Can one have a true happy life without God?

Question

most people think that, life is all about money, pleasure, success and how famous one becomes but fails to realise that all things are vanity and that this universe has nothing to offer us than vanity. Having the Lord God placed as our first priority with other things following is the best way for one to live a happy life.

Answer 1

Of course you can. Next question please!

Answer 2

No, you can not do anything without God in it. You start your day by thank God for the blessing and then go on with your day. But there are some people who has issue with depression since birth regardless money, pleasure, success or famous.

Sometime with some help of anti-depressant or of therapy with God will help.

Answer 3

I think that many people can live a happy life without God. Right up until the point that they have some crisis and they have no foundation of faith to help them through. Why do so many people in prison come to Christ? Not because it will help their parole possibilities, but because they see the empty shells their lives became without God, and how much they need Him.

So if you're lucky and never have a crisis, or so selfish and isolationist that you never need to comfort or empathize with anyone going through personal hard times, then sure, you can be happy.

Answer 4

If you had only asked that question, without all of the subtext that you entered, then that would be a rule-abiding question (albeit in the wrong category, but that is permissable). However, the fact that you have entered that text shows that you are making fanatical proselytism in the guise of a question. Reported.

Furthermore, your doublethink belief that all happiness stems from your cult (whom you consider to be an all-powerful non-existent god, but hypocritically say otherwise), results from your crude blind mindset which disrupts fine clear fundamental truth, fundamental truths which are manifested in many different things.

I may as well reply to your political statements. Personally, I do not care very much for money, personal success, or short term pleasure. My purpose in life is to create justice, which is the torture of theist fanatics such as yourself (and people with other types of crude blind mindsets), and the pleasure of people with a fine clear mindset, such as myself. This purpose gives me a sense of long-term stable well-being, which allows me to get through hard times. In contrast, I have taken the theism path before, and it has given me nothing but a sense of yearning emptiness, because my conscience knows that that deprives myself of the very truth that gives a person true deep inner substance, what you could call a 'soul', but in a psychological sense rather than a spiritual sense, because their is no spirit. The theist fanaticism that you have demonstrated is a purpose of sorts, but it is the anti-purpose.

Answer 5

Yes, you can have a true happy life without God. You create your own happiness, and if you need "God" to be happy, then that is your business. I personally believe that the idea of God is used as a crutch for alot of people that don't know how to create happiness for themselves. Likewise, that is my business. I don't go around trying to force my beliefs on other people and neither should you.

Answer 6

Yes.
There is much more to life then "vanity".
There is no "god", stop thinking abt "god" (the fictional character) and get to living ur own life without lies of another. If u live ur life believing in these stupid stories just because they make u feel good then ur going to have a very empty life and regret all u have done when u become old.
If believing in a lie makes u happier then knowing the truth, thats ur call. If u trully believe there is a god then i guess u deserve to believe in him.

Answer 7

You may seem to be happy and doing well without God, but that's pretty much a facade. Someday, it will come back and bite you in the butt. Only through God can you know true happiness, all others are just wolves in sheeps clothing

Answer 8

I don't think you can lead a happy life without believing in God. You can earn a lot of money,you can achieve success but you can't live happily. There are some things beyond money and success. God is comfort. You can't achieve comfort without God

Answer 9

Why do You ask and give the answer yourself? But even without your answer your question is not very clear :
- What means 'happyness'? Do You think, world is made for happyness? Is it necessary to be happy to fullfill a life?
- Why you think 'this universe' has nothing to offer us than 'vanity'?
- What is or means 'vanity' to you? Could it be that what you get from 'this universe' depends from how you look at it?
I know that there is a believing that 'this universe' was a creation of the 'Lord God'.
Probably the people believing, 'Lord God' created 'this universe', are thinking of either a universe or a 'Lord God' different from the ones you are talking about.
I, for myself, just cannot know how the universe was produced. I just know that there exist different oppinions about it. How can I judge which one to be correct? I just can accept that there are different oppinions about the history of the universe as there are different kinds of plants, beetles, birds, human races, planets. I know that what I learned at school and later from news, studies etc. are theories, attempts to illustrate aspects of truth - and nothing else. One can call this 'vanity'. But the Idea of a 'Lord God' is very the same as the theories about things and their causalities. I know that there are believings and dogms, but I had no opportunity to check them myself. I never met, saw or heard or was aware of 'Lord God' myself personally in the way he - or should one say 'it' - is described by people pretending to 'know' him, to be in 'correspondence' with him, to have 'met' him or to 'feel' it. Hence to me there is no reason to ask myself whether I can have a 'true happy life' with or without him. (However, I suppose I could not have a true life (happy or not) without myself - and this, of course, leads to questions as e.g. : "'Myself' ? What or who or by what or by whom is it existent?" And actually I consider myself to be a kind of Existentialist, even though Existentialism is totally out, I don't care.)
- And who is 'one' in your question : 'Can one have ...'? Is it yourself? - Is it the the people you are asking your question?
If i'ts yourself, nobody else than yourself can give you the answer(s). If you try to answer yourself really honestly, you risk not to find an only and clear answer. There may be several ones, some of them even contradictory (or seemingly contradictory at first sight only) to each other. And during your life, there will be many new answers you did not think of earlier, due to lack of life experience.
If 'one' ,in your question, means the people you ask, you risk to receive hypocrite answers as well - and how can you distinguish the true ones from the hypocrite ones?
You want to know how I would filter the answers if I were to be the one asking your question ? - Any answer pretending to be the only clear and true one is not true.
But I am not the one having asked the question.

Answer 10

No. You need God in your life to pull you through the tough battles in life and if you look to god you will find true happiness and there is more to life than material things. Through god all is possible.

Answer 11

your right most people do think that life is all about money and material possessions,I think mostly that comes from modern day pressures on people to have/be the best etc. but I think the lord is in all of us and which ever path we choose to follow in life, he will always be there for us. And I believe when we die , when all the material possessions,money,looks,fame fortune etc have gone, then we will be judged on what we have done in life, xxx