Why dont people just abandon the idea of god and get real?

Question

Are they not strong enough for reality

Answer 1

Because God is real.

Answer 2

Can you deal with reality? Let's get real more cells in your body are now dying than being created, slowly but surely every organ in your body is deteroriating and will start to close down as the years catch up with you.

Among the first organs to shut down are the sexual organs, also the pancrease, liver, gallblader and kidneys.

Cancer starts rearing it's ulgly head in old age and the Genone shows the predispotion to it and the point in your life in which it happens.

Our grith increase our hairline decreases (even in women, but not as much), we get gray hair, cataracts and then the bones stop healing.

As older age creeps on we generally need hip or elbow replacements, our mobility lesses and we eventually reach a point where we need to be helped in and out of bed, in and out of the bath and are confined to our homes until we reach a point where that is not practical and you end up in a nursing home watch group TV and fighting with the religious people in the room who irk you.

Eventually you reach the point where simple cuts do not quickly heal or heal at all and your heart is incapable of removing the water from your lungs and one day pulmoanary adema catches up with you.

Is that getting real enough for you see as an Atheist you have NO future, however Religious people believe they do.

Hindu believe in reincarnation.

Christians, Jews, Mormons and Muslims believe in an afterlife.

All a person with no faith and no future has is sheer life. Eating, sleeping, working and procreating.

That's it.

That's the world you have created for youself.

I am not responsible for that. I have a much broader view of the world and so do other religious people, including those I've mentioned.

We all share something. A view of something beyond the here and now.

Answer 3

Exactly correct.

The reason people put their faith in religion, rather than themselves, is because it takes less effort, and people are lazy.
It's much easier to defend a delusion when there are a couple of billion other people who believe in the same delusion, but all those people together don't equal the strength of a single, committed individual that believes in themself.

Once you abandon faith in yourself it's hard to go back. The sad part is that most people have this retarded religious mentality forced upon them when they are children and don't know any better, so they never come to understand just how powerful a real, non-deluded human being can be.

Here are a few famous people who believed in themselves and some have helped changed the world because of it, all without belief in god.

Francis Crick - co-discovered DNA

Lance Armstrong - world champion cyclist who CLEARLY believes in himself

William Gates - Wealthiest man in the world. Creator of Windows, which changed the world. The William Gates foundation is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world.

Warren Buffet - 2nd wealthiest man in the world. Has pledged 80% of his fortune (over 30 billion) to the William Gates foundation.

Noam Chomsky - the founder of modern Linguistics

Albert Einstein - founded theories of general and special relativity, revolutionized physics

Friedrich Nietzsche - German philogist and philosopher

Gene Roddenberry - Created Star Trek (enough said)

Steve Wozniak - Co-creator of the Apple computer

Charles Darwin - proposed the theory of evolution, changed the world.

Carl Sagan (agnostic) - famous astronomer and author

Ted Turner - Founded CNN, TBS, named humanist of the year 1989, founded Turner broadcasting, divorced Jane Fonda when she came home one day and announced, "I've become Christian." Dammm!!!!

If anything, it takes a NON-BELIEF in god to make something of yourself!

Answer 4

Very good question. If you reject the idea of God you are in a way accepting it and if you embrace it totally you are in a way rejecting it. Very paradoxical but think. The atheist is thinking about ways to refute the idea of God, that idea is always there in his head, the idea of God. There have been many atheists who have spent their lifetimes thinking about God!!
Don't be too quick to accept and reject. Take it easy and life will be fun. When you wake up early and see the sun rising on a spring day, you don't accept or reject the sunrise you witness it and it makes you feel good. You don't think at that moment that whether God created the sun or it was created billions of years ago by gases forming a ball. You just witness the beautiful sunrise. It evokes certain feelings in you.
The reality is that life is a mystery to be lived not solved!!

Answer 5

Just the opposite. God is the ultimate reality. And you need strength to believe. It is so easy not to believe and avoid all the flak people get on these sites. It is another thing to allow ourselves to stand up for what we believe in. Especially if to do so attracts abuse and persecution (as it has for me from time to time - I will tell you what was done to me at a burger bar sometime, just because I wore a cross and was having a discussion with a Christian friend of mine).

Answer 6

It's not a matter of strength and reality. Many very intelligent well adjusted people believe in God to one extent or another. In the past hundred years, both Einstein and Hawking have professed a belief in God.

The ultimate question of God's existence is one of original cause. Deists believe in a watchmaker God, or, as the ancients called it, the Unmoved Mover. That is to say, many rational believers see God as a force which set the universe into motion and created the natural laws that guide our world.

At this point, we have no clear explanation for the origins of the universe even with the Big Bang Theory. Thus, the Unmoved Mover is just as valid today as it was in ancient times.

Also, do not assume that everyone is concerned with "reality" the same way that you are. Christian Apologetics aside, many people of faith hold it as just that--faith. Their beliefs transcend reality. From this perspective, holy texts are a revelation of a higher truth beyond natural law.

Though these views may not match the rational logic trained into academics of the western world, they are not necessarily harmful or wrong headed. Though many atheists like to hold up events like the Spanish Inquisition as examples of the evils of religion, there are countless examples of people guided by their faiths to do wonderful things for the betterment of humanity.

Answer 7

Why don't you abandon the idea of there not being a God? In my opinion, you guys are the ones not strong enough for reality...

God loves you!

Answer 8

God makes a difference in my life and in the lives of millions of others. If getting 'real' means becoming a slave to modern ideology and media portrayals of who we should be then give me God anytime.

The world without God and his moral teachings is going down the chute.

Answer 9

thay have been brainwashed god is like a drug to them and the need god so thay can go on there holy wars and the churches need god so the brainwashed fools can pay the rent and wages god is a get out of jail free card so thay can blame that fantasey god for all there wrongs thay do in the world

Answer 10

What is real, law of the jungle.
Jesus Christ introduced the concepts of equality, all men are equal, etc and forgiveness and preached peace, and before that Moses brought the commandments about not stealing or Killing, so if you chuck out god what do you put in its place.
Organised religion, Great Churches Abbeys Mosks, bejewelled crosses, rich robes etc were rejected by Jesus Christ but his followers knew a good thing when they saw one and resurected the Big Church rich robes professional clergy etc scam and attatched the Christ tag to it,
So get real it is hard enough to go through life with a set of rules like christianity or Muslimism but take it away and what, thou may kill, thou mayest commit adultery, stealing is fine..
Is that your utopia.

Answer 11

Its not that it is hard to believe in reality. It's harder trying to stay in a faithful walk with God everyday than to not. God is very much real. He is very loving and forgiving, merciful God. Everyday we all sin, but everyday we must ask God for forgiveness. Its easy for people to be sinners but to ask God for forgiveness sometimes isnt so easy. How can you believe there is no God? God made all things in this world. He is so awesome!!