A poster just said that "most of us" thank god and ask him for help when we need it. ORLY? I've never once done it. I've not even been tempted to. Am I alone here?
2006-11-17 14:31:13 · 28 answers · asked by Black Parade Billie 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
p.s. --- So the first two posters either don't read or are calling me a liar.
AS AN ATHEIST, I HAVE NEVER CONSIDERED THANKING OR CURSING GOD.
2006-11-17 14:34:43 · update #1
I don't know if I am an atheist or not, but when things go well for me I usually am glad that I made good decisions. If things are going badly, I try to figure out where I screwed up so I can fix it. Life isn't random - you're not a pinball rolling around a pinball game hoping that you hit the right bumpers. You're a person making choices, and those choices determine what happens to you.
Random things DO happen - but how they affect you is determined by how you deal with them.
2006-11-17 14:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by shannonfstewart 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're not alone. Something goes wrong in my life, I point my finger at the person responsible, including myself at times when I've screwed up. Something goes right, it goes right. I pat myself or whoever's responsible for that on the back.
Just because a person's grateful things are good or ticked when things are bad, doesn't mean they're grateful to someone or cursing someone else. A person's fate is their own doing, a result of their choices most of the time. Occasionally, things happen as a result of other's good or bad choices, but it's usually a person's choice to do something smart or stupid.
Far as nature goes, we're all screwed there. We can't control nature, so, if a tornado were to blow my house apart, I can't do a thing about it except pick up the pieces. So no, you're not alone. I don't thank something I don't believe in for the course of my life, I don't pray to something I don't believe in when I selfishly want something. If I want it, I go out and get it myself. And if something goes bad, well, as the saying goes, sh*t happens.
2006-11-18 05:11:41 · answer #2 · answered by Ophelia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have said "Oh my God" in the past - now I say "My goodness" or "f**k". I do, however, say "Jesus H. Jumping Up and Down Christ" when I'm really angry or frustrated. (Not a joke - My grandad used to say that.) I never ask "God" for help. I don't say "thank God" either - I say "thank goodness". I guess that more than anthing it's become a figure of speech - I'm sure people don't even know they're doing it, it's become so ingrained in the language.
2006-11-17 14:42:37 · answer #3 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It must be convenient to be religious so that you'll have something to curse when things go bad! That would explain a lot!
When things go well, we can still say "Thank Goodness!" But actually and realistically speaking...an athiest can say just about anything they please. Fortunately, most athiests don't do a lot of cursing as we are intellectual enough to have expanded our vocabulary without modified "French".
2006-11-17 14:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Does thankfulness require a recipient? Is it necessary to curse anything when things are bad? I think if you have personal responsibility, you appreciate the good and work to correct the bad.
2006-11-17 14:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I tend to blame the universe and its mechanisms when they are not in sync with what I want. I then do the whole victim thing and how this is a cruel universe, etc. It's infantile but at least I'm now aware of how silly it is :).
2006-11-17 14:38:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
for sure, life now and again makes us do undesirable project even in spite of the actuality that we do not want to love lie once you do not want to damage someone. now and again i's the ingredient in us that is undesirable, yet that doesn't mean we are. we may be able to do and say hurtful issues out of organic jealousy, eventhough we are a competent individual, it is only better than us!
2016-11-25 01:49:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matters not what belief system you are talking about when things are great we smile and arte happy and then when things go down the toliet so does our attitutdes and reactions to others...
I hope people could concentrate more on positive things and even things that are bad have lessons to learn from-
JOY is the way to go for christians... Jesus Others then Yourself last and things look a bit better!
2006-11-17 14:35:23 · answer #8 · answered by admiredi 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most people curse Jesus Christ. Think about it. What other name is used as a curse word with such force and emotion? (Like when you hit your thumb with a hammer , or are stuck in traffic, when an important matter doesn't go your way....)
2006-11-17 14:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by rosemary w 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We thank ourselves. We believe in all religions, but condone none of them. We believe in philosophy and a happy, resourceful approach to life. We believe in science because it is not competing with anything or anyone...even though christianity/catholicism would want you to view science differently. I curse myself as well. be well, jack
2006-11-17 14:33:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋