why are there so many atheists in the world?

Answer 1

Because too many people don't wash thier feet.

Answer 2

So many atheists? Where do you get this notion? The great majority of people are still believers in some god or another.

Perhaps what you really meant to ask was why a person becomes an atheist? If so then you should ask that question instead. Dismiss any answers given by theists, and give real consideration to answers given by actual atheists. You may just learn something.

Answer 3

Look around you! Why would God allow horrible things to happen to babies and young children? If we believe there is a calm, kind, all things good spirit if we pray to it, it will calm us make us feel at peace, same affects of meditating. The bible keeps getting rewrote and revised to meet different laws and religions. I think it was written to keep humans under control somehow. Can you imagine how humans would be if they really knew that there was not a God and they would not be judged after their deaths. People would be killing people just because someone looked at them wrong or made them angry. No one would abey any laws. The world would be out of control. Look at churches- so elabrate and huge. The more members a church has the more money they bring in and the more money the minister or preacher has. Look at the cars they drive, they drive expensive cars and new. Look at their homes. Big and expensive. Churches are bussinesses and I will never go to one anymore. You do not have to go to church to go to a so called heaven. That is just a saying so they can get more money. So many are so gullible and will believe anything that the money makers tell them. The congregation is the followers, and the preachers are the leaders. It is easy for them to be happy, look at their lives. No money worries and tons of people love them and follow them, what person would not be happy about that type of life...

Answer 4

Were you to lump all secular people in a group that describes beliefs, that group would be third largest in the world, behind Christianity and Islam. I have found that religion is illogical, and I could and was not able to rationalize believing in something that seems not to exist. I am an atheist, moral, happy, and I rarely have bad things happen to me, so I assume that god has not been showing displeasure with my beliefs. Really, I cannot understand why there are so many theists in the world, it just seem ludicrous. Thankfully, reason and science are bringing the world out of the religion-dominated dark ages, and atheism is on the rise. Have a nice night.

Answer 5

I know! We must squash all of this Freethought!

We Are Atheists Because...

* There is no proof of the existence of god.
* There is no need of, or use for, a god.
* A good god would be useless if it were not powerful.
* A powerful god would not deserve worship if he were not good.
* There is no all-powerful good god; otherwise there would be no imperfection.
* If this is the best world god can make, the stories of Heaven must be lies.
* History shows that godism is accompanied by ignorance and superstition.
* There has never been such intolerance and persecution as godists have practiced.
* Godism had to be fought when humankind made its successive steps toward science, liberty, and reform.
* Godism was invented in the earliest days of mankind's ignorance. It is incredible that primitive humans guessed wrongly about everything else, but discovered the truth about the origin of life. Everything about which science has discovered the origin was claimed previously to have been the work of a god. Godism recedes when a new fact is discovered. No new discovery ever supports a theistic explanation of anything.
* All revelation proves, on investigation, to be human, and generally fraudulent.
* Godism is consistent with crime, cruelty, envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness.

Atheism Teaches That...

* There is no heavenly father.
Humankind must protect the orphans and foundlings, or they will not be protected.

* There is no god to answer prayer.
Man must hear and help man.

* There is no hell.
We have no vindictive god or devil to fear or imitate.

* There is no atonement or salvation by faith.
We must face the consequences of our acts.

* There is no beneficent or malevolent intent in nature.
Life is a struggle against preventable and unpreventable evils. The cooperation of humankind is the only hope of the world.

* There is no chance after death to "do our bit."
We must do it now or never.

* There is no divine guardian of truth, goodness, beauty, and liberty.
These are attributes of humankind. We must defend them or they will perish from the earth.

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Answer 6

Civilization-humankind is gradually tossing off the cloak of superstition. By the way, there are not 2.3 billion christians. I know lots and lots of people who claim to be christians, but they are in name only-certainly don't live the christian life or practice christian faith. I was once very devout, until I was enlightened by a minister--who told the congregation that Bewitched (tv show) was evil and that the world was definitely going to end in 1980 or 81. That made me angry at first, so then I started really opening my eyes to the numerous contridictions in the bible and in how the supposed christians around me were living. Oh-and the world did not end.

Answer 7

We have free will. We are free thinkers. We have to discover things in our individual time. There is not point in critisizing what people do or what people say. We are all on our own paths. I was an athiest for a while and I kept reading and reading and reading in search of the truth. I have formed my own opinions of things and I do believe that there is a creator being. I do believe I will call him God. This is the title that man has given this creator. We tend to become very selfish and robust with our religions.

Answer 8

Because so much evil has been done in the name of religion throughout history. Lots of folks don't want anything to do with something that causes so much misery.in the world.

By the way, I am a Christian. I know that God exists regardless of what his "followers" do.

Answer 9

I think that unbelievers are still too few. Especially if you consider that believing takes a lot of wishful thinking and faith in something that we're never going to see (other than in his alleged creation, which we are not sure it's HIS creation, to begin with). I mean, under those conditions, I cannot but wonder how come religion has even made it to the 21st century!

Answer 10

Why are there so many Jews, Muslims, Christians, Pagans, Buddhists, Wiccans, Hindus, Shintos........... Democrats, Republicans, Independants, Labour Parties.......


It's called a difference of Opinion

Answer 11

Relatively speaking there are very few. But our population is growing rapidly.

Why, because once you being to look at the world logically, it is very difficult to go back to a life of fairytales (for better or worse).