ATHEISTS> Can you give me reasons why you don't believe in God?

Answer 1

I tried...I've read the bible from cover to cover. I've taught both Sunday School and often created the Children's Service.
BUT...
I just didn't feel it
I am jealous of you. You have someone to turn to when you need help or comfort,
I tried,
It just ain't there

Answer 2

The reasons why I don't believe in god.........
1.)Too many contradictions that no one can explain except by saying that it is god's plan or that god did it.

2.) No physical evidence that has ever proved the existence of a god. How can you have faith in someting that there is no evidence of, but only hear say?

3.) How is it that billions of people who aren't christians ALL believe that their belief is right, just as much as the christians do, and still follow their own religion very strong.

4.) Why isn't it that no christians (or other religions) truly follow their religion. If you believe that if you do not follow certain rules then that you don't go to heaven, then why do so many people that believe in heaven blatantly and even consciously break those rules.

5.) Why is that some rules are more sacred than another? Why is it some people believe premarital sex is a sin, and some don't? How can they be both simaetaneously correct.

I probably have more, but this is all what I can think of at the moment, because there is some "interesting" things going on in my life.

Answer 3

I resent this question so much!! I'm Christian but why can't people except the fact that other people don't believe in God. Stop acting like atheists only don't belive in God when they don't believe in any divine force. Not everyone thinks the same way and that is completely resonable. That is like asking ,"Why don't you believe in Zeus?" Because you don't and shouldn't have to. atheists aren't against God or any other divine power. How can they be against something they don't believe exists? Why don't you question all other religions then. That is just ignorant. It's ashame that you are probaly an adult and I'm just a teenager giving you some common sense. How pathetic is that.

Answer 4

This is one of those trick questions right? Like voting not to go on a trip? If you are talking about an omnipotent, intercessionary, all seeing, all knowing being or consciousness, then the answer is simple. There is no empirical evidence of God's existence. The real question is why in the lack of such evidence would anyone believe, save the obvious ancient answer of trying to provide some reason for things yet to be understood and human being's seemingly obsessive compulsion to form patterns from even unrelated things.

Answer 5

To believe in God would mean I would have to accept that the most powerful being in existance is capricious and cruel.

Too much evil, too little justice. The scale of wasted resources and evil committed throughout history in the name of the world's religions would mean that either a) God doesn't care or b) God is cruel.

The alternative, that religions are myths created as a way to get control over people, take their property and money, direct their lives seems to fit the available facts better.

Don't take my word for it. Do your own research. Find the mistranslations in the bible. Find out why Priests originally became celibate (they weren't always).

And don't think that because I don't believe in God that I don't value human life. In my world, life is even MORE precious. If you are killed for any reason, in your world, you have a shot at some kind of retribution, reward, justice in the "afterlife." In my world every death is a tragedy. There is never a justification for killing anyone. In my world, as soon as you are dead, the only thing that happens is you begin to rot.

This means health matters more, war matters less. Life and opportunity matter more, you only get one shot, better make it good.

Answer 6

I look around me and I see a universe governed by mathematical rules. I look at my history and realize that humans have understood far less of these rules in the past than we do now. The formulation of these rules has dispelled one or more myths, anytime one of those formulations was better able to model the universe. The Greeks discovered that Earth was round, a knowledge that persisted in the educated elite even throughout the dark ages, despite the fact the common masses forgot. This formulation dispelled the myth of the flat earth. Aristotle formulated gravity as 'things falling to the center of the universe' as, of course, Earth was the center. Newton found a better formulation for gravity, and the myth of the geocentric universe began to unravel. We now know that we are not the center of the universe (or at least, it's very unlikely we are), and that the Earth revolves around the sun. Newton was found to be inaccurate, and newtonian gravity was found to be a myth, replaced with the better model of relativistic gravity, which is itself known to be an imperfect model of gravity because it doesn't incorporate quantum effects. It is logical to believe that as humans become more knowledgeable, this imperfect model/myth will be replaced with a model in complete agreement with the universe we observe.

Religion, on the other hand, has no method for changing and adapting to new information. The scientific evidence for the inflationary universe and evolution are out there for anyone to study, but because Christianity, in this case, has no structure for incorporating this new information, some fundamentalist Christians dismiss the inflationary model and evolutionary model as 'lies' or 'atheistic deceptions' instead of re-evaluating their Bibles to say, "Ah, God said he created, but Moses couldn't have understood quantum physics, so gave Moses a parable that captured the essence of the truth -- God Created."

If religion is a quest for Truth, then it must be subject to correction, otherwise it is dogma. Science is a quest for truth subject to certain rules -- primary among them the concept of negation of supernatural explanation and the concept of peer-evaluated research.

I place my trust in the quest for truth that has no qualms about being wrong, because only a system that admits it can be wrong can be corrected and become closer to the truth.

Answer 7

Honest answer - I can not believe in an entity or a book that was dreamed up by man for purposes of control and from plagiarizing ancient myths. The way in which God (and im assuming the Christian God is to whom you are referring too) or Christianity was accepted in this world was done by sheer terror and barbaric means.

Answer 8

I was born not believing in God and since then you theists haven't even come close to convincing me he exists. So that why I don't believe God because I have no reason to.

Answer 9

There is no evidence that an all powerful, all good, and all knowing being exists, only evidence that one doesn't. For example, the existence of evil.

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

- Stephen Roberts

Answer 10

I'm agnostic, not atheist, but I'd have to say because there are so many religions claiming to the right one/ only true one, that there is no power behind the Bible.
The churches spend energy bashing each other, not teaching the love of God. They spend their time teaching sinners will go to hell when hell is not in the Bible, and they spend their money on bigger buildings, not helping the widows and poor.

Answer 11

For the same reason I don't believe in Santa Claus. In my personal opinion, belief in God/afterlife/etc is a way for people to qualm their fears and give purpose to their lives. If it works for you, that's great.