I'm a Catholic... but at the same time I think that it is important to be aware of other peoples' veiwpoints. So, if it is not too much trouble for atheists if they could explain their beliefs to me (I am sure they are quite varied, though), and perhaps direct me to a few informative websites.
Thank you!
2007-04-03 14:31:27 · 12 answers · asked by Zindo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No God.
Love and blessings Don
2007-04-03 14:34:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was Catholic. The problem with your question is that atheism is the lack of a belief and not an affirmative set of beliefs. However, atheists as a group tend to believe that the universe can be understood if we investigate it, at least to the boundaries of the information we have. I think it tends to create a pragmaticism and an ethical system of what works rather than what should be in a perfect world.
The scientific data really does argue strongly against any divine being. It really isn't neutral. If there is a divine being, it probably does not at all look like the Christian God or the Muslim God or the Hindu Gods/Godessess either. The problem is that the universe can be explained without ever referencing a divine being. Stories like the Jesus stories are not seen as histories or theological statements but as evidence of events misunderstood by the people of the time. They were a primitive mythologically driven people. If you drop the religion from it, they make interesting psychological readings.
2007-04-04 13:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different atheists believe different things, so this questions a bit hard to answer.
I believe in mother earth, and am on a more spiritual type path. Other atheists have different beliefs!
edit: and of course, no god. Being the only real similarity between all Atheists.
2007-04-03 21:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.beyondbelief2006.com
Strictly and firmly, there are no people who are truly atheist, only people who say 'it is impossible to prove or disprove there is a god' and are therefore, agnostic. However, it's equally impossible to prove or disprove the existence of Zeus, or of the giant spaghetti monster, or of a teapot orbiting closely to the sun: we all, technically, have to be agnostic about them too. However, an atheist is a person who, unlike an agnostic, is not too much on the fence about the existence of Zeus, and therefore feels free to make statements like 'there is no God,' and move on, without it troubling him further. Generally such viewpoints are rare (unfortunately,) arising generally in the dispondent or the academic in America (but with much more success in Europe)
2007-04-03 21:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by Alex M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Very simple: I don't believe in god(s). It is not anti-belief or anti-anything. There are no rites, common beliefs or any other unifying factors, other than the absence of belief in god(s).
2007-04-03 21:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists have only ONE "belief".
And that is the lack of belief in god(s).
That is it.
Consider it this way. You know how you don't believe in Zeus? We feel the same way about every other god including the christian, muslim, jewish, hindu gods.
2007-04-03 21:35:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Quite varied'? I doubt it. Simple really. When you are dead, you are dead. No afterlife as preached by all those damm religions. Your seed, if you left any, is passed on genetically like every other living thing on this planet. End of story.
2007-04-03 21:39:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We only have one common belief. No God. That is all there is to it. No group, no rituals, no rules.
2007-04-03 21:34:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no belief involved in non-belief.
2007-04-03 21:35:52 · answer #9 · answered by huffyb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no good evidence for a god, I do not believe in things without good evidence, er thats it.
2007-04-03 21:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋