when everywhere they look it is competition from one religion to the other as for who has more followers and who is right and who is not right. why can we not focus on the fact that we give more attention to religion then we do to god, and maybe start understanding that if you are a muslim god will accept you, if you are jew god will accept you, if you are a christian god will accept you...based on YOUUUUU!!! NOT YOUR RELIGION!!
i think god would want us to worry more about ourselves and not so much about others...including religion.
2007-04-08 01:53:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't especially want to be an atheist.
Yes, if there were a god he would care more about the individual's qualitities rather than his idiotic beliefs.
2007-04-08 01:57:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is a common misunderstanding, i.e. that if all the theists held hands and sang "Kum Bah Yah" then Atheists would abandon scientific method, critical thinking and the empiricism that has given us all the advantages of modern civilization, and in response to all that theist hugging and backslapping we'd all march with you back to the good ole days when we treated epilepsy with beads and rattles. But not so.
It isn't just that theism produces none of the divine character all theisms claim to produce. It's a good basis for deciding not to be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, etc. But it's only evidence that those claims are false.
Perhaps some atheists differ, but I do not see the behavior of theists as proof of anything about what the nature of the cosmos is, only evidence that it is not as theists believe it is or they would behave better. I am an a-theist for the same reason I am an a-Martianist. There isn't a shred of evidence for Martians. There isn't a shred of evidence for gods.
When Martians can be confirmed with testable evidence, I will believe in Martians. But the mere assertion of people who believe that Mars is inhabited by humanoid beings is not evidence of Martians. When a god or gods can be confirmed by testable evidence I will believe in such beings. But the mere assertion of people who believe in Yahweh, Allah, Ahura Mazda, Odin or Zeus is not evidence of gods, nor is existence itself evidence for any of the elaborate cosmologies the various pre-scientific religions have produced.
2007-04-08 09:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist, i never set out "wanting" to be one, it's just that i was taught to think for myself as a child and realised that if there was a higher power, that they wouldn't have caused my younger sibling to die a long, painful and undignified death from cancer. I then thought about war, famine and disease. If i could heal people, i wouldn't let these exist, so i cannot fathom that there is a god.
I think that you can live a life where you uphold strong moral virtues and such without being a christian. It's about being a good person.
2007-04-08 09:02:07 · answer #3 · answered by votehowardout 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think ever one wants to be an Atheist. But I agree with you point. To me Religion has become a big joke. It's not about God, it's about everything but. The sickest cases are when it's all about money. See TV Evangelists.
2007-04-08 09:43:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
so the monotheistic God from Abraham is really all one god but people have got his message confused? Way to be clear, I'd expect God's word to be less ambiguous and open to so radically different interpretation.
Additionally, what of all the other gods? Also real, or figments of the imagination? Are they ALL the same god? How come so many have mutually exclusive attributes?
2007-04-08 08:59:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Sounds you want to let everyone into heaven based on their own self-righteousness! Guess what, even 99 percent of the people on death row believe they were justified in what they have done!! They are righteous in their own mind!!!
2007-04-08 10:11:31 · answer #6 · answered by flatpicker23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think everybody wants to be an atheist, what makes you think I do?
2007-04-08 09:01:22 · answer #7 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should not your question be posted in pychology?
2007-04-08 08:57:11 · answer #8 · answered by MIND QUIZZER 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Speak for yourself. I am not an atheist and I don't want to be one either.
2007-04-08 09:03:40 · answer #9 · answered by nowyouknow 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
NO ONE CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES
2007-04-08 08:56:00 · answer #10 · answered by colemansbluff 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋