Atheists: Why are you so confused?

Question

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after reviewing this answers i think they don't know what to believe!!
their thoughts are very disorganized!! they want to believe in something!! but they can't because of their ego and pride!!

Answer 1

Did you expect somekind of dogma telling all atheists to think the same way? Individuality is about diversity.

Answer 2

Hmmm, I must have missed that one. Well, I can honestly say I'm very confused about why christians hold on to this myth as if their life depends on it and absolutely refuse to even look at what the other religions in the area were like. I just can't understand why anyone would think Jesus is the son of god, when there were four other sons of god in that same area. I don't understand why christians call their saviour Jesus, when clearly that was not his name.

I can't understand why they refuse to believe that the other sons of god ever existed, but they believe Jesus did. I'm all confused. Can you help me? I don't need more bible, I've got one of my own that I've read several times already back when I was a christian. What I need is clarification. Why do you believe THIS god, THIS son of god, THIS prophet, and not the others?

Why don't you think it's possible that Moses stole some of his ideas from his captors, who already had written scriptures firmly planted on their walls (hence the saying "the writting's on the wall"). Why wouldn't they steal ideas from them, the Egyptians were much more intellectually and scientifically advanced. They could actually predict where planets and stars would align and pointed constructed monuments to use these things symbolically. The Jews were never able to build anything that could stand the test of time. I don't understand, can you help me?

Answer 3

You sad silly little bugger. Getting a few facts through your thick skull if a feat beyond a pile driver, but here's me trying.
There is no belief system for atheists, and atheists do not need a belief system. An atheist is a person who does not believe in any god or gods. (With me so far?) There are no standard beliefs. (Still there?) Atheists can believe whatever or believe in whatever else they want. (Got that?) Thats what individual thought is, which i understand must be an unfamiliar topic to you.

Your double exclamation mark habit makes it abundantly clear that your own pride and ego would have sunk a continent.

I sense an IQ of 10 here...

Answer 4

I am not atheist, but coming from a spiritual background that allows the person to interprate his/her own beliefs, I would guess this is essentially how atheists are as well. No two people think exactly alike. I don't think it has anything to do with ego or pride, it's that the traditional world view tells us that a person must follow almost an exact set of beliefs, but rationally this just isn't the case. Why cant a person be free to pick and choose what works for them?

Answer 5

The world is a very confusing place. I think honest confusion is better than dishonest belief in something.
I can't believe in God because the belief just isn't there. People have a hard time understanding that. Even if I read the bible and went to church every week and and told myself I believed in God and I claimed to be a Christian, the belief still wouldn't be there.

Answer 6

No. You are just trying to group us all together. We aren't a group but a bunch of individuals.

I know exactly what I believe and I am not even a little confused. I can give you generalities about atheists. But I can't give you anything that is a universal rule about us except that we don't believe in a god. I have met atheists with all sorts of beliefs.

You see we are not an organized religion at all.

Answer 7

Atheist means a lack of belief in a deity or higher power. it says nothing about a belief in Evolution. I do believe in evolution, but that doesn't mean every Atheist does. Also the last time I checked not all christians deny Evolution, in fact many DENY creationism, so I don't know why your attacking atheists when christians are the exact same way.

Answer 8

Engage your brain. Atheists have nothing in common apart from being aware that the God Hypothesis is false. Why would you expect a common voice from a disparate group of people on a series of subjects that are not part of what unifies them?

There's a huge spectrum from rabid anti-religious scientific absolutist nazis like me, all the way to fluffheads who will cheerfully swallow anything as long as it's not God. You might as well ask what football team atheists support.

Ridiculous.

CD

Answer 9

Oh look. Yet another 'believer' who refuses to understand that atheists represent a wide diversity of thinking. All we have in common is enough experience to have considered the "God" question and consider the evidence severely lacking.

So back off on accusing us of ego and pride. You are demonstrating far more of both.

Answer 10

You're free to believe whatever you wish.

Just because you wholeheartedly believe in your view of atheists doesn't automatically make it correct of course, but if that's what gets you through the day, by all means have at it.

Who are we atheists to deny you the smug self-satisfaction of believing you're right and everyone else is wrong, after all?

Go ahead, pat yourself on the back and toot your own horn! You've got all the answers!

Answer 11

why would any one or even several answers to any question allow you the levity to cast massive generalizations about a very diverse group of people whose only connection is in a similar (or even not at all) spiritual view?
are all christians ignorant for the many that are?
are all jews? etc.
i think not.we are all allowed to have varying viewpoint within collective spiritual or secular circles, that does not mean that we are all confused.