There are parents that have lost their children to death,pure agony,all they have left is thinking their child is in heaven,and others who have lost loved ones.A drug addict God is their only hope.The people that lived through 9/11 and H/katrina you tell them their is no one to pray to.People who give their own lives to save another,men who put their lives In the line of battle for me and you.It is the believers in the world that give to one another,the God that is within us,Hope,grace,wisdom,compassion, Joy,forgiveness,peace,serenity,eternal life.Even if you don't believe,just STOP IT PLEASE,and keep it to yourself.Believing is enough,true or not true why would anybody want to take a persons belief away from them that means so much to a person.P.S god has a way of making a believer out of some,I hope you have a believer at your side.to help you out.
2006-09-15 08:23:17 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As soon as the Christian right gets out of politics and writing our laws, you'll stop hearing from us.
2006-09-15 08:25:40 · answer #1 · answered by Manny 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
There is no God, deal with it.
Just so you know, I'm a member of a Search & Rescue volunteer team. When I saw the second plane hit, I grabbed my gear and got ready to go ... and good thing I did, because my team was called up to be ready ten minutes after I got ready. We did not get the opportunity to go serve, but we were ready.
If you cannot have joy, hope, and compassion for your fellow man without God, then you don't have joy, hope, and compassion in your fellow man, you have joy, hope, and compassion in your god, and the people are secondary. That's not compassion.
God is *NOT* a drug addict's only hope. In fact, better than 50% of your AA and NA members choose non-deific higher powers. MANY members of those groups choose the doorknob of the meeting place as their 'higher power' because it means they are making the choice, of their own will, to become better. A person who is 'cured' by their faith isn't cured, because shake their faith even a little and they'll be right back where they started. To cure addiction, you must cure the person, not his imaginary soul.
I was also put on ready status to deploy as a SAR member to New Orleans. I didn't pray for an instant when these accidents hit. My first though, in fact, watching the eye wall come on shore was, "Erf, better get ready, there were idiots who stayed despite evacuation orders. Hopefully the victims will be a little wiser and rebuild elsewhere." Never, not ONCE, did the thought of a deity come across my mind.
I have gone to far, FAR too many funerals, for friends and family. I don't take comfort in thinking that they're "somewhere over the rainbow, [where] skies are blue," I take comfort in knowing that from nothing they came, and to nothing they went. There's balance in that.
Welcome to the real world hun. Some of it sucks, but it's a darned fine place to live. Get your head out of the mythological sand and see it for what it really is -- beautiful and ugly, all at once, and a chance to live your life for NOW, not 'then'.
2006-09-15 08:59:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is by far one of the most offensive questions I have read on here. Your immaturity,naivety and ignorance are astounding. Grace, joy, compassion, hope, joy, peace, serenity are HUMAN attributes, along with hate, greed, selfishness, jealousy, rage and many more. Your particular vision of god is not the only one, nor is it the most beneficial. I am a recovered drug addict. I have buried a child due to that addiction. I have lost several loved ones. I have lived through natural disasters. There was no god there. There was me and the tough human spirit within me...that we all possess. I chose not to turn to some mythical god for a crutch. I have seen miracles in my life and they were created by me. I chose to drag my a** to rehab. I am a surgical tech that works in a busy trauma unit...I have saved lives. I performed CPR on a stranger in a grocery store, but it had nothing to do with god. I do give to charities that give without expecting conversion. I do serve in homeless shelters. I take responsibility for myself. While you and your kind slough off responsibility like old skin. You want a neat little package so that you can feel okay about life. Life is hard and messy and wonderful. You want to give your power away to a fairy tale and absolve yourselves of guilt through the concepts of sin and forgivness when most of you don't have the foggiest idea what real forgivness is.
Even if you DO believe, just STOP IT PLEASE and keep it to yourself. Better yet, stop preaching and praying and get off your a** and actually do something to make yourself and the world a better place. Walk your talk or shut up.
2006-09-15 09:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by Medusa 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Even the bible states, "To everything there is a season."
There was a time when you pooped your diapers. You eventually grew out of that and learned to use the potty.
There was a time when you believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. Eventually you grew out of that as well and welcomed rational thought. And in the same vein of thought...
When you look around you and see that the creation is complete, that the work of the earth is in perpetual motion needing no outside intervention in order to run, that species continue to grow and evolve without any intervention from some divine source, and that good and bad happens whether or not you believe or do not believe, those that do not believe, that have outgrown the need to believe just like they outgrew the need for diapers, find it difficult and insulting to be told otherwise. Consequently...
I will leave those alone who continue to believe as long as you stop trying to convert me. I've outgrown your particular faith and have welcomed that which is alive to me.
2006-09-15 08:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
via fact in this internet site lots of the "atheists" are merely enjoying a game. they are actually not debating a controversy that could or might not be genuine, they're handpicking verses from the Bible or a speech by ability of a Christian chief and making it sound ridiculously inane.genuine theists concede that the Bible became written by ability of adult males and guy is concern to errors or exaggeration or embelishment. And became written 3000 years in the past and the authors weren't attentive to dinosaurs and evolution or the huge Bang. They shouldn't merely get at right here to rile human beings up. even no rely if that's exciting. you recognize what buttons to push. ok we get it!
2016-10-15 00:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) this is a discussion website...
2) atheists, agnostics, deists, etc. aren't standing on the street corners trying to gain converts.
3) I only confront Christians when they confront me. Like the time I walked out of Barnes and Noble with MY children and some asshat stops me in the parking lot because I bought a book on Greek Mythology. He FOLLOWED ME and MY children to MY car and asked, "Did I hear you say in the store that you are teaching your children about other Gods?" I said, "Yes, why?" He then proceeds to tell me that there is only one God and that it is the God of the King James Bible.... Needless to say I left him going "um, um, um" most Christians can combat atheists on the street (so they think) but it is quite another to spew the "good news" to an ex-believer.
I didn't go to the believer, he came to me and that is how it is. You won't see me standing outside the churches trying to plead with Christians to see the light but you sure as heck see them trying to do that to others.
And you all think your persecuted? What a freakin' crock!
2006-09-15 08:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How terrible to tell me that all of those wonderful things are not inherently human. If you give God the credit for the good, then the lost children and wars and natural disasters are on God, too.
2006-09-15 08:40:42 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe some of these people have never been exposed to much so far in their life. If they had to fight for their own families, or were just picked up and told to get on a train, with guards, and be taken to a concentration camp. They would be stripped of their clothes, shaved their heads, very little food, and be gassed and killed. They they would be thrown in a heap of bodies and cremated. You would also see all of your relatives, brothers, sisters, mother, father, all go the same way. You couldn't do anything, no, they have not seen war, nor anything. They are very immature, and do not know what devils can do to a society, when let lose. I hope they never will, but if they want to find out, let Bin Laden get out of control, and you will find out.
2006-09-15 08:29:55 · answer #8 · answered by shardf 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
We don't have to keep our beliefs to ourselves. If we didn't have fundies shoving their beliefs in our faces every time we turn around, then we would not rise to defend ourselves.
Even within fundie circles, different churches disagree and bash each other, so who wants to part of that?
So why don't you practice what you preach? You might like the change of pace.
2006-09-15 08:28:50 · answer #9 · answered by SB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I AM AN ATHEIST AND I HAVE NEVER SAID THOSE THINGS! What I don't like is someone like you that tries to shove their religion down my throat. I'm glad you have something to make you feel better about this terrible world, but me ... I believe what I see, what I feel, what I touch. For you ... more power to you if you need a god, a book, an idol to make you believe more in yourself. If you're happy with it then I'm happy for you.
P.S. Grace has nothing to do with god.
2006-09-15 08:24:37 · answer #10 · answered by auniquekind 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would a believer tell an Atheist there is a God, when he/she is having a rough life, isn't that just cruel too?
2006-09-15 08:27:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋