
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." - Thomas Jefferson

"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." - James Madison

" The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." - John Adams

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - Benjamin Franklin


* also see the Law and Government section for more




Seperation of Church and State

"...the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State - James Madison

"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together" - James Madison

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated." - Ulysses S. Grant

* also see the Law and Government section for more




Religion in Government
"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true." - Mark Twain

"the trouble with theocracy is that everyone wants to be Theo."
-- James Dunn

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte