is atheism a mental health problem?

Question

In my honest opinion it is. to say that life is nothing more than living for 100 or so years and its all done is just sad. the beauty of life is what god gives us and you should cherish it and be thankful for it. if there is no god what's the point of even having a universe? it wouldnt make me so mad if atheists didnt try so hard to disprove something more to life. to deny that life is something more must really be a miserable way to live in my opinion. they say theres no proof god exists, well the proof is every blessing hes ever given you. and before any atheist starts thinking im some radical christian who just wants to save atheists you're wrong. i believe in evolution and that god created people gay. its just sad that you wont even aknowledge something so beautiful as heaven and god. after life i trully believe you will wonder why you wasted so much time trying to believe in something so meaningless.

funny to see how atheists only argument is "its made up". its not made up when you feel the truth everyday in your life. 90% of americans do. it looks like we got the other 10% right here who have nothing better to do with their meaningless lives than to argue for nothing more than what you see.

Answer 1

Its not a mental health problem. Its a laziness problem. How many people do you know that celebrate Christmas yet say they don't believe in God and don't go to church? They're just too lazy to. Even people that don't celebrate anything are just too lazy to take the time to think about what the supreme power is. Its too large of an idea for their little brains.

Answer 2

The consequences of there being no god do not actually change the reality of the situation, just like the consequences of jumping off a building do not change even if halfway down you really, REALLY hope and pray for gravity to turn off.

Some people see a lack of god as a refreshing challenge. There's no sky daddy to take care of us, so we alone are responsible for helping out each other. Since prayer is just a superstition, praying for starving children does nothing -- you must actually donate or act. Atheists could say that to sit there and just think happy thoughts with your hands clasped together while children starve is a bleak and miserable way to exist.

It hurts to find out Santa isn't real -- but you get over it. It's part of growing up. Ditto for god.

Answer 3

Be careful about trying to win points for your position by insisting the alternative viewpoint is ill. The same thing has been used by Christians and other believers against one another, and was used in the Soviet Union to hospitalize and medicate people who disagreed with the state.

Instead, consider that differences of opinion mean society is vibrant and capable of dealing with a number of issues in ways that make sense to its individual citizens. There doesn't have to be a "right" answer for everyone. People can accept a religious viewpoint if they want, or if they don't they can find another way of making sense of their existence (creating their own meaning).

If, on the contrary, you only want people who believe the same way you do, then you are setting your society up to be so homogeneous that it will not be able to withstand shocks. Social structures will tumble if there are no optional viewpoints to help bolster them.

Answer 4

You talk to an imaginary friend. I don't.

You pray to an imaginary friend, who never answers your prayers... ever. And you make excuses to yourself why he doesn't. I don't.

You are afraid to face reality. I'm not.

You are afraid of the fact that you are not immortal. I'm not.

You participate in a mass delusion that is really very young (compared to the history of mankind) , and will soon be done away with. I don't.

If you would do your research, you would see that your beliefs are nothing more than cut and pasted myths from pagan cultures that predate the bible. I have done this research.

Accepting reality, and basing your judgements and beliefs on established, verifiable facts is not a mental illness.

Your god is imaginary. And you do, in fact, have a mental illness. Myself and others are working hard to ease you out of its grip. Any help you can give us would be appreciated. But we understand that you can't help but fight us. Most of us have been infected with the same illness as you. And we know how hard it is to break away from it.

But we haven't given up on you, yet.

http://www.godisimaginary.com



Edit - Oh, and to the "special" person up there saying atheists celebrate Christmas but don't understand it... Boy... you speak volumes for Christian ignorance. Do some homework, please. Christmas and Easter are both pagan holidays, that predate Christianity by far. The Christians just adopted them when they subjugated pagan cultures, and renamed them.

What, do you think Mary and Joseph decided to decorate the Bethlehem pine trees when Jesus was born? Did rabbits start laying eggs when he died?

Look it up. Please.... I beg of you... your ignorance is hurting my eyes...

Answer 5

Actually Xians would qualify as mentally ill more than atheists would, by looking at the DSM.IV I have. I'd say virtually all of Axis I is applicable, sans the eating disorders and substance related disorders..And even then, depending on the situation, it may still apply.I'll be generous and not include any Axis II diagnoses, since religion would be used as an excuse in that case and the underlying disorder will still be present.And frankly, Axis IV can apply to almost everyone regardless of faith, so that should be ruled out as well for comparing Xians to atheists.Oh, yeah.I'm Wiccan BTW,

Answer 6

It absolutely amazes me that so many people today have been infected with some sort of insidious mental virus that leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental matters of existence and reality. A universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven, solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth), talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, shepherd staff turning into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people rising from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from dust bunnies and ribs, magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush, ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.

In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of this crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free looney pass.

And you dare to suggest that people who DON'T believe all of that ludicrous crap are mentally defective? Get a grip.

Answer 7

is atheism a mental health problem?
No
if there is no god what's the point of even having a universe?
the universe doesn't have A point it has a Lot of LittLe points, everytime you Love someone that is a point every time you watch a show you Like that is a point, everytime you Laugh with your friends that is a point, in short the point of the universe is to enjoy it.

Answer 8

I think you missed the nail by about 3 feet

Answer 9

Gee, that's funny....my husband and I were discussing whether religious fundamentalism is a mental health problem and we decided it was...

Answer 10

Some people are willing to accept the fact of mortality.

Others aren't.