To follow God means a complete 180 turn in the way you live your life, I think most everyone will agree on that.
What's stronger, the evidences you have to convince yourself the Bible isn't true, or your resistance to changing the way you live your life now?
2007-01-11 03:00:14 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wait.
What?
I disagree with you on everything you've just said.
Could you please make this question a little less of a false dichotomy?
2007-01-11 03:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
You're wrong. To follow god does not necessarily mean a 180 turn in the way you live your life. Non-believers have various different ways in which they live their life and I think the majority of us don't live that much differently from the way believers around us live.
If I started "following God" (which God by the way?) like the believers around me, pretty much the only thing that would change is that I'd start praying and thinking about god and looking deeper into my religion. My lifestyle would stay the same and I would continue to do things I've been doing so far.
Us atheists are not immoral, evil baby-eaters who hate rules. We're normal, moral people who have principles, we just don't get them from religious texts and don't believe there is a god.
I don't believe the Bible because it doesn't make sense and there's so much evidence against it and very little non-Biblical evidence to back it up. The way men have changed the Bible throughout history to suit their own needs has also strengthened my belief that it's a man-made tool for controlling the masses.
2007-01-11 11:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think following your God would require a complete 180 turn in the way I live my life?
I believe in the Divine - just not your divine. Personally, I don't think that believing in a male AND a female creative force is a bad thing.
And while I don't believe in sin, I believe in karma and the Rede - an it harm none do what ye will. I try not to do anything to harm others or myself, and I think through the possible reactions my actions will have before I take them.
I respect all of nature and all animals as divine, though some humans certainly try my patience. I don't carry out wanton destruction of the earth and don't purposely try to hurt other people.
I already help people that need help, but I don't preach to them and try to bring them to the Goddess as a condition for my help. I just try to help them.
So I think you're quite wrong when you say "I think most everyone will agree on that." How sad that for having such a firm grasp on grammar and sentence structure you are so ignorant of the ways of others.
)O(
2007-01-11 11:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by thelittlemerriemaid 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a pagan, i'm living my life very well. I treat people with respect even if they have another religious preference than mine, i do good deeds, i am a good mother. I believe in a God, but not the hateful one in the bible. People say God is nonviolent, but according to the bible, he murdered the entire earth. The Bible was written by man, it is made up of select stories designated to go it in by a man, who was pagan after all but knew the world needed to be under one religion and the biggest religion at the time was christianity. he didn't convert till he was on his death bed. since the 1700's, many christian extremists have twisted the bible to suit there own needs. i believe that while the bible has some wonderful stories in it, it is still written by man. and it is open to interpretation, and everyone interprets it the way they want.
2007-01-11 11:09:53 · answer #4 · answered by firey_cowgirl 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bible is one mass of contradiction. Not to mention the fact that it was written by regular men. They didn't have enough science to explain things, so they invented an easy answer. Poof, the bible is born. I am sure if there was a god, he would hate gay people just like the bible says. Or not. The fact is, the bible makes god sound like a prick. Which, if there was one, I am sure he wouldn't be a prick.
Free will is a beautiful thing, check it out. Otherwise, I can write a book with things you should do.
2007-01-11 11:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by gdodd10 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My life would do a 180? Thanks! That's the BEST reason I have ever been given for remaining an atheist. I don't want to hate my family, have no friends, give up my volunteer work, not find the beauty in nature and stop obeying the laws and ordinances of my country, state and city.
I am a bit confused though. Why would believing in a God, turn me into such a terrible human being?
2007-01-11 11:11:29 · answer #6 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no evidence proving the bible is not true. On the other hand there is no evidence proving the bible is true. That is the difference in how a skeptic sees your question. We don't have to go looking for evidence to prove your belief to be based on myth. You need to provide evidence to prove that it is based on something real. Skeptics have the most open and inquisitive minds there are, its just that our minds are not so open, that our brains fall out. Without a belief in a god, gods, spirit, big invisible guy in the sky, I live a moral, law biding, healthy, heterosexual life. I don't drink, use drugs, smoke, engage in risky behaviors. So your idea that I need to turn my life around is erroneous. I don't have to resist anything. Do you.
2007-01-11 11:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I also disagree with everything you said. I think most of the religious types are immoral and live in a way that isn't good, kind or true.
Since there is no evidence that supports the bible or any god, and plenty of evidence that the followers of many gods have done pure evil, more than any atheists or agnostics isn't' the opposite true?
Here you are trying to convince people to follow your particular faith. In essence trying to intellectually assail our morality. Isn't that in itself morally wrong? Yes it is.
2007-01-11 11:09:17 · answer #8 · answered by vertical732 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well... Let me think!
Bible= governmental brain washing and destruction of will. Use of faith in the wrong direction. Weakening of the spirit and dissolving of inner strength.
God= hypothetical being with no foundation in reality or logic.
Me = Part of the Living world. A piece of the earth that relates to the other pieces of the earth like a small part of a huge jigsaw puzzle.
Me+Bible+God=Bullshiz
Me+Living World=wisdom.
Summation = only the weak hopeless hapless droids that follow gods and religions end up as poop
I'll stay where I am, Thank you.
2007-01-11 11:13:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
> "To follow God means a complete 180 turn in the way you live your life, I think most everyone will agree on that."
Let's see. If homosexuality is a choice, like you people keep saying, then according to this following god means I have to become gay.
Also: Dishonest, violent, racist, intolerant.
Hey, I think you're onto something here.
2007-01-11 11:13:51 · answer #10 · answered by eldad9 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not the same as immorality. The life I live is pretty much the same as the lives of the believers I know.
I don't believe because there's nothing that leads me to believe. If anything, the fact that I don't believe that there's a creator who I can go to for forgiveness means that I have to be even more careful to make choices I can live with.
2007-01-11 11:08:32 · answer #11 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋