Fellow atheists, can you logically support why you are atheists?

Question

I say that God is too paradoxical and incomplete to explain the world. Why would God grant prayers for us at the expense of others? Why would God favor "the good" over "the bad." How can God be both destructive and loving at the same time? How could God let there be evil in this world? If God existed and gave all of us free will, then why can we not do whatever we want? In other words, God put limitations on our free will. Why did God not restrict our free will even further? Why would God care if little ants like we (not us) believed in God? Is God so self-contradictory that God expects us to be modest while God demands that we praise and worship God?

I forgot to add a question mark. I just realized that it should actually be "us" instead of "we." Good luck with your answers. Give the answer that will rule them all!

I will give the best answer to that person that comes up with a detailed, logical answer. Christians, beware, for you are in for a scare.

Dog sneeze, explain what "God" means to you. I am just giving my response to as complete a picture of God as possible. By trying to degrade my logic, your logic is by no means any stronger. Take that.

refundhi12 r, I don't think that God would appreciate your language. What a hypocrite!

TO ALL OF YOU THAT CAN'T COMPREHEND IT: I AM AN ATHEIST.

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."--Marx

Answer 1

I'm an atheist first and foremost because there is no evidence for God.

But I also find many Christian doctrines preposterous, for many of the reasons that you note.

Answer 2

There is no evidence for the existence of "God," whatever that is supposed to be, exactly. There are many different opinions, and no proof, lots of feelings, emotions, hopes, dreams, faith, belief, and wishful thinking, but nothing tangible that anyone can point to and say that it is God, or that it is the work of God. Everything in nature has a natural, understandable, testable, and verifiable explanation. The more we learn about the universe, the less we need to rely on scary boogie-men in the sky to explain anything. I became an atheist for the same reason that adults stop believing in the Easter Bunny.

Answer 3

Try going to school and learning the facts about the world. Thats logical enough.

I don't live my life believing that people used to live to be 900 years old, that a man can be swallowed by a whale and coughed up alive a month later, that a burning bush can talk, that a snake and donkey can talk, that a stick can turn into a snake, that a sea can part on command, that two of every animal in the world can live on an ark the size of a small house and taken care of by 8 people with enough food to last for years, that a man can be born of immaculate conception the son of a god, that water can be turned into wine, that a man can walk on water, and that a man can rise from the dead three days after he died.

How about you tell me why you can believe that load of crap when there's as much fantasy in it as in a Piers Anthony novel?

See... I have logic on my side. NONE of that is possible.

Answer 4

I'm not an Atheist but, I'll take a stab at this anyway. I am, by no means, religious. I find religion weird (sorry guys!) so, I won't be using bible verses or anything. I'm sort of practical that way. That being said, I see why people don't believe in God but, at the same time, I don't see why people say God is this tyrant. That's how some people make him out to be. Last time I looked, my free will wasn't limited at all. I can go right out and murder someone just like I always could. Nothing is there to stop me except my own morality. To me, that's total free will. You making the choice to not believe in God in and of itself is proof that our freewill isn't restricted.

You asked why God allows evil. The better question is, why do people do evil? God gave the first humans a choice of what to do. They chose to do what He told them not to do, hence, crappy life on Earth. Was it fair? I'd say yeah. How can you make a choice with nothing to choose from? Just because someone is smoking crack, does it mean you should join in too? It's there, you can. Do you do it or do you skip out on the pipe? You want God to jump in when the power is within you to stop whatever bad thing is happening. 99% of the time, people can stop bad things, they just don't feel like it.

God actually doesn't demand jack from us. His ego isn't that fragile. He wants faith based on love, not on what He can give someone because they believe. I know I wouldn't want some dude to love me because I could buy him everything under the sun. That's not real.

To paint a nice, complete picture, sometimes dark colors are gonna have to be used. What you think is at the expense of others might not be. You don't always know the whole story and yeah, everything happens for a reason. You might not always see the reason but, it's there. As irritating as that thought is, I've found it to be true.

I do respect your opinion. Can't help but to do that. I see your points. I'm not at all shocked or freaked out. It's your choice to believe that. At least you're using your noodle. Not everyone who believes in God is a blind sheep who just follows along because they don't know any better. I believe in science, I use logic and I believe in God. You can be a thinking person and still believe. You see God one way, I see Him in another way. You might very well be right but, as I'm sure you'd agree, you're willing to stick to your guns and ride it out because your thinking brought you to this conclusion. We all choose a certain path and there's no reason to belittle anyone else for choosing something that differs from what you happen to think is right.

Answer 5

I am an atheist mainly because science can expalin away so many things in the bible. For example, the Red Sea really does part on its own Nepolian did it and its recorded in history. The shrowd of Torin (Turin?? I dont know what its called) has been proven with science to be fake and there was recently a special on TV disproving everything about Noah and an ark. I believe in logical explanations for things not miracles, I believe in the big bang, evolution ,dinosaurs, all that good stuff. I remember the first time somebody read the bible to me as a child and I didnt know it was supposed to be "true" I though I was being read another fairy tale. I believe if you have problems in life you have to fix them yourself not beg some person up in "heaven" Oh yeah and where the hell (pun intended) is heaven? In space? When you die you go in a hole in the ground and decompose thats it.

Answer 6

You have only criticized one conception of God among the many, many available. This, alone, does not support atheism.


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You criticized (actually just merely questioned) one Christian form of monotheism. There are other forms of monotheism. There are forms of polytheism. There is henotheism. There is also deism. There is pantheism. There is panentheism. And so forth. Regardless, a few petulant questions aimed at a few vaguely Christian doctrines does not support atheism in any direct sense.

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I see that you have quoted Marx. Let's use him as an example to contextualize. His critique of religion was infomed by his teenage tutor who was also a well known (atheist) theologian, Bruno Bauer, who was in turn influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach, who was in turn influenced by Fredrich Schleiermacher. All of this was a particular development of secularism and applied modernism within liberal Lutheran theology.

Answer 7

All your questions....What difference does it matter? If you believe what you believe, so be it. Why try to explain or question your logic if your so confident in what you believe? Could there be any actual curiosity or craving for more in your spirit? That curiosity you may feel inside you is something supernatural, not of the human mind. Regardless of what route you take to get to God, (which are usually man made religion, which I choose not to practice, too many flaws). God does exist, he exists inside you.

Answer 8

I think that all of your questions are answered in the first few chapters of the Bible...God created man and he loved them, but God gives us free will. You and any other atheists confuse human free will with an evil god. God IS a God of wrath and love at the same time...you are a person of love and wrath at the same time, the Bible says that we are created in His image. Adam and Eve, chose on their own free will to allow sin into this world, and ever since then, we blame God. It just sounds like everyone points their finger at God and blames him for everything wrong, and the whole time, there are 3 other fingers pointing back at you. I pray that you will see my point. Don't blame God. We do the things that we want to do, we choose our own paths in life, it's all human free will.

Answer 9

History shows us that man has created over 8,000 Gods--all of them terribly flawed--going by the written records of their behavior --& of course--there is no evidence so whatever that there is a separate God.

Answer 10

You talk as if you believe in a 'god'. You do not sound like an atheist to me.