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2006-09-06 10:05:25 · 13 answers · asked by dotdashbanana 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rephrase and repost....Question doesnt make sense...
2006-09-06 10:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What people? The existential nihilists? For some the worldview of an all powerful entity that you are subordinate to and that has already defined your destiny is somewhat loathsome. These people beleive in free will and that they are responsible for their live's. They feel that a religious framework is not required to identify right and wrong. It tends to be pretty obvious, the golden rule.
Also rationally there is no evidence to support the existance of an all powerful entity thus the beleive in the supernatural and magic is required. Fully rational individuals have difficulty with that. This is the age of reason after all.
2006-09-06 17:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by Dane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do know this. When a plane is flying at 30 thousand feet loaded with a couple 100 people - and one of the engines start to fail you usually dont' find many passingers who do not believe in God.
2006-09-06 17:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by discoverdaniel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People don't tend not to believe. 85% of the worlds population does believe.
For the 15% that doesn't it is simply beacuse there is no concrete objective evidence for the existence of the supernatural.
2006-09-06 17:15:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blind faith passed from generation to generation. The first one to say "tell me again about living in the fish's belly", probably started to wonder about the other "facts" too. How about that Noah guy - wonder why he brought mosquitoes along. How about that heaven thing - translate it into modern terms, do you think we will all get a new car to drive on perfect roads with abundantly well stocked homes (do we get to keep the slaves that God says we can have as long as we got them from a neighboring country and not from our own). I guess it would be demanding proof that would cause unbelief.
2006-09-06 17:21:14 · answer #5 · answered by justwondering 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me personally,
Considering the hell I live in almost everyday, and the looming hell that awaits me the next day, I find very hard if not impossible to believe in him/her/it.
I might believe in him/her/it when I get the one thing that I've always wanted from him/her/it but knowing the way my life has been the thing that I want will turn out to be a lot worse than what I have now.
But that's just me.
2006-09-06 17:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by sierrajames1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We atheists feel that there is no reason to believe there is a god, it has nothing to do with ethics.
2006-09-07 01:08:51 · answer #7 · answered by John S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in a god because he doesn't make sense to me.
I wish it did because it would make my life a lot easier but it just doesn't compute for me.
People believe in god because they have undoubtable faith in his existence. If that's what they believe I respect that.
However for me the whole concept of a god ruling everything sounds like a "Star Trek" show I once saw.
2006-09-06 17:11:34 · answer #8 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just cant believe in a long haired, bearded guy who can go off one you at any time and I am suppossed to be grateful.
2006-09-06 17:20:12 · answer #9 · answered by diaryofamadblackman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
freedom of thought. It`s not compulsory to believe in God
2006-09-06 17:13:05 · answer #10 · answered by lucrecia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I require experimental and replicatable evidence of the existence of one. I see no such evidence.
2006-09-06 17:07:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋