Agree or disagree: Atheists are wrong, because they just can't be right?

Question

Thirty answers in five minutes! You guys are breaking records here....

@ ZERO COOL: Relax, dear, I haven't lost my mind. I've heard believers make with the "they're wrong because -- because -- because they just can't be right" so I turned it into a question, that's all.

@Barret G: I think that if god existed then s/he would be GOD. You know, all-powerful and I do mean ALL.

Believers -- at least the ones I know -- think that God is their father, or teacher, or best friend, or worst nightmare, or something that can be described in human terms. And all of them think that God thinks pretty much the same way that they think.

Personally, I think theirs is the "narrow" interpretation.

Answer 1

Agree.

Of course I don't agree that atheists are wrong, any more than you or the other atheists who responded. I agree that you've summed up the essential argument of the faithful against anything that runs counter to their faith.
It doesn't matter what the laws of probability say about the existence of a Supreme Being with all the attributes that one individual believes in. Nor does it matter if the attributes of a particular conception of said Being are incompatible with the repeatedly tested and generally accepted structure of the cosmos. In fact there is not one piece of data, be it physical, biological, or mathematical, that will ever be enough to PROVE to a believer that what they believe is false. It just can't happen; they KNOW they are right.

This is, incidentally, why theology and science are fundamentally incompatible - a scientific theory must be falsifiable, while the essense of faith can never be. You can't have faith in something that is proven true any more than in something that is proven false; it violates the definition of faith.

But that doesn't stop believers from KNOWING they are right - not just that their hearts are in the right place, but that their beliefs are factually correct. That the fundamental difference between them and everyone else on the planet is that THEIR religious beliefs, no matter how improbable or empirically unfounded, represent a full and accurate account of physical reality. And everyone else simply MUST be wrong.

Answer 2

Why can't they be right?
I think Atheists are almost as ridiculous as Christians in practice. Why form a group around the belief that there should be no group because there is no G*d?
Your assertion that if G*d really did exist then there would be no atheists or he would make you love him is equally ridiculous. Like the Christians, you are projecting your own narrow interpretations onto the concept.

Answer 3

Well, it depends on your point of view, Christians think atheists are wrong, while other religions don't care, and atheists believe they are right, so this isn't the easiest question in the world, but I can't tell if they are right because I don't know any atheists.

Answer 4

Atheists are wrong, because there is way less evidence to support their claims. It is just too hard to have that kind of faith. So, they are wrong, in part, because what they say seems so far off from being possible. Everything poinst away from their ideas, if they are thinking honestly. They are also wrong however, because there is much evidence pointing to a creator, to intelligent design. Most are clearly not at peace with their conclusions. Their actions would be different.

Answer 5

Sorry fella. The monkey bone was eveidently a male monkey.

To decide who's right or wrong is God's job, wheew what a relieve. Let's see what the Bible have to say on the judgement day on the earth. MKJV 2Thessalonians 1:5-9 states:" For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer, since it is a righteous thing with God to repay tribulation to those who trouble you, and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power..."

Answer 6

I disagree. They are not wrong because they "can't be right." They are wrong because they are wrong. They build argument after argument about how "God does not exist," and how they have replaced "faith with reason," and all the time they do not realize how they have closed their minds to the realities of God.

They only believe what they can see - and therefore, if they can't see it, it does not exist. It's a total lack of imagination on their part, actually.

Answer 7

Disagree. I will tell you know with absolute certainty that it would be entirely impossible for all atheists throughout time to be totally wrong on all counts. So again, DISAGREE.

Although, speaking in political terms, I'm sure a lot of atheists are "left" as opposed to "right".

Answer 8

As an Atheist, I agree. We all can't be right. The mathematical chance of anybody on this planet being right, is practically zero.

Answer 9

I agree they are wrong, but not for your reason.
Defintiions of Atheist.

A person who does not have a belief that one or more deities or gods exist (weak atheism).

They are wrong for lack of faith.

A person who believes that no god exists (strong atheism).

How does not believing help anyone?

A person who feels convinced that all references to gods are rooted in fiction and/or ancient superstition.

They are wrong for needing proof.

Answer 10

I agree with the atheists because they have common sense, they don't live by guidelines from 2000 some years ago that was spoon-FORCED into their brain to instill the same fear that they feel onto Atheists, who certainly aren't affected by any fearful creature because of lack of solid evidence of a single diety. Only the christians think the atheists are wrong, you know?