Why are stereotypical atheists against the bible?

Question

Why are atheists against the bible? I don't believe in any form of God but our universe itself since we are contained within'. It is really odd that hateful Atheists are against the bible though. The bible is a bundle of moral ideas. If you were to leave God out it could be a very great manual towards morality.


A perfect example would be repenting a sin. If you were to accidently do something wrong should you not be forgiven? That is like saying sorry to someone, and the moral idea would be an accepted apology and an understand that the person realized they did something wrong. If you were to do it again than it becomes an intention and the apology renders useless... Like an unforgivable sin.

People have no idea on how to understand the obvious.

Grendle: Have you any concepts in the idea of the bible? Intention renders apology useless. If the dog bites and it is obvious that it will bite again than it is simply unforgivable. That's like saying you punch your friend, say your sorry, and punch him again. If God knows you're going to do it again than your sin is unforgiven.... So seems claimed. It just seems like it should be obvious here! Hell.. read the bible while telling yourself that your own brain is God. Would that make you feel better about the whole situation?

Then if your brain were God and you know you're going to punch that friend again... You have no forgiveness for yourself.

Ohhh Miss Carla. Getting drunk was intentional, getting into the car knowing that you are having a large lack of control is intentional... So overall hitting the kid becomes intentional. Driving drunk is morally wrong in the first place. So anything you do thereafter becomes wrong. It's like accidently blowing someones head off because of a hair trigger when you're pointing a gun to their face. DON'T POINT A GUN IN SOMEONES FACE AND EVERY NEGATIVE LOSES POSSIBILITY!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I know many Athiests, and many have explained to me their reasons for not believing in not only God, but anything that constitutes an absolute being or omnipresent force. I respect their points of views.
I have to say, you have explained your point of view quite succinctly. I admire and respect your explanations. Your thoughts on committing a sin and forgiveness are sound and with intelligent intuition, logic and perception. You are right of course and you deserve some respect for voicing your thoughts with humilitiy and reasoning. Thank you (from a Christian) for showing that many Athiests are NOT rude, mindless numbnuts, but thinking, intelligent people who happen NOT to believe in God.

Answer 2

I'm not sure I'm following your line of thought. You say; "People have no idea on how to understand the obvious," and yet you seem to be one of them. An Atheists is someone who doesn't believe in God so it would stand to reason that the same person wouldn't believe in the book that God oversaw the writing of. And why would you need morality if you didn't believe in the reason for it? Hmmm and your analogy of the unforgivable sin is confusing - there is only one sin that cannot be forgiven Mat12:31
"Every sin or blasphemy can be forgiven – except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which can never be forgiven." If you commit a sin intentionally, shouldn't you be punished? Let's say you went to a bar and got drunk, got in your car and hit and killed a kid. Now, even though you didn't intentionally set out to kill someone, should you be punished for the crime even if you apologized for it? The apology wouldn't be useless, but it couldn't make the crime invisible either. And I wouldn't want to leave God out of anything, because whether a person believes it or not, He is in all things! God Bless You

Answer 3

I agree, people need these moral idea's i guess, or it would be total chaos.

But yea you could look at it this way, if you don't believe in the bible, why would you follow these morals, when you could live like: me me me and sin like there is no tommorow.

There wouldn't be a good or wrong, only the personal views on that.

I think the bible has good morals, and it uses great symbolism to let those morals come forward, but still, i am an atheist, but one that has a well developed moral.

I believe we make our own future and we should stop waiting for the christ to save us and stuff like that, and i think because of these extreme christians, atheists have something like it would be better off without the bible so these evangelists would stop their rambling.

Answer 4

In general, they are not against the bible. They just don't take it as fact. A true atheist has done their research on all religion, not just christianity. And in general, they are not all arrogant. By the way, your statement is VERY arrogant. If I do something wrong, I don't need to ask for forgiveness from a non-existant being. I acknowledge to myself I did wrong and know that I will do my best not to make the same mistake again and learn from my experience rather than torturing myself with guilt. It would be quite unhumanlike to disreguard my faults like an uncaring person. By the way, being an atheist does not make one an uncaring person. I have seen this negative quality in people of religious faith also.

Answer 5

"Against the Bible" (which should be capitalized, BTW)?
Atheists simply regard that particular collection of accreted fables and peasant philosphy as irrelevant. Nothing to be "for" or "against," simply no more valid than "Stranger in a Strange Land" or the "Koran" or any other immaginative attempt to describe the universe.
"Forgiveness" is a Christian concept that is of debateable merit. Should you "forgive" the rabid dog that bites your child? Or should you shoot it before it bites your wife? Forgiveness of pecadillo is perhaps valid, but forgiveness of sin is folly.
"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord" is why we can't walk through the park at night without packing heat.
Personally, I like several parts of the Bible. The Old Testament is a ripping good yarn. But do I plan to let that one work, amended, edited and elided by a bunch of mad celebates in the Dark Ages guide how I deal with the modern world?
Not on your immortal soul.

Answer 6

Moral ideas? Have you READ the bible?

The reason an intelligent person can look through the bible and see how horrific and disgusting the God character is, is precisely because we do not get our morals from that ancient myth.

You say people dont know how to understand the obvious? I totally agree with you, though it makes you a hypocrite considering your ridiculous beliefs.

Answer 7

What I find even more lame is many cite Science, which does nothing but teach fallacies. If, today, a 9 year old asks her grandparents for help on an Astronomy project and they tell him or here there are 9 planets (which THEY learned in school) the kid will get a fail on the project and think their grandparents are dumb, even if the grandparents are college graduates.

The ONLY science that should be taught in schools are THOSE things the kids themselves can prove in the classroom with experiments. Everything THEORETICAL should be left to College or at least the 12th Grade in some College Prep Science course.

If Scientists were only more generic, we'd never have this problem:

"The solar system is made up of orbiting masses of varying size and location and we have given names to some of them, including:"

If science had been written this way in 1940, we wouldn't need to change our text books today, as the FACTS would still remain the same.

But, putting a label on something, then changing that label only makes science look lame and those who learned it look dumb to others because they spout the wrong things.

So, maybe atheists better work on their own books first, before they critise the books of others...

Answer 8

since you don't believe in any form of god you must be an atheist, so you should answer that question.
As an atheist, I think the bible should be taken at it's real value, as a book of myths mixed with some historical facts and ancient laws, some of which are still relevant today, but most need to be modified or totally discarded.
I'm against the approach that demands that the bible should be accepted blindly, since it is the word of God, that is clearly a nonexistent, fictitious entity.

Answer 9

First, I am a Christian.But I will field this question.

Many Atheists dislike the Bible because it is used to justify every arrogant assumption and every ignorant disregard.

But that is me speaking with an understanding of why they dislike the Bible.Personally, I try not to use the Bible for anything except to know God.I don't point at passages and say, "well, it says in such and such that you're going to Hell!".Which is probably another reason that many Atheists hate the Bible.Because a lot of religious people do that.

Answer 10

atheists, humanists, free thinkers...CHAMPION reason and logic

your statement lacks logical

or as Spock would say "Captain, it is not logical"

funny the planet Vulcan has been proven by reason to not exist

Morals? yeah. They are. If you promote hate, harm, genocide, mass murder and jihads, prince of peace coming back in Rev 19 to wipe out the infidels...now THAT's my morals I want to teach my kids

I agree, it's bundle of ideas

I feel it was targeted to inspire others to follow so they could be controlled

with atheists I do not think there is sin, or an unforgiveable one at that

no original sin, means no sin and no hell, no logic for damnation and no reason or justification to hate others for unbelief and not following the lemmings off the cliff