True atheists? I think many atheists have become non-atheists and true Christian haters?

Question

Do you choose to 'not believe' because that negates your responsibility to live with morals?
Or is it just you honestly don't see evidence of a God?

I ask sincerely.

Answer 1

So many Christians have became non-Christians and true Atheists haters.

Answer 2

I dont see evidence of God and am against all religions as they are a form of mass brain-washing.

We have religous books that say things and priests and religous figureheads telling others to live by what the books say. Most of these people must be hypocrites in the belief of these books as I see less and less helping others in the world.
Churches and Mosques are built and they are paid for by the church and yet there are still homless people living on the street. Nowhere in these books they believe in are they told to build these things and spend all the money they do on them. They are told to go and help others. This is the major failing of religions they have been manipulated by the leaders of the churches to provide wonderfull places for them to preach to the followers.
Why dont some of the religous leaders stop preaching and start practising what they say others should do.
Because of this I hate religion.
I however do not believe through my education and understanding of science. Every religous book seems to skip over this. The scientific facts have shown how old the earth is, has shown evolution.
I can also see why the religions where created as that was the only way to explain the unexplainable of the time. Go and look back before christianity and they had other gods who controlled everything. If the bible where true where did peoples belief in these other gods come from. No the other cultures that believed in these gods where taken over and their beliefs destroyed as their god didnt protect them. With Islam and Christianity and Hindus, the societies that grew from these creations have survived and so people still believe in them. Even though science is showing so much that is not in the holy books they come up with excuses as to why this is.
I am finding it very hard to live in a world where so many are living in an illusion that was created 2000 years ago.
There are no Gods. There is the universe and we havent explained how that came to be nor will we it will only ever be theories. But if you go back to the beginning of the universe will you find anything there. I think you wont. And then you come across the problem. How can there be nothing. But do you need a god to create things, why just because you cant explain it.
Religions have caused more wars and more suffering than anything else through history. If there was a god would he let people who believed in him suffer in his name. Well according to the books he would he let his son die for the sins of others. That makes God sadistic to me and how can anybody believe that a sadist created everything. There are too many contradictions for the belief in a God of any type.

Answer 3

This is the one thing that annoys me most about christians. I remember when I used to go to YF we had a lesson on why people wouldn't be christians. The focal points were all to do with drinking, smoking, drugs and premarital sex. Christians are not the only one with morals! Athiests do not 'chose' not to beleive so they can live an immoral life. Well, i'm sure that is an influencial factor for a small minority, but that doesn't mean to say they beleive in God and claim not to so that they can be immoral. As I always say religion in belief first, then a way of life. The reason for athiesm is mainly because christianity is full of contradictions and far fetched stories that don't make any sense.

Answer 4

I don't recognize your morals. The morals people from *all* religions and countries share are great, universal morals (don't kill, don't steal etc). I'm all for them.

But religiously motivated morals, like "Homosexuality is evil", "Condoms are bad", "Women must cover their hair" or "Pork is unclean meat" are ideas that don't make any sense to me. It's in some Holy Book? What if someone wrote that part as a joke, would it still be part of religious dogma? Because people are prepared to believe in some weird crap, just do a Google Search (sorry, I mean Yahooo) on Cargo Cults.

Not only do I not see any evidence of God; I honestly think that God makes no sense. I really, honestly, truly do think that God is as probable as the Easter Bunny.

Answer 5

Oh what an underhanded trick question this is. Typical of a christian to not fight fair! I know plenty of atheists...in real life...not this cyber world....do you know any personally? Atheists are FAR more moral than any christian I have ever met.....and they don't do it out of fear of god...they do the right thing simply because it is right. Atheists don't have the "forgiveness get out of sin free card"...they simply live good lives in the here and now. 99% of atheists simply do not see any evidence of God or the supernatural.

I'm a Pagan Rationalist....and honestly I can't stand most christians. The christians on this forum and the ones I know personally are the most immoral, hypocritical ppl I have ever met. Give me atheists anyday.

Answer 6

Loaded question par excellence, but I'll go with it.

I have a very strict moral sense, and what is more I act from a set of morals because I think they are right and not so that I can get a big reward/avoid a big punishment. Atheists are more intrinsically moral than theists.

And there IS no evidence of a god. None at all.

I answer sincerely.

Answer 7

The same Way Some Christians Hate those that do not believe in their form of Christian faith?
Amazes me that some people think you do not believe in a God Simply Because you don't believe in a Personal God... so, being Non-Theistic is equated with being Godless, and Moral-less, when this is just not the case

Answer 8

Here's my sincere answer: I honestly do not see evidence of any god or other supernatural entity. And what's more, I do not hate christians, in fact I do not hate anyone, and I have moral standards and responsibility just the same as you do. By assuming something else, you insult me in fact.

Answer 9

Because you say you ask sincerely I will be polite ;) Normally a question like this has malicious intentions behind it...

But your argument is seriously flawed. If people became atheists to avoid morals, you'd expect them to break laws. If they break laws, you expect them to be imprisoned. But in the US 8-16% of the population are atheists. But 0.2% of the US prison population are atheists. Surely this falsifies your argument, showing that it is wrong.

It's also not 'not seeing evidence of gods'. It's there not being evidence.

I hope this helps.

Answer 10

So, you think that Christians have cornered the market on morality?

According to prison inmate statistics, Christians are 50 times more likely to commit a crime than Atheists!

It seems even with the threat of damnation hanging over your heads, you're far from familiar with morality.

Answer 11

I don't believe in the concept of an omnipotent creator being because it's not logical... however, whatever works for others to teach them to subdue their arrogance, cultivate compassion, wisdom, altruism, etc. is what's best for them, therefore I don't "hate" anyone...

"Morals" is a subjective word... my version of ethics, which I get from Buddhism doesn't negate any responsibility at all... as a matter of fact it drives home personal responsibility for ALL of my actions even HARDER. I don't have an omnipotent creator being to blame, nor a fantastical "demon" to blame when things don't go my way... only my own mind and actions...

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