If you know for a fact that there is no God, please tell me how it is possible to know such a thing.
If you take it on faith, please say why you choose to take such a dismal, depressing nightmare on faith instead of something a bit more optimistic!
2007-02-03 12:01:37 · 24 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know there is no god in the same way I know that there are no fairies, Easter Bunny, or Flying Spaghetti Monster. Yes, there's a tiny probability that I'm wrong, but the default stance is to reject ridiculous fairy tales. Not to automatically believe any crap anyone tells you to be true. When evidence is produced to show that I'm wrong (any evidence!) then I'll reconsider my stance. But it would be silly to believe something so utterly ridiculous just on the word of others.
2007-02-03 12:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is impossible to know for a fact that there is no god. Any rational atheist would understand that. However, the reason why I do not believe that that there is a god is becasue there is no sufficient evidence to support God's existence. I do not think it is enough to say that just because something cannot be disproven, it probably (or even likely) exists.
I would also like to say that atheism, to me, is not dismal or depressing, and it is certainly not a nightmare. On the contrary, I would describe an eternity in Hell as nightmarish. Atheists, however, can live without fear of Hell.
2007-02-03 20:17:15 · answer #2 · answered by MC 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i take it on the same faith that you take in believing in god. or if you know for a fact there is a god, how is it possible to know such a thing? to answer your question i dont view it as a depressing nightmare. you might only because you believe in god and can only see us atheists from that point of veiw. i dont understand how you can accept the fact that there is a power that governs you. that you are not in control of your fate.
2007-02-03 20:12:06 · answer #3 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fact - There is no empirical evidence indicating that God exists.
Faith - The result of using faith consistently is the complete inability to think. Without any criteria for accepting a statement as true, every random idea, whether true or false, would be just as likely to be accepted. Contradictions would exist.
2007-02-03 20:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by The Happy Atheist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no evidence that there is one. It isn't rational or reasonable to believe in things without any evidence to back it up. You would be stuck with hundreds of thousands of gods and everything else that human imagination.
Not believing in god, is the same as not believing in Odin, Zeus, Ra, Hera, The Great Spirit, Osiris, The Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the others.
Look, there is a very slight chance that there is a god. But I would be no less surprised if Zeus himself showed up at the White House. The evidence is the same.
2007-02-03 20:06:22 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't take anything on 'faith". How blind can one be? I am not a sheep!! I was raised by a religious mother not to believe everything I was told and to think for myself. Being an atheist is NOT depressing -- watching people believe in something that can't be proved is depressing and scary!!!
2007-02-03 20:07:41 · answer #6 · answered by reme_1 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are no facts to prove to me that a god exsists, and many to prove that he can not exsist in the form sold to you by the church.
My clarity is not depressing, dismal or anything like a nightmare, it is bright and chearful here in the real world without any supersticions to cloud my thinking.
2007-02-03 20:08:47 · answer #7 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would the belief in Just a "god" matter to you?
It has to be the RIGHT god, correct? Ah! So if we believed in Zeus, we wouldn't be atheist,
but that still isn't enough for
religious nutters who need for everyone to think EXACTLY as they do and swallow a whole heaping mass of BS along with the concept of a "God".
2007-02-03 20:06:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is no one that truly knows for a fact there is or is not a God. So, I take it on intuition, faith is a bad word to describe it. I can't help but not believe in God, so I can't change what I believe to something more optomistic.
2007-02-03 20:07:26 · answer #9 · answered by James 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Watch Ricky Gervais Animals you will be enlightened! He makes a mockery of Genesis! Very clever thinking! A liturate serpant! If someone told you a snake spoke to them you would think they were a nut! I am amazed people take it so liturally!! All will be revealed when you watch it! Good question! Got me thinking x
2007-02-03 20:19:18 · answer #10 · answered by suds82 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋