My common sense tells me its easier to believe in nothing, than to believe in a Being more powerful than all in creation in existence. Does anyone share this perspective with me?
2006-08-02 17:03:00 · 31 answers · asked by an ambassador for risen Christ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're absolutely correct. Can't add to that one.
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2006-08-02 17:06:59 · answer #1 · answered by areyoukidding 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
For the gal above who is confused on what an atheist really is. You said "real atheists belive in the "devil". NO we do not believe in the devil. We do not believe in anything in that aspect. You are confused with devil worshippers.
I do not share your perspective. It is weak minds that believe in a god. They are not able to handle life with out thinking there is someone watching over them. It gives them a goal to go for while thinking there is a place for the good. I'm sure this helps some to stay sane but I myself am secure in myself that I don't need to have a friend that watches over me. And are you really a good person if you have to be scared in to being good? Would you not need to just simply be a good person? If he is so all knowing would he not already know you are bad minded and send you to hell anyway no matter how scared you were to sin. I don't break the law because I don't want to go to jail. I am just a good person and have no will to break the law.
I would have to say that atheists believe in something, but just not what is taught in church. I don't believe in a god of any kind. And if I did why would I believe in the bible? It is just a book that was written by man. I have been to church and I feel it is just a way to scam people out of money. I am sure some of the money goes to the people who need it but most don't. What could the cost of some of these churches do to help the poor or needy? Some of these places are worth over 100 million dollars. The guy who runs it makes a million a year easy and more just to get up there and tell you that you have to give money and do as he says or you will go to hell. Too hard for me to take with out a gallon of whiskey. After drinking that much I still would not take it because I would pass out. So I'm trying to say it is way out of my reach to believe something so far fetched.
So with an after thought maybe you are right. It is easier to not believe in such a thing. How could anyone believe such a crock.
2006-08-03 00:24:55 · answer #2 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don’t know. I am agnostics though it seem like it would be evolution because everything has beginning and the end then it recycle like everything you know of. I guess you could even call it reincarnation kind of. You ever had known anything that comes from nothing if so it doesn’t explain god. Did you think the universe have a beginning and the end why not think it has no time it self but matter, motion and space which create allusion of time. The big bang theory; why not think of as a sub universe around other sub universe in the whole universe. I guess that all add up to eternally present in one form or another.
2006-08-03 02:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by Tony 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occam's razor. Many people think it says the simplest explanation is the most possible. What it actually said is the less variables, the more likely the thing is. If god is infinite, then he has infinite outcomes, so it is less likely that he exists, than that he doesn't. The fact is there is no proof of god, and that is proof he does not exist. The same with the tooth fairy. Atheists don't believe in nothing, they do not believe in god. There are more things, than a nonexistent god. I partially agree with you, because I would find it very hard to believe in some magic sky fairy that makes, watches over, and loves everything, than to not believe, because reason tell you god is less likely.
2006-08-03 00:13:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe there is a higher power then human beings themselves. We have the power to change the world and change our actions from good to bad with a conscience and not with the force of something higher or the force of something hoping and praying.
In my honest opinion, I believe that religion was formed to set up a system of living (ie. keeping people in control with threats of hell and threats of a higher power). It gave society an idea of how to live in the home and how to work and to love everyone. I think it was a story created just for that.
But I also respect the people who believe differently because we are all entitled to our own opinions.
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2006-08-03 00:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by Summertime 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to know what to believe sometimes. I have a friend who's an atheist and he says he needs proof of somethings' or someones' existance before he will believe it exists. No one can prove any religion or the exsistance of any supreme being beyond a reasonable doubt, the people that believe just have faith in the belief.
2006-08-03 00:12:59 · answer #6 · answered by Squishygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know why but I have a few theories. Some may have been raised that way, some may have had something terrible happen to them and they are angry at god, and your theory is good as well. Also it may be a way for them to justify the way they are living without feeling guilty about it. Either way it is the way they believe. No one can answer a question like that when it comes to religion.. Ask a Christian and we will say because its in the bible and we have faith.
2006-08-03 00:10:13 · answer #7 · answered by eeyore_0816 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in a higher power than man: Jesus. Now does my belief bother you, because you common sense does not bother me. On that note, if I am wrong what did it hurt me to live a good life but if I am right where does that leave you?
2006-08-03 00:21:15 · answer #8 · answered by livlafluv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm and Atheists and i belive in it beucase I don't understand how there can be a God.....I belive there is no God, if there was one, why would something like the holocoust have happened? or the starving people in Biafra. And these "miracles" that happen every day like a woman beating cancer for the 2nd time....maybe if she didnt lay out in the sun for 12 hours a day it might not of happened....everything has an explanation, and in my eyes, nothing goes back to "god."
2006-08-03 00:09:33 · answer #9 · answered by Russian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no proof one way or the other.
I think atheism is just as extreme as
a Being more powerful than all in creation in existence.
But it's not any more rediculous than our own existence.
Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Something In Between?
2006-08-03 00:15:28 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Athiests certainly do not believe in nothing any more than someone from any of the thousands of religions out there does.
Questioning authority may not be better, but it is harder than accepting what you are told from any religious or non-religious perspective.
2006-08-03 01:12:40 · answer #11 · answered by Mr. Politics 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋