Question for Atheists and Agnostics?

Question

What do you think about the answers religious people gave to this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Atltv_xbLJZcp8nSKZnseR_sy6IX?qid=20060816134728AA7ZwAm

My initial impression is that there seemed to be a trend of some, not all, of the religious people who seem to think that these two hypothetical love birds can't function a day without God.

So, to the Atheists and Agnostics, do we have an "image problem"? Or is these answers just typical of fundamentalist sheeple?

Answer 1

It just tells me that they are insecure. They think their life would be less if not for their beliefs. I see it as kind of a security blanket. They can't imagine that their life would still be okay if they let go. Anyway, that wasn't your question, huh?

Yes, there's an image problem, but I have no idea why. People who don't know I'm an athiest like me just fine. They don't think I'm immoral, or a bad person, and if I asked them if they thought I might be going to hell, I'd bet money that they'd say no.

I'd think it would be tougher for an athiest and a christian to be in love. But my marriage is better than most I've seen. So who knows? Maybe it's the christians who have the image problem. The fundies sure do make them look like closed-minded fools, and statistically, they CAN'T all be like that......can they?

Answer 2

It seems that most of the religious people who answered the question are the type who believe thier way is the only way. The answers to the question do not acurately represent any type of person. As far as an image problem...do you mean the self image of and athies or agnostic? Or do you mean as a whole? I see no problem, just a bunch of people with different viewpoints.

Answer 3

Christians always have assnine answers like that. There answer to everything is "because without god there is nothing. Because that's how god made it." Or my personal favorite "because God said so." Now, I think your original question was silly to begin with however, it did invoke some thought provoking answers. People saying "Christians aren't supposed to marry non believers so it works out" What kind of crap is that? Organized religion is a bunch of brainwashing.

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by
the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.... All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." The Great Thomas Paine

Answer 4

Two people who fall in love can live happily without the belief in God.
But, you do realize that by refering to religious people as "fundamentalist sheeple," you may be invoking an image problem upon yourself?

Answer 5

Actually I think they have the image problem. They cannot bear to think we would be happy and content outside the little book they live by. It makes me wonder sometimes if they don't feel a twinge of jealousy that we can do and feel exactly the same way they can but only without a yoke around our necks.

Answer 6

No. We do not have an image problem. They have a major conceptual problem. They are so ingrained in their own little God-centric universe that they cannot conceive of anything existing without God. In so doing they belittle themselves to inconsequential creatures of God. If a boy & girl fall in love and the parents don't approve then does this invalidate the love the boy & girl feels for each other? Of course not. Love can certainly exist independently of God.

Answer 7

that question was so damn stupid. The only thing that happens in that situation is the woman won't be screaming 'Oh God' during certain moments (you know what I mean). I guess some people have nothing better to do than wonder about a nonbeliever's lifestyle - even though it's as normal as theirs without the boring church services

Answer 8

"God is all loving" but that means "God is all love" so without god their cannot be love. That's the reasoning I extract from it, but personally that sounds like bunk to me.

Yah, agnostics and athiests have an image problem, but I'm not so sure there's a real solution.

Answer 9

God, morality, consciousness, mind, self-awareness, love are all products of our highly evolved complex brains. So the question about belief in a mythical god is moot.

Answer 10

Obviously they forgot the results of Adam and Eve, or was that from Aesop.