Non christians tell me why?

Question

You say you don't believe in God or the Bible then why are you in R & S and ask questions about God?
I am not against non Christians, it is your choice, just wondering

I am mainly asking the ones who don't believe in God I am not trying to be nasty just curious

I have posted an apology because I did not mean to offend anyone

Answer 1

once again---CHRISTIANITY IS NOT THE ONLY RELIGION ON THE PLANET

Answer 2

No, I am not Christian.

Yes, I do believe in the Christian idea of [G]od.

Yes, I do believe that the Bible holds SOME truth, but just like any other religion, it does not have it ALL. Humans wrote it, regardless of whether it was INSPIRED by [G]od or not, and humans are fallible. Additionally, no one that I know of actually follows the original Bible; everyone has some more recent translated version of some kind or another - and all of those were translated by other fallible humans.

I ask questions about the Christian idea of [G]od and the Bible because I like to know others' views on these subjects. I have my own opinions, and while Y!A was likely not made for asking opinions, that's really all any religion is. Even people of the same religion have different interpretations, opinions, views, digressions, etc. about it (and others). Opinions are still valid and helpful answers depending on what kind of information you seek.

I ask questions about things I have opinions about already, and also things I do not yet have an opinion about. This is how I learn about religion. No religion has any set, proven, indisputable fact (or at least not many). Most of any religion is based on personal interpretation, and in order to learn about religion, you must learn about all those different personal interpretations of them.

I am in the Religion & Spirituality section because I have religion, and I am a spiritual person. It is not required that you are Christian to be here; otherwise it would be called the "Christians Only" section instead, and that would be very counter-productive. How are we ever to learn about each other so we can learn to love one another if we practice segregation?

Answer 3

I respond on this section because several of the questions are not about religion but about misunderstandings of topics that have been clarified in the worlds of science and math. Many people who I respond to have improperly given religious explanations for something science has proven to be natural phenomenon. It would be like someone telling you that your car engine is powered by angels who use "angel juice", and that the gas pump is a gateway to heaven. You would think that is ridiculous if you knew just the basics of a 4 stroke engine. Would you try to straighten that individual out?

I happen to have quite a bit of experience with the calculation of probability, physical laws and genetics, and these happen to be the categories that many incorrect religious explanations fall into. Consider the effectiveness of prayer, if 10 people are given a 1 in 10 chance of survival for some horrendous disease and 8 of them pray, the chances are pretty good that the 1 who survived will have prayed. Does this mean that prayer worked? No, it means that a good percentage of the population that was sick had also prayed. So the chance that the 1 person who survived had also prayed was very good. The only way this could have demonstrated that God answers prayers are if the odds were significantly beaten, I would say 4 or greater of the diseased that prayed also survived. Entropy is likewise misunderstood. While entropy relates to the dispersal of energy in a closed system, in an open system entropy tends to drive the formation of complexity. For 30 years scientists have been modeling naturally occurring phenomenon that form this complexity with no intelligent hand. Consider the formation of complex crystals, snowflakes and other complex molecules. Complexity does not require any kinds of intelligence. Related to this, genetics is the biggest and most misunderstood bone of contention in the evolution vs. creationism debate. Many creationists, and quite a few evolutionists here, don’t seem to understand the link between genes and the evolutionary process. After Watson and Crick discovered DNA, Darwin became old hat because genes were shown to be the drivers of evolution. Dawkins explained that evolution is directed and specific because it is a process involving the replication of genetic information. This had several implications for our understanding of biology from taxonomy to human psychology. Despite this, most arguments people make regarding creationism are the same one’s made back in the 1800’s – arguments proven false time and again.

This misunderstanding seems to happen because science and math are difficult subjects and statistics indicate they are not taught well in the US. I would say that most of the people touting religious explanations don’t have a firm grasps in these areas. Many of them don’t have a grasp on basic logic, such as why one can’t prove a negative. This lack of proper understanding is detrimental to their own judgment and society in general. Such inability is the reason why societies collapse to dictatorial rule or are overrun by religious extremists even if they had a Parliamentary and Congressional system, which require reason and debate. The exercise of a provable answer is the reason that science is good at finding cures for disease, providing medical solutions to recurrent human problems, and developing technical solutions to the challenges of human living, while religion can do none of these things. Some of the basic scientific beliefs that most people in the world hold today (the Earth revolves around the Sun, the Earth is round, the seasons are determined by the tilt of the Earth) would have been considered heresy just a few hundred years ago, but science and reason persisted. One could say debating religion is an attempt to stop a fall back to a time when we thought disease was caused by demons and the Earth was the center of the Universe. The religious extremists have clearly shown that such a fall back is possible.

Answer 4

I believe in God. I just want people to understand that Christianity, and the bible, are fake. I'll admit, that I was shocked when I realized this myself. Belief just doesn't change reality. I think you have to look at both sides of everything to make an informed decision. People have been scammed into believing in a fake religion for over 2000 years. It's time for people to know the truth. And I'm not just talking about Christianity. I mean ALL religion. Just imagine, no more holy wars from anywhere. If your God believes in wholesale murder, and the genocide of entire nations of people, then he can go to this fake hell along with you.

Answer 5

Quite simply: Christianity does not corner the market on "Religion & Spirituality."

God is not a name, it is a title. There are many, many gods and goddesses and many religions all over the world which have a god as a central focal point. I can say that I believe in god...but that doesn't mean that I beleive in YOUR god. When someone asks a questions about god it doesn't necessarily mean that they are asking about god in the Biblical sense. It is awfully presumptuous to think that your god is the only one that someone would be referring to in their questions, don't you think?

Open your mind and consider the possibilities. It is closed-mindedness such as this which leads us to war in the name of religion. No one's religion is superior to any other. And if you think so you are no better than any other zealot or fundamentalist.

Answer 6

No credibility in the bible.

Christian scholars from the highest eminence and backed by 50 cooperating denominations admit the bible is flawed:

"Yet the King James Version has grave defects. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the development of Biblical studies and the discovery of many manuscripts more ancient than those upon which the King James Version was based, made it manifest that these defects are so many and so serious as to call for revision of the English translation."

Answer 7

I'm not Christian, but I do believe in God and oftentimes read the bible. I'm just not a big fan of religion in and of itself. I don't usually ask questions about God, though. So, why am I answering this question?

Answer 8

Simply put, I have questions and this is the most appropriate place for them to be answered. Just because I don't believe in "god" does not mean that I do not have questions for the people who do believe. There are some religious issues that have an effect on my life even though I don't believe in "god".

Answer 9

Why do you assume people who don't believe in the Judeo/Christian God or J/C bible have no questions or opinions or experiences with religion or spirituality?

Incidentally, your question has been asked over and over again... really gets kind of tiresome after a while.

Answer 10

Yet another case of Christians thinking they're the only important people in the world, and the world should cater to them. Newsflash! Just because someone is not Christian, does not mean they have no spirituality. I even know many Atheists that are spiritual.

Answer 11

If you knew there were a group of delusional people that believed in Pink Monkeys that slaughter children but say the Pink Monkey is a Monkey of love would you do nothing to stop this delusion?
Especially when you can see the effects of this delusional thinking in how people are treating each other in the world?

Wouldn't you do all you could to say hey wake up there is no such thing as a Pink Monkey! No need to kill one another over a Pink Monkey that isn't real!

Or would you just sit back and do nothing while innocent people suffer and die?