It seems logical to not believe in a personal God, but aren't many of you atheists equally smug in thinking that you "know" that there's no God???
2007-01-07 20:06:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I am fairly smug about it. But it's not a leap of faith. And it is only bible-god, or koran-god etc that I know with 100% certainty is nonexistent. This I know is an absolute fact.
I make no claims that I know there isn't a "creative force" as you put it. I don't happen to think there is, but I don't know it for a fact. see the difference?
2007-01-07 20:10:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When something is beyond detection or apprehension of our natural senses we have to believe. Simply put we have to believe in something we cannot see and cannot prove as a natural occurrence. Atheists believe that there is no God. We have to tap into the supernatural realm, which is invisible and eternal, to really know God's existence. Atheists just deny that supernatural realm, where God operates, exists. This is a very big leap of faith.
2007-01-08 04:59:51 · answer #2 · answered by seekfind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in god and the tooth fairy and ghosts and everything somebody else tells me to believe. I take it as granted! I believe god goes on vacation and during his vacation he makes Chinese!
I know there is a lot of energy in the universe The big bang is almost a fact. Evolution is proved, DNA is here. We are traveling to the stars. We are unraveling the true story of creation and it is absolutely overwhelming. It outclasses the creation myths of all religions the way Homer outclasses a poem written by a ten year old illiterate. It's a universe of unimaginable vastness and full of cataclysmic events on unthinkable scales. A place of extreme violence and almost absolute tranquility. A place of black holes, time dilation, worms, singularities. The concept is breathtaking. How can I in all honesty embrace the existence of a six day bungler over the big bang.
2007-01-08 04:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but Ockham's razor states that when faced with two leaps of faith, take the simplest response. What is simpler? That there is a personal God that has internal contradictions or that the universe we observe is all that exists?
2007-01-08 04:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by yrews45543 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Faith is a state of non-thinking. Atheists, based on the evidence for evolution, and based on the lack of evidence for "god" or a "creator", have simply come to the conclusion that god probably doesn't exist.
2007-01-08 06:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by roydunsfeld 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is a crock, no one can know what made the world.Agnostics are at least honest, but atheism is as faith based as any religion. Wh could believe man comes from a puddle that was struck by lightning? That seems to take more belief than believing a Higher power is responsible.
2007-01-08 04:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by Bobman78 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Groups of people who believe different things will always fight. Some groups have intolerance built in [Abrahamic religion has this blatantly], and Atheists will always have the need to teach the masses.
It sucks, but both sides are really closed minded, so unless something catastrophic happens, it'll continue.
2007-01-08 18:21:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The burden of proof lies with the believers, not the athiest. You say there is something, we say there is nothing. We say show us, and you can't. You say look around you, the birds, the trees, the platypus.........., still not proof.
peace girlie
2007-01-08 04:10:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋