im kind of siding on to being an athiest because religion is really pissing me off. what good comes from it when you once believed in god. but you had nothing but bad luck and no matter how much you pray to god nothing happends. you ask for a reasonable miricle, but later to find out that the next day it completely backfires into your face. is religion really a good thing?
athiests welcome
2006-09-21 13:33:31 · 20 answers · asked by almost_16 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ok im an atheist but when i did believe i did not believe in prayers
because it will never come true and i cant stand the people that say they r an atheist because their prayers werent answered
if u an atheist get a better ****** reason for being one
and like the great John Lennon once said-
"Imagine there's no heaven
its easy if you try
no hell below us
above us only sky"
2006-09-21 13:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are taking a more personal look at it. However, the most important thing about religion is how the bible totally disregards common logic. God has contradicting traits that don't agree with each other. The bible treats women like slaves and worthless baby making machines. It is full of hate, murder, and foolishness. No rational person should believe in it.
Give the bible a good read, and you will find out how horrid it really is.
Thumbs up to you for taking the time to think about your beliefs and realizing that they may be wrong. It takes guts and strength to do that, something that most Christians don't have.
Good luck on your journey.
2006-09-21 13:37:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
www.godwithoutreligion.com
by the author, Sankara
Religion never satisfied me, and often infuriated me. Though I was raised to be a Jew, I thought of myself first and foremost as a human being and never viewed myself as wiser, luckier, or happier because my parents were Jewish or I adhered to the accepted truths of their religious tradition. To my mind, I would be progressing intellectually and spiritually only by understanding what was universally right and natural in life, why these things were right and natural, and how to live accordingly.
After years of attending Hebrew school, I rebelled against the dogma I had been taught there. In college I focused instead on subjects requiring the use of logic that appealed to my scientific mind-physics, mathematics, engineering. However, I eventually found that while the material sciences could answer some questions concerning how the world worked, they could not explain why, nor could they offer spiritual direction or prescribe an ethical way to live.
Searching further, I investigated mystical techniques. I began practicing concentration exercises, breath regulation, and more sophisticated methods of pranayama (sense introversion), eventually entering a monastic order. There, I implemented an inner science to address the concerns unresolved by my earlier scientific studies. While practicing pranayama over the next decade, I came to realize God as a spiritually expansive substance extending throughout the cosmos-a much more universal presence than that proposed by many organized religions. God, I found, was everything, and being godlike meant identifying with, and not merely tolerating, more and more people. Understanding that the idea of God signified absolute unity, I concluded that anyone advocating unquestioning loyalty to a restrictive group such as a faith, ethnicity, or nation was in fact promoting the fall of humanity by advancing its division.
2006-09-21 13:37:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion, like any organization, serves the best interests of whoever controls it. That whoever is not you. Even if god was behind religion (he's not), religion would serve his interests, not yours.
If you want to be spiritual or have abstract faith, whatever, but you aren't going to find peace until you come to terms with the fact that there is nothing supernatual, and that there a lot of big, unanswered question marks out there.
2006-09-21 13:39:12 · answer #4 · answered by cypher 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism ain't going to improve your situation any better UNLESS you are one of those people who pledged some astronomical amount of their paycheck to the church.
God don't want your money. Give that to Ceasar.
God wants you. But don't expect anthing because all God promised you inlife is that you'll work from sun up to sun down and scream in pain when you push a kid out.
Your situation came about as a result of what Man did long ago and you're still paying for it.
It's up to you to improve. You have to work on your own self. But that still won't change life or make the pain go away in child birth.
The only thing religion has to do with life is in how YOU live it.
2006-09-21 13:42:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am sory that some one taught you that God is a Miracle ATM.
God often help you by having you go through stuff. Especially if you helped generate the stuff.
The miracle often is that you survived.
Every breth is God miracle gift that helps you solve the struggles in life and survive.
The cool thing is God does not take breath away from those who turn their backs on them. God waits patiently until the very end for them to turn back and climb into God loving and forgiving embrace.
2006-09-21 13:45:16 · answer #6 · answered by mike g 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I'm strongly against religion. I believe it is partially the cause for atheists and/or agnostics. Every religion has a different belief in what God is or what gods to believe in and if you don't believe, then you are condemned to hell. If that's the case, then I've been condemned to hundreds of hells. I once believed in a religion and it too backfired in my face. Just because you don't believe in a religion means you're going to hell? Why can't we just believe in God WITHOUT being part of a religion?
2006-09-21 13:41:44 · answer #7 · answered by scarlet rose 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion isn't a good thing, but you've got the afterlife to think about too. It sounds as though you never believed in the One True God, but created a god of your own imagination to suit yourself, which, incidentally, violates the Second Commandment. So you've broken God's law, commandment #2 at least, and if you stand before Him on judgment day and he judges you by that standard, would you go to heaven or hell?
But he did something for you, because he loves you, to draw you to himself and keep you from hell. Jesus paid your sin penalty and made a way for you to be made right with God.
So he gave you life, he keeps you fed, and he died for you, and now he's telling you about that, but you're mad at him because he wasn't your cosmic genie? So you're going to blame him, and then CHOOSE not to believe in him. That, honestly, doesn't make any sense.
Your soul is more valuable than this.
2006-09-21 13:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by ©2007 answers by missy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Seems to me that you are basing your decision on some bad experience with christianity. There are many other religions out there that are not as controlling, guilt ridden and evil. I follow a different path but that may not be right for you either, do some research and find what best fits your needs. It doesn't matter if you follow a religious path or become as atheist, as long as you are happy with yourself and you are a good person.
2006-09-21 13:41:52 · answer #9 · answered by Brutal honesty is best 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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