I've never have believed a person when they say I don't believe in God..do you agree?

Question

I seen it too many times. Every person I've ran into who tells me they don't believe in God is really looking for a way to not be accountable. They look around the world and say "well...it just happened, and they quote some ever changing science rant about ufo's or humans came from boiling slim from nothing..NO way do they believe that..I not buying that. My daughter went through this phase in college..it lasted about 5 years, I never said a thing but she loved the "Shock Value" And thats why they write the way they do..they want to shock us with their outrage...and the never ending "I can think for myself"...as if look: "I'm a Big Boy/Girl"..I can think on my own..they believe thats some sort of intellectual revelation...that was my daughters chant as well... I see the same thing here. But they come here and on every Christian chat..why..because they know, they come to reassure themselves..they know they are more than a land rat eating, sleeping, death

Am I right or wrong?

Answer 1

I Strongly agree with you!! I wonder when people who don't believe in God call his name when they are in trouble. Ain't that weird!

Answer 2

You are wrong. I've been an atheist since I was 12 years old. I originally stopped being a Christian because I didn't like the hypocracy I kept encountering, and I realized I never really believed in it. It also never made me feel good. I am very good at researching, and I have studied the origins of the Christian religion, and many other religions including ancient ones (I'm a mythology buff). I have found my own beliefs and they don't include any kind of god or goddess. I don't broadcast my beliefs, but if someone asks me I tell them, so I sure as hell don't do it for the shock value. And I don't think it's much of a shock that some people don't believe in Christianity.

By the way, I don't consider myself a "land rat" but a human being. Also, rats are land creatures anyway.

Oh and this board is called "Religion & Spirituality" not the "Christians ONLY" board. There's no rule on Yahoo Answers that says you can't answer any question you want.

Answer 3

Wow. What about the people who were not born into a religious family or community or country? Those who never even heard the concept of God at all? Are they all going through a phase as well? Your daughter is representative for every theist-turned atheist to upset daddy -turned theist again? Don't you find it a little odd that anyone who claims to speak to the dead is considered "evil" and "of the devil" by Christianity, yet Christians desperately hold onto this idea there is life after death and great rewards in Heaven? If it's there and so wonderful, what's the problem in getting confirmation? What's wrong with living your life, doing all you can while you're here and being okay with that? Why hold onto something that may or may not happen? It's not like you'll get a "do over" once you're over there.

Answer 4

Wrong. This isn't a Christian chat, it is Religion & Spirituality, meaning that could range through a ton of different things, including the RELIGION of whatever it is that doesn't believe in God. Whoever goes in Christian chats and doesn't believe in God, is obviously some one who is barking up the wrong tree.
Christianity isn't for everyone.

Waterborn --
Those are those people. I see a Bible and I stay right in my seat. I am Satanist but I see nothing wrong with the Bible and I am not afraid of something I don't even know is real. I grew up in a range of Christian Academy's and even then I did not believe in God -- I was there to humor my parents I suppose. I simply do not believe in any kind of deity but I do respect peoples beliefs that do not relate to mine.

Answer 5

No, I think that some people are genuinely atheist. Whether you are atheist, agnostic, or a believer is a matter of faith. I was agnostic for about 30 years until I found faith and will not lose it again in this life.

And, I don't think that you get out of accountability by being atheist. You just have to justify your GOOD TREATMENT of others in a different fashion.

Girl Wonder: When you said, "I do believe in a god, just not your god." I think you are wrong. I think we are all blessed with the SAME GOD even if we are atheists.

Answer 6

regrettably, you will never be attentive to what's interior the guts and concepts of anybody else. merely as some ought to call you brainwashed or delusional, you call different's ideals into question. you're full of it in case you think of you have any authentic expertise with regard to the existence or non-existence of god. there is no evidence the two way. that's the reason mankind will proceed to have this philosophical communicate till the top of time. you think of those anybody is fooling themselves, and that they think of you're fooling your self. who's proper? you may no longer the two be good, and neither one will relent. you have no evidence to your ideals and neither do they. do no longer waste any further time annoying approximately it. stay an excellent existence or be a hypocrite. yet whenever you combat approximately it, you're that lots added far flung from the god you cherish. good success with that.

Answer 7

I'm agnostic, your "God" might exist, but then again he is much more likely to be a figment of you imagination.

Truth takes strangth. To accept the truth that you are alone in a hostile universe takes strength. Greater strength then many people have. Right now I have the personal strength to state that your version of reality is incredibly unlikely.

However one day when I am old and near death, or I have suffered one too many personal tradegies, then I may be weak enough to seek solice in the fiction of the bible or the Koran or Watership Down, or whatever.

But just because my strength fails and I give into blind ignorance does not mean that I have found the right answer.

Answer 8

You are wrong, I don't believe there is a God of any kind. I am way beyond rebellion and shocking people, I am 36 years old with a family and children. I don't need to show people I can make my own decisions, I make them every day.
I am in religious questions and answers, not Christian chat. As a reasonably intelligent person I like to discuss things and hear others opinions. I don't need to reassure myself of anything. Religion is a part of my culture whether I believe in a God or not. I discuss lots of things that I don't believe in, as they are a part of history and culture, Greek Mythology, Hitler and his bunch ( I completely disagree with his thinking), etc. Knowledge of things leads to tolerance and understanding of others.

Answer 9

You're wrong.

*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmmament' structure (the sky) seperating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
* shepherd staff turning into an asp
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  food falling from the sky
* conception by a ghost
*  people raising from the dead
*  stopping the sun in its tracks
*  parting seas
*  people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
*  world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
*  creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
*  magical tree of knowledge
*  god speaking from a burning bush
*  ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker

It is quite evident that in a sane world, if someone were to go around asserting that ANY of those things represented an innate 'truth' pertaining to the nature of existence and reality, that person would end up being locked up in the 'State Farm for the Funny'. Oddly, though, MASS insanity seems to convey some sort of automatic immunity along with it, since hundreds of millions of people assert ALL of these things to be true, and nobody thinks anything of it (well... SOME of us do). Not only are these people NOT locked up, but it is considered to be bad manners... politically incorrect... 'intolerant'... to even call attention to the obvious insanity of these ideas. Yet approximately 87% of the adult population of the USA is INFECTED by what seems to be some sort of insidious brain virus, that is transmitted in the form of information.

Answer 10

Even in 2006 religion is still ingrained in many of us from when we are small children. Most people are afraid not believe in god and it's no wonder when one considers the events in the Bible, Putting the fear of God into us, quite literally. Lets think for ourselves, care for one another and value each other. We are capable of creating a decent world for ourslves without the need for any God. Unfortunately religion makes sheep of us, not land rats.

Answer 11

I agree. They do believe in something and just let something happen that they can't control or something, and either they will come to Him, or they will completey deny it. But the Bible does say, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess, it's just matter if they do it now, or they claim they don't believe in anything and will do it when it's too late.

Actually my pastor just said something simliar that they do believe in something, I mean there is a reason, God made us humans very last. We won't be able to claim that we helped with creating the earth. God sure knew what He was doing! Ok, I rambled there a bit...oops!