question for athiests????? (dont worry i am not bashing you)?

Question

i personaly am an agnostic. and was wondering exactly what you guys beleive. i personaly thin kthat there must be a god or some form of it in order for all of us to be here, and made it possible for evolution and how everything in living things work so well. but thats it. i think most organized religeon is total bull. what do you guys think? do you think that when you die, then your just dead. or is it something along the lines of my beleifs??

Answer 1

God is the only thing left for the human beings to believe in. Strange ! Isnt it?

Answer 2

I've thought quite a lot about this, and I don't believe there is a god. I'm quite comfortable not knowing the "first cause," and I'll assume there is a naturalistic explanation, just as there is for hurricanes, earthquakes, and lima beans.

So here's why I don't believe in God:

First, you have to define the term "God." The problem with most theists is that this term is a moving target.

In addition, because there is no evidence either for or against the existence of God, you cannot use deductive logic (a+b=c; therefore c-b=a). You can only reach a conclusion by inductive reasoning using the balance of evidence (90% of A is also B; C is B, so the chances are 90% that C is also A).

I will assert (and others may shoot this down) that the only RELEVANT definition of God states that he intervenes to circumvent natural laws.

If God circumvents natural laws, then it is impossible to understand natural laws. All scientific findings would have to include the stipulation, "it is also possible that these results are an act of God, a miracle, thereby making our research meaningless."

However, since we have been able to expand our knowledge of natural laws (evidenced by every appliance in your kitchen), the scientific method works in this discovery. And the likely conclusion is that God, at least the intervening kind, does not exist.

Additionally, if God is defined as all loving, all powerful, and all knowing, then it is impossible to explain suffering. Either God is not all loving (he acts sadistically), not all powerful (he cannot prevent suffering), or not all knowing (he created suffering by mistake because he didn't know the consequences of his actions).

If God is less than these and/or does not intervene in our existence, then he is either non-existent or irrelevant. The classic argument is that I cannot prove that a china teapot is orbiting the sun directly across from the earth's orbit. But while I cannot prove this is not true, the evidence against it is compelling.

The evidence against God is equally compelling, and while it is not possible to prove beyond any doubt, it makes more sense to live your life as if there were not God.

It is more compelling to me that humans have invented God to reflect the thoughts of the ruling powers in a particular time. Because humans are always looking for reasons, when none are found, it was the natural inclination to declare the cause to be "God" (or gods). As the faith grew, miracles and laws have been ascribed to this Divinity, and an orthodoxy grows up around it.

Successful religions over the long run also are accompanied by some level of economic well-being to the populace. Unsuccessful ones are seen as false because they don't lead to improved lives.

Now it seems unhelpful to believe in such superstition. The only matters that aid in our ongoing well being are work, location, health, sustenance, and pure, blind luck.

So no, that's why I don't believe God exists. And you know what? It's okay if you continue to believe some version of God exists.

Answer 3

A range of beliefs is available for an atheist, beyond the one point of issue concerning deities.

(Whether Buddhists are, or can be, atheists is a separate and tricky question)

When I die, that's it.
Organised matter arose from the mineral soup, here or on Mars or further out (Abiogenesis, Exogenesis, Panspermia: all respectable terms, and fields of lively debate and contention)
Probably.
It's what I'm acting on since it seems more likely than anything else I have considered. And I've done a lot of considering, including fifteen years as a Christian. I think there are enough pointers to move beyond a strictly neutral agnostic position, but I'm well aware other opinions exist.

One little point. Do be slightly careful in claiming to be an agnostic in certain circles. Agnostic is from the Greek but the equivalent in Latin is ignoramus. "I personally am an..." loses a certain something.

Answer 4

Sounds like your starting to grasp religion. And as far as your "must be a god or some form of it in order for all of us to be here, and made it possible for evolution" saying. Thats pretty much a very Druidic way of looking at things. The belief that there is a spiritual force behind nature that doesn't go "poof" and make things happen, but does assist with evolution by allowing things to happen or taking other things out of the system of nature. A belief in a type of Creation-assisted Evolution.

Answer 5

Personally, I don't think there is a god out there. It just doesn't make sense, especially monotheism.

As for my beliefs of the afterlife, I just don't believe that anything happens. If our body dies, so does our "soul," which is basically kept within the brain. If the brain dies, then the person's memory, opinions, and personality dies with it. If there are no more biochemicals left to create thoughts or to even perceive anything, then it is death, mentally and physically.

As for where we came from, I believe that somewhere in Earth's history, a random chemical reaction occurred, which resulted in the first strand of genetic information, probably RNA. This strand would then have led to single-celled, asexually reproducing organisms, which would then evolve further and further until reaching the modern times.

Well, that's my opinion on it, at least.

Answer 6

First things first, I don't believe in any religion. they are created by men, and men obviously don't know anymore about the nature of god then you do.
If god exists, he doesn't have a religion because that would mean that he is damning everyone who doesn't follow that one creed. If god were, for example, muslim, he would only "save" one sixth of humanity, condemming most people. A god that does that is just a prick.
I don't believe there is a god, good or evil. I think that when you die that's it, your nervous system shuts off you don't even know it.
I could be wrong. Maybe after you die there is some afterlife and some god. But I don't think he would judge you based on whether or not you found salvation in christ or mohammed, but by your deeds.

Answer 7

Some organized religion is Bull,

and some within organized Religion are bad.

That is absolutely true. Men are human and men will sin.

I studied and thought about this question for over 20 years, and became Catholic. Jesus gave us the tools for salvation and although not all Catholics are good people, and some Priests and even Popes have done bad things, I find the Faith itself to be the answer and the way for me.

Good question, sorry I am not an Atheist....

Answer 8

Taking sceptical view on life.

If something is not proven to be true, it is to be assumed false until proven true.

We apply this to the existance of a god/gods. Many consider belief in god/gos 'jumping to conclusions to the answers of the unkowns'.

Answer 9

In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd. It amazes me how far people will warp their imagination to create a fantasy existence that will allow them to somehow cheat the finality of death. By the way, it is spelled A-T-H-E-I-S-T.

Answer 10

Athiests do not believe that a higher being such as a "God" (any God, not just the Judaic one) exists, and that Heaven and Hell do not exist either.

That's the basics of athiesm, beyond that atheists are individuals and it would be unfair to assign blanket "beliefs" to them.