2006-11-14 18:52:54 · 13 answers · asked by wondering? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can you ever be 100% sure of anything you can't examine directly?
Atheism isn't about denying every ridiculous claim under the sun, it's about being 100% committed to belief based on evidence as relates to matters of theism.
What I am 100% sure of is that I won't waste my time, energy or effort worshiping or praying to something that there is absolutely no evidence of, nor assurance that the promised rewards for said behavior do in fact exist.
Show me some evidence that there is a god, an afterlife, a heaven, and maybe I'll entertain theistic claims.
2006-11-14 19:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the answer to your question is unknowable.
Either that or...
The number of atheists who are 100% sure that god does not exist equals approximately, per capita, the number of religious folk of all persuasions who are 100% sure that their God does exist.
Belief is belief. It is not quantifiable. It is subject to a person's, to the environment in which they were brought up, to the degree each person thinks--really thinks--about their beliefs.
One person may feel 100% in their belief about the absence or presence of their God. Another may also feel 100% on the question--but the first feels that they are stronger in their belief.
The question of God, and if so, which is the right one, has been the cause of more woe and ruin and ghastly death in this world then anything else, ever.
2006-11-15 03:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by Sebille 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, not many. Most are 100% sure that enough evidence has not been presented in order to convince them that one DOES exist. Bring concrete evidence into the equation, and things would likely change quite a bit. Most atheists are just very logical folk who don't see the point in following rules issued by something that may well not exist.
2006-11-15 03:05:07 · answer #3 · answered by angk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one can ever be 100% sure that god doesn't exist. But, I am comfortable in my belief that the probability of god not existing is greater than him existing. I don't have to be 100% sure he doesn't exist. I have reasonable doubt in his existence. Call it 99.99%
However, I would not call myself an agnostic as I am reasonably sure he doesn't exist, as opposed to being unsure (just in case someone accuses me of being an agnostic).
I wonder how many xians can say that they are not 100% sure that he exists. Faith can be pretty strong.
2006-11-15 03:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by umwut? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure there's no god unless proven otherwise. But that's not 100% sure, since I'm open to the possibility - but I've heard pretty much every argument for god, and until I see some hard evidence, I'm not wasting too much more of my time keeping an open mind as far as religion is concerned.
So put me down for 99.9% sure.
2006-11-15 02:59:49 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100 percent lol. how can they be so sure? no proof that there Isn't a God this is such an arrogant way of thinking isn't it? And this Does define an atheist, they are 100 percent sure he doesn't exist and if they're not 100 percent by even 99.9 percent sure then they're agnostic
2006-11-15 03:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by Nikki 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
im 100% sure that the christian god doesnt exist...
im pretty sure that a god cannot exist but not 100% sure.
does that make me an agnostic?
2006-11-15 03:21:03 · answer #7 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 100% sure the Christian god doesn't exist.
And if he does, considering how cruel he's been, and that if I don't believe in him he'll send me to hell anyway even after claiming he's doing it because he loves me... why would I want to worship a god like that anyway considering that not believing is a very small thing in the grand quilt of murder, rape, theft, and worse?
2006-11-15 02:57:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I'm 100% sure, but I have no problem with people who are 100% sure he does exist.
;-)
2006-11-15 02:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Buddhist 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
How many christians are 100% sure that God exists?????????
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CENT SURE??????????
2006-11-15 03:08:03 · answer #10 · answered by Pooroldpossum 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋