please be honest, don't show your pride!! because i will notice that right quick!!
2007-03-23 06:01:21 · 22 answers · asked by Not Of This World 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there are many atheists who are unhappy about being atheists and they wanna believe back in God but all eventually returned to faith. The road to God isn't difficult really. why can't they believe in God? God's mercy includes us all
2007-03-23 06:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by zozza 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I admire Jesus, but I do not subscribe to Christianity as a religion. Jesus' way of life is not the only thing I believe in, and by the rules of Christian faith, I would be forced to recant some of my more out-there beliefs (yes, I have many!). Any religion that forces me to think against my own nature and conscience is not for me. Plus, I'm a constant evaluator. Any religion that tells me to stop thinking for myself is a cage I'd rather not be herded into. I suppose you could say I don't reject the possibility of God, but I do reject the practice of Man's God-based religions as they are commonly presented. I see them as having more a human agenda than a godly agenda. Oh yeah, I'm more agnostic, not so much an atheist.
2007-03-23 13:13:56 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing preventing anyone from believing in anything. I could believe in the FSM if I wanted to. The issue is not in believing but in the ability to ignore what you can't believe.
People's happiness is not neccessarily related to a religious viewpoint. It is however a theistic tendency to believe that it is.
I'm happy some of the time, sad some of the time, but mostly I am just contented. That's pretty good really, and it's just life.
Ryee40007: Why do theists spend so much time arguing the existence of something they DO believe in? On some level that must mean that they doubt.
2007-03-23 13:03:38 · answer #3 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to disappoint you with another answer from a happy atheist.
I've also often been called upon to comfort Christian friends of mine suffering some unhappiness in their lives or even clinical depression. (and no it's not because I was undermining their faith. I would not do that to a friend.)
I do not mean to say that faith causes depression and unhappiness. I am sure many people find a great deal of comfort in it. I'm just pointing out that not all Atheists are miserable nor are all Christians or other religious people happy either.
2007-03-23 13:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by K 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many days, yes, I would like to believe in a deity again.
I did not choose to become an atheist, nor did I want to. When I became an atheist, I was actually trying to renew and revive a dying faith.
2007-03-23 13:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've been very unhappy in the past and have occasionally felt isolated but I have never turned to God. I simply don't believe in such an entity.
2007-03-23 13:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists tend to have arrived at their rationale by dint of experience in life.
They don't tend to be as hung up as religious types as they have free thought and don't rely on others for daily direction.
Also they have come to the decision that in the balance of probabilities there is no god - ergo there is nothing to want to believe in from that perspective.
2007-03-23 13:19:21 · answer #7 · answered by Andy S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I'd certainly like for there to be a god, but since that's not going to happen I'm perfectly happy as an atheist. I don't need a world of comfortable illusions, and if I did I could just take drugs.
2007-03-23 13:04:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm happy. But I'd like to believe there is a God the same way I'd like to believe I'll be a billionaire someday. (Probably not gonna happen).
2007-03-23 13:12:21 · answer #9 · answered by skeptic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness and truth are not necessarily the same thing. Someone who chooses to believe in God because it makes them feel better doesn't have much intellectual integrity.
2007-03-23 13:05:58 · answer #10 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am sort of an agnostic, almost atheist. It doesn't make me *happy*, but you can't make yourself believe in something. You either do or you don't, right?
I could say I believe in Jesus, but I would not be being honest with myself.
2007-03-23 13:05:51 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋