I wonder why atheists spend so much time trying to discount your faith rather than finding the answer to where we go after we die? Do you not believe in your own death, that everyone that has lived and breathed has died and not come back. This earth has been around for billions of years so why do atheists think a life time of maybe 80 years is anymore than a millisecond compared to all of time. IF I WERE AN ATHEIST, I'D BE PRAYIN EVERYDAY THERE WAS A GOD. Should you not? Its really too bad you waste all your time trying to deny the only hope you have.
2006-09-13 04:35:00 · 20 answers · asked by Murfdigidy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh my. Where to begin?
This is, when you get right down to it, the theist's main argument - you ought to believe in God because it'd really suck if there were no heaven.
In other words, deny reality just because you don't find reality comfortable.
Sorry, sugar, if that's what God does for you, so be it. But your caps-lock semi-literate explosion of gibberish doesn't convince me one bit.
I don't believe in God because I don't. It's got nothing to do with what I _want_ to believe...
2006-09-13 04:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You seem to have missed the ENTIRE POINT. We do not believe in an afterlife. Do you understand that? We believe that when you die, that's it. That's all she wrote. Finito. Done. Over. We do not believe there is a God or Gods, therefore PRAYING that there is would be a colossal waste of our very precious time. We DON'T waste ANY time trying to deny anything, we simply understand that there is nothing to deny in the first place.
We DON'T think 80 years is anything more than a millisecond compared to all of time. We simply have accepted that this life is all we get and so we have to live it to the fullest and not sweat the small stuff.
Do you get it now? Is it too difficult for you to comprehend? We KNOW this life is our only life, and we ACCEPT it. I imagine for one who doesn't accept this it must be hard to grasp, but try anyway.
2006-09-13 11:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't "try" to deny it. I succeed. There is no after life nor is there a deity. You don't have to agree with me, but I'm not 'trying' to deny it, I deny it. Simple.
It doesn't matter if my time on this planet is to the universe what a nanosecond is to our lifetime -- I'll make the most of my nanosecond as I can. I don't need religion to tell me to cherish what I have.
If I live my life to the best of my ability, then I've no regrets and have no need of an afterlife to console me. I'm okay with the fact that when I die, that's it, that's the end of me, that's the end of everything I can do, and it's up to future generations to either remember me or forget me.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be neat if there was a deity and an afterlife. It'd be great for some of my impossible dreams to find a way to come true. But since there's no way to know one way or the other if there is an afterlife or not, I look at it from the scientific view, pull out occam's razor, and see that the deity hypothesis is unnecessary for what we observe.
2006-09-13 11:41:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not trying to discount your faith - just trying to pull you back in reality, where humanity's survival and "redemption" is possible only if we work hard at it with the tools (intelligence, adaptability) given to us by purely evolutive processes (which we can now control!).
> A question for Atheists? I wonder why atheists spend so much time trying to discount your faith rather than finding the answer to where we go after we die?
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2006-09-13 11:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by par1138 • FCD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"IF I WERE AN ATHEIST, I'D BE PRAYIN EVERYDAY THERE WAS A GOD" Then you wouldn't be an atheist
I have better things to do with my time than worry about my death. I know when I do die, I'm worm food! We all are!
Maybe instead of worrying about your death, you can help others that need help now!
2006-09-13 11:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hope is for the desperate. Your Lord Christ has only been around 2K years - so what about everyone before then? Was there not sin then? And "Yes" I am going to die, the difference is I am not afraid to die and I don't worry about what's next, because there is no next. No Biggie - you live - you die - end of story. If you need to grasp at more to give you strength, then actually I pity you.
2006-09-13 11:41:39 · answer #6 · answered by rab2344 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The point is we DO know the answer. We are keenly aware that death means exactly that; death. What many of us cannot do is turn off our powers of reason and accept any of the "other world" myths. A hope based on nothing but itself and mindless fear is meaningless. Or worse, it may deter you from acting on the things of this world which need your attention.
No one wants to die, but we all will. And that will be the end of that.
2006-09-13 11:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Compared to the history of the earth our life spans are only a flash. If you compare your life span to your life span it’s a 1:1 relationship, so it is everything. That’s why you must live your life for the one your living instead of wasting your everything on something you have no evidence for, an after life.
2006-09-13 11:42:16 · answer #8 · answered by PØstapØc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, Atheist wouldn't pray for anything. Second, show them that in your life there is something special, that there is something to look into. Gloom and doom is not appealing. Seeing ppl with faith who lie, cheat, steal, not to mention incest, child abuse, spousal abuse and the list goes on and on deters any person with free will from wanting to be "just like them".
2006-09-13 11:41:27 · answer #9 · answered by ImMappam 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
(Isaiah 45:7, KJV) - "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
(Amos 3:6) - "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?"
So let me see if I understand all of this..... I'm supposed to put my faith in a god who killed his only son and creates evil?
Now why would I want to do that???
2006-09-13 11:40:46 · answer #10 · answered by Angry C 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋