Now I am hearing that Atheists don't believe in any spirituality?

Question

There is rhetoric going around that some are very rigid, smacking their kids when they make games about ghosts and fairies. The opposite spectrum of the Puritan, and just as tyrranical. I knew that they did not believe in an organized religion concept of god, but how can anyone deny that there is magic in the world? Or even the possibility? We know there is a spirit because the body loses a certain amount of weight when it dies. It's energy. Very scientific if you ask me. Does that anger Atheists, or do they accept that there is a paranormal world?

Yea, not trying to convince anyone. I just would like to know if there is a standard belief system. I said, SOME Atheists are rigid. The 21 grams things sounds a bit hokey to me as well. I just wanted to offer a challenge, and that was the quickest I could find.
I'm not Christian.

Answer 1

Atheistic views will vary with each one you talk to, best not to stereotype or assume we're all the same. It serves no purpose.

It's the Bible that says "spare the rod, spoil the child".

"He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24)

I deny magic (as we know and define the term) and the possibility thereof. Spirit may equal energy for you - but energy is just plain energy to me. I have no paranormal view and feel no pressing need to accept one.

It doesn't make me angry .. questions like this just make me shake my head and wonder if your laundry is piling up.

Answer 2

What a load of crap. Where did you hear this insanity? No good parent would ever smack their kids for making games about ghosts and fairies, Atheist or not.

As for "21 grams", thats an urban myth. You might like to look it up.

Btw, I'm quite spiritual. I believe in ghosts and spirits because I've seen, and had experiences, with them. The universe is a wide and varied place.

Someone asked the other day about Gorbechev saying that he was an Atheist but he believed in the "universe" and what exactly that meant. My reply was that he's a "spiritual atheist" meaning that he believes that the universe is a great, wide, and varied place, that is always greater than anything we can do. However, that does not mean there is a god.

The paranormal are simply things that science has yet to explain with conclusive proof. There IS proof but nothing that can be given as definate, which is why the paranormal is put into the realm of pseudo-science.

Being Atheist doesn't mean that a person believes in nothing, it means that the person does not believe in a god. Thats all it means but Christians keep trying to twist it to mean something else.

Answer 3

We don't believe that it's magical. You are basing it all entirely by what you believe. Which is fine for you, but it's not necessarily the default belief and not that of others.

I have never heard of anyone smacking their kids around. I'm sure bad families come in all walks of life, but I grew up in a non believer family, and were coincidentally straddled by two other households that believe about the same as we do...and I never heard of the violence that you suggest.

Religion and gods was not a part of our life, kids were allowed to play whatever we wanted, we didn't believe the stuff so none of it was ever a big deal.

Answer 4

I don't believe in the supernatural or god(s). I strongly doubt that any sort of magic exists. The jury is out on mental powers, but it doesn't look good. I encourage my kids to read and imagine and have a large collection of scifi and fantasy waiting for when they get old enough.

Last but not least, I was pretty sure that the body losing weight when it died was disproved many times.

Answer 5

Athiests do not believe in any supernatural entity or God. But no, I don't smack my kid for beliving in Harry Potter, for goodness sakes! There's nothing wrong with believing in magic--its just what children do. They have to grow up someday anyway, why would I take that innocent belief away before they are ready? I don't get irked at a child for believing in fairies, I *do* get irked at adults for believing in the same things.

BTW, energy is electrical, not spiritual. Whether you choose to believe in a soul is your choice, but please don't use science to try to back up an untenable position. The existance of a soul has never been proven and the fact the body loses mass when it dies is its loss of electricity, not it's "soul".

Answer 6

So sad - It is simply christian misinformation.

Atheists simply do not believe in any sort of god. That does not mean they cannot be spiritual, believe in magic or any form of religion that does not have a God.

The sad fact is that no other group, religious or otherwise has any problem with atheists, agnostics or pagans - only Christians. That is because their faith is so weak they cannot accept anyone who thinks differently.

Answer 7

When you die, much of the air in your body escapes, so naturally you weigh less. And the fluid in your body evaporates without being replaced, and you lose more weight. Whether a spiritual energy also leaves the body, we do not know.

Answer 8

Does the body loose weight? I thought it got heavier.....at what point does it loose weight???

I think there is a whole spectrum of athiest, those that don't believe in anything, to those who just sit on the fence.

Just like there are christians, that go to church every sunday...to those who just watch their kids school nativity play

Answer 9

I deny that there is magic in the world. There is not even a possibility. Easy, isn't it? The change in weight on death is a myth. The universe runs on natural laws.

Answer 10

Please tell me you're not serious. This is reality we're talking about, not story-book fantasies. Magic only exists in the human imagination. And how on Earth could a 'spirit' have any weight? Why would it be subject to the laws of gravity if it's part of a non-material, supernatural realm? Please try to use your brain and not just accept what people tell you.