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Question

not trying to slam u but why dont u believe in God? what happened in ur life to hate him? i would honestly just like to no. just out of curiosity. im not trying to be a b i t c h im actually just curious. so plz dont be mean. if ur an atheist and thats what u truly want to be thats great. we all have our own opinions and beliefs. i would just like to no what made u become an atheist.

Answer 1

Over time man has created many Gods for one reason or another, but mainly because he did not want to die or have the ones he loves die. He then has tried to kill those who worship the same God in a different way. Man created God. The church and God bring a positive benefit to our lives, but he only exist in out spirit and mind.

Perhaps each of the ten plagues was presented to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of each of the Egyptian ten god’s. Osiris was the Egyptian god of the Nile. The Egyptians believed that Osiris gave life and sustenance to the people because the Nile itself was the vital life-source of ancient Egypt. The first plague was Blood. The waters of the Nile turned to the symbol of death, blood. That was a sign of G-d’s superiority over Osiris.

The name of the Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus was Amenophis, more commonly called Amenhotep. His son and successor, Akenaten, did away with the Egyptian collection of gods and taught a monotheistic religion throughout the land. That God was the SUN!

Answer 2

Atheism has nothing to do with hating God. If you hate God, then you believe in God. If there was a God, I wouldn't hate Him. I just don't believe there is a God. I don't feel that way because of any one particular personal experience. It's not like belief is a switch that I just turned off voluntarily one day. 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 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.

Answer 3

I don't think you can say that atheists hate God, unless by your definition not believing indicates hate.

As for myself, I wouldn't necessarily say I'm a total atheist. I don't believe in any organized system of worship, and I don't believe in any holy scriptures. I do believe that there is something greater than myself at work in the world, but whatever it is, it's beyond my understanding. I don't feel as though I have to dedicate myself to some inane practice to prove my worth to a supposedly omnipotent being. Organized religions, such as Christianity, have far too many contradictions and variations created at various times throughout history (usually because of some political agenda) to be seen as objective. I just know too much about how religions developed to ever believe that there is a God that communicates to man, or that only certain groups of people will be "saved", or that there is a different outcome to death other than simply death. The focus should be on life, not the afterlife.

Answer 4

I was raised christian and from a young age I believed everyone was taught the same. As I got older I learned that there where people out there that believed in a different god than I did. Then I began to ask questions like, "How do I know that I'm not being taught the wrong religion?" I never thought it was fair that billions of innocent people have to burn in hell because they where taught differently than I was. Boy I sure am lucky to be born In the U.S. and not India. There were many logical questions that made me realize there is no god. It's just common sense really. I am truly happy to be alive and I love life dearly. I am not a hater, I definitely do not hate god because I don't believe he exists. Perhaps you should have worded your question differently.

Answer 5

Why to believe in God cannot make you a moral person

Hate has nothing to do with belief. One is more likely to say that there is nothing to love or hate because the evidence is missing.

Actually it is unfortunate that people call themselves atheists, as if there was a religion for those who don't believe in what does not exist. I prefer to call myself a lover of truth, which is what honest scientists are. I don't want beliefs, I want the truth.

If a holy book says there is God, I have to use all the means at my disposal to find Him. Like a scientist, I'll start with the evidence of the senses and find nothing of the sort. Then I try with logical reasoning alone, and that gets me into so many contradictions, too many to count! So, all I am left with is faith. But faith is a feeling. You cannot know anything by feeling. A feeling requires validation to become a fact.

To have faith is just an admission that what I call God is in my own mind, an imagination. If I were to pretend that He exists is only a deception for the purpose of making me feel good, just like it makes little children feel good that Santa Clause will bring them gifts. So, to believe in what I feel would violate my goal to find the truth.

If I want to be moral, I must not deceive anyone, including myself. People who believe in God cannot be moral because they prefer deception to the truth.

In a court of law you hope to get a judge who is committed to the truth, and not to fantasy. In order to be coherent with his religion, a judge might put into practice his religious precepts instead of using the evidence of the senses and say: "I can tell who is guilty and who is innocent because I feel God is in my heart and He feel He always tells me the truth. I have no use for logical reasoning!" That would be the most immoral thing a religious person could do with regard to justice! Fortunately, most religious people DO NOT live what they preach!

Answer 6

Short answer: bad experiences with church leaders.

Long answer: I think that the Christian ideals of obedience, submission, surrender, and faith before understanding leaves believers vulnerable to being taken advantage of. It led me to be pressured into making some big life decisions "on faith," which I later regretted. There isn't much room for questioning authority and making your own decisions about what is right based on your own reasoning.

And eventually I realized that either I become a Christian without a church, or I become an atheist. And it doesn't seem right to be a Christian and not have a church, so I guess I decided to give atheism a try -- and I've been happy since then.

Answer 7

Atheists don't tend to hate god anymore than you hate zeus, marduk or the golden calf.

We just understand that gods existence is no more likely than any of the other gods.

What made me become an atheist? Thinking about god and religion. My experiences on this forum show me why so few fundamentalists get this far.

People who don't believe in god because they've had a bad few months or because someone died disgust me. They're not atheists. You're not an atheist until you've dissected him with logic and reason and see the corpse vanish in a puff of smoke.

Answer 8

Thats cool. But I dont know who told you atheists hate God? Lol. Just like there are crazy religious Christians there are crazy atheist fanatics. I went to a Catholic school and church, and I just noticed how corrupt the whole religion is, its ridiculous. I remember my church sent me a notice saying if I dont donate at least 20 dollars a month I wouldnt be considered Catholic or a church attender. I mean come on... Is that what religion is about how much money i give.

Answer 9

Well, there's a huge difference between "not believing in God" and "hating God".

Anyway, I'm an atheist because of the lack of conclusive evidence for a God, in contrast to the overwhelming evidence that things could happen like they did without him. One day, the number of questions I had that theology couldn't answer became to great, and I came to the realization that there was no God.

Answer 10

Not believing does not equal hating. No big thing happend to most of us, we just realized that it was absurd.

There is no evidence that there is a god. 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 could come up with.

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. I would be no less surprised of evidence of Odin was found than I would be if evidence of your god was.