For Atheists: Pls giv me ur reasons for u to believ that ther is no God?(I want as much as Atheists to ans me)

Question

Please no offencive language. I just want to view things from your standpoint too. U can share any reasons, anything that made u conclude that there is no God.

Answer 1

No evidence. I require evidence to believe anything. Noted Catholic theologian Hans Kung, in a huge book titled Does God Exist, concluded that it is not possible to establish on evidence either that God exists or that God does not exist. Not in the least surprisingly, he chooses to believe the affirmative. But it is much simpler, and just as logically valid, to assume the negative, and I do so. This means that when an unexplained phenomenon occurs, it is necessary to try to figure out the rules of its occurrence rather than attempting to attribute it to a deity. This has the distinct advantage that it leads to an actual increase in knowledge.

Answer 2

I don't consider myself a true atheist, since I believe that the deity resides in nature and in every living thing. I don't believe in the traditional idea of God because, aside from what I just mentioned, I see no evidence of one. I see evidence of a deity in nature and living things, and that is enough for me. I also have a difficult time believing in an "almighty, all-benevolent" being that has been the result of so much war and suffering in the world.

Most people I know who believe in God use books such as the Bible as evidence, while I know of no reason to believe that book any more than a book picked at random. The evidence they use that the book is written, or inspired, by a Supreme Being is text that is in the book itself. That is is same as me writing a book saying that I am God, then using that book as evidence that I am God.

Answer 3

Quite simply no one has ever given me any evidence for God's existence (i.e. the Judea-christian god) that stood up to scrutiny. In addition when I read the bible and Qur'an at the urging of my religious friends I found them to consist of a mixture of the sensible, the obvious and the plain immoral. e.g. Moses telling the Israelites to go back and slaughter all the Midinites apart from the virgin women.

I know this is an argument against the Abrahimic view of God rather than many others but it is the only one someone has tried to convert me to.

Answer 4

Some atheists believe that there are no gods. But that belief isn't "atheism." It's anti-theism, a positivist contrary belief that some atheists adopt. Some atheists are also anti-theists, sometimes called "dogmatic atheists," but most atheists are passive (or ordinary) atheists.

Atheism itself is not a belief. It is the LACK of a belief in gods. The word atheism doesn't describe any belief, none at all. Instead, it identifies one belief that is excluded from mind: namely, the belief that gods exist. The word itself should tell you what it means and what it does not mean: the Latin prefix "a-" means "not" or "without"; it doesn't mean "contrary to" or "opposed to."

Ordinary atheism isn't positivist. It has no associated beliefs. It is simply the lack of belief in gods.

Because atheism is defined by a lack of belief in gods, rather than by a belief that gods don't exist, atheists have nothing to prove. You only have to prove what you do believe. You never have to prove why you don't believe something.

God believers have the burden of proof. Passive atheists do not. Furthermore, god-believers not only have the burden of proving that gods exist in general, but moreover they are obliged to prove that THEIR god exists; i.e., they are obligated to give evidence that a god having the history, the personality, the rules that their god has really does exist, and that he wasn't fabricated by ancient mythmakers. No religion has ever given such proof, and all claims to the contrary are deceptions.

The often-heard religious claim that atheism is "the belief that God does not exist" is a kind of deception called a Strawman Argument. It seeks to define the position of a debate opponent as being something other than what it really is, and by refuting the strawman argument the religious person pretends that he has refuted atheism.

Some religious people make that strawman argument in ignorance of what Atheism really is. Perhaps you were misled by religious leaders who gave you false information. But most of those religious leaders have been told by atheists often enough about what atheism is and what atheism isn't that they cannot plausible claim to have erred innocently. Those religious leaders who claim that Atheism is "the belief that there is no God" are liars - damned liars who would deserve to burn in Hell if there was one for them to be burned in.

Note the distinction between passive atheism and agnosticism. Agnosticism is not really a theory about gods; it is, rather, a theory about the knowledge of gods. An agnostic claims that the knowledge of gods either doesn't exist or that it isn't available to man. An agnostic can be either atheist (lacking a belief in gods), or he can be a religious ("leap of faith") agnostic.

What is Christianity, boiled down to the most fundamental essential beliefs? Here they are:

1. Jesus was God's Son
2. Jesus died for the sins of Mankind
3. By accepting Jesus' offer to die in your place, you can get God's forgiveness for all your sins and become eligible to enter Heaven after you die.

That's IT! Christians differ with each other on everything else, with some arguing one way and some the other. But these three beliefs are essential to all forms of Christianity that I know about.

Notice that I didn't include the belief that the Bible is wholly divinely inspired or inerrant. (In fact, in one place the Apostle Paul goes so far as to say that he does not speak by the command of God, but by His permission.) Some Christian denominations do insist on Biblical inerrancy, but others don't.

In other words, you can be Christian without believing the Bible to be God's word. And that makes sense because what is called "the Bible" isn't the same for all Christians. The Catholics have books such as Tobit and Judith that the Protestants don't recognize. And in earlier centuries, there were lots of disputes about which books should "go in" the Bible and which should be left out, and what eventually settled the matter was putting armies on the march to burn the heretics at the stake.

So being a Christian is all about making that "leap of faith" that the theologian Kierkegaard identified. To believe in a god, first, turn off your mind. Enter fantasy mode exactly as you do when you watch a TV adventure or read a science fiction book. But unlike a fiction reader, who understands that the story is OVER when he puts the book down or turns off the TV set, the religious fantasy remains with the believer after he leaves the church. And that's the only real distinction between religious faith and all other forms of fantasy.

Answer 5

Standard atheist non-belief in God requires materialism (that is, the material world is all that exists).

In other words, you only accept that which there is evidence for. If there is no evidence for it, then there's no reason to believe it exists. Since there is no evidence for the truth of religion or anything supernatural, it's not believed.

About as simple as it gets.

Answer 6

The burden of proof is on u not on Atheists. Extrordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.