Is it immoral to not believe in God?

Question

I don't think so, but I just want to see what others have to say.

Answer 1

No. It is immoral to do something that you know hurts others, or could hurt others. That's it.

Answer 2

I think each human being owes it to him or herself to make a diligent effort to find out what the evidence is regarding God. If they make such an effort and still decide there's not sufficient evidence to believe, I respect them, for I am very humble about what I don't know, even though I do believe in God. But I have lots of atheist friends who have told me they don't believe in God, and when I ask them about specific pieces of evidence that seem to suggest there might be a God, it's like they haven't even THOUGHT through the issue. They've just made the decision to be an atheist because it's easier than doing the work to find the truth. To me, that's laziness and that I cannot respect.

Answer 3

Jesus seemed to say that a lack of belief was immoral. It seems that the Bible draws a distinction between honest doubt (which is an emotion akin to fear) and a deliberate burying ones head in the sand: I.E.: "unbelief", which is an act of the will.

A few exemplary passages:
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But [Jesus] continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."
~John 8:23,24 (NIV)

"Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him."
~John 5:22,23 (NIV)

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
~John 3:16-21 (NIV)

"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
~Revelation 21:8 (NIV)

New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

Answer 4

No. It's immoral to be a hypocrite about it. It's immoral to force your beliefs on others. It's immoral to try to circumvent the law of the land to have your narrow views of the world taught in publicly-funded schools. It's immoral to condemn to death those who disagree with your beliefs.
Not believing in gods is a right under our Constitution. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

Answer 5

I think it is IMMORAL TO BELIEVE in god.

Think about it.

it is immoral to support someone who, if he/she/it/they are omnipotent, then they are responsible for all the death, disease and cruelty in the world.

they are responsible for the way some people have it easier than others. they are responsible for all that.

The only true "god" would be death. Death visits all people equally, young and old, rich and poor, no one can cheat death.

There was an old grimm brothers fairy tale about this, a man was looking for a godfather for his son, god applied, he turned god away because he treats people differently, satan applied but he was turned away because he was evil and leads people into temptation and tricks them, finally he asked death (the grim reaper) to be his child's godfather because he treats all men (and women) equally.

thus if you prey to god you are supporting all the evil and unjust acts god has ever committed. Look at the bible it is full of them. No, just look at the book of jobe, how god toyed with a man's life and health just for the sake of his own satisfaction. If you support and believe in that and think that is just and ok, then you are truly an immoral person.

Answer 6

Depends on the god. Most of them it is immoral to believe "at least in the literal sense".

Answer 7

no b/c the people who don't know God or don't know about God can't be blamed for not following after God. It's very tricky because the self righteous will tell you otherwise. At one point, some of the unbelievers didn't believe but it usually takes a huge experience (good or bad) for God to get out attention.

Answer 8

No. I honestly don't see how it's immoral not to believe in God anymore then I feel that it's moral to believe in God. Peace!!!!!

Answer 9

No, I think it shows good common sense. Is it immoral to not believe in the Easter Bunny? People who outgrow that aren't called immoral. Just kids growing up and becoming aware of the lies we're told as children for our amusement.

Answer 10

It may indeed be deeply immoral, and a very mortal sin, of you to not believe in God if by doing so you behave against the authorized or certified established and sincere beliefs of the community in which you live and of which you by birth or by other lawful motive are a declared member.

If your community is ... Jewish or Christian, then you have a holy Bible which contains all the whereabouts of World Creation, Sins and Deluge, and the annals of the Jewish people in the Old Testament, and the vicissitudes and preachings and miracles of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. It would be deeply immoral of you to deny some or all such truths.

If your community is Moslemic then you have the most holy Qoran and so you are compelled to believe in God (Allah) and to surrender onto Him otherwise you might even easily risk death penalty for your most sinful unbelief.

The issue of immorality may be explained in this way: To be moral, you must believe in your Creator and in His Commandments and so in your own biological or putative parents and be most faithful onto them; then you must believe that your spouse is lawfully and morally yours if you are formally certified as being married together; you must believe in the Church or Temple where you were baptized or certified as being a member. In all these cases it would be objectively deeply immoral of you to deny belief.

If you live in a community of sincere and proud atheists it would be deeply immoral of you towards your companion atheists to declare that you believe in a God as it would go against the deepest convictions and certainties of the members of such an atheistic community.

If you live on your own, and you have your own private and even or possibly secret philosophy of life, or even nothing like that, and you just respect the civil laws of the Country in which you live, then you may consider yourself as rightly moral in respect to that, and then you may even not bother at all about any holy religious morality, unless the representatives of the local religion contact you and declare that you must show up onto their rituals and dutifully obey their precepts. This would be a sort of imposed moral, and a fake moral behavior from your part if you for strategical reasons of survival surrender onto it,

but in fact the concept of "moral" etymologically sounds very much like something that wants to keep you backwards or under control, as much as the concept of "yoga" etymologically sounds very much like the English word "yoke", meaning "harness" that we may impose on draft animals.

Good luck!

Answer 11

I don't believe in god. And there are other religions out there....they don't think it's immoral. only a christian would say so.