I see a lot of peple that are on this site that do not believe in god and i am so curius why the heak they do not
2007-01-20 09:58:19 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Check your bible. Hebrews 11:6 says" Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". Faith requires thinking outside the box, and putting our self esteem at rest. Some people have not been touched yet-but it's their choice to make.
2007-01-20 10:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mark P 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religions are man-made nonsense. Have you ever stopped to think which one is right ? Christians will say Islam is wrong, Muslims will say Christianity is wrong, and the same is true for every single religion. Hindu, Buddhist, etc. And you know what ? Each one of these people feel so strongly in their own religion, that their mind is closed off to any other religion. So who is right ? As strongly as you believe in Christianity, 2/3 of the world's population says you are wrong, and Muslims believe in Allah and Islam just as strongly.
Do you see any problem here ? These religions are contradictory!!! And everyone who believes in 1 is too closedminded to believe in a different one!!!
This is not to even mention the overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution and other sciences to explain an earth that is billions of years old, not 6 thousand years. etc etc etc I could write a book on all the reasons.
hmmm, maybe i will
2007-01-20 10:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by duffman071 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't I?.... Well, let me star with what I do believe. I believe that for a God or Goddess or other Entity to exist does not mean that everyone has to believe they exist. If someone believes in a Deus then that God exists. Even if only to them. I also believe that they truely have to believe with no doubts that this Diety exists. Thus, I do not believe in God because I do have doubts. I want to feel their presence in my soul. Isn't their a divine spark in us all?...
2007-01-21 08:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by Darraugh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy.
The stories of this God are so brutal that even if such a being would exist it would be one that any saine person would have to oppose!
However for those that live in the real world fantasy creatures that have a sadistic nature as seen as what they are. PURE MAKE BELIEVE!!!
2007-01-20 10:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't want to fear hell to be moral. Why I can't I just be good for the sake of being good.
I don't want to give money to someone simply because they tell me I'm going to heaven.
If Zeus, Thor, Ra, Mithra, Brother Raven, etc. are all myths, how is the current God any more real?
Why should I submit to religion's absolutist moral laws which even God contridicts? (read the Old Testament if you don't understand).
And many more!
2007-01-20 10:04:37 · answer #5 · answered by Psyleet 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why should we believe any random claim?
Russell's teapot, sometimes called the Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of religions. In an article entitled "Is There a God?," commissioned (but never published) by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell said the following:
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
In his book A Devil's Chaplain, Richard Dawkins developed the teapot theme a little further:
The reason organized religion merits outright hostility is that, unlike belief in Russell's teapot, religion is powerful, influential, tax-exempt and systematically passed on to children too young to defend themselves. Children are not compelled to spend their formative years memorizing loony books about teapots. Government-subsidized schools don't exclude children whose parents prefer the wrong shape of teapot. Teapot-believers don't stone teapot-unbelievers, teapot-apostates, teapot-heretics and teapot-blasphemers to death. Mothers don't warn their sons off marrying teapot-shiksas whose parents believe in three teapots rather than one. People who put the milk in first don't kneecap those who put the tea in first.
2007-01-20 10:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by eldad9 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I stopped believing in fairy tales a long time ago. I think it's funny that we have to defend why we don't believe in some mystical all knowing being who supposedly knows our every move, site unseen. Ummm yeah, we're the ones who are odd for not believing without question. lol
2007-01-20 10:03:24 · answer #7 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm an agnostic, so I believe that it's impossible to determine whether or not God exists for absolute fact. Hence, why I don't believe in a God (but I do not discount the possibility of one).
2007-01-20 10:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do not find any convincing reason why I should believe.Scientific evidence shows that there is no life here after.If god was a just god there could not be so much of miseries ,calamities and so on.. so I do not beilieve.
2007-01-20 10:04:10 · answer #9 · answered by cupid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because some people only believe in things that actually exist.
2007-01-20 10:02:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋