I mean, did something bad happen to you and think that God wasn't there for you?
2006-09-27 14:19:54 · 15 answers · asked by asueb77 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nothing bad happened to me. I educated myself and feel that god and the bible are nothing but a fairy tale. It is a choice we all have to make. Did something bad happen to you that you have to believe so big man in the sky will fix all your problems and punish all the bad people.
2006-09-27 14:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Mormon. Around the time I was 12 or 13 I started to notice that Mormon's belief system just seemed bigoted to me. I started questioning it and over the next 10 years realized that I couldn't even accept the Old Testament. The whole notion of a jealous and angry God promising that the descendents of Abraham would the "chosen people" just seemed ludicrous. And the stories of creation and Noah's ark were clearly just old myths.
I believe that we all make a model of the world (a set of beliefs) in our minds (starting at a very early age) and then make predictions for what will happen from the model. If our model is wrong, we have to patch it up in a lot of ways in order for the model to work. The more the model is right, the less you have to patch it up.
I believe that the Old Testament is myth and that a lot of the New Testament is fiction. I believe life evolved on this planet over the last four billion years much as the modern theory of Evolution says. I think we are just now starting to get a good understanding of how our minds work, and that understanding explains to a large degree why people fall into religious thinking.
This world view makes way more sense to me than any world view espoused by anyone who believes the God of Abraham is an accurate description of the actual "one true God".
2006-09-27 21:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never really believed there was a god, it didn't make a whole lot of sense. When i learned the truth about Santa it made sense that god was the same kind of thing. I realized that there have been a number of very different religions throughout the course of history and they all were taken as seriously as the modern religions are to their followers. Since even Christians, Jews, and Muslims agree that Greek and roman religions, for example, are mythology then what makes today's religions any different? Religion just doesn't make sense logically. It is the justification for a number atrocities. It's followers share things in common with the mentally ill. Religion takes credit for things that are obviously not proprietary to it, morality for example. It has no evidence to back up it's claims. I can recognize the psychological needs that fuel religion... i could go on forever, but i think this is enough for now.
2006-09-27 23:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an agnostic (although I guess I could say I am atheist, *shrug*) because I don't have any reason to believe in Christianity. There's no evidence for the existenced of heaven and hell and angels and all of that, as far as I know, and I don't want to believe a myth. How do you know Jesus is Christ's son? You make it sound like all atheists start out as christians and then turn to atheism. I never was a christian. Christianity is just another religion to me. I should ask you, why aren't you a Muslim? Were you in a bad situation and Allah wasn't there for you? What would you answer?
2006-09-27 21:24:07 · answer #4 · answered by need help! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and simply put it this way. Pagans believe God Is poly, Christians believe God is 3, Muslims and Jews believe god is 1 and atheist just believe God is 0 I assume that means he does not exist.
2006-09-28 13:14:38 · answer #5 · answered by Nabil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually decided that I was a non-believer pretty young. Nothing that I know of prompted it. The whole story sounded as absurd as Santa Clause to me. I guess it was about the same time that I realized that both stories didn't jive with my sense of logic.
I had a little difficulty reconciling the fact that the rest of the family and pretty much everyone I knew bought it. But then I got interested in Carl Sagan and was very relieved that I wasn't the only one who was rational about the subject.
2006-09-27 21:27:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
um, well, not everyone can just blindly follow everything that they are told. Religion is a psychological need that people will find on their own time, not with people knocking in your doorstep to try and tell you their impersonation of what was said. I am by no means an athiest, I have been chosen to take religion down, for it has done nothing but bring man down from the grace that was once open. Why do you believe what you do? If someone was to tell you today that they were going to kill you because of your religion, would you die? HONORABLY, to knowingly face your maker. Why would you be so presumptious to think that something bad were to have happened to someone for them not to believe in God? It is their choice, what the hell does that have to do with you? You want to know where the most spirtual people are at? Death Row, you want to know why? Because they know they are going to die, and they want peace, to know that there is going to be something for them on the other side. God created the world, the world gave birth to nature, nature nurtured man, then man declared himself god. You think god is happy with man? Have questioned anything about the religion, or do you just take everything that is told to you for granted. It matters not what you believe, as long as you believe. It matters not where your faith lies, it matters only that you have faith. No christian is better than any catholic, which is in turn no better than a jew, who is no better than a muslim. God is there for no man, god turned his back as he should of when we murdered his only son, out of fear and cowardice. Look at the world today, you think Jesus died for this?
2006-09-27 21:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by chris m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you think something bad had to happen? Nothing too bad has happened to me, no more than to any human being on earth, anyway.
Besides, it's not exactly that I believe what I believe. It's rather that I don't believe in what you do. You see, I haven't picked a set of beliefs and I stick to them no matter what. I don't believe in anything, other than what i can see, or others can see for me, and prove me right.
But to sort of answer your question, I don't believe simply because I don't have any reason TO believe. I hope that was clear...
2006-09-27 21:25:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As one who was an agnostic for many years, but now walks with Christ, I think it comes down to arrogance. A general misunderstanding of the roles of science and Faith.
I know that when I was an agnostic, I was very arrogant. I thought I knew all the answers.
I didn’t.
When I came to Christ and His Spirit began to open my eyes, I was humbled as I have never been humbled!
If your heart is closed to God, your mind cannot be opened to his truths.
Scientific knowledge is a wonderful thing. Study, learn as much about your world as you possibly can.
But there is another world of the Spirit which can never be explained through science. The is the realm of Faith.
2006-09-27 21:42:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
WARNING: VERY RELIGOUS PEOPLE; DO NOT READ! what evidince do we have of god? our parents? I think that most religions are excuses to disagree on something. people see their subconcious working, and belive it is "god". I don't know what will happen when I'm dead, but whether or not god exists, I won't be seeing him.
2006-09-27 21:35:27 · answer #10 · answered by Master 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋