Someone told me without God love isn't real,
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Who the heck are you to tell me that my love for my wife isn't real or the love I have for my son isn't real.
Don't bother, I know the apologetics on this. I love cause God is involved I'm not really a 29 year old husband and father I'm really some teenager who rebels against God so I can act immorral.
Just go ahead and cut and paste,
Jim, your an immorral teenager who is in rebellion.
Forget facts like I'm an adult, age 29, husband and father, capable of love without a God belief.
I'm not one for telling people go to hell, but sometimes, and I don't mean a literal hell, but you can go to hell.
2007-02-06 08:00:00 · 27 answers · asked by Jim Darwin 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, it really frustrates me as well. Did you see "deeper, richer love" guy up there? Nauseating.
2007-02-06 08:08:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from with your question. I don't think any atheist would doubt your feelings for god and I don't think any atheist would deny that they can love. Atheists don't deny their sense of self. Going beyond that a bit, there's nothing magical about feelings. Although we don't yet completely understand the brain, we have a general enough understanding to be able to identify the regions involved with emotion and some of the neurochemical reactions that take place. But ( and this is a key distinction ) having feelings for something isn't evidence that the recipient of those feelings exists - feelings represent nothing more than an internal state. As to why your boyfriend still loves you despite hardship - the brain isn't a rational, reasonable thing. It's a pretty chaotic device that's tugged at by countless experiences and stimuli. People hallucinate, distort reality, misinterpret their feelings and different emotions can override other emotions. Look up things like Stockholm syndrome or cognitive dissonance for examples. All of these things have naturalistic explanations and we're getting better and better at saying precisely why and how.
2016-03-29 08:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is real: with or with out GOD. I suppose he could make it stronger or better, but there is no reason why some one that is not a BIBLE READER can not love. This person need remember that they are passing a judgment here: and in the light they judge others they to sh-ail be judged them selves. Do not remove the splinter from they neighbors eye, until thou has removed the plank from they own eye. I love that passage, and I am not a Christian either. Your Judge needs to read their BIBLE a lot better. And he will be going by way of the wrong pathway.
2007-02-06 08:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by zipper 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is why the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic cultures have multiple words for "love". Without God, a love for a creator is not real. But a physical and mental attraction to your wife forever on is real. Do you understand?
2007-02-06 08:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by Ecclesiastes 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When people make ludicrous allegations like they did to you; it makes me wonder if they even know what the heck love it. The problem is that many people seem to think God = Love, so without God there can be no love. It's BS. Obviously someone who would think that has but a finger touch grasp left on reality.
When two people love each other truly and deeply, the "God is Love" statements are hurtful. Instead of feeling pure love comes from the person, themselves, they feel it is "from God". It is hurtful to think that if they did not believe in love from God, they would love you less. That they attribute some of their love to someone else, that takes away some of the purity and honesty of love.
To say "God is the source of love" is to deny human love, love between people. It makes love cheaper, more arbitrary and less personal and caring. Humans beings themselves are the source of love, and love between people is due to their own feelings, to take away their responsibility for this feeling and say that it depends on God is inhuman. To love someone purely with your heart and emotions is good, but to have to explain it away or want to take less responsibility for feeling and wanting that love is hurtful.
2007-02-06 08:14:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the salvation experience touted by christians is the result of an overload of dopamine in the brain compounded with an epileptic seizure of reality and fantasy colliding
love is quite real....
try this silly math
god is love
love is god
if I love am I not capable of exercising the energy to share compassion and affection?
is god simply the connectivity between life that is hard to describe? (non hostile energy)
thanks Jim for wonderful insight and marvelous questions over the year!
2007-02-06 08:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well....don't know about the ancilary dialouge.... but in ref to the original question about love, being atheist.
i'm not atheist.
however, love (the primary and secondary ) feelings can actually be measured in brain activity. So for sure on that level it is very real for you & your wife.
with that being said & with the ancilary dialouge and the strong feelings this brings about for you perhaps we could consider together that maybee .... just maybee - love is a god and any experience of love is an experience of that god.
good for you loving your wife..... don't let the others get you to upset.
2007-02-06 08:29:46 · answer #7 · answered by dharp66 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I look at my own family I say what is love and how can I love them the best. Well as Fr.Corapi says, "If you love them you want the best thing for them." The best thing for them is eternal life, for them to go to heaven. So yes God does play a part in love. If it were not for God you would not be able to love. I'm sure your a great father and husband, may God bless you on your journey for the truth.
2007-02-06 08:06:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Maybe these people just have trouble understanding what true love is because they have been taught that this vicious cruel God character who routinely destroys entire races of people in the Bible "loves" everyone. I'd certainly have trouble comprehending love if that was what I believed love is.
Sadly, whether it's a guy in the sky or simple human creation, this whole God thing is what gives us evil to compare love to.
2007-02-06 08:10:53 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of course your love for your wife is very real and you defend it in a way that shows it must be a very beautiful thing for you. That's so cool, I'm happy for you! I happen to know another kind of love, that makes even that beautiful thing a thing of awe and inspiration, as great as all the good things are, I have experienced them in a way that makes them even better.
2007-02-06 08:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian and I am NOT going to try to change you. I believe that your love is real and it has nothing to do with God, what I do know is for me God makes it easier to love during the difficult times. It gives you someone to lean on.
You can not condemn someone to Hell unless you believe in God for Satan is one of God's fallen angels
2007-02-06 08:13:30 · answer #11 · answered by lakelover 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋