2006-11-11 22:17:28 · 18 answers · asked by Joe Cooker 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have faith in facts.
2006-11-11 22:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Cyber 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I was an athiest I thought "If I cannot see it or feel it then it must not be true". That attitude and my logic worked fine for about 30 or so years. Then I saw the difference God can make in your life and mine. Personally, I cannot prove God exists, but you cannot prove he does not exist either. No matter how hard you try or what method or evidence you present, you will never prove he does not exist.
You want to know why? I'll tell you why, because God does exist my friend. Go learn about him and what he did, appproach it with an open and enquiring mind. You will see the difference he makes in the world today as he did 2000 odd years ago.
Don't you think that if somebody could disprove God's existance it would make world wide headlines? They never will and the headines will never happen. Faith is trusting in things unseen. Give it a go, you may well be surprised by the result.
2006-11-12 06:41:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes faith in things that can be proven. The religions have had thousands of years to prove that there is a man living in a cloud and always come up empty handed. We cannot rule out the possibility that they're all full of sh-t. Don't forget that our God concept came from ancient people who didn't have the slightest idea as to what was going on. They thought that the Earth was flat. All of the knowledge of biblical people has been upgraded, become obsolete or proven wrong, but we are stuck with their God concept.
2006-11-12 07:10:36 · answer #3 · answered by The professor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really matter, if we life our lives based on faith or based on (so called) "scientific proof".
The ideas that all scientists had, are changing all the time.
So you can hardly call it science, don't you agree? Experience would be a better name, if you ask me! First they called this world flat and so everybody believed it, at that time!!! And with what will they come next time, to tell us, what we must accept as true, at THIS moment? There are very few people, who can really understand the fact, that everything (let's call it Universe for this moment) stays exactly the way it is, without us interfering with our ideas, all the time. If we are the creation of a greater intelligence, we ALL are part of that creation, despite of what we believe in!
And if this world is only a process of evolution, we ALL are part of that evolution, despite of what we believe in!
The very "truth" about this all, will still be true. Even if there wouldn't live a single soul in this world anymore! So, don't you see the uselessness of believing or not believing? There are human beings dying in wars at this moment, for all this stupidity!
2006-11-12 06:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by Elize-Helen 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it is not. And the reason is very simple. If you choose to believe in the irrational and the supernatural, then once you give yourself over to one kind of faith you can very easily be seduced into another. Also your powers of rational thought become diluted.
Secondly, by accepting a second-hand moral code rather than developing your own through your own experience, you can find yourself promoting hatred and regarding other decent people as morally inferior, which is something that is often the case with religious people.
There are other reasons, but these are the principal two, so far as I am concerned.
2006-11-12 06:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by langdonrjones 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a question only you can answer, since you're the only one who knows how you feel. I can say: Live only to the facts, and you may not be happy...
I can say, Live only on Faith... and you still may not be happy...
I can say LEARN and apply real knowledge to your heart and mind and DO what makes you really happy.. and you'll be happy.
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are you asking this question of athiests, or as an athiest yourself?
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Oh, and never forget that things that are labeled as "facts" may not be a real "fact". ALWAYS dig deeper and seek to find the proof behind their lies.
Eggs are good. Eggs are bad. Both are true, both are facts... its the circumstances that decide which is true at the time.
2006-11-12 06:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Eternity 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I happen to live my life as neither an athiest or a theologist, since I can't provide enough evidence for EITHER side of the spectrum, I maintain a happy life of not believing in neither.
2006-11-12 06:22:00 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Arnold 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sort of agnostic. Any time in my life that I ever believed in something, it failed miserably. When ever I used logic and undeniable facts, things always work out right. So I'd rather live life based on facts. If God exists, I think that'd be what God wanted, for us to use our brains.
2006-11-12 06:22:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i may not be an atheist but atheist live a life based on facts not on faith. their name proves them "atheism" means "no God even a single one." but i think some atheist are also open-minded about religious people and i think some would tolerate them as well.
2006-11-12 06:22:13 · answer #9 · answered by I SEE NO GOOD 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have faith in myself, and the facts that my mind finds tangible. That is all that matters to me.
2006-11-12 06:33:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋