Atheist? For the people who could not understand my ATHEIST question!?

Question

Why does a person not believe in a God or Goddesses, or any higher power?
I want to know more a bout this. I like to hear from ATHEIST people.. No religion type bashers..

Answer 1

THE FAIRYTALE BIBLE HAS TOO MANY CONTRADICTIONS FOR ME!!

Answer 2

My answer is the same as the most so far: no proof.

Recorded history is full of inaccuracies.. whoever is in charge makes the rules and decides what is remembered for over the years. The bible was spread by word of mouth, often exaggerated and modified each time it was told, just like mythology, or like playing a game of "telephone." Therefore the bibles of the world are worthless.

The word of man is fallible, but the word of a god should not be. If there is a god, where are they? Why have they not told me they were here?

There are uncountable living things in the universe.. As if some kind of being actually cares about the actions of each thing? Come on.....

I don't know how we got here and if there is a higher power then great but until then I will not follow any manmade religions or manmade gods.

Answer 3

No evidence.

All the little miracles--faith healings, statues with bodily functions, near-death experiences, portraits on various food items--have natural explanations. The miracles in the Bible all lose their thrall when you stop ASSuming that it's all true.

Prayers get answered in exact accordance with the laws of probability. Prayers for impossible things--regrown limbs, teleporting mountains, etc.--never get answered at all. Tsunamis wash away the young and the old, children and babies, without regard to who is worthy. The human body, as ingenious as it is, has some glaring design flaws that are patched over in an ad hoc fashion. All these are what one would expect in a world that proceeds according to blind natural laws. Introducing a god into the equation just complicates matters and raises intractable mysteries that weren't there before.

To answer the inevitable "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," i say that if there is a god, then It behaves precisely as if It doesn't exist. How would such a god be relevant to me?

Answer 4

What evidence is there?
Magnificent diverse and complex life? Sorry, while life can be magnificently diverse and complex, it gives no proof of a higher power, especially because evolution can produce such creatures.
A vast and beautiful cosmos? Sorry, that's the same argument as above; it's just nature following the laws of physics.
A clear and concise instruction from the higher power? None really exists; they're all contradictory or ridiculous.
Sorry, without evidence we cannot logically draw the conclusion there is a higher power. The other alternative is more probable.

Answer 5

I'm not at all aware of your background, but have you not followed the progression of our human ability to gain in knowledge at least a little? Our collected knowledge seems to clearly tell us that it is correct to believe there is no god. Even the observations of children are thorough enough to point out that which is true vs untrue.

Even without a greatly expanded education, it's obvious that there is nothing mystical acting upon us or upon our surroundings that cannot be put into reasonable place by reasonable means. We understand changes of weather, seasonal changes and the phases of the moon... all of the things that ancient man misunderstood. Accepting even that small fragment is all that is really necessary for understanding the position of an atheists rejection for needing gods.

That which isn't, isn't...! What could be easier to understand?

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Answer 6

As obvious as it is to you that there must be some higher power, it is even more clear to us that there isn't.

If I told you that I believed in the flying spaghetti monster- who, whenever I asked, would make me invisible - would you believe me? Probably not. Because you are thinking and rational individual, you'd want some evidence or proof before you would believe such a farfetched tale. Well- that's what god, heaven and hell sound like to an atheist. Totally absurd- and we want some evidence. Until then- it just makes no sense in our minds.

To shorten it: for the same reason that you don't believe in Santa Claus.

Answer 7

As a child, you are introduced to four ineffable, inobservable beings with strange preoccupations with your actions: the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and God. By the time you are ten, you are expected to have abandoned belief in three, but maintain belief in the fourth until you die.

Maybe I watched "The Wizard of Oz" too much as a child.

Answer 8

Happy to oblige, and the short answer is: no evidence. I am a scientist, and the essence of doing science is that you rigorously question every assertion, and take no opinion without evidence. Since neither the existence nor non-existence of any god can be demonstrated by evidence or logic, it provably follows that any theory or belief in such is useless: it can say nothing, and make no predictions, about the real world.

Answer 9

There is no evidence that one exists.
Now, I as an atheist can not make that claim "God does not exist 100%." But there is nothing in this universe that cannot be explained by anything OTHER than God once you research it, and so I live my life by the 99.99% chance no diety exists, and not by the 0.01% he does.

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further" -Dawkins

Answer 10

It is very simple, really. I do not believe in gods, goddesses, angels, demons, fairies, leprechauns, and other such fantasy creatures because there is no proof for their existence. For me, they fall into the same category as the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.

Answer 11

Simple because there is no evidence for gods, higher powers, ghosts, spirits, souls, supernatural anything, hence no logical reason to believe.