Politely explain Atheism to me?

Question

You're sure God doesn't exist because. A. personal experience B logic C etc, etc What is the reasoning to explain your position?

Answer 1

There's no evidence of a God, and logically it leads to infinite regression. Because as extraordinary as the universe is, God is even more extraordinary and therefor requires an even grander explanation, and so on.

Answer 2

Somewhere in the world stands a great mountain. At the bottom of this mountain sits a person purposely facing away from it so that the mountain appears not to exist--This is an Atheist.

There is another person standing beside the one seated. This person sees the mountain, but refuses to put forth the exertion necessary to find out if it is real-- This is an Agnostic.

On the sloping side of the mountain are those casually climbing, but always in competition with the other climbers. These people always keep their eyes on the path below their feet so they will not stumble and fall behind those whose opinion they covet. They never allow any other to get higher than them as they move with studied order toward a goal that they believe is already fully comprehended--These are those of the "organized religions."

Hurtling over the edge of the cliff on the other side of the summit of the mountain is another person. This person ran all the way to the summit with both eyes shut, so that they could deny the existence of others on the mountain. This person clutches a book or scroll tightly in both hands, so that no other can ever be touched or guided by those hands. From the mouth of this person comes a constant stream of quotations from the writings of others on the mountain; so intent are they, that should their concept of The Creator speak, the words would not be heard--This is the fundamentalist.

Near the summit of the mountain is a ragged person, who hurries upward, but is constantly stumbling, stubbing a toe or bouncing a nose off a solid stone wall. This person seemingly ignores the offered guidance of those behind in the large groups, because both eyes and ears are searching upward for some guidance from whatever has created the abilities of thought and reason--This searcher is one of Seekers.

The Mountain is always there. Each must choose.

Answer 3

I didn't feel that way because of any one personal experience. It came slowly. I was raised a Christian, and had a very strong faith growing up. It has just, over the years, started to seem more and more ridiculous to me to think that there's some sort of "being" out there. It's like the way most people think now when they're taught about Greek Myths in school. You hear about Zeus, and Aphrodite, and Athena, and you think it's silly that people actually BELIEVED in this stuff. I just started wondering why their beliefs were silly and ours weren't. They believed in gods, we believed in a God. It just started to seem primitive. Like we know that cave men started to look for ways to explain things that they couldn't understand--like the sun rising and setting, the weather, life, disease, etc. They thought that something--some "being" had to be making things happen, because they didn't understand WHAT the sun was, or WHERE the rain came from. So they invented gods. NOW we know and understand these things, but we haven't really been able to let go of the idea of gods. (Or A God.) I just started to feel that we were stuck in that sort of primitive mind-set. I don't claim to know for a fact that there is no God. I just don't believe there is. I can't control the way I believe, it's not like belief is a switch that I just turned off voluntarily one day. I do the best that I can to live my life as a good person, and I hope that--IF I'm wrong, that I will be judged more on the life I led than whether or not I "believed" in something.

I hope that helps you to understand, better. Thank you for asking this question respectfully.

Answer 4

Atheism is a belief where one believes there is no God. But as for me I believe in God. It makes you wonder, if religion was invented by men then why did the first people to believe in Jesus die for Him. As in die in His name? There are really three explanations.
1. There were crazy
2. they really did believe what they saw.
3. They really wanted to fool future generations

And there is another thing if Jesus didn't rise from the dead or exist at all then why were there over two thousand counts of seeing Him. How many people actually see evolution happen. Another thing if you pressure some evolutionists they'll back down but we'll go to the death, we really believe in God whether you do or not. (i'm not judging you or anything these are strictly my opions and that is all) To me it makes since, all of the predictions made in the Bible about the world not believing and there being many skeptics, well it is coming true.
Plus, there are so many true things in the Bible that we have found. But their argument is there is some truth to every legend. Well what if Jesus was the truth in the book. They can accept some of it but not all of it.

Those are my thoughts....

Answer 5

I do not believe in God(s) for lack of evidence, and the ones I know of are logically impossible.


There is something else that needs to be addressed. I believe that a God does not exist, but I can not say that I know for sure. I am almost positive that Yahweh does not exist.

Atheism is a lack of belief in a God. It is not always a belief that a God does not exist.

Answer 6

D All of the Above Personal Experience I was in a Religion it made no sense to, the People are like your own Family which their not, and My Parents forced Me to Sunday Services and Bible Study some out of Friendship with some People I broke with them and God, and My Family understands My Position of Atheism better by Avoiding all what Good People do, you know Activists and Political Organizations Religious Representative around them.

This is My choice not to be a Part of a Faith Based Cult.

Answer 7

D) A lack of evidence of supernatural forces or entities, "divine" forces or entities in particular.

Every "miracle" I've ever heard about has either been: 1) A natural event that eyewitnesses did not understand, 2) a fortunate coincidence that happens with or without divine intervention, 3) wishful thinking, or 4) outright fraudulent. Not to mention that the vast bulk of these "miracle" stories are purely anecdotal with no evidence whatsoever.

Answer 8

I don't believe God exists because the idea sounds ridiculous to me and the things that God apparently does I have not seen.

Answer 9

B. Logic

I don't see how people can expect me to believe there is a man sitting up there, on a cloud some where. I would prefer to believe in the atom, and the logic of science.

Answer 10

It's the disbelief in God and the opposition to religion. I don't believe in god simply because I would rather believe in logic and science.