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2007-04-26 10:38:13 · 21 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

You all believe something... you continue to say you believe there is no God.
God bless each one of you.<><

2007-04-26 10:50:29 · update #1

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Atheism isn't a belief, it is the lack of a belief, but since atheists tend to require evidence that a belief they hold is true (or at least not shown to be false) their views of the world are more realistic. After all, even if there is a creator God, why would he create all this universe just for humans. There is no evidence a creator would even be aware that humans existed, let alone care about them. Given our size, relative to the mass of the universe, it would be like caring for a single specific ameoba in a specific pond in our solar system and that ameoba believing it was created in God's image.

Even if a creator God were aware of humans, it isn't rational to believe that a God would then "care," about humans. Such a being would not likely even realize we were sentient, and certainly could not be sentient on the God's standards.

Finally, even if there is a God, by what science can that God read minds to know what we are praying. At best, that God could maybe hear our verbalized prayers as they do at least cause vibrations in the air, but even that is a leap beyond imagination.

2007-04-27 00:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by OPM 7 · 0 0

Atheism is simpler.

Unlike the Red Queen I don't have to believe six impossible things before breakfast.

Had I lived when Galileo discovered the bible was wrong about cosmology, my response would have been to change my beliefs. The initial christian response was to deny that the Earth revolved around the Sun. The subsequent christian response was to deny that the bible said the Sun revolved around the Earth. Both are impossible beliefs. Both beliefs contradict the facts.

Similar christian responses have followed Hutton's discoveries in geology and Darwin's in biology.

This applies to all the miraculous happenings in the bible as well. I don't have to believe that Methuselah lived 1000 years or that 40 days of rain could cover Mount Everest with floodwaters. I don't have to believe that something can kill all and only the firstborn sons or Egypt or that the Sun can stop in the sky to help the conquest of Canaan.

These impossible beliefs fill the bible from the nursery tale of Genesis to the insane ravings of John of Patmos in his Book of Revelation.

I slice it all off with Occam's razor and I am left with Atheism.

2007-04-26 10:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0 0

we've in equipped conceptions approximately what's nice and what's incorrect, human beings existed long earlier faith or maybe rules and clearly they did not in simple terms kill one yet another because of fact we are right here right now. the project with faith is that mutually because it claims to evangelise peace and love, in certainty all it preaches is hate. you assert you basically hate the sinner and not the sin? i ask your self how actual that's, i think of not very, homosexuals and others who've disagreed with the Christian faith have been ruthlessly persecuted in the time of background and are nonetheless discriminated against right now. faith is the reason for infinite wars, The Crusades, the conflict in Israel even the 'conflict on Terror'. you may even see them as a perversion of the training of the religion in question, yet that's quite beside the element. They have been performed interior the call of the religion and, for this reason, the religion is at fault. Christianity, like quite some different religions, has been the reason for plenty soreness, death and destruction. you basically might desire to seem at agencies like 'God Hates Fags' to work out that it remains and could proceed to be a vessel for hate and discrimination. What may be hated interior the call of atheism? interior the call of a scarcity of theory? not something. i'm via no ability suggesting that atheists do not kill, hate or maim, yet they don't accomplish that interior the call of their ideals. We kind our very own evaluations on each little thing and we make judgements upon it from our very own stories. in short, atheism is greater helpful because of fact we adapt, basing our philosophies on adventure and changing them as we adventure new issues. Theists, continuously, do not do this, they make judgements per an exceptionally previous e book and the assumption of hellfire. as an occasion: flying a airplane into the international commerce middle.

2016-10-30 09:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

As a Taoist, I can understand that deities are symbols, metaphors, and archtypes that can be useful to people - so I can understand and accept the religious practices of others.

My belief in the benefits of living with wisdom and compassion guide my life better than the need to please an evil deity who can't be bothered to take responsibility for his own creation.

My belief in the acceptance of the imperfect, and that the Tao accepts all things, removes my need to struggle against reality in an attempt to be acceptable to a deity who would not sully itself by deigning to love me the way I am or understand why I do the things I do.

2007-04-26 10:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 0 0

One is not better than the other. Atheism is the utter lack of beleifs.

Atheism, to me, just seems more real. This is it - our only channce at life, and wasting it would be a shame. Treat others how you want to be treated (the Golden Rule, not something Jesus came up with - it predates him) and enjoy life.

Beats the guilt, intolerance and dogmatic views of Chrisitanity in my opinion.

2007-04-26 10:42:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0 0

That's the thing - atheism isn't a belief. It is more like skepticism per se. Atheism is looking at all of the available facts and data, and then saying "This doesn't add up, this is not proof of existence of God."

2007-04-26 10:41:44 · answer #6 · answered by Big Super 6 · 1 0

Speaking as neither an atheist nor a Christian, while both believe me wrong, only the atheist consistantly respects my right to be wrong and in general does not think I am deserving of punishment for it.

2007-04-26 10:41:52 · answer #7 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1 0

Atheism isn't a belief.

2007-04-26 10:40:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Atheism correlates with reality. Christianity does not. That's what makes it better--truth.

2007-04-26 10:56:54 · answer #9 · answered by jtrusnik 7 · 0 0

atheist have no beliefs and name one in the name of atheism

2007-04-26 10:41:24 · answer #10 · answered by cthulhu will raise 5 · 0 0

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