2007-03-04 02:07:33 · 25 answers · asked by Cookie_Monster_UK 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm Catholic, but i definitely respect everyone's beliefs. Religion is such a personal thing, i don't think you should have to conform to any main stream religion. I have friends who are atheists, and i have no problem with it. I feel its a pessimistic outlook on life though. I don't necessarily feel its a religion, because it's by definition the absence of belief. I guess if it is one, it sounds like a bleak one with not much to look forward to :/
2007-03-04 02:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by Alyssa D 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
This is a straw man question. Why, because yes it is possible to believe in nothing. But this would make you a nihilist and not an atheist.
An atheist disbelieves in gods. That is all. Other than that, an atheist can believe anything.
It's also important to note the wording here. An atheist does not 'believe in' anything. They disbelieve. By definition, this cannot be a faith. A Christian disbelieves in Zeus - does this require faith?
2007-03-04 04:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by The Truth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is, by definition, a disbelief in "God" or gods. That's it.
That's the only commonality we can reliably say is there. Atheists, I'm reasonably certain, vary a bit in anything else they believe. Some may believe that people are essentially, good, for example, while others may believe the opposite.
What is up with this willful misunderstanding of what the word atheist means?
2007-03-04 03:34:11 · answer #3 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Faith is belief in the absence of, or in spite of, evidence. And there will NEVER be any evidence to prove or disprove the existence of a supernatural being. So as a Christian has faith in the existence of God despite no evidence to support this, an Atheist has faith in the non-existence of God despite no evidence to support this.
However, most atheists probably don't base their feelings on faith. What they really mean is that based on discrepancies, logical and scientific impossibilites in the Bible/Quran/Torah and scientific explanations for most things religion seeks to explain and the religious pluralism (we're all atheists, from Thor's point of view, or Zeus' or Anubis') etc. they admit that there is probably no god and that the supernatrual aspects of the Bible/Quran are definitely false.
2007-03-04 02:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by Kwisatz Haderach 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-02 08:57:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in that atheism believes, without a doubt, that God does not exist, it is based on faith. it is not scientific because the atheist has taken a position without applying the scientific method to reach that conclusion. the agnostic is basing his opinion on not knowing.
the believer and the atheist have reach their conclusions by faith.
2007-03-04 14:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by lightperson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do not have to believe in a god to have faith ..that is something human beings have for those they love and things they care about..it is a persons right to worship or not and it should not be forced one way or the other.
2007-03-04 02:16:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would not call it a faith, but it's not true that atheists believe in "nothing". I don't believe in a God, but there are ideals and values that I believe in, and principles like the scientific method.
2007-03-04 02:25:55 · answer #8 · answered by Elly 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's still a belief system, which is all that other religions are. Anyway, real atheists prefer to be called secularists, because, that way, they focus on what they believe in, and not what they don't believe in. Humanism may conform more to what you think a faith should be.
2007-03-04 02:12:18 · answer #9 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Believeing 'in' something is not about believing anything. It's about trusting. Trust nothing.
2007-03-04 02:21:13 · answer #10 · answered by D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋