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2007-02-16 09:30:19 · 15 answers · asked by ndnrevels 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

15 answers

I got a better offer.

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2007-02-16 09:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by abetterfate 7 · 1 0

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. The concept of religion began because ancient man 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. 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 a 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.

2007-02-16 09:38:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1 1

I have a huge list of reasons on my computer, since it's too long, I'll share only some with you:

1. If ANYONE in the world with an IQ of 100 or higher could sit down and think about this whole God thing for at least 30 minutes, they would come to the conclusion that it's all bullcrap

2. If God exists and he created Adam and Eve, we'd all be the same race/color

3. I don't see/feel/hear God, therefore, he doesn't exist

4. I used to be a Christian and pray every night, you wanna know something? NONE of my prayers came true

5. Where did God come from? It's a fact that EVERYTHING has a beginning and an end, it's very IGNORANT to say "he was always there" when there is no such thing as "eternity"

2007-02-16 09:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by Alterna 4 · 1 2

The various gods most religions worship are all man made, and even among the same religions, even the same church, people worship a different god if you ask them to explain their concept of what their god means to them.
Frankly, there is no reason to believe in any of the various manmade gods of christianity, judeaism, muslim, or catholic religions. The fallacy of their individual texts and the obvious extractions and embellishments of older stories of ancient civilizations such as the great flood, are good proof that man wrote these ideas. The conflicts between the various books and even chapters within the bible should make any sane person question their validity. The gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John supposedly tell the same stories about Jesus and his life, but they conflict in what really happened. One verse that doesn't appear in most bibles but is in the original texts is the one that says a believer can handle poisonous snakes. But later bible versions took that out since too many tithing church members were getting bit and killed.
I suggest to everyone with questions about the bible- or koran: read it before you quote it, most people quote what some minister told them, their interpretation, not what the actual text says. Also use the online research tools to look up things. Did you know that the antichrist is only mentioned 3 times, in a single chapter, and its meaning has been taken out of the context of the verses where it is mentioned, over and over again? If people will take the time to read for themselves and make up their own minds instead of doing what they are told, the churches would empty out in droves.

2007-02-16 10:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't "believe" in God because I know God exists. I experienced God directly when I was seventeen. I have no interest in creating a belief structure around something I know exists. That would be silly. At the same time, I don't expect anyone to believe me. My experience may have had some dramatic and beneficial effects, but it hardly substitutes for logical or scientific proof for others, thus I have no interest in starting any kind of religion, or writing any kind of book about it.

Belief systems explore the nature of that portion of reality that we can neither test, or cause to repeat itself. Where philosophy, logic, and science cannot go, belief systems, like religion, can take us exploring. Belief can be a powerful way to explore possibilities that one day may be scientifically proven.

Thank goodness that in the United States, we can believe what we want, worship as we choose, and share these thoughts without fear of punishment.

2007-02-16 09:46:38 · answer #5 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 0 0

which god would you have me believe in? and what shall i believe about "God"? would not belief in any human conceptualization of "God" limit "God" and therefore be a false concept?

you ask a question but it's a rather shallow one.

2007-02-16 09:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0 0

If Christianity is true, then Bill Gates is going to hell because he's an atheist -- even though he's donated about thirty billion dollars to charity and has done more charitable work in his lifetime than most of us ever will. But he's still going to burn forever, because God apparently cares more about our choice of religion than anything else. I find that totally unbelievable and absurd. And that's just one of the reasons.

2007-02-16 09:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 4 2

It's an impossible concept. I don't believe in impossible things.

Besides, why should I treat your "god" any differently than Zeus, Ra, Ninsun, Freya, Lord Ganesha, Quetzalcoatl and others?

2007-02-16 09:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 5 2

For the exact same reason you do not believe in Santa Claus. Think about it.

2007-02-16 09:33:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

Dinosaurs.

2007-02-16 09:33:54 · answer #10 · answered by Adrianne 3 · 1 2

you'd have to define it first, but the mathematical likelihood of what you think of God as real is unlikely...

2007-02-16 09:38:32 · answer #11 · answered by Pedro Sanchez 5 · 0 0

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