Why Are Atheist?

Question

Mostly people who either went to church and are disappointed in what they found, or people who are rebelling against their over barring parents? Seriously I want to know so don't be jerks and give me a bunch of sarcaism be real if you know how. I don't have religion so keep your religious comments to your self!

Answer 1

Because I am without belief in gods. No, it has nothing to do with "disappointment" or "rebellion". I'm being honest, not snarky. I'm not "mad at god" and I haven't been "spiritually burned". No one beat me as a child and I'm not trying to "turn from a life of debauchery" (I never lead a life of debauchery to begin with!)

I'm an atheist because the concept of "god" is inconsistent, impossible and, most of the time, absolutely incomprehensible. I don't tend to absolutely believe in anything that not only isn't supported by proof but is actually meant to be accepted IN LIGHT of the absence of empirical evidence (religion asks you to have "faith" and one no longer needs "faith" in lieu of evidence).

I'm an atheist because the believers have not lived up to their responsibility. The burden of proof rests squarely upon the shoulders of those who make the positive assertion, i.e. "God exists". Those who would be skeptical of this assertion need only to sit back and wait for the believers to provide proof for their assertion. Skepticism is the default philosophical stance and therefore non-believers stand on very firm philosophical ground. Until such time that believers adequately demonstrate their claims to be true, I am entirely justified in my atheism.

Answer 2

Well, if they are disappointed with what they found at church, why would they keep going? And if they're disappointed with church, there's a good chance they're going to be disappointed with religion in general, so why wouldn't they become atheists? As for overbearing parents, sure, if someone starts ramming something down a person's throat, it's a pretty natural reaction to reject it.

I'm a non-believer, and the reason I am is because...I just am. That's not much of a reason, I know, but that's the way it is. I can't believe in God anymore than a Christian can believe that there are blue people on the planet Mars with hands for feet. There's just no evidence for it, and whatever it is that disposes people to believe in God, I just don't got.

Answer 3

I was not disappointed in church. I was disappointed in the Bible. My path to atheism started from reading the Bible from cover to cover for the first time and studying Christianity in depth. After learning about other religions for awhile I found philosophy and science. I have never looked back and have never been happier.

I agree there seems to be a lot of atheists these days who don't really know the reasons why they should be an atheist and are just doing it out of rebellion. Bands like Tool, Marylin Manson and Green Day are responsible for a lot of this. Kids are just becoming atheist to be cool because the bands are speaking out against religion. Many will fall victim to the first charismatic preacher they come across when they grow out of that rebellion unless they start studying the real reasons why they should be an atheist.

Answer 4

I was such a while ago. I have concluded, through personal thought and research, that I am not so much atheist as agnostic. When I did become atheist, It was, in the main, a teenage rebellion thing, but not all. Through all of the religions, cultures, and possibilities; I have found many similarities. This may either suggest that the conscience as developed in the homo sapien is similar throughout, or the possibility of an over-presence. I have not yet resolved that, but learning is enlightening, and I have has some very interesting conversations in the process. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Very few people really believe in god and worship him. Most people just want others to think that they do. They do all the things necessary to make it look good...go to church and sunday school and bible school and volunteer and help people... So what you end up with is a bunch of people doing mostly good things for their fellow chritians but they usually dont reach out to non believers because that would be out of their comfort zone and nobody wants christianity to be uncomfortable... soooo its really just one big group of Friends that are all trying to fool each other...everyone is comfortable with where they are in the church community and every now and then someone will screw up in the eyes of the other members and will be talked about for a while and probably not come back to church and maybe find a new church... i think the biblical values of treating people with respect and being humble are pretty good to follow... but most christians are hypocrites and self righteous and narcissistic.... sooo some people might chose to become an atheist because of their exposure to all the bull crap which is usually associated with organized religion and some people might chose to follow some christian morals and not regularly attend church so they dont have to surround them self with a bunch of shallow meaningless friends. kids rebelling from their parents will often reject many aspects of their parents lives including religion....

Answer 6

I always was an atheist, my parents left the church about the time when I was born, I never was baptized or so. And now I am 44 years old and in my whole life I never found a reason to believe there is a god or anything else supernatural. My most spiritual experiences are getting thoroughly drunk once or twice a year, but for the rest of the time I am sober and I use my common sense to understand the world.

Answer 7

You are being very general based on stereotypical views of athiesm. The truth is many athiests just choose reason over belief and find that they can lead a fulfilling life this way. Not everyone needs a religion to find harmony with themselves and existence.

The reason most athiests originally went to a church of some kind is because most religious people try to bring their kids up in that religion, and with social pressure to accept a doctrine they may not understand or find peace with its not that outrageous that they would turn away from belief altogether. It doesn't amount to simple rebellion though but frustration with previous attempts to make some kind of connection within their previous religious paradigms.

Answer 8

I've been atheist all my life. I'm not a, "convert."

My parents aren't religious, nor are their parents.

My grandpa's parents were super religious, but he became a professor of biology, and all the religious stuff seemed very foolish to him.

My grandpa on my mother's side was also very religious, he was an Active member at his church, etc. etc. and after the accumulation of negative experiences in his life, he renounced it all. He's still perfectly happy. He's not noticed a single detrimental aspect of life without religion.

Ultimately, religion is not necessary, and it's a waste of time.

The only aspect of religion that's bad for an atheist, are the religious people...

Answer 9

You're point is well taken and their "irrefutable proofs" carry no more weight than anything a religious person can say in their camps!

There is no video tape of Jesus walking on water and no video tape of the Big Bang.

There is no video tape of God speaking to Moses and no video tape of a human gene evolving before our eyes.

Both sides require taking things on faith.

Most atheists also don't undestand RANDOMISM, which is what everything is all about if there is no CREATIONISM

Under the tenants of Randomism (if Heisberg's Uncertainty Principal is correct) evolution will not occur on a predictable basis. It will be a hit or miss proposition.

Without predictability there is no scientific proof, just gambling.

In solid science, like chemistry, you can predict with total certainty to at least 99% that mixing A+B=C

There are only two theories to the creating of things

Randomism, subject to the Heisenberg principals
Creationism, subject to the science that A+B yeilds C

When MAN starts creating life, and he will soon, they will see that life gets created by A+B, but how that life evolves is uncertain. The Heisenberg principal.

We call that Free Will in a sentient being.

What we can predict, as one person pointed out here, is that if inter-racial mixing continues and becomes 100% in the world, in 1,000 years there will no longer be humans with blue or green eyes. Brown is the dominate color. The darkest color rules.

But even that is not a certainy, but it is a predictability.

That is Genetics, not evolution.

Social Evolution is the process of inter-racial breeding, which, in turn, brings about a new order of dominate and recessive genes.

Biological evolution would be the eventually vanishing of the light color blue and green eyes.

Natural selection (of primarily the most powerful gene) and in a million years the recessive genes could completely vanish.

But that is not predictable, only a postulation.

Answer 10

Atheists are not people rebelling against parents.

Many are however those who have been brought up in religious families and have seen sense in there being no god.

I myself was sent to Sunday school while very young, but was never forced to go to church.

I made my own, reasoned, choice as nothing I was taught convinced me there was a god.

So I don't come under either of your criteria, I only went to church for weddings & funerals, and wasn't rebelling against parents.