Why do you not believe in God?
2007-01-23 13:22:50 · 25 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The same reason you don't believe in Thor, Zeus or Apollo. I just added one more.
2007-01-23 13:27:54 · answer #1 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The main reason is that there is no proof or verification that God exists. That means anything said about God is pure fabrication.
To be honest a person cannot pretend that things are true about God when no one can even prove or verify that any God exists.
You cannot both believe in God and be honest. Belief simply means that you don't know and nothing more.
I prefer to be honest and not believe.
2007-01-23 21:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy -- you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do. You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word "elephant" includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire?
So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The atheism part is easy.
Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something.
Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
2007-01-23 21:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Crozzlow 3 · 11⤊ 0⤋
Becuase god has done absolutely nothing to prove to me that he exists. Plus, I think god is very judgemental for someone who is supposed to be so loving and forgiving. Consider this- God only takes into heaven if you are a good person and you believe in him. The devil takes you whether you believe in him or not, whether you're good or not, so doesn't that make the devil more accepting of people than god?
Laci- This question is for Atheists. Get out of here if you're going to be mean. Now, where's the thumbs UP button for questions, I want to cancel your vote out.
2007-01-23 21:29:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
because i believe in science, you know that stuff which is backed by evidence which has been proven many many times through the invention of things such as cell phones, which makes "theories" the truth that is just impossible to prove
and why do you believe in god? in my eyes, you cannot be a science geek, and believe in god
2007-01-23 21:32:40 · answer #5 · answered by Shellular Kellular 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but I have seen the Blue Rooster.
2007-01-23 21:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason you don't believe in the Hindu Gods, the Greek Gods, the Pagan Gods.
2007-01-23 21:25:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 0⤋
HITAN ( Democracy in Heaven )
-- why should ATHEISTS have to believe in god, as human we all should have the right to pick a faith or idea to follow.
2007-01-23 21:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by hitan_2005 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many things in this world that make it easy not to believe in him, her, or they. Many alternate explanations for why we are here as well as things that were excluded from the Bible, like dinosaur bones. I believe, I can just see how others might not.
2007-01-23 21:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by Atlas 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do you not believe in The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
RAmen
2007-01-23 21:27:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋