i just don't understand why people don't believe in anything. we did'nt just get here by some strange happening. while you are here, you might as well beleive in something. everyone is entitled to believe and do what they want and i respect that so i'm nottrying to knock atheist because i love everyone. did something tragic happen to you? born into it? lose faith?
2006-12-18 05:31:16 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christianity happen...it was so tragic...
2006-12-18 05:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do you think Atheists don't believe in anything? They just don't believe in a god. That's not the same thing.
Why should a person believe in a god just to believe in something? You don't need a god to believe in anything.
I believe in my family. I believe in the future. I believe in the beauty of art. I believe in the greatness of education. I believe in love. I believe in possibilities. I believe...
I just don't believe in the Christian god.
My family is all Catholic, except for me. I "lost faith" so long ago that I don't remember when it happened. Christianity has just never made any sense to me. It seems to full of hatred and prejudice. And learning the history of the world hasn't made it any better. There seems to be no logic. Questions aren't welcome in Christianity. Or, if they are, the questions are always answered with "because the bible says so" which isn't an answer at all.
No, it was nothing tragic that caused me not to believe. At least, I don't think it was. I just have never believed in the Christian god and I can't imagine dedicating my existance to something that there is no proof of.
From my very core, I am a logical and scientific thinker. I even debated about dedicating my life to the exploration of science. To me science is a beautiful thing. It can give you tangible answers. I'm not an intangible type of person. I want the real, not the fantasy. And I won't let my fear of the unknown dictate my life. I have too much strength for that.
2006-12-18 05:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, it seems you're defining atheist as someone who "doesn't believe in anything." This is incorrect. An atheist has no belief in a deity. Atheists include: newborns, people with severe mental retardation, people who've never heard of this deity, and people who don't believe in this.
Personally, I would like to say that I've been a rational person ever since I was a child. No amount of equivocation from religious church members could explain various contradictions that I witnessed/read as a child. I have considered myself a Christian until I allowed myself to question it (something that was *not* supported throughout my indoctrination). Just like the person who does not believe in scientology, I do not believe in christianity or the supernatural because I have surpassed the influences of my indoctrination (ie, brainwashing). It takes a suspension of rational thought to believe in certain things. During this suspension, people can believe anything you tell them. I am not only applying rational thought and logic to what I do in my career, but also to what I "believe" about life. Now that I am an atheist, I value life more than I ever have, since I'm pretty sure this is my one and only chance. I just wish I hadn't waited so long to question my beliefs. I feel so much time has been wasted believing in irrational things.
So I am no longer religious because I only want to believe in things that are based in reality. Believing in the supernatural made what truly counts -- existing in the here and now -- not as valuable in comparison. I truly understand what rationality and reality mean now, and it's helping a lot more with life in the modern age than any fictional story by ancient men could.
2006-12-18 05:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't fit the dictionary definition of an atheist...technically, I'm probably closer to agnostic, but then that goes into oddities of my beliefs, so suffice to say I definitely do not believe in a supreme being or a creator-god.
I was raised in a pretty normal home, and then at about age nine or ten my mother dove headfirst into fundamentalist Christianity. I was really into church, really into Jesus, all of it. Despite this, though many would not believe it, I was raised to learn how to think logically and question things. (My mother is not the only one out there, I am sure, who will apply this to everything but faith.)
Around 17 or so, I started asking some questions at church. I'd been studying history, always a big love of mine, and things weren't adding up. My questions went unanswered, so I went on to continue researching on my own. I never had the intent to leave Christianity, but slowly I began to realize that much of what I'd been raised to believe was logically inconsistent.
And that's about it.
2006-12-18 05:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Errr, just because we reject God, it doesn't mean we "don't believe in anything". Atheists believe plenty of things -- they just don't factor supreme deities into the equation.
I could type up a whole essay to answer this question, but really it all comes down to this: No one has given me a legitimate reason why I should believe, so I'm not going to. Why Christianity and not Islam? Why Christianity and not Buddhism? Why not Hinduism, or Zoroastrianism, or Judaism? Why Yahweh and not Allah? Brahma? Any other of the thousands of gods that people worship around the world? Those are questions that no one has been able to answer for me. I'm not going to just believe in something for no reason, no matter how great it might sound.
2006-12-18 05:35:11 · answer #5 · answered by . 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Education happened to me. It's so hard to deny the processes involved in this ever changing world. Most people find faith when the "bad times" happen, when they are searching for something to believe in.
And dude! I believe in something! i believe in Karma and what comes around goes around. Treat people like you want to be treated!
Its great words to live by.
i dont need a church or religion to TELL me to do that.
And the evolution of earth and its inhabitants isnt just a strange happenings.
Try wathcing the Discovery Planet for easy answers.
Once you start researching it with an open mind, you will start to wonder how you could believe anything else..
2006-12-18 05:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by cici 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a Christian family and grew up in a predominantly Christian society, but the whole religion thing just never made sense to me. The more I learned the more convinced I became that religions and the concept "god" are man-made. I think the universe is natural forces and that there is no conscious being behind it all watching over us. I have never experienced anything that gave me a reason to believe in god(s).
2006-12-20 21:52:40 · answer #7 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all Atheists. It does not mean we are A-theistic about all religions. Most people are just A-theistic against the Christian Church. But Christian's are A-theistic against Muslims, Wiccans and Jews, and every other religion basically.
Personally the main reason I am A-theistic against Christianity is because of the whole all other people go to hell thing. If I became a Christian that would say to the world that I believe that, and I don't. I don't believe in hell at all actually.
But I am happy where I am. I am a surfer and have a big spiritual connection to the ocean and nature in general. That's all I need.
2006-12-18 05:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
While I'm probably more of an agnostic (I don't think humans have the capacity to understand the nature of whatever may have created us), I was raised Catholic and after several years of it and the hypocrisy I observed with in that religion, along with studying other religions, I decided that after centuries and centuries of trying to explain our existence, no one has an answer.
Therefore, we can't understand the nature of our creation (be it through a big bang or "god") and the reasons behind it, so it is not worth trying to explain the unexplainable when I could be living life.
2006-12-18 05:45:51 · answer #9 · answered by pastor of muppets 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing tragic happened. I never had any faith to lose. My parents are religious, but I never bought it. Just didn't make any sense. Still doesn't make any sense. I don't feel the need to believe in anything if there's no evidence for it, which saves me money from falling into scams or people lying to me. If you believe in god, what else will you believe in without proof? Free energy? Horoscopes? Psychics? Nigerians with lots of money they want to give you?
2006-12-18 05:41:04 · answer #10 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) I don't believe in nothing, I just don't beleive in the sort of thing YOU believe in. Why can't you theists get this into your heads?
2) I wasn't relgious and changed, I wasn't raised that way, I just asked the questions that religious people ask (or should do) and sought answers in my education. This left me with no doubt that a supernatural being without origin, purpose (exactly WHY did god bother making a universe anyway?) or a very good temper had anything to do with them. There are non-theistic answers to every question, and they are more satisfying answers in every case.
2006-12-18 05:36:06 · answer #11 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋