As an atheist, I have found great joy in giving freely, more optimism in knowing there is no angry sky man looking over my shoulder, and more freedom to enjoy this life fully without guilt.
How about you?
2007-02-19 19:51:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
BlurOc: What a beautifully said phrase.
2007-02-19 20:07:17 · update #1
Oopps... I meant Blue..
2007-02-19 20:07:50 · update #2
MC: Well said... er... typed... *smile*
2007-02-19 20:08:49 · update #3
Someguy: I think many of us feel that way... right on!
2007-02-19 20:09:42 · update #4
Godless: I already respected you... now even more so.
2007-02-19 20:10:38 · update #5
Bluemoo: Rational thought is a wonderful gift...
2007-02-19 20:11:43 · update #6
Deacon: Accountability is a rare thing...you truly seem to get it... thanks for the answer.
2007-02-19 20:13:20 · update #7
Acid Z: Nice list..
2007-02-19 20:14:22 · update #8
Adrianne: It's great to be human, isn't it? (your answer is very honest).
2007-02-19 20:16:10 · update #9
Thank you for your answers. They were (mostly) beautiful to read.
2007-02-19 20:20:46 · update #10
Vlasko: ramble on, this is the place to do it and I like what you're saying...
2007-02-19 20:24:02 · update #11
John B: The world and the cosmos are amazing...
2007-02-19 20:39:47 · update #12
It is deeply sobering to realize that I am responsible for my own decisions, my own morality, and defining my own purpose. I am a better person for it. It's also been incredibly freeing to no longer have to lie about believing in a deity. I am being emotionally and intellectually honest, and nothing could ever improve upon that. It's also led me to learn and examine a great many things that I may have otherwise ignored.
2007-02-19 20:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by N 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Freedom from superstition, tolerance and comprehend for all human beings regardless of their ideals and sexual orientations and intercourse, the flexibility to confirm issues that are staggering in front of me and not deny or misread their life, an intensive awareness of technological know-how which will help me throughout the time of my life, dignity (i do no longer might desire to spend my life worshipping a god that could or would possibly no longer exist), and yet humility (i understand i'm an animal, and, regardless of the actuality that i'm an clever animal, i'm no longer incredibly more advantageous to different animals i.e. it relatively is different from I also have a soul and that they do no longer and that they have got been purely positioned in this earth for my use and that i'm continuously on the staggering of the food chain).
2016-10-02 10:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am open to reality without prejudice or pre-ordained conclusions. I have no need to deny reality to suit some ancient document. Lack of belief allows me the freedom to experience the beauty of the world without demeaning it as a creation but rather as a growth of fabulous complexity.
It does not leave me without a conscience or without morality as some would wish and nor does it make me feel anything but pity for those blinded by a fixed and unchanging religion.
2007-02-19 20:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by John B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
accepting accountability for my own actions and learning to anticipate the consequences has saved me from a great deal of stress and drama and I no longer have to wonder whether or not I am forgiven when I know I have done nothing too terribly wrong to need forgiveness for. I have also realized that dying happens to everybody, and that if there were a huge barbecue pit in the center of the earth waiting for me, it would be ridiculously overpopulated by now and the inhabitants would have rendered the once tortuous environment tolerable, so who cares?
2007-02-19 19:58:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
It made me responsible for my actions. Why else are convicted criminals least likely to be atheists, even less so than in the general populace?
It gave me a sense of wonder. Learning happens through curiosity; it's easier to see what's in front of you when you don't blind yourself with a buybull.
It stopped me from other abhorrent behaviour, like racism. You can't hate people when you accept the fact of DNA and that _all_ human beings are decended from one small area of Africa.
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2007-02-19 20:01:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have the freedom to think anything I want. To explore any idea. To examine the world clearly, without God colored glasses. To have the freedom to find out who I am without anyone telling me who I am. No church. No acting. No B.S. A higher level of thinking. Less fear of dying. Less fear of living. I ramble more.
2007-02-19 20:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by Vlasko 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think an atheist, is something ive always been, i just needed the courage and knowledge to make the assertion. i had always considered myself agnostic, but that didnt fit. it wasnt until i really began involving myself in various religious beliefs, that i realized the absurdity of a structured religion.
i feel, when i accepted the term atheist, i understood myself and my life with clarity. now i enjoy calling myself an atheist, and im no longer afraid to say it.
2007-02-19 20:06:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Atheism has made me face the fact that I once needed love so badly that I was willing to believe that I was getting it from something that didn't exist. It made me search for love, and find it in other sentient beings, on this Earth, and in this life. It made me identify what I needed to do in order to be happy, and do it.
It gave me everything that I had been told that God provides.
2007-02-19 20:06:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I have learnt to analyse a situation from all perspectives. I am less irrational in my thoughts at least.
2007-02-19 20:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by Magic 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
- fantastic heathen fornication
- no hidden guillt
- no overt guilt for that matter
- freedom
- no unnatural restrictions
- no persecution complex
- responsibility for my own actions
2007-02-19 19:58:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋