Question for EVERYONE -- -- Reasons why people don't believe in God (10 true or false options)?

Question

Please respond with "true" or "false" to each option.


People don't believe in God (Yahweh, the Judeo-Christian deity) because they:

1. are afraid to believe.
2. are angry with God.
3. are too stubborn to submit to God's will.
4. misunderstand scripture.
5. adhere to another faith which, by definition, is false.
6. adhere to another faith which is simply an "alternate route to the same destination".
7. don't understand the concept of God.
8. haven't had, realized they've had or accepted they've had a spiritual connection to and personal experience with God.
9. can't will themselves to believe in something they know to be logically impossible.
10. haven't been exposed to the idea of "a deity".

Oh, and...

11. anything I forgot (provide details)

Dog Sneeze, I haven't gotten any emails from you lately... if you're sending them, I'm not getting them.

Answer 1

1. False- why would I be afraid?
2. False- how can I be angry with someone that I dont believe in?
3. False- I dont believe in him. How would I submit to him?
4. False- I majored in theology. I know the bible.
5. False-I am an atheist
6. False- ditto
7. False-I do understand the concept of god, which is why I dont believe.
8. False- I actually was a practicing christian for quite a while. I had 'the relationship'
9. True- I became an atheist because I could no longer force myself to believe something that I know isnt true
10. False- See all of the above

Answer 2

I don't believe in Yahweh, the Judeo-Christian deity because I:

1. are afraid to believe. False, I believe in God but not the Abrahamic god

2. are angry with God. No way

3. are too stubborn to submit to God's will. God does not want me to submit to anything

4. misunderstand scripture. No, I do understand their scripture and it's frightening

5. adhere to another faith which, by definition, is false. I adhere to another faith but I wouldn't call it false

6. adhere to another faith which is simply an "alternate route to the same destination". Which destination?

7. don't understand the concept of God. Well I certainly don't understand how they like their concept.

8. haven't had, realized they've had or accepted they've had a spiritual connection to and personal experience with God. I've experienced God

9. can't will themselves to believe in something they know to be logically impossible. As in the bible? Yep, true

10. haven't been exposed to the idea of "a deity". I've been exposed

11. anything I forgot (provide details) I learned a lot about many belief systems (and non belief) and decided which made the most sense to me. Christianity was way down on the 'makes sense' list.

Answer 3

1. False
2. True for a few people, not most. (My uncle became an Atheist after being angry with God for taking away his father, who committed suicide).
3. False
4. False
5. False (I think the adhering to another faith part could be a true reason, but I mark this false because I don't think that other faiths are false by definition).
6. True
7. True possibly for some (I think some who reject Yahweh might not reject some other concepts of God, such as impersonal Brahman, if they knew more about those concepts. Others would reject these other concepts as well. So it's only true for some).
8. True (I'd say that they have not had an experience which they choose to describe as "God.")
9. True
10. True possibly for some, (but I really can't think of anyone who would have not been exposed to this concept)

Answer 4

1. are afraid to believe. FALSE
2. are angry with God. FALSE
3. are too stubborn to submit to God's will. FALSE
4. misunderstand scripture. USUALLY FALSE
5. adhere to another faith which, by definition, is false. DEFINITLY FALSE-other faiths are just as valid
6. adhere to another faith which is simply an "alternate route to the same destination". TRUE
7. don't understand the concept of God. FALSE
8. haven't had, realized they've had or accepted they've had a spiritual connection to and personal experience with God. TRUE SOMETIMES
9. can't will themselves to believe in something they know to be logically impossible. TRUE
10. haven't been exposed to the idea of "a deity". FALSE!

Answer 5

1.false, I have found more reason to be afraid of admitting non belief.

2.false, anyone who is angry with a god believes in a God, I used to be angry, now I don't believe that he exists.

3.false, must believe in a deity to try to go against it's will

4.true, though in my opinion, it is misunderstanding that is also a reason for believing in the Judeo-Christian God

5.false, how a narrow minded approach

6.true, all religions were made for the same reasons, to explain the unexplainable and to control the population.

7.false, what is there to misunderstand?

8.false, I used to be a devout SDA, I used to 'feel' that connection, it's all just a self induced high.

9.true, this is my case

10.false, everyone has been exposed to some deity/deities, I don't care who you are

Answer 6

Because it's not about whose beliefs are true/false; any more than it's about whose favorite flavor of ice cream is true/false, or whose favorite book./movie/song//poem/artwork is the "only true" one. We as people are all inherently different. We have different tastes, thinking processes, priorities, attractions... the list goes on and on. There is no way everyone could ever have the same religion. Look at Christianity - even within it, there are so many radically differ net interpretations. Christianity does not work; it is incompatible with my mind and soul. In my opinion and observation, it completely contradicts logic, nature, spirituality and everything else. To me, the whole salvation/damnation situation is not something that a kind and just being would devise or allow (I'm trying to put it nicely). Other aspects that I cannot accept are the devil scapegoat, the "only one true" book/prophet/anything, the notion that only certain books/places/people are sacred, the idea of a kind/just being micromanaging people's behavior while wholesale atrocities go unaddressed... the list could go on and on.

Answer 7

Note: Answers are contextual, describing some people, some of the time.

1. False or not usually.
2. True in some cases.
3. False or not likely.
4. False
5. False
6. False
7. Not likely (PS. I still have notes on the Argument for Theological Non-Cognitivism if you want them. I can't ever get you through email).
8. True
9. True
10. False

11. Rejection of parent's faith or nasty Catholic high school
12. seeking intellectual respectability in academic communities.
13. cannot reconciled a good God with a tragic event in their life
14. disappointment with father role in the family (inverse of Feuerbachian-Freudian projection theory of religion as sky daddy).

Answer 8

1. F
2. F - but could be T for others.
3. F
4. F
5. T - if there is such thing as false
6. T
7. T perhaps.
8. T perhaps.
9. T for ME.
10. T for few others.
11. T? no, F! No, wait a sec!!!

Heck, now that I think of this, all of them can be both true and false. Depends on the individual.

Answer 9

1: I was forced to eat as a child 2:people who eat all the time are hypocrites; they really aren't hungry 3:there are so many different kinds of food, i can't decide what to eat 4: I used to eat, but i got bored and stopped. 5: I only eat on special occasions, like Christmas and Easter 6: none of my friends will eat with me 7: I'll start eating when i get older.8: i don't really have time to eat 9:I don't believe that eating does anybody any good.It's just a crutch 10: restaurants and grocery stores are only after your money.

Answer 10

1. False
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. Lol!
6. Again, lmao!
7. False
8. False
9. True!
10. In some cases, if you'll allow for lack of gullibility, true.