Why are some people so anxious to kill God?

Answer 1

Yeah, a God question. I was beginning to wonder if anyone cared since it had been almost 60 seconds since the last one. Anyhoo, I don't think people who don't believe in one religion are necessarily trying to kill THE BELIEF of God (if there is a God, you probably couldn't actually kill him), they may simply be expressing that they have other beliefs. Unless the guy at the Atheist bookstore has falling profits and needs to boost sales.

By the by, there have been over 130,000 posts with questions regarding God.

Answer 2

There has always been a tribe in the world which is against God.
Probably God feels it a necessity like the opposition in the parliament to keep religious fanaticism under control

Answer 3

Not trying to kill God.

They're trying to kill the human incarnation of God. The silly bronze-age myths that are regarded as God's word. The human biases disguised as fulfillment of God's will. The "Holy" justifications for everything from war to witch burning. The forced ignorance and destroyed knowledge in the name of heresy. The protection of criminals and child molesters in the guise of priesthood or clergy. The dichonomy of fear and love at the convenience of the church. The burning of books in the name of purity. Humans that define and enforce sin in the name of God, though God never says a word. People who define themselves as chosen by God, or declare their human leader as infallible to God's wishes. That is the God that so many want to extinguish, because that God is defined by humans, not defined by truth.

Answer 4

Because if one tries to eliminate God they can delude themselves into believeing they will get ahead in the world that much faster. Sort of like when I prayed to the saints to win the lotto for a quick fix. God said no.

Answer 5

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave - a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. -And we- we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.108, Walter Kaufmann transl.

We can destroy only as creators.
—§58

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Answer 6

Probably coz I am often such a bad representative of Him. They shouldn't judge the loving character of God by what Christians do. We often do bad things, coz we're human. That's the whole point of His saving grace.

Answer 7

Kill God? Ehh, I don't know about that one, but...

Sure, there are some arrogant people, who endlessly claim to *know* God or *know the will* of God, and I'd sure like to strangle *them*, *lol*. :)

But mostly I think it's self-preservation these days. People are simply getting fed up with any ONE of the following:

--fundamentalist people incessantly attacking evolution and/or natural selection when the preponderance of physical evidence, *and NOT* fairy tales mind you, supports Darwin...
--fundamentalists and zealots of all kinds, all over the world, beating women and abusing their kids all in the name of "faith",
--endless "religious warfare" in some parts of the world that is clearly about politics and about world conquest, and faith has *nothing to do with it*,
--endless hypocrisy from *very rich* and *very pampered* religious fundamentalists who have nothing better to do than to use the Media to *attack* ordinary people and to *exploit* their guilt for personal gains, in the here and now, almost always about money and votes,
--endless blathering about this "End of Days" business, and how we "need" to waste our time praying and being a bunch of bleating sheep when we'd be *better off* correcting the damage we are doing to our environment courtesy of our short-sightedness and greed,
--endless hate, prejudice, lynchings, burnings, personal attacks and general violent abuse being heaped on anyone who dares to think for him or herself....

Shall I go on? I could, you know. And I could link to historical sites and give you *data points* to back things up.

But I won't. Because you are one of *them* and by definition *nothing* is ever going to be good enough for you. You've already pre-emptively abandoned reason and *spat on* any sort of moral or ethical philosophy.

So why bother? Why put up with you? You contribute nothing but pain, hatred and fear to the rest of this world.

Like I said....some of us are *fed up* with you bleating, herd-animal-wannabes trying to do all you can to *kill off* both planet and civilization alike.

Not that this kills God, mind you. I sincerely doubt the Almighty cares anymore, seeing as how he just *lets* people suffer and rot and die wantonly like some crazed butcher....

But the *people* who defame his name and ruin his character in the eyes of the sane and rational....those can die. You can be killed, just not quickly enough or soon enough to stop the bleeding.

You happy? X-(

Answer 8

kill god as in throw all logic and morals out the window shaming the entire human race, or kill god as in hunt him down and bust a cap in him? i dont follow.....

Answer 9

I don't know but nobody can hurt God if they believe like me & I don't think the athiests feel that way as long as we don't shove our beliefs down their throats

Answer 10

i think that our world is in the throes of the changing of eras. our world is going into the era of computers, global communication, and space travel. we have more science now than ever before. science doesn't tell us if g-d exists or not, but a lot of people question IF g-d exists because it doesn't make sense that so many people suffer needlessly if g-d were truly watching over us.

i see more and more people claiming to be atheists all the time. a friend of mine, an atheist who was raised in the catholic tradition with masses, church, confession, catholic education, you name it, simply finds the bible to be unbelievable. now then, you can disagree with the bible, but is it so easy, i ask him, to deny that there is wonder and miracle even if it is true that universe were started with the big bang?

that theory says that all that existed in universe before stars were space and hydrogen and helium gasses. helium is only two molecules of hydrogen bound together. so who created hydrogen, and what magic made space, and what made two atoms of hydrogen bind together to make helium, and being that in the bb theory, only those two gasses made everything in universe (which we see no end to at all, one of the reasons that people look to g-d as the creator), what was there before there was no space? when you think like that, you think that it's all so miraculous and mysterious that there must be g-d.

but people, especially christians and jews today, are turning their backs on g-d. perhaps it is because the bible is so unbelievable. if you read it, there are so many contradictions. as well as that it has been translated so many times that you wonder what the original words said. and, certain gospels that could have made the bible clearer to us were excluded from it.

i think my friend has problems with conventional belief in g-d due to indoctrination from the catholic church. i also see that perhaps the reason so many christians and jews are turning away from the belief of g-d is because instead of religion being used to create harmony for all, it is used as a political institution, one that creates war itself, and further misery. nothing in the qu-uan, for example, dictates and directs that all the islamic peoples have to bring arms against those that differ in them from their faith, yet, what is our war about? why would given factions of islamics determine that since other people do not believe in their analysis of what g-d is and do not worship the way that they do that they must be annihiliated?

"being a modern" sort of dictates shunning g-d, because g-d is not "logical." politics are more important to liberals than is g-d.
you will have a very big read in the link my friend forwarded to me. many links are inside of it, on all topics of why it makes no sense to believe in g-d. but even so, i told him, the mystery of universe is the one thing that gives me a problem when i try to not think of g-d as the creator of all.

yet, our interpretation of what g-d should and should not do may be way off course. we were given the miracle of being born. if another sperm cell hit your mother's fertile egg when she got pregant with YOU, you would never be. someone else would be. so i ask, why is it that you or i were born? but, i sort of figure it this way: given that you were born, and that you are human with a large brain, maybe you ask too much of the creator of all life in asking that s/he make your life that which has no suffering. maybe in a large part, our lives are up to us because our minds contain that thing called "willpower."

please read things in the supplied link below. you ask a very good question.