To whom the atheists pray when they are in troubled times?

Question

I just wonder how they can relief their sadness, oppression and anxiety when they are in bad hours... Or they never have hard moments?

Answer 1

I am not a full atheist, but as for me, i do not pray.
When i am sad, anxious, hurt, depressed, or anything else, i just remind myself that the best is yet to come, and remain optimistic that this feeling of sadness shall soon be gone.

However, I usually turn to myself for guidance and answers, and i also turn to my most trusted advisors (family, older/mature friends) for guidance and advice.

Yes, i have my fill and share of hard moments......I just deal with them as they come, and i do just fine. I will admit that it is probably harder to deal with such problems without a faith of some sort, and it is much harder to want to get up and get out of bed at times.....But i wake up, remind myself to breath, and remind myself that it is only a day, and anyone can get through that.

Answer 2

As an atheist I don't pray. I don't believe there is anybody to pray to so what's the point? And of course I have hard times. I also know I can ask somebody for help if I can't solve the problem myself. And some things in life are not solvable. That is just the way things are.

Answer 3

I grew to become an atheist after my mom died while i became 9 years previous. I figured, my mom is the nicest maximum worrying man or woman I truthfully have and could ever meet, and all of us round her thinks so too. Why take this sort of suited man or woman out of this worldwide if this is going to do no longer something yet reason all and sundry discomfort? It did no longer make sense to me, so I basically discarded the full faith subject and moved on with my existence rather of moping approximately it and dropping my existence for an invisible previous ƒuck who lives interior the sky... Yeah. i'm an atheist.

Answer 4

No, we have hard times, just like the believers do. The difference is that we rely on ourselves, our friends, our networks, our extended families, the community and anyone else who is able to help us through, rather than ask for help from something that can't be heard, seen, smelt, tasted or touched....such as "fairies at the bottom of the garden" or some invisible, ominipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omniferous, omnivore.

Answer 5

Atheists don't pray. Atheists don't believe that there are any gods to pray to.

Most of the atheists that I know say that when times get hard, they draw strength from their loved ones and look for the determination inside themselves that they will get through it.

Answer 6

Most of them look inward for guidance, turn to friends or family, or read the works of wiser people. You don't need to pray to get help.

Answer 7

I don't believe that the Christian "God" really exists.
I pray to an idea of god, because it is comforting. Not because I believe in him, I just find that it works. Everyone that I met that claims that they can talk to god wheather they were Christian or Muslim, Jewish or Budist are mentally ill. Just like Muhammed Atta when "god" told him to crash his plane in NY on 9/11.

Answer 8

Oh. They do have hard times. Everyone does. They just try to have faith in themselves and they only pray within their mind that someone will help them

Answer 9

sure, we have our good and bad days like everybody else, the only difference being, we don't look to an invisible, mystical, supernatural being to help get us out of whatever it is that is troubling us. we look to ourselves, our family, and our friends...in other words, people we KNOW are real and can offer aid and comfort.

Answer 10

You don't NEED to pray when you're troubled. There's always other people to talk to who'll actually respond.