Don't tell me it is your little minute brain that only knows a particle of anything of the universe. What sweeping statements we little humans make.
2006-12-31 08:24:14 · 11 answers · asked by neptune 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank all of you for your answers. I'm not putting down anyone when I say "minute brain". All of us know very little and some of us tend to state things as absolutes. No I'm not a snotty nose kid, I'm a snotty woman of 69 years of age.
2006-12-31 08:36:43 · update #1
They really don't know.
They are just assuming.
An atheist does not exist.
Really we are all agnostics.
2006-12-31 08:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's more amazing how many people KNOW there *IS* an afterlife and a higher intelligence! How do they know this?
Don't tell me it's your little mintue brain that only knows a particle of anything of the universe. What sweeping statements we little humans make!
Of course, there's a third position: no belief in afterlife or higher intelligence (that is, not KNOWing it exists or KNOWing it doesn't).
2006-12-31 08:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by godlessinaz 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
atheists don't KNOW this--they BELIEVE it. The do so because the evidence points to the absence of what they KNOW as LIFE. that is, a dead person seems to be dead once they reach this er, condition. religious people BELIEVE in an afterlife based on something they call FAITH, which is kind of like the notion of superstition--the belief in something they cannot see, touch, etc. of course, religious people say they see the workings and creation of god all the time but even that is a BELIEF, and not a fact. both religion and atheism is based on BELIEF, not fact. but the facts of death are observable, but not of afterlife. I consider myself a spiritual person, but i hardly think it's a good idea, or a nice thing, to put down atheists or any group of people based upon what they believe.
2006-12-31 08:31:44 · answer #3 · answered by heyrobo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, to claim absolute knowledge you have to know everything about everything. If you made the statement. There is no Gold in China, you would have to know everything there is to possibly know about China to know 100%. And since no one on earth has absolute knowledge it is impossible to say something like God doesn't exsist, you would have to know everything about everything. However to have Faith one only needs to have a little bit of knowledge. So, to me it takes more faith to not believe than to believe!
2006-12-31 08:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by Stacey B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They must have step out of this life to get this information or they could be showing us the limited knowledge and narrow views of their own life.
2006-12-31 08:30:24 · answer #5 · answered by guidedlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't KNOW there is no afterlife or higher power. We simply know there is no EVIDENCE for these things.
There's equally no evidence for Krishna, Allah, Zeus, Thor, or Xenon.
I also don't KNOW there are no unicorns, fire-breathing dragons, hobbits, or wizards, but there is no evidence that these things exist.
2006-12-31 08:28:43 · answer #6 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The same way we know that their is a higher intelligence and an afterlife. Faith. We have faith that it is so.
2006-12-31 08:26:30 · answer #7 · answered by The Pope 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but science tells me it's unlikely, and science's answers make more sense.
You really don't know either; you just accept those things on faith.
Faith is not fact.
2006-12-31 08:29:37 · answer #8 · answered by link955 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is WHY!
(2Corinthians 4:3-to-10) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
(2Co 4:4) In whom = = the god of this world [Satan] = = hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, = = lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, = = who is the image of God,= = should shine unto them.
(2Co 4:5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(2Co 4:6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(2Co 4:7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
(2Co 4:8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
(2Co 4:9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
(2Co 4:10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Thanks, RR
2006-12-31 08:29:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You sound like a real snot-nosed kid.
2006-12-31 08:26:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋