Atheists or Agnostics, do you believe that your belief system would be best for everyone?

Question

I'm not saying that you think everyone should be forced to believe as you believe, but do you think that what you believe in is the correct belief system???

For example, when you think about people who believe in God or follow a religious belief system do you think they're brainwashed, ignorant, or mislead?( Which would show that you believe there is a correct way to believe and they aren't following it)

I ask because some people talk bad about Christians and say it’s because “they are narrow minded and think things should be done their way,” which is following the Word of God. But don't you also believe things should be done your way??

Please calm down about the "belief system" replace it with beliefs.

Answer 1

Well, I as an atheist have studied the religious text of every religion I could get my hands on. So far I have studied 15 different religions.

In my research I have found that not a single religion that I have studied has a text that does not:
1. totally contradict itself
2. just flat out state things as fact that have already been disproved beyond a shadow of a doubt
3. both

We don't care if or what you want to believe, that is up to the individual.

We do care about and totally oppose the fact that people in the US and other countries all over the world have been legislating their religion in the governmental body and oppressing the people that can see through their sham with their theocratic laws.

We also care about and totally oppose the fact that people in the US and other countries are either killing people or support killing people in the name of their fictitious god or because they just believe in a different religion.

This is ridiculous and it must stop.

Answer 2

What I believe is that there are no gods. That's all atheism is. There isn't a "belief system" to go with it. I don't think one is needed. If you take god out of the equation what would be different? You've probably bene told that everyone will start rampaging committing crime and wot not, but it's total bull. If it were in anyway true people would have the facts to back it up, but most of the people in prison (at least in the US) are christians.

I think people who believe in god do it partly because they are brainwashed - its something thats fed to you from you're born and they don't want to give up that belief despite how utterly illogical it is because it's nice to believe you're and all your family are going to his lovely place called heaven when you die.

I do find a lot of christians narrowminded. Personally I'm a live and let live kind person. As long as you aren't hurting anyone else you should do what makes you happy, but some christians feel the need to say "but the bible says blah blah blah" and tell/imply someone is going to hell for not following their belief system. I don't mind people being christian but that's YOUR thing, you shouldn't be trying to tell other people how to live their lifes or forcing YOUR belief system on other people.

Answer 3

I believe that everyone should believe what they want. My belief is correct for me. I just don't agree that others should push their beliefs on others and expect them to follow their rules. The only rules we need to follow are those laws set by the government.
I believe people need to be more open-minded, as we now live in a more diverse society. The world has moved on a lot from the times when these religions were started, therefore a lot of the views (in my opinion) are outdated.
Many religoius types are just misinformed, possibly brainwashed, who knows. Just look at the evidence and make your own opinions. Don't think a certain way, because those views are pushed on you. We all have free will - use it!

Answer 4

I can't speak for the Atheists but for the Agnostics the answer is no. We do not believe that thing should be done or believed our way. We only recognize that your way is not correct. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that in recoginizing that you're wrong it would imply that we hold another belief which is correct. Socrates, for example was someone famous for pointing out the problems in the beliefs of others without actually suggesting an alternative for the belief.

Answer 5

I think that people have different needs that are met by their belief systems and by the community in which they practice their beliefs. Not only that but an individual's needs and ability to respnd to religious concepts change over the course of a lifetime. Therefore not only do I believe there is no one right religion I don't think there is even one right religion for one person.

Answer 6

Atheists don't have 'a way' that they advocate for others.

What atheists say is that they do not believe that the myths of ancient cultures are facts. That's all. They are not a group beyond that and they do not advocate anything for you.

I know without a doubt that people who believe in God are brainwashed, ignorant, and misled. This is not saying there is a correct way. That is like saying - Just because you say there is a great pumpkin that will rise in this pumpkin patch does not make it true. In fact, it's not true, so I won't believe in it.

That is not telling you what to believe. It is saying - you are standing next to a person who doesn't believe myths are real or that myths are messages from the supernatural.

The fabulous stories of Genesis are very similar to cool stories from Ur, where Abraham was from. The fabulous stories of Genesis contain many elements of Greek Myths - heck, even in the new testament, god mates with a human, just like zeus, and produces a saviour for humans, just like zeus!

So, it's not about doing things 'our way.' It's about saying - hey, you know what, i don't believe in the great pumpkin/tinker bell/jehovah. You may not use my tax money to promote your belief in the great pumpkin. You may not use our public schools to indoctrinate children into your belief in the great pumpkin. You may not use our govt. offices to post the great pumpkin's rules for living.

Can you see the difference here? It seems to be real tricky for a lot of fundamentalists - by us not allowing you to have your christianity everywhere is not us inflicting our beliefs on you.

It's stopping you from inflicting yours on us. If you dream of a theocracy and feel all cramped, there are plenty of interesting theocracies to live in: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan spring to mind.

Look, go home and have your beliefs. go to church and have your beliefs. party with your friends and post the ten commandments in your pumpkin patch - just stop trying to force your belief system into the public square. remember, anyway, jesus said people who pray in public are hypocrites.

and you wouldn't want to be a hypocrite, would you?

p.s. my father just died and i wish i could believe he's up there watching me - but i wonder if it really would help, since I miss him here. a friend told me your religion is the blanket you make to comfort yourself with, and indeed, the atheist's blanket is not that comforting.

Answer 7

Well I think we are a lot more correct then the stories in a book, but some people have a need to believe something. I have nothing against the average everyday deity believer. Some other people are wacky, the ones to the point of being dangerous to people or progression, and could use a dose of reality...not that their mind could grasp it.

Answer 8

I am an atheist and acknowledge that some people require religion to help them make it through the difficulties of life.

Atheism is not for everyone because it requires a very strong personality to accept the fact there is no eternal ice cream parlor waiting at the end of this often times difficult journey.

Or, the idea that loved ones are dead and gone, with only memories of them to remain.

For those who need religion, they should be free to exercise it freely. But, they should not be free to use tax dollars or government facilities (schools) to promote that message.

Answer 9

A great deal of what I believe is based upon what I have learned. I have studied theology, comparative religion, the history of Christianity and The Reformation. I have no objection to people believing anything they find believable. I do object to people who don't examine their beliefs with some degree of rigor, however.

Answer 10

The extra I regarded on the way interconnected structures function at the same time, the way trees remember on animals and human beings' carbon dioxide to offer the oxygen we animals and human beings choose, the way water cycles with the aid of to maintain itself replenished, the actuality that Earth is the "perfect" distance from the sunlight to assist life (no longer too warm, no longer too chilly), and a ton of others, the extra I seen whether this could be random probability. with the aid of using Occam's Razor (do away with all of the least probably solutions till you get to the likely one), I got here to have self belief that it became into very no longer likely that the two a "massive bang" or the perfect "primordial soup" got here approximately with the aid of itself in easy terms as a results of fact the made of a random probability. as a result, somebody or some thing guided it. From there, it became right into a remember of picking which concept device perfect responded the questions of "life, the Universe, and each thing" (nevertheless I chosen a distinctive answer than Douglass Adams did). i think Christianity's God perfect explains those questions.