Why do some fight so hard against the belief in God?

Question

Is it because it's the nature of man to shake his fist at authority..to declare his right to self-determination?

Why is there such an adamant outcry against God? Or is it just the belief in God that has created the outcry? Those who believe there is no God, and are angry at those who do, are you angry because you've been victimized by them or is it because you feel that the voice of those who believe in a God who loved the world so much that he came here to offer himself as a sacrifice for your sins also is too much to bear?

Are you willing to spend eternity looking back at this moment in time and wishing that you had stopped and thought about the sin in your life and what God is saying about it? The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin and we are reborn when we understand that sin is such a terrible thing that it necessitated the sacrifice that Jesus made for us and we believe. When we cry out to God to forgive us he makes us new again.

Answer 1

I'm not angry with believers, nor do I fear the Big Cosmic Muffin. What I get upset about is being told I'm stupid because I don't believe. Sorry kids; but I'm not stupid. I just base my beliefs in science, and my beliefs are a lot easier to prove.

Answer 2

I don't get angry at those who believe in a god, but I do think of them as weak.
I think people need to believe in a god to help them justify all the crap that goes on in life.

Someone dies.... "God must have a plan for them"
Someone Lives..... "God saved him!"
You get a promotion..... "Thank the Lord!"

and so on.
Can't anyone take responsibility for thier own stuff?
If something great happens to me because of hard work I put in, well I AM the one who did it, not a god.

If a child is brutally raped and murdered, it is NOT god's will that there is a plan... it was the work of a sick twisted perverted psycho.

There are some people that HAVE to stop at god because their minds won't allow them to go further to the truth of what just happened.

"It's in gods hands" and they'll leave it at that. No more thought on the matter.

Here is MY question for YOU...
Why do people fight so hard FOR the belief of God????

Have you EVER had an athiest come to your door and try to talk you out of believing in god?
I am so sick of baptist, mormons, and whoever the hell else knocing on my door.

I don't believe in god because I learn all there is to everything and I believe in science, FACT and proof.

I even looked up into the sky one night after a particularly horrible story about a child who was kidnapped, raped and killed and I said simply, if you are there and you want to make the most NON-believing person in the world believe, then STOP THIS CRAP.
Sooooo
The day ALL CHILD abuse and molestation stops for good, I will be the first on my knees praying and out there delivering the word.

If you believe god can create miracles, if you believe god parted the red sea, then by all freakin means, he can stop a kid from being kidnapped.

And if you reply with that same old crap I hear
"god allows things to happen, free-will, it's not god, it's the devil, blah blah blah"

then here is my reply to that:

"Then if there IS a god who id CAPABLE of stopping child abuse but won't do it for your above mentioned reasons, then that is a god I DON'T WANT to believe and and WILL NOT worship.

There! I've ranted enough.

Goodnight.
Natalie

Answer 3

Most atheists I know are not so much anti-religious as they are a-religious. However, many rational materialists, which would include atheists and also many believers, don't like to see religion have any undue influence in political and economic situations. This is actually what the Constitution of the U.S. holds as an important "freedom" - the government should not show any preference in religion when it comes to political and/or economic matters (separation of church and state; that is, there is no State religion and all people are free to practice their religion without State interference). When some Christians insist that Christianity is "an essential part of the American way of life", then they force the government to have to offer any and all religious privileges to all religions according to the Constitution. So, if a Christian can have a Minister visit him in prison, then a Norseman can have a Norse-religion representative visit him. If these religious "privileges" are paid for by the State, then that strikes rational materialists as a waste of the public purse. The reason we no longer have prayer to open the school day is not because the government doesn't permit it, but rather religious fundamentalists will not allow for prayers and readings from all the religions represented in the student population. You can blame fundamentalist Christians for no longer having prayer in schools because they refused to let their children hear prayers to "false gods".

Answer 4

Religion has caused the following:

1) The Spanish Inquisition
2) The Crusades
3) Witch Trials in Europe and America
4) The perpetuation of Slavery
5) The Subjugation of Women
6) The decades of violence between Jews and Moslems in the Middle East
7) The decades of violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland
8) The 9-11 tragedy

To name a few...

Religion has done more harm than good. It should be abolished. That, and it holds back science and encourages people to not use logic and common sense.

"Are you willing to spend eternity looking back at this moment in time and wishing that you had stopped and thought about the sin in your life..."

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SIN.

"... and what God is saying about it?"

THERE'S NO GOD.

Understand??

Answer 5

When the whole world will recognize that all problems can be solved by reason and logic people will be at peace. Someone mentioned that countries that have the least number of religious people (Sweden, Denmark, Holland) are the most peaceful, have the least crime, and people get along with each other better.

Reason and logic should not be confined to the solution of scientific and technological problems. They should be applied to solving the existential and philosophical problems that give us the guidelines for behaving with one another, that is ethics and morality. Faith-based philosophies fail to guide because they are rooted in the unreal and subjective: they spread the notion that the truth is a matter of divine revelation, instead of intelligent discovery, so what God says to you can be different from what God says to me. My God is the right one, yours doesn't speak to me. This is all very subjective! What humans need is objective precepts. They come from reason and logic. Precepts that come from reason will help you make decisions, choose the right job, marry the right person, find your happiness. Precepts that come from faith are impractical, if applied at all. You cannot choose a job on faith, or a partner for life, otherwise your choice can easily range from consulting a crystal ball or praying to Allah or Vishnu.

Answer 6

Granted, the Roman pagans killed Christians in those primitive times.As I read modern history, I have noticed that atheists have killed people for various reasons, but not only religion, such as in Communist Russia.
Other than that I don't believe that there are many cases of believers persecuted by atheists.
However, believers of different religions have massacred large populations in the name of God, in the course of history.
Most of the mass cruelty we see in the world today originates from religious peoples, especially Jews and Muslims.
The angry mobs are usually religious people, not atheists.
The Middle East is the cradle of three major religions and has been a caldron of violence and death for ages.
I can't see many people fighting hard against the belief in God. I see thousands of people who believe in God fighting hard to destroy others.

Answer 7

Some people fight against the idea of a higher power because they feel it interferes with their free will. Or, they've had something terrible happen to them, and feel victimized. And others are just scared. I was afraid of God when I was a kid. I was kind of a neurotic kid, though...

People fight against the Christian God because they have their own beliefs that are important to them and the expect to have respected. And it is important that you aknowledge that. No one should assume that they have it exactly right. It is insulting to whatever higher power actually exists.

When I was little, I thought the world was a giant doll house, that a huge kid in a huge world played with, and that it kept getting huger, infinitly. Men in Black reinforced this belief.

Answer 8

I am not angry at anyone who believes in God. I just get angry when people shove their religion down my throat, or when they think the whole world should live the way they do. But no, it is not the belief in God that angers me, it's the holier than thou attitude that some believers have. BTW Why do you find it so easy to believe in God? The only proof you have is a book that may or may not be fairy tales? (this isn't a display of anger, it is true curiosity)

Answer 9

I believe in God, but I reject Christianity. There is no proof of it. Anybody can write a book (Barnes & Noble is filled with books) and the simple fact that something claims to be does not make it so. And "having faith" is ridiculous. Many people in 1930s-40s Germany had plenty of faith in Hilter and was he right?

Atheists reject the idea of God because they can find no reason to believe in him. To me, the existence of the universe supports a Creator, but that is not proof. Most of the outcry is not against God, it is against the people who want to try and establish a Christian theocracy in this country. I, too, object to that.

Answer 10

There is nothing wrong wanting to believe the God is on your side. But all is not right when you believed your beliefs is on his right side.

The truth is…God has no sides…The words of God in the mouth of men is only words of Man. When God resides in sprites of Man instead of sprites of God, then all matter lies in the hands of men, and the hands of god will not able to touch those men. And Man must live with consequences of the actions of men not of God.

There are no angers, no sins, no victims, and no sacrifices. Only when you can see the truth that God is everything and god is nothing, then will you able to see the wisdom that will lead you to the internal peace that God promised.