why are the majority of athiests who answer questions so ANGRY!?

Question

I believe in god and do not doubt what i believe in. I did not down the athiest for what they believe in but simply wanted to ask their opinion on how they believe things are created. I have researched it and I have learned it in school but I just wanted to get the perspective of a real athiest not just a book. why is it that almost everyone who answered my question were rude when i never downed what they believe in or said that it was wrong to believe in it

Answer 1

I am an atheist and I'm not going to down you for your beliefs, and i realize that you are not putting down mine, i asked a question about whether religion is a hoax and what the basis of peoples faith is, and i got rude comments back from religious people, all people are different, i am trying to learn where i fit in the universe, and what theories i believe. but generally if you ask a question that is differing from anyones belief system they get angry, its not that atheists are angry people.

Oh and by the way "abstract", atheists don't believe in Satan.

Oh and my aim in life is happiness and the happiness of my loved ones, i don't need what i believe is a fake icon and a great fiction novel to guide my life, although if you need a god I implore you to have one, live your life however you are most happy just don't let your beliefs get in the way of others lives.

Was that rude at all?

Answer 2

Mr. Busy. I did not answer your previous question, but I did go back and read it.
Imagine a "question" directed at you that went something like, "Why haven't centuries of science made a dent in the mythical outlook of religious people?" Such a question is so lazy and hazy a generalization that it feels rhetorical. It's posed as a lament which seeks confirmation, not an answer.

So it is with yours. For example, you pose the unavoidable need for a creator - as if it was just as obvious as the nose on your face. One would naturally assume you have some notion of just what "creation" must mean. Perhaps you have some model, or at least a metaphor for it. But do you?

Do you mean "create" as in the "creation" of a watch by a watchmaker? But a watchmaker never does anything more than reassemble existing materials into what we call a watch. He creates nothing. So .. is reassembly the same as your "creation?" The long and short of it is you have created a category for which you have no basis, paradigm, or even comparison. You've abstracted from a misunderstanding.

The reason I bring this up is not to be 'rude," but to make you aware that we've not arrived at these conclusions out of some churlish desire to be contrarians. Just consider that the majority of scientists whose business it is to examine these things are atheists. And it does sound suspicious when someone claims they've researched this in light of the tomes written precisely against these elementary misconceptions.

Answer 3

because those of us who do not believe in an indoctrinated religion are tired of ignorance.

Those who tell us "the bible says this and the bible says that" and apply it to the real world then tell us we are foolish and will not be saved. These same people do not see the hypocracy of the position they hold.

I began my life and spent my first 16 years deep within the roman catholic faith, a less extremist of the christian positions. Even there I could not understand how an all forgiving god would punish somebody who was raised under a different religion and was a good person to all around.

We get angry because our position does not hold any weight and a religious zealot can simply say "you are not a believer therefor you will not understand".

Its just like the little children in the schoolyard having an arguement and saying "I know you are but what am I" over and over again.

Answer 4

I think maybe some people get upset at the demand that they legitimize their beliefs by explaining the unexplainable. Atheist beliefs are completely legitimate. They don't have to explain to anyone how the universe was created in the absence of God, but sometimes they are browbeaten with that one question, again and again. It can make one a bit irritated after a while!

I personally believe that there was a creation, beautful and unknowable, but natural rather than supernatural. I don't pretend to know how it happened, and I don't feel a urgent need to know. I'm satisfied that that it did, and the universe moves on in it's natural state, and man's place in the universe is very small and transient. I believe we need to make the best of this life and world that we have, and pass that legacy on to our children.

Answer 5

I don't think that many athiests believe things are created. I don't attribute anything to creationism. I just see the obvious. Organisms evolve over time. They change, adapt, mutate etc... As time goes by, the ones that are better suited to their environments survive to represent the ones that didn't survive.

I don't know where or how it all started. But, I am not one to attribute that mystery to SOMEBODY or SOMETHING for the sake of peace of mind. I see myself as just a product of that mystery. I don't worry about things beyond that. Every now and then when another clue present itself, I just add it to my "repository of things that I know".

AND if 'GOD' should show up on my doorstep someday, and it turns out that I do in fact resemble HIM, I will have more proof of evolution.

In fact, I don't think I want to know how it all began. Because if I knew, it would probably just go to show the pointlessness of all this speculation. I'd still be just me, still waiting to be...

But I won't be angry or rude.

Answer 6

nicely the tone of your question turned right into a good simulation of a condescending and judgemental bigot, and which could no longer probable to grant a delightful reaction. frequently, in spite of the non secular beliefs of a pattern inhabitants - in case you deliberately word a question in an insulting way it really isn't any longer all that fantastic that some will take offence. possibly the subsequent time you want to study misanthropy you need to maintain your self time and easily look in a reflect? In effect that became precisely what you've been doing. of route pushing peoples buttons is one of those worthwhile activity for the infantile and insecure, so i'd assume it truly is going to be puzzling that you'll restrain your self.

Answer 7

Maybe they saw that movie "Jesus Camp".

Maybe they learned about how much death and destruction, throughout history, has come about in the name of "God."

Maybe they think it's more disgraceful to commit adultry or molest little boys, when you're a hypocrit on top of it.

Maybe they just want to be left alone. I mean, when was the last time an athiest came to your door and tried to convert you to stop believing in God? It doesn't happen in even the most Godless neighborhoods.

Why would you bother to ask such a question? You must be sure there must be an infinite number of reasons.

Answer 8

I've known atheists who get mad when people question them because they have been bashed with religion for a long time and people tend to look at them like there's something wrong with them. I think we have freedom of religion in this country and we need to be more tolerant of other people's beliefs.
It is my belief that God created all the processes by which the Universe was formed. This helps me avoid making a choice between one or the other (Creation vs. Science). I actually do believe that they work together.

Answer 9

This is one of your respondent's answers:

"If you were hollow, had nothing to live for, and couldn't seem to comprehend the concept of having 'faith,' wouldn't you be angry too?"

Many athiests are angry because we live in a society in which we're presumed to be "hollow" based on our beliefs. Growing up as I did, most of the people I've known in my life have believed that I'm going to go to hell when I die, and that I am not--and cannot truly ever be--"good" unless I believe the things they tell me to believe.

They believe that I, and several others who I consider to be good, decent people, will be tortured for eternity by a supposedly "loving" God.

It's enough to make you cranky, if you think about it enough.

Answer 10

I am not athiest but my views are not considered 'mainstream'. I am used to getting attacked regularly for what I believe and I get really sick of it and become frustrated sometimes. It's not easy having people always question your beliefs and tell you that what you believe is wrong. It especially hurts me when people tell me I am going to hell. So sometimes I get really defensive because everything seems like an attack on my beliefs. I think the poeple who get really offended and seem angry are just frustrated and maybe a little hurt becuase they feel attacked. Thanks for being accpeting and curious about other peoples beliefs. You are a ture reflection of how Jesus would want people to behave towards others. It would be great if more christians were like you.