Fellow Atheists: Do you believe Theists are Sheeple or have genuine reasons for their Theism?

Question

This question is for Atheists only, so Christians, please abstein from answering.

For those of you that don't know what a sheeple is, it is people that act like sheep and have a herd master that could be said is parallel to a pastor or priest.

Answer 1

Both. They are sheeple (hahahha, I love South Park) who have genuine reasons for their Theism. Their intelligence is of a lower order than that of people who have researched many religions and found all of them lacking. They truly believe the things they read in the bible, and believe that Jesus is coming back some day to lift them up in the skies and take them to Heaven.

It seems believable to people who've been raised to believe such crap, and it's also believable to gullible nitwits who can't think for themselves. It's quite sad, really.

Answer 2

Are there any Atheist that have seen the recent scientific findings on the creation of life. It seems no matter what the atmosphere? No matter what the energy applied (lightening). Unless the chirality is correct life can NOT begin. In all experiments a 50/50 production of "L" and "R" isomers were produced. Proteins can't form strings unless they are all "L" and DNA can't form unless their isomers are all "R"... In a 50/50 production getting the proteins right would be 1 in 10^6 chance and in DNA it's more like 1 to 10^12.. In other words impossible... How can you have so much faith to believe that happened.. Oh and if the impossible happened it's 1 to 10 ^5 that that spark would survive to pass through evolution.. AND that evolution would take far too long after waiting all the time since the earth cooled to have that spark ignite life.. Your weird ideas of how life began here is wildly ridiculous.... Jim

Answer 3

I'm Christian and I don't know the definition of abstein unless it's someones last name? We follow the "Good Shepherd" Jesus Christ, just as sheep follow their shepherd, sometimes sheep go astray, and Thank God we "Sheep" have a very Good Shepherd that cared enough to save us from our own way! Not like all the Absteins without a pastor, priest, shepherd or God.

Answer 4

Most theists are sheeple, but the philosophers amung them have reasons for their faith, but they aren't the bigots. The bigots are just the wolves that follow the flock, waiting for one of the sheep to lose step with the rest before being eaten by the wolves. Once you're a bigot, there's no turning back

Answer 5

I believe that most of them are sheeple because being a sheep is comforting and easy. It is much harder to accept responsibility for your actions in the here and now. However, there are some who actually feel that god exists and that they have a relationship with him. I think these are few and far between and most theists congregate and slap each other on the back about how great they are and how everyone else is gonna burn in hell due to sheepiness.

Answer 6

I don't really blame them, because when you're raised as a child a certain way, and conditioned a certain way by society, and everyone and everything around you reinforces what you're being told... it's difficult not to "believe" that. It's not that I have no respect for theists or anything, but I have more respect for people who were raised theistically and were able to overcome that conditioning. Personally I was raised in a very, very "relaxed" religious environment such that being an atheist was extremely natural for me. So I don't see any triumph in my atheism, nor any particular weakness in theism when it's the result of a severely theistic upbringing.

Answer 7

Ok so what part of Atheism do you not understand?

Atheism is the philosophy of disbelief or non-belief in the existence of a deity or deities. It is commonly defined as the positive denial of theism (i.e., the assertion that deities do not exist), or the deliberate rejection of theism (i.e., the refusal to believe in the existence of deities).

Therefore we Atheists do not give a hoot what the Theists believe, why should we....?

Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning "without" and gnosis, "knowledge", translating to unknowable) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding metaphysics, afterlife or the existence of God. perhaps you should direct your question at them!

Answer 8

No not all are Sheeple, many have thought deeply about their Theism, though not many make it onto these boards. Somewhere though I feel their logical scepticism breaks down at a critical stage and they end up believing without reason, they take refuge in a comforting belief in a god, it seems to be a real psychological need.

Answer 9

is it not still too early to tell whether a genetic pre-disposition to believe or not believe in a deity or deities confers an evolutionary advantage or not, when the jury is still out on whether developing big brains itself was a good move? after all, if the fossil record is anything to go by, the dinosaurs and their ilk, despite apparently not being especially well endowed in the brain department, were the dominant species on this planet for some 70 million odd years. our species is still in its infancy compared to that.
have patience! time alone will tell.

Answer 10

I believe some people want to believe so deeply that they matter, that somehow all their suffering and pain is not for naught, that somehow their lives have meaning. Thus, theism, the magic pill that cures those fears of death, those painful nights alone, those insecurities and self-doubt. I cannot really comprehend why theists do not understand that their beliefs are delusional, and yet, one can hardly expect rational behavior from those who so deeply want something irrational.