If God is a lie, would anyone care what anyone else thought?

Question

There would be no after-life. There would be no meaning to fame. There would be no guilt.

Answer 1

Why would neither fame nor guilt exist if people didn't believe in gods?

non sequitur

Answer 2

The fact that you need there to be a god for you to feel guilt or think your life is worth anything is sad.

I don't believe there is a god and I still have morals and would feel guilt if I did something to hurt someone.

The fact that you need the fear of a sky daddy watching over you to make you be a good person shows you lack of character.

Answer 3

If there were an afterlife, then our time on earth would be without meaning - a mere blink in time. Now that would really put a damper on morality in the here and now.

I don't slug my neighbor and steal his stuff because I have a sense of kinship with my fellow humans. And it's not what I would want to happen to me. Reciprocity requires no gods. I don't even need the law to tell me it would be a bad thing.

There is no afterlife. All we have is one run, this life. Make the best of it, and of you.

Answer 4

For many people, God is a lie and they are still good people so I don't think the absence or presence of the "concept" of God determines human behavior.

I think we have freedom to react in any manner we wish to circumstances, people, etc. so whether there is a God is less important than what is "conscience"? Where does that come from?

Answer 5

Further circumstancial evidence for the existance of God.

But, the way I see it, its a lot like O.J. Simpson. All the evidence can be there, but if nobody wants to believe it, nobody will.

Proof doesn't matter. Facts are facts, regardless of whether or not people accept them. The earth was round before people believed it. Gravity still pulled things downward, even before we started to understand it. Murder is wrong, even though we call it abortion and think we're getting away with it. In the end, God will sort it all out.

Answer 6

Lie or truth, fact or fiction, are we dealing with science or fantasy? Consider the following when you talk about lies.

First ...

If we assume the universe was created, then it’s reasonable to assume there was a creator. That’s as far as science has progressed today, but just look how far religion has progressed.

Religion states (fact) there was a creator called God, that God still exists, God also created places called Heaven & Hell, God wrote an instruction book called the Bible, God will banish evil people to Hell, God will send good people who follow the Bible to heaven, that people referred to in the Bible (like Jesus) will return to Earth, and a whole raft of other statements of fact. That’s right, religious fact, not assumptions.

Now tell me truthfully, if science doesn’t even know yet whether the universe was created or not, but religious believers state: “not only was the universe created by God, here’s a whole lot more proof and facts to go with it, what do you think?

Either religious believers just have vivid imaginations or suffer from a common mental illness. I think commonsense and logic would suggest that religious believers are mentally handicapped. Or would you prefer to call religious believers - just liars?

Second ...

How do you know that God (for you believers) really cares about human beings?

Imagine this. You’ve just bought a new home which you furnish with all sorts of nice fittings and fixtures, then prepare the grounds and garden. You plant a wide range of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants and vegetables. You clip and prune as time goes on, spray the weeds, and generally keep your property in good shape.

Many years pass and your gardens are flourishing, not a weed to be seen anywhere. You head off on holiday, a weed pops up and bugs start to crawl all over it. Not to worry, when you return home you spray the gardens, killing all the bugs and weeds. Everything is back to normal.

Now consider the universe. After billions of years a little planet (weed) called Earth pops up and it’s crawling with bugs called humans. Do you really think the gardener (or creator) really cares about the bugs and weeds? Do you think the gardener cares if he destroys you? Do you think that the bugs (humans) on the weed (Earth) have any idea what’s going on in the rest of garden (universe)? What happens to all human beings is just the same as what happens to all bugs and weeds – universal compost.

Answer 7

If that statement were to be true. Then yes we would live just like the animals. Because we wouldn't have that intrinsic motivation to be better and have an overall goal to aspire to/for after our death. Animals live in the now and just live to survive.
But since a higher being (God, The Devinne, etc.) isn't a lie its just he way you choose to see it.

Answer 8

This a a variation of the false assumption that people who do not believe in God are somehow amoral. This is not true. We need ethics and morality in order to provide social structure. We need social structure to survive. It is as simple as that.

Answer 9

thats nice.. but u have mentioned the word "if".. hence it is foolish to say "God doesn't exist" and discuss on this topic... and also u said there wouldn't be any guilt.. then do the worst crime which the world has ever seen uptill now.. and if u still dont feel the guilt then i must understand that u dont have heart...

idiots.. discussing the existence of God..

Answer 10

How sad for you that you cannot even imagine life without fairy tales.

Ask any atheist or agnostic... we have a strong sense of meaning, responsibility, and even guilt.