Is Atheism too ambiguous to be taken seriously?

Question

Any one atheist can really believe anything they want without having to justify or quantify it. With no structure how can it be valid?

Answer 1

It's the logical default given the lack of evidence for God- I don't see any ambiguity.

Answer 2

I'm a religious person but i don't believe atheism is any more ambiguous than religion is. All the atheist thought seems to stem form one place the "lack of evidence" to cause them believe in something.
I have to disagree ,I'm sorry, but I think religion is ambiguous, but I think that's just the way it's always gonna be.
And p.s. if your gonna go after atheists on this place, expect alot of negative response, cause all your gonna get mostly, Although i do find it interesting that you can ask an atheist person a valid question and 8-10 times they'll just throw some negative demeaning crap back at you, and maybe that's because they simply don't have an answer.

Answer 3

There is nothing justify or validate. It is simply a lack of belief in something.

I'm sure you know people who prefer vanilla over chocolate. These people have no control over this, it's just how their tastes are. They couldn't choose to like chocolate better. You wouldn't attempt to tell someone that they are wrong for not liking chocolate better, would you?

Atheism is no different. Some people come to faith easily, and some people simply aren't able to believe in religious things. It's how their brain is wired, and they have no control over it. I know I don't. When I first realised that I didn't believe, I was a little sad. It would be very comforting to think that there was always someone to talk to, someone watching over me, and that I would get to see deceased loved ones again someday. But, in the very core of my being, I just really don't believe that this is true and I could never convince myself that it is, no matter what I did.

Really, atheists are free to think whatever thoughts they like without any guilt that they are "sinning." There are atheists that belong to all political and social walks of life. They share no other common traits besides their lack of belief in something. The vast majority of atheists lead very moral and ethical lives, they work, they pay taxes, they obey the law. They do all this without the constant threat of hell and damnation, and without the expectation of eternal rewards.

You are trying to fit atheism into the mold of religion, because those are the terms that you're used to thinking in. In reality, atheism is just a trait that a person has, no different that being 6ft. tall, or having brown hair.

Answer 4

You might as well say that any religion, e.g. Christianity, is too vague to be taken seriously. How does a Christian prove there is a God any more than an atheist prove there is no God?

Showing the absence of something tends to prove its lack of existence which is one of the main arguments of an atheist. As most everything can be explained by science, which does not require a divine, omniscient and omnipotent being, atheists argue that without some sort of proof, God as such cannot exist.

Answer 5

Did you know that you're babbling incoherently?

If the idea is that being an atheist means there's no structure to your life, everyone else shares the same problem. I assume you don't believe in pink unicorns, right? So with no structure, how can your beliefs be valid?

Answer 6

Atheism is just a topical heading under which the various belief systems are incorporated.

Like Theism, the belief in gods, includes the Roman and Greek Pantheon, Hinduism and all Abrahamic religions.

Most Atheists intentionally fail to mention which camp of non-theistic philosophy or tradition they hail from.

Generally no one asks, especially not Christians because in their world view there are Christians and there are Non-Christians and that is all there is to it.

Answer 7

Atheism is an option as much as people beliveing a fairy tale about a virgin impregnated by some god .....a whole volume was written by Hesiod 100 years before Jesus that chronologied the lineage of so called Offspring of God and Virgin unions....take a look at reality folks, you're being had and exploited by corrupt churh's who prey off your naive stupidity.

Answer 8

That's the whole point, petal.

There is no structure, no scripture, no dogma, atheists are free to believe whatever they want. And they do. It's not meant to serve as anything more than a description of one teeny little narrow part of our lives. No god(s). That's all.

Answer 9

To be a true atheist you don't care about validity. And an atheist doesn't believe whatever they want to believe.....to be an atheist you don't believe in anything, no organized religion, no spirituality. You don't beleive in a god or a devil, a heaven or a hell. You don't need structure, if there are no guidelines.

Answer 10

It isn't justification or quantification. Religion can be justified by atheists no problem. It provides comfort to people. The reason why people are atheists is mainly due to the fact that there is no evidence of any kind to prove the existence of a God.

Answer 11

There is structure, but unlike religions who turn to their good books to dictate the structure for them.... we choose our own structure based on our own lives & what is right for us. We don't answer to anyone, and we don't worship anyone. We live our lives according to our dreams & our goals.... We don't need some book written about some cereal box deity to tell us how to live our lives.