Do you have hope? Why?

Question

Anyone is free to answer. I'm just curous what people will say.

I just couldn't help notice that I didn't not lose my hope when I realized that I don't believe in god, although I was raised to think that hope comes from god.
Yet I really can't shake the notion that I really think life is good and all will turn out alright if I don't give up.
Anyone have thoughts on this?

When I die it is the end of me. Though it will not be the end of the world--it existed before me and it will be around after I no longer exist.

Is this a hard thing to grasp?

Answer 1

I have had the same experience. I was raised in a religious household and I always thought so many things were dependent on faith. Then I became skeptical and now I am a pretty skeptical agnostic at times. Yet I am still overall a really happy upbeat person. I think in some ways I have more hope for the future because I feel it ours to do with as we wish. That we can create our own approximation of "heaven" here on earth if enough of us choose. I have more "faith" in my own abilities to make decisions and weather life's ups and downs without feeling I need a deity to walk me through and that has given me so much more self-confidence and strength. I think maybe this stems from both life experience and genes. I have been wondering if degrees of religiousness aren't in some way a function of personality which is formed by interaction of life experience and genetics? Just something I've been wondering about. It seems to me there are people very prone to fanatacism and others who even if raised in very religious households aren't themselves very religious. Although mostly people stick to what they were raised to believe.

I want to say that I am not wishing to bash religion, I think some people go too far but I also see positive things and know many wonderful religious people. I respect people's different beliefs so long as they allow me the freedom of my own beliefs.

Answer 2

I believe in and afterlife, and a god, but I think religion has no place anymore. People act like there is this almighty being, constantly looking down and judging people. How do you even know things are supposedly against god, like being gay. Science is on the verge of proving that homosexuality is a born trait. They have actually mapped a Gay gene. Now that doesn't mean all gay people are born that way, obviously the old nature vs. nurture argument, but certainly some are. Over the centuries, numerous variations of the bible have been translated and changed. How much information was lost in translation? The majority of the religous dogma practiced and preached today makes no sense. Remeber this, "Power Corrupts." If people would stop doing good things because they fear God, and start doing good things because they truly want to help out fellow man, the Earth would be a much better place. Untill then, we will still have "religious wars" and everyone will continue to think they warship the only "True God."


Thats assuming that you will be punished for being athiest Koran...

Answer 3

Imagine yourself in an aeroplane and you know it is
going to crash...

Who do you turn to for help then ?

Or on a ship in the sea, thrown helplessly up and down
by towering waves ...

There will have been a situation at one time or the
other in your life when you called upon your Creator
alone, forgetting everyone and everything else,
hoping, trusting, wishing that the Being you know in
your heart and soul that has power and control over all
things would help you. The only One you know can
save you!


The Atheist position is indeed hopeless. The believer has hope. If there is a God and there is life after death then the believer wins. If there is no God or no life after death the believer loses nothing. On the other hand, the Atheist loses badly if he wakes up to discover himself in the afterlife. In sum, if there is no afterlife both the believer and the Atheist are safe. But if there is an afterlife then the Atheist loses. The only one who can possibly lose is the Atheist.





On the other hand, it is the Atheist who is wasting his life. His life has no purpose but temporary enjoyment. But such enjoyment is always tempered by nagging doubts about whether or not life is heading in the right direction. It is the believer who lives in quiet confidence that God's promise is true.



Man cannot attain to his true humanity and acquire peace of mind unless he realises this aim for which he was created. But how can he do this! God, being merciful and Just, has helped him in many ways. He granted him an originally good nature that is inclined to know and serve its true Lord. He granted him a mind that possesses a moral sense and the ability to reason. He made the whole universe a natural book full of signs that lead a thinking person to God. But to make things more specific, to give him more detailed knowledge of his Lord, and to show him in a more detailed manner how to serve Him, God has been sending down verbal messages through His prophets chosen from among men, ever since the creation of man.

Answer 4

What do you think one of the main concepts attached to the word we spell G-O-D is? They tell you God is Life. If you believe life is good and everything will turn out alright, you are believing the same thing a religious person does you are just not using extra labels such as naming your belief or calling life God.

Answer 5

Read the story of Pandora's box. Hope is the only thing trapped in the box and because of this human kind is doomed. Doomed becasue hope is cruel, it leaves people to believe in something outside themselves.

I have hope because I have to look at the brighter side and believe that things will get better. I pray, but that is only for reassurance. I keep hope, because if you dont believe things will get better, what do you have?

Hope should be thought of as a coping mechanism.

Answer 6

My only hope comes from God because I know that when I die I get to spend eternity with Him in Heaven, and while I'm here He helps me through everything I go through and shows me purpose in my life. It's great.
Peace

Answer 7

What do you have hope in? I'm not understanding. I'm not trying to be rude here.

Are you saying that you don't believe in God, but you do believe in an afterlife? Or, are you saying that life will be okay, but when you die that's the end?

Answer 8

Hope can come from God, and from that little bit of divinity that's in us all, and from daily life. For example, God gives me the hope that I can have eternal life, I give myself hope that I can increase my skills and be paid more, daily life gives me hope that tomorrow is going to be a good day.

I'm glad for them all.

best wishes.

Answer 9

Yes, I try to Keep "Word of GOD" Hope in my Soul. So it will drop down into my Spirit, mix with FAITH, and IF that Hope (Picture drawn by WORD's) Line's up with GOD, then it has a Good Chance of Comning to PASS in the Physical REALM.
FAITH work's by LOVE (GOD), so my Picture(Hope) has to Line up with GOD's Picture for my Life.
Hope this helps.
Ditto..............

Answer 10

I have hope because I need it. I want to many things for my life for me to not have hope. I want to be a teacher. I want to change kids view of the world. I want to educate them. I have to have hope to do that.