If atheists don't believe in God, why don't they take more chances in life?

Question

If atheists believe this is all there is to life, then why don't they do something more with the life they live?

Why live a life of home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work (etc, etc)?

I don't mean death-defying extreme sports things. I mean why don't atheists make their life count for something? Isn't home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work a depressing existence?

Answer 1

You forgot that they spend a great percentage in every religious section or religious chat room that they can find and try to dominate. You have a great point and may I add that they are not wasting too much time because all their thoughts are on Christians and their beliefs 24/7 daily and the proof is is this section. They protest their views in a religious section but don't do anything in their communities nor build anything to help others or even write a book to share with others in their own sects sadly they have wasted their lives just complaining about religion and its makes me wonder if they really take care of home and go provide for their families. This site shows they worry about other people's live more than their own.

Shalom

Answer 2

I would suggest the same question could be asked of us Christians. For some people the home to work can be quite fulfilling, if the work is something that satisfies them.
Of us Christians, one could ask: "If this world and material goods are not the end all, why do you stick with the home to work, making money, seeking financial security, maiking sure you have enough stashed away for the future..." - especially if you believe God is taking care of you?
I really think we Christians are often a lot more inconsistent with our beliefs than atheists are, don't you?
By the way, I notice that every single atheist that responded here got a thumbs down automatically. Some gave some very good answers. Somebody feels that this is the way to identify atheists, so they can give them a thumbs down? (I gave each one a thumbs up just on principle, because they were decent enough to answer).

Answer 3

i gave god a great form of opportunities for the 1st 13 years of my existence, i did ask him to bare himself, and don't say i wasn't trustworthy adequate by way of fact i grew to become into, yet i've got been given no longer something. yet whether i did i understand now that that maintains to be no longer evidence of something, first individual subjective adventure is anecdotal via it particularly is totally nature. you anticipate that a individual could have a thoroughly purpose adventure and not be unsuitable. you're saying that god loves us and that each physique our questions would be responded in heaven yet how do you already know this? do no longer say faith, faith is yet another be conscious for unfounded assumption. in accordance to the classes of your faith (i'm assuming your christian please splendid me if i'm incorrect) i pass to hell besides wherein case the solutions won't remember one bit because's in simple terms too little too overdue

Answer 4

Stupid statement. The first part of your statement insinuates that believers of God don't feel the need to do more with their life because theyve given it too him and they're just here poassing time until he comes back for him. To that I say, why did he leave you behind in the first place to suck up all the air the rest of us need to go on living our earthly lives here? Sort of like believers of God think they're on his personal welfare system and the rest of us are supposed to make life happen while they sit around and wait for the great second coming. Get a grip, get a life and leave the rest of us alone.

Answer 5

Sure. You mean just run out and tell everybody to give me everything I need? I'm sure if I can just explain that I'm an atheist and have to make the most of my life, they'll just give me boatloads of money without having to do the "work to home to work to home" thing.

Would you like to give me some starting money?

Answer 6

I live a life home to work to home to work because I have a mortgage to pay like anybody else!

edit in response to your edit -- how does living simply mean my life counts for nothing? I would say my hard work counts a great deal to the spouse, children and cats who depend on me.

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Answer 7

i know plenty who go do things exciting, taking fun vacations, sky diving, bungee jumping, we dont waste half our lives on our knees praying to a non-answering god. however as to your point why work come home work etc...
its because society has made it like that, we have to live, we have to be able to afford that in which we want, we have to eat to live. we dont want to shorten our precious lives anymore then christians, infact even less so cause we dont believe there is an after life.

Answer 8

How is "home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work to home to work" fulfilling God's will then?

In response to your back-pedalling additional details - what makes you think that we don't get something rewarding out of work and home? I love my job - I love my family. What could be better? I don't need to be an astronaut to make my life worthwhile. Sorry if it's different for you.

Answer 9

Ummm... because that's what reality requires of us. We need to eat and have a roof over our heads just like everyone else. Do you think not believing in god makes you an automatic millionaire? That would be nice.

Answer 10

Because we have our own morals and don't need a god and a daunting hell to tell us what we should and shouldn't do. We do it because it's the right thing to do!

....... and if you mean that we don't live life to the fullest, we do! And that factor doesn't have anything to do with your religion, just how adventurous you are (i.e. skydiving, adventuring not adultery and condemned sin)