What are the perks you recieve by being athiest?

Answer 1

Being persecuted and hated.

Ohh wait,... you said perks... none.

Answer 2

As Greg said, you get to understand things. I think that the personality characteristic most involved in making people atheist is curiosity. I want to understand things, and that motivates me to ask questions, and pay attention to the answers. I would be extremely unsatisfied simply accepting simple stories, and that's why I was willing to explore religious faith enough to achieve atheism.

Then there's the great perk of getting to hang around with bright people who've also thought about these issues and have something new and interesting to say, and frankly who tend to value honesty much more than do most believers.

And then finally there's the little chocolate left on our pillows every night.

Answer 3

perks??? Is that how you choose your religion? You pick the one with the most perks? Pick the church witht the best wine?

Some people do research, question everything, and then choose the religion, or non-religion they feel is right for them. Others just stay the same religion their parents were and never question anything and just go with the flow. But in any case it is all about becoming a better person, not what it has to offer you.

Answer 4

Liberty. You are able to think whatever you want to without the contraint of some cosmic tyrant causing you to have guilt for being able to figure out the world without "him." Also, knowledge. While a religious or even spiritual person can obtain much of the same knowledge as an atheist, faith directly effects a person's cappacity to learn those things that our contrary to their beliefs. This is mainly because people put such a high artificial value (artificial in that there is no way to verify them) in our beliefs or faith that people are incapable of learning something that would be contrary to them. Hence the reason that a fundamentalist can never fully understand evolution or natural selection.

Answer 5

Perks? This isn't a job this is just part of who I am as an overall human being. I believe it enhances my life in a positive way just as people whom are religious feel their belief enhances their life.

Answer 6

1)No getting up on Sundays and getting dress and sitting down for 3 to 4 hours.
2)No restraints by what is in a book
3)No fear of the eternal fires of hell

Answer 7

freethinking ,freedom from delusion,false assesments based on emotive thought,stereotypes and superstition, freedom from religious oppression and dehumanizing others by regarding them as subhuman and rejecting,shunning, outcasting,them based on their decision not to submit to letting others impose their religious intolerant beliefs on them ,being able to be friends and marry and love others regardless of who their god is and what their sexual orientation is more money that does not have to turned over to a church,freedom from selfrighteousness,and confused self pity as accountability and responsibility lie with the individual for decisions rather than an imaginary friend to blame and give credit to,a realistic objective out;look on life, the list is endless

Answer 8

Knowledge

Answer 9

It's not really about 'perks' - it's simply an acceptance of reality.

Answer 10

For me, I finally got to stop living the lie that I believed in God. It feels great to be "out of the closet."

Answer 11

Free coffee at Starbucks!