Fascinating. Atheists.....why not the Christian God?

Question

Intriguing. Care to eleborate why not the Christian God specificly?

Didn't said anything, merely that some notably mentioned the Christian God just now.

Ahahahahaha.......No, I'm not a Christian.

Answer 1

It's not the Christian god specifically. It's all deities.

Answer 2

Try this analogy on for size.

Imagine wanting to buy a new car. You go to the dealership, and all they have are uncomfortable cars that have opaque windshields, no cargo space, can only make right turns on Thursdays and back up on Saturday, and don't have a heater.

What's more, they get 3.6 miles per gallon, they break down every week requiring that you spend at least $200 to fix them, and don't come with a warranty.

Now imagine that there is a surgeon on-hand to literally REMOVE a limb so you can get this car.

Would you seriously consider, even for a moment, that such an illogical, impractical, idiotic concept of transportation could EVER be your choice? Even if BILLIONS of other people had one and were all telling you how wrong you were not to buy it?

To me, God is like that car. I do not need any God to run my existence, and I'm happier walking than choosing that car, thank you.

Answer 3

Well, I find such a monotheistic God rather difficult to believe, really. If such an all-powerful being constantly interferes with the world, shouldn't there be at least some kind of evidence showing that He exists? Believing in such a benevolent being also brings up the question of the evils of nature (natural disasters, epidemics, miscarriages/spontaneous abortions, genetic disease, unintelligent design [birth defects, issues with human form -normally problems associated to walking upright, like sinus infections and issues with the spine-], etc.). Some of the ideas involved with such a being also brings up the questions between omniscience and being all-powerful: if God can see what He will do next, then does He have the power to change his decision? If He does, then He's not omniscient. If He doesn't, then He's not all-powerful.

Considering those points, it just seems more likely to me that, if there was some kind of god out there, it would be a deistic one that stays out of the affairs of humans/anything.

Answer 4

I'm gonna get thumbs down for this, but I'll say it anyways:

He's an asshole. Why?
a) He makes us, but then blames us for messing up when he must've known it was going to happen. Then he sends his son to save us... from himself.
b) He created hell, why can't he just make everyone perfect and let them into heaven.
c) He demands the worship of those he creates otherwise he punishes them... is he insecure?
d) He can somehow justify eternal punishment.
e) According to the bible he flooded the world killing everyone just because they weren't doing what he wanted (he had the power to make them stop but chose mass extinction instead).
f) He sent his son to die in a horrific way, how is this necessary? Why not just forgive people's sins without the cross thing, after all who makes the rules?
g) He provides no evidence for his existence, and gives us logical scientific brains and yet punishes everyone who honestly won't believe in him.
h) He is sexist
i) He supports slavery.
j) He created homosexuals, yet apparently hates them and condemns them to hell because they were born that way.
k) He created AIDs, Smallpox, TB and all STDs, yet won't allow artificial contraception (if you believe the catholics) even between married couples
l) he created Satan
m) In the bible he kills many more people than satan, just read the old testament
o) He has a chosen people, and is quite happy to allow them to kill other tribes (which he created) and even helps them.
p) His happiness is smashing babies heads on rocks (Psalm 137:9).
q) He creates humans as sexual creatures then expects them to repress there sexuality and not enjoy it.
r) What is so wrong with having knowledge of good and evil anyway, and why couldn't adam and eve have it?
s) He leaves evidence everywhere for evolution, and yet Darwin is apparently the antichrist, and thje fossil record was somehow meant to deceive us.
t) He believes it is an abomination to eat shellfish
u) He would let Fred Phelps into heaven, yet send Buddha or Gandhi to hell
v) His teachings have been used to justify centuries of intolerance an evil
w) He creates animals, yet allows them to kill and torture eachother with no hope of salvation
x) He thinks that faith is somehow a good think, whereas belief based on evidence isn't
y) Why would he create us in the first place if he knew how much most of us would suffer.
z) I've gone through the whole alphabet, do you want me to carry on?

Answer 5

Perhaps only because I have read the bible and grew up in a predominately Christian country.

I know more about the "Christian god" than any other deity. And for me, to know him is to loathe him. I know far too much about the mass genocides, the unreasonable demands, the utter lack of logic in the bible to EVER believe that if there was a god, that one is THE one.

Not a chance.

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Answer 6

What's the difference between one falsehood and another?

Do you really need to understand the specifics of how "your' god appears uniquely unbelievable by comparison to other fantasy figures? Grow up... That which isn't isn't.

A Power Ranger is a Power Ranger, (blue, red, yellow, pink, gold or black - you pick,) and Superman is Superman.... which is better?

Dose showing a preference to one fantasy over another make your choice any more real?

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Answer 7

The Bible presents in itself a series of claims about how the world works: creation of the planet, of man, flood, dinosaurs and humans living at the same time (doubtful it is a dinosaur they're trying to mention), languages and the tower of babel, etc. These do not hold up to any scientific scrutiny. Therefore, it is most logical to conclude it false.

Answer 8

As far as I know Atheists do not believe in any God. Agnostics believe in a higher power, but not any formal religion Christian or others.

Answer 9

why just the christian god. oh wait, cause he's jealous and spiteful, that's what im looking for in my god. That sounds more like a human, which are fallible. If im going to invest my belief in something, it had better be right.

Answer 10

The Christian god cannot be, for example, both benevolent and omnipotent.

He could one day say, "Rape is good, murder is good, etc." and you'd have to say he's benevolent no matter what decisions he makes?

Or how about that he's omniscient yet humans still have free will?

The Christian god cannot logically exist.