If you don't believe in God, why not? Or is it not important enough to truly consider? Whyyy??

Answer 1

Firstly, you can't prove that he exists, or that he doesn't exist. In the grand scheme of things, you're screwed either way. If you live your life how God wants you to, you're not living your life the way you want to, but maybe you'll go to heaven. If you live how you want, you can live for yourself, but you might end up in hell. Lose-lose situation.

Then you have the whole issue of one religion against another. They all claim they're are the right one. So who's right?

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg \

In short, I say it's not worth worrying about.

Answer 2

Which God? It depends...

I believe in no god at all, but depending on which god or concept of god you are talking about, my answer would be a little different.

If you are speaking simply of a concept, like the deist god, then the answer is simply that there is no evidence of such a being.

For theist gods, the answer is the same, except there are other reasons added -

Texts such as the Bible are full of scientific inaccuracies, contradictions, and inconsistencies.

Without said texts, some of which claim to be the inerrant word of God, the being would not be known at all.

Many gods share the qualities of a deity like Jesus - Krishna, Mithra, Horus, Dionysos, etc.

Even so, the main reason for not believing is a lack of evidence.

The difference between not believing in a Deist god and a theistic god is that should there ever be evidence of a supreme being, there would be less problems in believing a Deist concept than a theistic one - less reasons to not believe.

Now, say there was some evidence someday that a god like Yahweh does, in fact exist -

Well, then - though I may believe in his existence due to the evidenece, I would still have a problem following a God who is so malevolent.

Answer 3

Simple: because I feel no need for deity in my life.

I adhere to a philosophy and outlook on life in which "God" is simply not part of the equation. Science and psychology give me enough answers about human behavior and the physical world, so I feel no need to bring notions of "a big invisible man did it" into the equation (which wouldn't really answer how things work anyway). I find enough mystery and awe in mathematics, music, and organized ceremony to get my "spiritual" kicks. I feel no need to depend on external entities, no matter how down I might get on this rollercoaster of life; I am my own redeemer.

I have no fear about this choice of mine. If I were a deity, I know I'd have much more respect for those who made the most of life with what I gave them, instead of nagging me every Sunday. Finally, I find that worshipping a deity for fear of "going to hell" is ridiculous, since just about every religion claims to be the "right" one, and there's absolutely no good reason why I should take one group's word over somebody else's. Believing in God "just in case" has to be the lamest way to sell religion. You could use that reasoning to justify believing in any myth that gives threats.

And don't even get me started on the "watchmaker argument", or the arguments from St. Thomas or St. Augustine. A minimal amount research (or one semester in Logic 101 class) debunks these.

Answer 4

As people grow up and learn about reality, they usually tend to drop the fairy tales they have been told, or at least they adjust them to reality. But you have every right to believe in your god, just don't bother me , as I worship my god. That's Me! The Bible is the most violent pornographic book I have ever looked at, it should be discarded as well as the Talmud and any other written crap that professes to be the ultimate answer. The Ten Commandments are right on the money, if you can't use them and lead a happy life, well maybe you should stop wasting your time here. Find something decent and go with it.

Answer 5

Everyone believes in God...religion makes the whole God idea so confusing. We grow up thinking about the God we were taught about when we were kids, we get minds of our own and disagree with some things that doestn mean that their is no God. Think of our design, how complex, can you think of any human that could do it better?? Its so simple we miss it...we touch something hot our body sends a signal to our mind telling us to move our hand. We get cut our body beginnes healing right away makeing a clot (scab) how brilliant right. Of course we were designed with a spirtiual defense, christians call it the "holy spirit" this energy is in all of us to use. Believing we have this "power" to tap into an inner energy is simply called faith, thats it thats all. Faith can do anything, real faith that is. Sounds to good to be true right,so everyone doubts, which is no faith, which equals no miracles. Dont waste your life trying to figure it all out you never will. As soon as you thought you had it all figured out in the womb, we were born into a whole other world and everything changed, just like what will happen when we leave this world. Just have faith...thats all you need to know and by the way the only explanation for God...Love. Now here is my question ...what is love??? By the way answers you have will come to you if you feed that "inner force" we are made up of the spirit and of the flesh. focus on your spirit,feed it and it will grow, and grow and with that wisdom will grow and you will grow, do you get it??

Answer 6

There is absolutely no evidence for god at all. Every philosophical proof is extremely flawed, no empirical evidence can be found, studies that focus on detecting the supernatural consistently fail.

Furthermore what we know about the universe now is contrary to what we would expect to find if a creator god was in charge. I am of course assuming you are talking about the Judeo-Christian god. This particular god is impossible in itself. All you need to do is read the bible while keeping in mind the supposed nature of this god and you will see how contradictory it is. I could probably write for days on the subject of the non-existence of god but i will stop here this time.

Answer 7

Considering all of the horrible things that occur in this world it would seem there is either not a God or that this God just flat out doesn't care. In either case It is pointless to believe a God exists when there is no evidance to support that idea.

If this God is all powerful and we have no evidance of a God then this God must not want us to know its out there so screw it. There is no God.

Answer 8

Do believers really, honestly think that some atheists choose atheism because they don't want to have to put forth the work for Christianity? Come on! Perhaps, it's because....oh, they don't believe that God exists. My lack of belief is based on my thoughts that the God theory is just too far-fetched and, sorry, ridiculous. Another part of it is that I don't really care that much. Honestly, all I am worried about is my life on Earth, not before I was born or what happens after I die.

Answer 9

Which god are you referring to? I don't find any of the common descriptions of gods to be believable.

Since you didn't specify, you probably are referring to the God of the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament). I find Zeus to be just as believable as Yahweh. Do you believe in Zeus?

Answer 10

even the devil believes in God.

St. Thomas Aquinas' "Suma Theologica" debunks myths of atheists and proves that God exists:

"In the Summa theologiae Aquinas records his famous five ways which seek to prove the existence of God from the facts of change, causation, contingency, variation and purpose. These cosmological and teleological arguments can be neatly expressed in syllogistic form as below:


Way 1
1. The world is in motion (motus).
2. All changes in the world are due to some prior cause.
3. There must be a prior cause for this entire sequence of changes, i.e. God.


Way 2
1. The world is a sequence of events.
2. Every event in the world has a cause.
3. There must be a cause for the entire sequence of events, i.e. God.


Way 3
1. The world might not have been.
2. Everything that exists in the world depends on some other thing for its existence.
3. The world itself must depend upon some other thing for its existence, i.e. God.


Way 4
1. There are degrees of perfection in the world.
2. Things are more perfect the closer they approach the maximum.
3. There is a maximum perfection, i.e. God.


Way 5
1. Each body has a natural tendency towards its goal.
2. All order requires a designer.
3. This end-directedness of natural bodies must have a designing force behind it. Therefore each natural body has a designer i.e. God.