Why do some people not believe in God?

Question

I'm not a christian but i believe in God. I can't see any other way in explaining how the universe was created. We didn't just "show up", something had to have put us here. If you don't believe in anything, then how can you explain your own existence? For me God is this. First single celled organisms combine to make organs, then organs make large organisms, organisms make organizations, which make cities, states, countries, and continents, which make the Earth (which is also a living conscious thing) which makes the solar system and the Universe. And the Universe is the collective of all things, and it is ONE GIANT conscious organism which is GOD.

Answer 1

To say that God = Everything is no different than saying God = Nothing.

Answer 2

Christianity is in the minority in the world. That's right - in the minority! There are many, many times more atheists, agnostics and followers of other religions out there.

The simple truth is that Christianity or those that believe in Christianities God simply lack the ability to understand or tolerate anyone else who thinks differently to them.

What ever the rights or wrongs in believing in a God, intolerance of others who do not agree with you surely demeans God and Christianity.

Recent research has shown that people who can quote biblical text are actually more prone to violent attitudes and behaviour - British government research has showed that a disproportinate number Christians commit and are imprisoned for sexual offences than any other religious or non religios grouping - cause for thought there?

Religion and science can exist together. When people can see only their reason for clinging to a God and cannot see why others may not do so - they have lost the ability to reason correctly and are in fact loosing contact with reality. Religious fervour and and other religious ideas are strongly linked to many psychiatric and pschological problems.

Please do not start thinking about what was there before anything else? If all the planets and suns and galaxies were not there - what would? What was there before God? If God was always there why did it take so long to build the earth? What did he build before the earth? If God made man in his image and man is such a terrible murderer, sinner and debaucher what must God be like?

Face it - if you really think that anyone who does not believe as you do is wrong then you have a very real problem. That would make you a religious bigot if nothing else.

Why not join the real world and accept that people have different ideas and values. Why not learn tolerance and seek to understand others.

Answer 3

But don't you see that all you're doing is defining "God" as the limit of your own knowledge?

For example, to say the universe was "created by God" is exactly the same statement as saying "I don't know how the universe was created." God in this instance is just a rhetorical cypher. It's like when your parents used to end an argument with "Because I say so!" when you pushed them to the brink.

One of my friends didn't know the answer to a question on his biology test about some chemical reaction or something, so he just wrote "Aliens. Aliens are responsible for all this weird stuff going on here. It's all part of the conspiracy..." etc.

That's theism!

Answer 4

I explained it some last night and a good point of view came into effect.

Recall that image (many others similar) that is of an old hag and then when you look again, its a young lady? Its a flip flop in your mind due to how you look at it.

I think believing and non believing is just like that. Cause I didn't believe but now I do....and to me, it is still seeing everything else that I saw...but in a new way.

And it would help define the line of "you won't understand till you believe"

Kind of like those posters from the 90's....stare n stare at them and sooner or later a picture jumps out. Some could see it and some couldn't.

Cause it has nothing to do with lack of smarts, being dropped on the head, having depression, have a major loss in a life, etc...like most non believers think.

Actually is gaining IQ...which is the ability to see outside the box of the normal compared to those of the same age. Most think IQ means book smarts and eduction...that is farther from the truth. Gaining that IQ allows us to see the world through different glasses.

Also similar to that old TV series, " V " from the 80's. Some could see the aliens posing as humans and others couldn't, yet everyone saw everything......its all in perception of your surroundings.

Those that don't believe.....are so focused on toys, material, next game out, whats hip, whos hot, etc so so so much, that they just can't grasp let alone see that flip side that is right in front of them. Almost like they are blinded by the sun (not litterally) and just driving right on by.

Answer 5

There is no evidence that indicates God only a lack of knowledge in the origins of life and the universe. We attributed things where we lacked knowledge to God in past and then learned that there were perfectly natural explanations. There are hypotheses for the origins of life that involve God and those that involve completely natural processes. I am unwilling to leap to the conclusion that since we don't know it must be God. Given our past findings I lean toward there is probably a natural explanation. God brings only more questions, like where did God come from or who created God?

Answer 6

The gist of the problem is that all explanations for the presence of God are based on the absence of other " believable " explanations
The problem with that line of thinking is that in time all those " I can't believes " become believable and in many cases facts of life
" I can't believe that : fill in the blank
Men will fly
polio will be cured
painless surgery will be possible
the horse will be obsolete
The list is huge and endless.
So explaining the presence of God by your absence of a better explanation does not qualify as proof.
gotta run

Answer 7

Some people look at the universe and see a controlling hand everywhere.

Others look at the same universe and see a random convergence of matter and energy.

The former believe in God, the latter do not. BTW: Many/most (I'd venture to say just about all) people are somewhere in the middle of those two extremes

Answer 8

Your reasons for believing in God are due to not being able to explain the origin of life. Therefore, you contribute that origin to God. People who do not believe in God, also can not explain the origin of life. However, instead of filling the missing information with "God" as the explanation, they believe that mankind has not yet discovered the answer.

Answer 9

I hate to use such a worn out answer, but didn't God just "show up"? Even if he has always been, he's a pretty complex organism that did not need a creator. How do you explain God's existence?

Answer 10

Some people don't believve in it because some people have different logic than you.

A personal religious belief or faith can be neither right nor wrong. It is yours and yours alone. My connection with the spiritual is entirely different than yours.

You call yours god, I call mine, Goddess. Someone else says Allah. Someone else says Buddah, or Vishnu or . Is it the same idea? Yes. So why do we fight? Its all about semantics.

Answer 11

I get so tired of answering this question because it gets asked a dozen times a day.

Look at the bible and tell me why anyone should? Then look at science and it makes a heck of alot more sense.

I think you live in a fantasy world that I'm not going to decieve myself with just because it sounds nice.