they couldn't live an immoral life as a believer? That the main reason they disbelieve is to live without guilt?
2007-01-26 07:59:44 · 40 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dude, this is a question, not a statement. I don't feel this way, I want to know if any of YOU do!
2007-01-26 08:06:01 · update #1
No Gorgeous, The I Chong is my only ID
2007-01-26 08:14:35 · update #2
From what I've seen OUT HERE, this isn't a common belief. Thank god (ha ha). Because there are tons of misconceptions; we don't need another one.
When I was still a catholic, I chose to live an immoral life (in their eyes). One could argue that that LED to the path I'm currently on, but you can no more choose to be an atheist than you can choose to believe in any god.
If I COULD choose, I'd be wiccan or some form of pagan. But I can't, so I'm not.
2007-01-26 08:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheist don't believe in God because God is difficult to accept when there's so much evidence against the whole issue. Atheists are no more immoral than Christians, they just base morals on the concept of doing the right thing for the sake of the people around them instead of only being good to avoid going to Hell.
2007-01-26 08:09:45 · answer #2 · answered by mina_lumina 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even religious people who bother to think about these things understand that morality exists in all cultures, with one, a hundred, or zero gods. The real difference is that atheists do the right thing for its own sake, not because they're going to get a lollipop that lasts forever, or a spanking by Big Daddy.
The idea that a belief in a god is responsible for morality is absurd beyond words. As any Buddhist will tell you, no gods are needed to arrive at morality. And as any atheist will tell you if you depend on some external punishment or reward to guide your behavior, you're not really moral at all - you're just scared, or you want to cash in on something.
2007-01-26 08:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
possibly they * shouldn't *. If God fairly gave all people loose will, then atheists, for regardless of reason, have desperate to no longer have faith. As somebody above already reported, "arguing" for God's existence is fairly moot. interior the tip, somebody will have faith because of the fact the Holy Spirit ultimately convicted them of the certainty. If one does no longer have faith interior the Holy Spirit, i do no longer see that going on. If an atheist comes to a decision their present day existence would not experience "spectacular", they'll look for something else. Do Christians have a "greater desirable" existence because of the fact of God? check out Paul, he became crushed, whipped and run out of city for his ideals. Christians might say Christianity brings them convenience. An atheist could retort that they want no such crutch. Christians might say they sin much less. Ha! Neither has a lock on morality. You reported that we can not use "the afterlife" as a help for why Christianity is larger. If one among those disadvantage is placed on the reaction, then we ought to stay with stories in this earth. if so, if we shrink our reaction to existence on the earth, we'd discover that the atheist could * constantly * think of their existence is larger as an unbeliever. it is not until you adjust right into a have faith that your attitude variations to incorporate the afterlife. --- extra ---- i spotted you reported the two "interior the long-term" and "pushing aside the afterlife". To a Christian, the two are inseparable.
2016-11-27 20:28:01 · answer #4 · answered by hergenroeder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people just don't view "God" as something logical. Some atheists believe that if there is a "supreme" or "higher powered" being... it wouldn't be God because then there would, effectively, be something higher than that being.
Atheists view God more as an idea rather than a "person" or "being."
Perhaps some use it as an excuse - it really depends on that person's life history and experiences... Much like how all vegetarians aren't exactly all the same "kind."
2007-01-26 08:05:05 · answer #5 · answered by Kurt 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no...the fanatics try to push them so much into religion that they're just like "screw this, if being brainwashed is religion then i choose atheist".
some of the thing in the bible just make no sense and can be explained by science.like Noah's arch, @ that time people thought that was the only part of the world right (until explorers), so the flood could actually have been a tsunami that wiped out that region, not the world. and yes, maybe there was a good guy named Jesus who helped people out and preached about god, but they didn't have to create a cult after him!!
(THIS IS COMING FROM AN ATHEIST IF U ASK ME PERSONALLY, BUT A LUTHERAN IF U ASK MY FAMILY)
2007-01-26 08:09:28 · answer #6 · answered by Armatage Shanks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If a person doesn't already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won't discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran — as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.
We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn't make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe."
2007-01-26 08:05:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I don't even believe such an absurd notion.
Do I know you as someone else? I sense familiarity other than as Chong. Maybe I am just crazy. LOL
Thanks, maybe I knew you in a past life.
I guess since I have 3 gorgeous accounts I assume everyone else has more than one. I have 3 because, as you must know, you get reported for disagreeing.
2007-01-26 08:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Funny how you want to so disprove athiests. We don't believe in your god, accept that and quit trying to explain us away. Most people think that I am very religious, most think I go to church, all based on my acts of kindness and consideration, and looking out for the poor and impoverished. Probably the main reason I first questioned christianity was the fact that many who purported to be believers were liars, cheaters, beat their wives and children, and were thiefs. I think on an immorality scale, I'd find a lot of athiests on my side, and don't think the christians would necessarily win out on being most moral!
2007-01-26 08:26:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your queston assumes that atheists live immoral lives and that they have chosen to disbelieve so that they can continue to live immoral lives.
This assumption is rather self-serving.
If you can provide verifiable evidence that atheists engage in immoral behavior with more frequency than theists, you might begin to have an argument.
It's rather curious that you would assume that disbelief in God arises from the belief that God will punish immorality, and that atheists must believe and so chose to disbelieve. This would suggest that you believe that atheists believe.
Atheists do not believe in God. That's about all there is to that.
2007-01-26 08:08:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋