2006-12-18 14:17:10 · 21 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I have been near death on one occasion, in a very bad storm (a typhoon actually) in a very small sailing sloop (28ft). I had three days to think about the possibility that I might not make it. I never once "turned to God" or doubted my lack of faith.
2006-12-18 14:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you as a Christian ever doubted there was a God? Have you ever examined the stories presented to you by a church? Don't you find it unsettling that many things in the bible contradict themselves?
Don't you find it terrible that God especially in the Old Testament were so violent? That Jesus suggested killing children who disobeyed their parents? This same man who preached love? Doesn't it bother you that people think that violence can be justified because God allows it and even encourages it?
Many years ago when I considered myself a Christian, I doubted what many Christians believe. I lived in fear, and I was not a happy person when I was a bible toting Christian.
As an Atheist/Agnostic, I wish I were wrong. An all loving God was a beautiful idea. I wish I could just blindly believe. But I can't.
As an atheist, I never doubt my lack of "faith" because I know the God that humans created was never there to begin with.
2006-12-18 14:30:17 · answer #2 · answered by Rosebee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not only have I never doubted my atheism, but I've had the valuable opportunity to learn more about theists (Christians in particular) since coming on Y!A than I ever knew, which has reinforced my conviction tenfold.
After conversing with the various people here, I'm more convinced then ever that theism is a mass-delusion, and Christians are BY FAR the most arrogantly deluded of all.
2006-12-18 14:43:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubt as sin.-- Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak,s. 89, R.J. Hollingdale transl.
2006-12-18 14:25:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Denying there is a GOD, the growth of Atheism has been foretold in the Bible it has rooted in Europe and we have all seen the total moral decay of Europe.
I feel sorry for these people, because they have no hope no faith
they just exsist and feel they will die and perish into nothing, a strange concept because what was the purpose of there birth?
We live to physically die but our sprit and soul live on,
Maybe they need to read the Purpose Driven Life they might find a true purpose instead of a shallow exsistence.
Blessings
2006-12-18 14:36:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, for i had come from faith, and thought about and doubted it. have you ever questioned your faith? try it, if it leads you back to itself it strengthens it, or you find out what you really belive. reasearch different faiths, even if it leads you to your own faith, you learn the teachings of others as well. there are few religions that teach bad things.
2006-12-18 14:24:16 · answer #6 · answered by мΛІ€ҢΛр™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why should they, theres no apparent reason for them if they believe in logic and understanding to give into things such as that. Even though im not an atheist i can say they are the most logical people cause they have the courage to question and reason things out.
2006-12-18 14:22:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I became atheist because there was nothing there to give me a stable reason to beleive in anything. So not having something stable to base questioning on makes denying things a lot easier
2006-12-18 14:20:02 · answer #8 · answered by Sae 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was religious during my youth, but since seeing religion and theism for what it represents, it is like riding a bicycle: I cannot NOT be an atheist.
2006-12-18 14:20:03 · answer #9 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith.. that's code for "suspended disbelief" - accepting something with no logical basis.
If I decided on that, how would I choose what to accept? That's just silly.
2006-12-18 14:22:25 · answer #10 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋