2006-09-10 09:00:23 · 25 answers · asked by dubai chaser 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i can see only one or two up to point answers some want to comment on my english and grammar some want to act smart, come on guys share your personal experiances
2006-09-10 09:18:24 · update #1
I grew up Catholic and initially I liked the concepts. But then I began traveling the world and served in the Peace Corps. Just seeing so many people suffering so much, and many of the cases were due to religious conflicts, I couldn't understand how anyone as compassionate as God could let this happen. It wasn't like these people failed or anything, they just never had the chance.
I'm just going to live my life helping others, and if I die and God is mad about it, I'd probably be happier in Hell.
2006-09-10 10:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by quickblur 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen God, nor heard him speak. More atrocities have been done in the name of God than anything else in mankind's history. It seems more like God is a good excuse for the weak to ignore their responsibilities as human beings, since they can do ANYTHING in God's name and still be "forgiven" for their evils. Timothy McVeigh said that the bible told him to bomb Oklahoma City; was he right?
Neither have I seen actual proof of the existence of a supreme deity. Just because there is a 2000 year old storybook that millions of people choose to blindly follow is not proof of God's existence any more than a book of fairy tales is proof that trolls, ogres and fairies exist.
If someone said you were a homosexual, would that make it true? What about if ten people said it; still not true? So how many people believing you were gay would it take for you to actually BE gay?
If not even two billion people saying so would force you to be gay, then one can conclude that consensus does not create reality. Thus without actual PROOF, not vague interpretations or cultist opinions of God's existence, I cannot turn over my individuality to a simple, made-up idealism.
2006-09-10 16:23:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not so much a problem of difficult. Just have not seen any of the current "gods" out there right now hold water. Perhaps it is the religion aspect that turns most away. Man has a wonderful way of making even the simplest thing corrupt.
2006-09-10 16:39:24 · answer #3 · answered by grim reaper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it difficult, nay, impossible, to believe in anything that doesn't exist, therefore I am WITHOUT belief.
It's like asking an adult why it's so difficult to believe in Santa. There are, after all, dozens upon dozens upon dozens of stories about the fellow, he's based on an actual person, we tell our children he's real... what's the problem, right?
The concept is to be rejected ipso facto, same with the concept of "God".
In addition, there's no collective agreement regarding exactly what this "God" thing really IS... why would I believe in an undefined, muddled, vague concept for which there is absolutely positively no concrete, substantiating evidence? Remember... books and belief only go so far as you've seen with the concept of "Santa". Eventually you need hard proof. In the absense of such, continue believing as you wish, but don't expect anyone else to understand your strange compulsion to cling to the myths of old.
2006-09-10 16:02:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't find it difficult to believe in "God" - difficult would imply that I'm trying to believe but having a hard time. On the contrary, I CHOOSE not to believe. All shall tremble before the legions of the Invisible Pink Unicorn!
2006-09-10 16:06:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheists find it diffacult to believe in God becuse God is not somthing that they can readily see feal and or experience physically. Science can not even produce the exsistance of God, other than the fact that most scientists do believe that their has to be some sort of higher power, not admitting to the exsistance of God.
2006-09-10 16:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by david m 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
do not beleave in fairy taiyles that are trying to take over a planet its is like the borg are coming the mindles drones the christians are just like that with there fake god and life after death no that is like a borg and the end of the world will if a borg cube came this is sifi and this has more truth to it than that book
2006-09-10 16:09:50 · answer #7 · answered by andrew w 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd
2006-09-10 16:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is NO proof! I don't believe "God" would come down here and 'mess with peoples heads' and then just disappear for 2000 some years.....
2006-09-10 16:05:21 · answer #9 · answered by MC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not a matter of finding it difficult. That's agnosticism.
Aethiest have the affirmative believe that there is no god. It's not matter of trying to believe and failing. It's choosing to disbelieve.
2006-09-10 16:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋