is it wrong to be and atheist?

Answer 1

I say no. Being an atheist is being free. You don't have to worry about going to heaven or hell. And you can live life the way you choose.

Answer 2

Do some analytical thinking/meditation on your own question. Is it wrong to come to logical questions based on analytical thinking and study of the way things really work in the world, then compare that to the concept of whether or not a creator god exists? Only you can answer this. Theists will say faith is more important, atheists say that knowledge, logic and real understanding is more important. What's more important to YOU?

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Answer 3

Becoming an atheist is not a decision that is made based on morality.
If I look outside and I don't see rain, couldn't this mean that it's not raining?
If I read a book that tells me stories that, I'm convinced, can't possibly be true, is it unreasonable to conclude that it's fiction?
If someone asks me to come and meet a creature that I can't see or hear, is it wrong to believe that this creature probably doesn't exist?
Is it wrong to be an atheist?---Only if it's wrong to be an honest human being.

Answer 4

It's not wrong at all. It's your choice, ultimately. You have to look at the evidence yourself. Study the bible, look at different religious teachings, study science, and test all of them. Try testing scientific principles and see if they hold true. Try testing religious principles, and see if they work. Does prayer work? Does hot air expand and rise? Do you have a soul? Can you point to it, or weigh it, or take a picture of it? Can you find evidence of evolution? Can you see that there is a link of fossils showing that creatures change over time?

Yes, I'm showing bias. I'm also showing the process by which I became an atheist. But you have to go through this process yourself, and make your own decision.

Answer 5

An atheist is simply a person who denies the existence of a higher power. As a human, we have the right to make our own choice in this matter and despite what the evangelical christians say.
-MM

Answer 6

Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist; many people will tell you their god exists but no others, but will never be able to prove it, even if they think so. Some will threaten you with eternal pain or promise eternal joy to get you to believe in their god; these are all stories, created for people who were scared long before we understood the universe. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.

How terrible the bible in particular is:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

How silly and horrible religion in general is:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

Answer 7

I don't know for sure.

The purest sense is NOT BELIEVING, as opposed to REJECTING.

It's atheists here that imply REJECTION is a requirement. That's what makes it religiouis.

When you simply don't believe, it means you hold no view one way or the other.

Sort of neutral.

Believing the world is flat is not the same as rejecting the world is round.

Answer 8

I don't think so cause i'm one too. I'm one of those people who will believe in something if they have proof and not otherwise. Other people follow religions because they feel they need to follow something. I believe what is here on earth right now.

Answer 9

Atheists face the real world. No hocus pocus god. It's not wrong. Exactly the opposite.

Answer 10

No, without atheists the Bible's prophecies will not be true.