atheists:honestly..don't you feel a spiritual emptiness??

Question

atheists:honestly..don't you feel a spiritual emptiness??please be honest with me

thanks a lot

Answer 1

humans where created with a spiritual need. as well as their physical and mental needs. however, any atheist would be to stubborn to actually admit this. you get a great satisfaction when your being spiritual, and feel empty when not, its common fact. that's why religion has become so world wide spread. 'spiritual food' is necessary to be happy and feel fulfilled. but like i said. no atheist will admit that. otherwise, they wouldn't be atheists now would they?

Answer 2

I have never felt so fulfilled in my life as I do now as an Atheist. I was a Christian for over 30 years and never felt this spiritual or in touch with other people and the earth and life. I've never felt as genuine as I do now, I've never felt more peace than I do now.

The best part is I don't feel like I'm trying to fool myself anymore.

Answer 3

Ther e is a big difference between atheism and agnosticism. Agnosticism is a term that I luckily encountered through a divine professor or mine. Atheism means you do not believe at all that there is a God of any kind. Agnosticism is the belief that there might be a God, there might not be a God. It's a soul-searching faith that encourages learning about different religions and different beliefs and not believing in one in particular. It's the "Nothing is for sure" religion. Many agnostics are mistaken for atheists. Agnosticism is soul-searching and ful-filling (as opposed to the emptiness you refer to) . In all cases, Advocate freedom of belief, freedom of religion, freedom of faith.

Answer 4

Nope. Spirituality does not have anything to do with religion... it has to so with self-realization.

"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free.
free to think, to express my thoughts
free to live to my own ideal
free to live for myself and those I loved
free to use all my faculties, all my senses
free to spread imagination's wings
free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope
free to judge and determine for myself
free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past
free from popes and priests
free from all the "called" and "set apart"
free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies
free from the fear of eternal pain
free from the winged monsters of night
free from devils, ghosts, and gods
For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of my thought, no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings
no chains for my limbs
no lashes for my back
no fires for my flesh
no master's frown or threat
no following another's steps
no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words.

I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain for the freedom of labor and thought

to those who fell on the fierce fields of war
to those who died in dungeons bound with chains
to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs
to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn
to those by fire consumed
to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men.
And I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "Why Am I An Agnostic?", 1896

Answer 5

Asking if an athiest is spiritually empty is the same as asking a young child what his plans are for his retirement.

Answer 6

I would feel a lot more empty pretending to believe in a religion that I didn't really believe in, constantly doubting my professed beliefs and wondering if I've chosen the right path.

Answer 7

no matter what you believe in we all have Gods spirit in us people that call them selves atheists ,just need fiscal proof but trust me they are in gods hands and they are not empty at all. they are sometimes comfortable i them selves and think it is just them that have given them this happiness. inside so do not fret we all have the right to believe and the first thing of being a spiritual person is to except people as they are. for we may be judged as well for are beliefs . as a spiritual person we are to wish them well and forgive them for they do not know what sightly people know. we are all the great ones children and this might be this persons life time to debate with spirituality and we are not to inter-fear with there destiny of learning.

Answer 8

Atheists don't believe in "spirit" and such, so why would they feel empty? I'm Agnostic and I don't feel "empty" unless I am without my wife for a significant amount of time. I don't need some higher power in my life to feel complete.

Answer 9

Not at all. I feel very connected with the universe. I don't need what are incredibly obvious fairy tales to give my life meaning.

What amazes we are how many people there are that believe these fairy tales. They have no basis in reality. Science is the only truth seeking religion.

Answer 10

Spiritual emptiness? No, I don't believe I ever have any space where I kept a "spirit". My spirit container is not empty, it was never there.

Answer 11

no, i believe that everything is just a bunch of coincidences which is the definition of an athiest because there's no way you can't believe in no point of life at all. I don't feel empty. Sh*t just happens