Have you ever seen a happy athiest ?

Question

Is it a coincidence , or does it seem , that under the athiest 's bragging , lies too much unhappiness and negativity ?

Answer 1

Many of the atheists here do seem a little too whiney to be genuinely happy. Maybe the happy ones are out having fun rather than moping online.

Answer 2

That's a real hoot.

Did you know that Christians make up about 75% of the population of the USA... and 75% of the US prison population? Atheists, on the other hand, make up about 10% of the US population... but they only make up 0.2% of the US prison population. How do you account for that?

Your question presents a logical fallacy (flaw in thinking) known as the 'Straw Man Argument', which is a sub-set of the 'Red Herring'. Basically, it amounts to a bogus proposition. It also (rather clumbsily) incorporates another fallacy known as an 'Ad Hominem' argument... basically, a personal attack.

There are about 40 studies, conducted over the past 80 years, that reveal a statistically significant NEGATIVE correlation between intelligence and religiosity. In plainer language, they found that the MORE intelligent a person is, the LESS likely he is to be religious... or, conversely, the LESS intelligent a person is, the MORE likely he is to be religious.

That is not an attack... that is merely statistics.

Statistics also show us that atheists/agnostics are less likely to divorce than Christians. On average, they make more money than Christians (except, perhaps for the scam-meister televangelists).

I'm curious... where do you get this notion of "... unhappiness and negativity?"

Are you 'projecting'?

Answer 3

Yes, I'm an atheist, and I'm the happiest person on earth. And as a matter of I ain't never seen a happy Christian. All the Christians I know cry and weep all the time, especially when they go to church. But it looks like you're a really happy Christian, so keep it up, very few people can find true happiness. Nice try, but I don't start hating people just cause they're making fun if me. I can love even negative people, you can't. Now who's happy? *smile*

Answer 4

Every time I look in the mirror. I'm successful in business, I have loving relationships, good friends and family, I'm involved in my community and in numerous noble causes and charities, and my health is generally excellent.

But I do find that theists have an immense need to believe I cannot be happy because they believe a priori that happiness without their particular illusion is impossible. They must believe that I deconverted from Christianity out of some bitter event in my life instead of simply that part way through my doctorate in Biblical Lit I found the baseless claims and contradictions of my faith piled to the ceiling and no proof whatever of their validity available anywhere, and that the same desire to find the truth that brought me to religion's door also took me away when I realized religion had no objective truth to offer.

I have always found my atheist freinds to be having pretty good lives, while most of the more fundamentalist churches are filled with the walking wounded who are one bad day away from getting drunk, beating their kids, divorcing their husbands or shooting themselves.

I don't however believe that atheism is necessary to be happy, or that most theists are unhappy. But you can sit around the table and listen to a group of Bible thumpers talk about all the evil in the world and how awful abortion is and how depraved homosexuals are and how the president needs to nuke the Moslems and make apocalypse break out and billions die so Jesus will come back, and there my dear you will see some real negativity and unhappiness among the believers. If the millions in sales of Tim LaHayes books are any indicator, Christians are the unhappiest and most negative people on earth, so much so they want the world to end and billions to die tonite if possible, so they can leave this life behind for something better.

Me, I love my life and want to stay here as long as I can. My life is good enough that I don't seek the comfort of imaginary supernatural parents or find myself hoping the wolrd will end in fire and blood. So I'd say between the two of us, you're the one more likely to end up on Zoloft.

Answer 5

I'm very happy and I'm an apatheist. And who, tell me, is bragging? Read some of the posts on the site and you will find unhappiness and negativity from Christians and Muslims, as well.

Answer 6

All of the atheists that I have ever known were quite happy people overall. Perhaps either you haven't known very many or they were having a bad day. Are you saying that all atheists brag a lot? That would be quite a generalization--not to mention insulting.

Answer 7

I'm athiest and I'm a very happy and positive person. I know many christians that are very unhappy and negative in their lives (afterall, they can't do this, can't do that, women obey their men, yada yada yada). I think the personality of a person is not the product of religion. Religion and emotion are independent of each other in which one does not effect the other.....of course then again there are those that believe in a deity because they fear the reality of our natural world.

This question also says more about you and negativity than it does about athiests. Afterall, if you were happy, then why would you focus on other people faults or negative views of others? Hmmm?

Answer 8

As an human being, I objectively investigated the data for the Bible, no longer basically introduction vs evolution, yet each and every thing else that ought to prefer to have left some type of information. even as there are some, very few, circumstances that the Bible ought to depict an honestly journey or probable come on the fringe of depicting an journey, usually, and pretty those the position God without delay acted, the data shows that some thing thoroughly diverse handed off. even as quickly as we seem on the activities surrounding Jesus' beginning and shortage of existence - if actual, then arguably the most important activities of human historic previous - no longer actually is the historic record silent, notwithstanding that is as if they not in any respect handed off. searching somewhat extra, we see ideas that early Christianity replaced into shaped from numerous "messianic cults" with differing conception structures. curiously, Paul and different first century writers did not quote the Gospels, except for one prayer which the Gospel author probable quoted from Paul. i have on account that re-examine the Bible from an objective view, no longer from the view i replaced into taught to examine it from. for instance, reading the tale of Lot, we are "taught" to spotlight Abraham's pleading and Lot's obedience and yet we do not see that Lot provided his daughters to be gang banged via a mob. We also settle for the mob of alluring adult males without a question, even nonetheless such activities hardly, if ever, ensue on the size defined via the Bible. it really is largely one party out of many the position the Bible is amazingly inconsistent with its moral claims. even as i look at theology and apologetic, that is without issues glaring that they frequently rationalizations and subjective interpretation and shortage any type of information.

Answer 9

maybe these atheists you are talking about just get depressed when you religious types are around thumping your bibles. telling everyone how your religion is the way to go and everyone else is condemned to some sort of hell. i would bet you ca$h money there are more unhappy believers in this world than unhappy atheists. an atheists job isn't to tell people how they're going to be damned for all eternity. i think that job is for the religious people of the world. once again, religion tries to keep down the masses.i could go on all day about how religion is the bane of all society.

Answer 10

Must be a coincidence or your circle of friends. I see a happy athiest every time I look in the mirror and do not need a so called GOD to bless me. As for negativity, where oh where to look?

Answer 11

You are assuming a lot in your statement. You are assuming that if they are an atheist and they are unhappy then it is because they are an atheist. You go on to assume that all atheists are boastful, are unhappy and are negative. I've known Christians, Muslims and Jews who were overly impressed with themselves, were unhappy or were negative. That doesn't mean that all are that way, not even most.