Atheists don't have proof that God doesn't exist, so why should we believe them?

Question

Atheism doesn't provide any absolute facts to dispute the existence of God, it is just a belief system. So what makes Atheism better than other belief systems?


( an if you do have proof please share, but if you just stand behind semantics you have nothing )

I never said I believed in God.......once again you ask an atheist a direct question and they answer a completely different one.........

Answer 1

Christians don't have proof that god does exist so why should we believe them?
The onus is on the claimant

Answer 2

Actually it is a disbelief system. I can't believe that you don't understand what atheism is.
The fact is that I don't believe in God(s).
What more proof is there for that.
It is a simple blunt fact.

Are you really going to argue that I must believe in God(s).
I have seen some believers claim that atheists do believe in God because the Idea that it is possible to not believe causes a great deal of cognitive dissonance in their religious minds.
No, atheist simply means No Belief in God(s).
I don't need to prove Gods' Nonexistance.

Answer 3

I don't have to have prove anything. I'm all (my life) the proof that I need that God does exist.

Nothing makes atheism better than anything, since it really is nothing after all any way, at least not for me it isn't.

But people can choose to believe however they want since it isn't up to me to tell you how or what to believe, any way. After all God does give everyone the right to make their own choices as to how or what they believe. It isn't up to any one to try to tell any one else how to live or what or who to believe in.

Answer 4

Proofs that certain things do not exist are hard to come by. Such proofs do actually exist --contrary to what some answerers assert-- but of those that do exist people generally do not find interesting, or lack the background to evaluate, or what they assert while true seem contrary to experience. For example, a "true experience" or a "false experience" do not exist. Most people find that troubling because it is such a common part of our vernacular.

So, I doubt that most folk who find themselves as atheists would be likely to offer an argument. This leads to an interesting observation. The poverty of atheism is directly parasitic on the poverty of theism. They go hand in hand.

HTH

Charles

Answer 5

*drink*

You don't have proof that God DOES exist, so why should we believe you?

Christianity doesn't provide any absolute facts to prove the existence of God, it is just a belief system. So what makes Christianity better than other belief systems?

(I don't address blatant strawmen, like the one about atheism being a "belief system". You can deal with the burnt offering to your silly sky-daddy.)

Answer 6

Semantics gives precision to logic. Standing behind semantics is everything.

The burden of proof rests comfortably with the group trying to prove the imperceptible being.

Hell is just an argumentum ad baculum/metam.

Answer 7

Well, you don't have any absolute facts to prove that God exists. As you said, it's a belief system. Why do you care what they believe?

Answer 8

People basically have three choices, believe the people who say God exists (with no proof) or believe the ones who say he doesn't (with no proof) or use their OWN brains and think it out for themselves and come to their own conclusions.

Answer 9

You can't prove a negative. How can you "prove" something doesn't exist? Suppose I claimed there was a planet closer to the sun than Mercury, and you say there isn't. Wouldn't it make more sense for me to have to somehow prove the planet was there, rather than demand you prove to me that it isn't?

Answer 10

Theists don't have proof, although at least we atheists have some physical evidence to explain evolution u have no evidnece to explain creationism.