Please answer if you feel this way. I truley want to now what you think and mostly, WHY?
2007-01-03 12:07:30 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I understand what your going though. You just have pray for the people that don't believe in God. It's up to you to get non-believers to become believers so their names will be written in the lambs book of life.
2007-01-03 12:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 9⤋
For the same reasons you say "There is no Zeus" or "Allah doesn't exist".
It's not a stretch for any person to reject a specific "G"od. In fact, pretty much all humans do it in hundreds of cases of alledged deities. As an atheist, I only go one step further than you.
Now I suppose you mean the argument from design. I am well studied in cosmology, astronomy, physics and evolution. In short, I see no reason to credit a "god" with keeping the universe going. Naturalistic explanations, even if not complete, are fully adaquate to the task.
As far as the "big bang" to start it off, there are some promising theories as to how and why it occured, but the real answer is that we simply don't know....YET. In the meantime, I see no reason to plug "god" into the hole as a placeholder.
I don't need God to be good, and I don't need to live forever. I only need to live this one life as well as I can, and I have never seen any rational argument or solid evidence for why an invisible deity would want me to do otherwise.
2007-01-03 20:15:38 · answer #2 · answered by QED 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ok, maybe you can't understand it because religious propoganda has been pounded into your head your whole life. Maybe you just have a religious background and have never thought of things the other way. I don't know, I just know this is a lot of people's position. But all I see in people who do believe are people who never even think to question what they're told, people who follow the masses blindly, not willing to accept any other truth to someone else. I see absolutely no proof of the existence of a diety in any area of my life. I used to pray when I was a child, but my prayers were never answered, so I grew up knowing that if I wanted to solve a problem, muttering into the air to some man I was told is in the clouds won't help me. I can rely on myself and I can have my own morals without someone telling me what they should be. I know I'm a good person, and I do it for myself, I live for myself, I'm not a servant to a being that I have no proof exists. And if this being does exist? I will never choose to worship something that inflicts such pain on innocent people.
2007-01-03 20:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by Shalabra 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because there is absolutely no evidence to support the existence of god. There are just stories passed down from one generation to the next. Stories are not evidence, and feelings are not evidence.
What amazes me is how people CAN believe in god, when it is absolutely ridiculous to do so. It is like I'm living with children.
2007-01-03 20:14:33 · answer #4 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The typical view of God is that of something so above us that it is beyond our reach. Or it can be a patriarchal figure like a father that will smack us when we do the slightest thing wrong. Then we are told that we must love this thing or go to hell. Some think about it enough to be confused.
2007-01-03 20:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can anybody say, "there is a god?" I don't understand?
It works both ways buddy. Atheists could and have answered this question a million times. Those that don't want to understand don't understand and they never will.
2007-01-03 20:15:14 · answer #6 · answered by Laura 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because if He does, then it would mean He just stood by and let the Holocaust happen, 9/11 happen, let little girls be raped and murdered, etc, etc... I couldn't love a God who wouldn't prevent these things from happening, so I prefer not to believe in Him (some days, I admit, I DO suspect He exists - and then, I hate Him!!!)
2007-01-03 21:41:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say that I do not believe that God exists. There are better explanations for life and everything in it.
Other than that, look at the replies you are receiving from Christians. If they are the kind of people who believe in God, then I am glad that I don't share their beliefs.
2007-01-03 20:14:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone can say for sure there is no God, just as no one can say for sure there is a God. There is no definitive proof either way and people beliefs lie at various points along the spectrum.
2007-01-03 20:10:42 · answer #9 · answered by Kate 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How can anybody say, "there is a God?" I don't understand?
Your disbelief is shared by all of us who find the existence of a god or gods illogical, unpalatable and detrimental to society as a whole.
2007-01-03 20:12:36 · answer #10 · answered by Skeff 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Because there is absolutely no evidence for a God nor is there any indications that there even might be a God.
2007-01-03 20:14:20 · answer #11 · answered by boukenger 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋