Do atheist ever ask God if He is real...just in case He might be?

Question

try not to foam at the mouth when you answer...lol
I would think at one time they might ask or wonder....have you ever????

Answer 1

Sure, as I was "on my way out" I asked a lot of times. Many involved tears, pleading, screaming, weeping, etc. Losing ones faith isn't an easy process.

No foam. Just honesty.

Answer 2

Most of us began as theists. Some of us even as clergy. In the US atheists and agnostics are only 3% of the population. So why, other than you're not thinking about it very hard, would you assume in a culture that is so insistent on indoctrinating everyone that atheists didn't start out as part of the theist culture like nearly everyone else? I've asked a lot of the big questions of life, and found some of the answers. Atheism was one.

Answer 3

I'm an atheist - why on earth would I talk to someone I don't believe exists? But I think at some point all atheists have to consider the possibility of god, if only to come to the conclusion they don't think there is one. I hate that people with strong religious views think I just woke up one day and decided to be difficult (otherwise known as 'different from them'.) ... for alot of atheists the decision to take on that title is well-researched and made with a considered balance.

Answer 4

I asked all the time while I was still a believer, but little doubts had started cropping up. I struggled and was tormented by my fight for faith for YEARS. I prayed, I studied, I talked with fellow Christians. I never got an answer from God at all. I never got anything RESEMBLING an answer that made sense from other Christians, I only got non-sensical babble. So I read the Bible cover to cover, (Old Testament AND New Testament) and it confirmed my suspicion that there was no God.

Answer 5

Dude, I talk to god all the time! I only wish that he was real, so then I could rejoin the fold of Christianity, safe in the knowledge that it is true because i have experienced it to be so.

But, unfortunately, i never got an answer. And don't think it's because i asked him the wrong things - 'oh lord, won't you buy me a mercedes benz', etc - all i asked is for him to talk back. but he never did, so stuff god, and stuff religion too. it's all a load of trash, and i should know, one of majors was in comparitive religion.

Answer 6

Have you ever asked the Invisible Pink Unicorn (pbuh) if she exists...just in case She might be? Because that would be a pretty dumb thing to do, talking to imaginary creatures that someone made up. So no, I don't talk to make believe people.

Answer 7

I spent time believing. Doubting. Searching. Reading. I asked God for a sing. Nothing happened.

Answer 8

Do Christians ever ask the Goddess if she is real, just in case?

Should most people pray to the moon just to see if it is sentient and cares about us?

Should we all try talking to trees to see if they talk back ... just in case?

Why try something that you don't believe in ... just in case?

If you pray to your car in the morning and get an answer, be sure to get it on tape, and then maybe atheists will believe it.

Answer 9

I used to believe in god until i realized why. That prompted me to look deeper into the facts surrounding these beliefs and i discovered that there isn't any good reason to believe at all. I don't need to ask a unicorn if it exists to know that it doesn't.

Answer 10

I did. He is. But he's a BIRD.
Try not to foam at the mouth when you read.
We shall offer up shiny objects to His Avianness, yes?

-drink-