Is atheism a symptom of anal retentiveness? please don't.....?

Question

simply react, but try to honestly think about it.how anal are you, and have you ever truly sought God, for more than a few minutes?

Answer 1

Y'know, the psych major in me really loves this question! I'm going to have to say it's possible. I used to fight belief tooth and nail. Like Rich Mullins said, I'd rather fight for something I don't really want than to take what God wanted to give me. And yes, anal enough to have some OCD issues - well, a few compulsions, anyway. (Monk-ish much? Absolutely.) However, that's not to say that someone who is anal is and forever will be an unbeliever! If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone.

Answer 2

I'd say the anal retentiveness would be a good thing in this case, paying attention to errors is rather important in this, matter, isn't it?...

When there is a flaw in a system, a system of thoughts/beliefs or otherwise, in order to fix the problem, one has to either A) refine the system such that the flaw disappears (the Socratic method) or B) Discard the system and begin again anew.
There is also option C) Ignore the flaw and go on like you didn't see it.

As I see it, the theist goes for option A, the atheist option B, and the staunch believer (of most any faith) goes with C. I have yet to see C help bring progress, truth, enlightenment, or anything similar into the world, which is why paying attention to details, and trying one's best to mend those details is important to me.

If a system of thought seems so broken that no amount of refinement can make it seem to correspond with reality, then one has to start over with a completely new view on things, this is what the atheist does, is that really so bad?

PS: I spent years learning, and "seeking" just about every God there is... I still see no reason to hold a belief in any of them.

Answer 3

I never understand why theists make this argument. In order to seek something, you have to already believe that it probably exists, and hope to find it.

I firmly believe the Old Testament is myth. I can't imagine Jehovah actually being real any more than I could imagine Zeus or Odin or Ra being real. Have you ever sought after them?

Furthermore, I am appalled that anyone would think that Jehovah is a perfect god and want to worship him. As fictional characters go, he's like Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde. I firmly believe that I have better morals than Jehovah. It is appalling to me the things he did and condoned during the time when he was supposedly willing to have direct action on many people's lives.

I know that you and others think that you found God when you sought him, but I sincerely believe that you have simply misinterpreted a neurological response that can happen from meditation. Others have sought different kinds of gods or other kinds of ecstatic states and found them too. Your thinking that you have found Jehovah/Jesus doesn't prove that Jehovah/Jesus are real and made contact with you, it just proves that we can self-induce ecstatic mind states.

Answer 4

You know, I was a christian for a long time. I prayed every single night, I even went to church, and I lived my life like a good little christian. But one day I realized that god never answered my prayers, and I didn't ask much. I realized that evolution was more plausible. I realized that I didn't have to be a sheep following behind christ to be happy in my life. So I took it into my own hands and I've never been more happy. I found my fiance and I go to school and I just graduated with an associate's degree.

Answer 5

Be careful about using the anal word. You'll have the priest trying to find some little alter boys. When I was little i went through the whole Catholic church cult routines, baptism, communion, confirmation. As I got older and learned that god and church are no more real than the Easter bunny, Santa clause, the tooth fairy , big foot and the loch ness monster I stopped believing in these falsehoods. Is religion a symptom of intolerance, ignorance, and having your head up your anal opening when you hear the truth?

Answer 6

Another fool pretending to know a couple of science words, but completely lacking in the ability to recognize how foolish he sounds. You are a pretty pathetic representative of your beliefs. Are you proud of being pathetic?

Answer 7

I think it's actually a symptom of intelligence although heart tends to be missing. A converted atheist is a great asset because they tend to have more intellectual talent than natural believers.

(I hope I didn't manage to insult everyone with my opinion)

Answer 8

Raise in the Church of Christ. Have read the Bible cover to cover 4 time. Believed in it less and less each time I picked it up.

Look how little of it is original, mostly rehashed Paganism.

I'm an agnostic.

Answer 9

Yes, I think it is form of mental illness, its primary means at achieving answers is ethnocentric, denial, being anal, egocentric, authoritarian and so forth...... This is not to say, all of us have the same sort of dysfunctions, look at Butsch and radical Muslims and so forth...... Yet, some of us do our best to work on our humanist sides......

Answer 10

Why seek out something that doesn't exist? Have you ever sought out bigfoot or the lochness monster? At least there are pictures of those