Is human emotion a key factor in creating atheism?

Answer 1

It is one factor in creating materialism, i mean, the fear of seeing a totality of existence, and of living by principles that transcend the finitude and tangibility of matter

Answer 2

I believe human emotion is a key factor in creating religion. Religion is an answer to our fears, the unanswerable. Since the beginning of time, humans have created myths and stories to explain the unexplainable.

Answer 3

Key factor? Maybe. Emotion is one of many factors in creating atheism relative to personal life experiences.

I believe that you either accept God or don't by how you react to the events in your life. Certainly, emotion plays a role, how significant is probably directly related to how emotional you are or how you let your emotions control and dictate your course of action, thoughts, and ideas.

Answer 4

I would dare say it often is. Look at the vehemence with which they attack Christianity in particular (not just any religion, but Christianity). I think they have dispelled what they think is an illusion, and like most converts, have a very strong dislike for their former faith.

Some of it is warranted by our theology (I included an Eastern Christian's critique of Western Theology in the footnotes). Much of what has come about distorts the image of God to be one of a deity that holds grudges and has a medieval sense of justice. It's little wonder they reject that god.

In other words, modern atheism is a Christian heresy. Notice how they try to keep Christian ethics from Marxism to the modern left but not embrace the conclusions of the philosophy (which the atheist governments of the twentieth century did). They emphasize equal rights and the downtrodden. All this disappears when they come into power, but in the interim before this, it happens regularly. This, I firmly believe, happens because they come from Christianity and have some baggage as a result.

Answer 5

Human emotion is a key factor in ALL human activity. It's fun to think that without emotion, people would be purely logical. But without emotion, people would be void of passion and the will to make logical decisions.

Answer 6

Of course, emotions play an important part in every human being's life. I view atheism as the rational disbelief that any supernatural deities exist. Inversely, theism is the irrational belief that one or more non-existent deities is real. For me, atheism is a matter of principle that has as little to do with my emotions as I can manage.

Answer 7

In "creating" atheism?

In some cases, sure. Some people have had bad experiences with religion, and their atheism is in part their emotional reaction against religion.

But theism is almost completely based on emotion - preeminently the fear of death and the desire to impose the human notion of "justice" on an evidently unjust universe. Hence the "Afterlife" and it's partition into the neighborhoods of "Heaven" and "Hell."

It ought also to be observed that atheism is compatible with logic and reason, whereas theism is not - at least, not at its "face value."

Finally, in response to "Sharon M" and others like her - it's a common, and excessively cheap, ploy of theists to claim that atheists are just looking for an excuse to be wicked and prideful. But "sin" is simply a concept invented by savages thousands of years ago to explain why God didn't always send rain when they asked. "We must've screwed up." It's completely separate from the idea of "morality." As for "pride," what could possibly be more arrogant than the notion that one is going to "heaven" for one's adherence to a set of conventions, while all those who have not so adhered are going to burn in "hell"?

Answer 8

I think that human emotion and human ignorance is a key factor in creating atheism. For you to be alive and experience life, seeing thing that you don't and never will understand. People enjoy everything that Allah has given us but still they fail in believing he exist. What else could it be but stupidity and ignorance. Sometimes I ask myself is it that they don't believe there is a god or they are just to lazy to serve him? I think they are making excuses and to lazy to serve the lord. But I rather spend my life believing that there is a god and die to find out that there isn't, than to live my life believing there is not a god and die to find out that there is.

Answer 9

YES! Sadly, many of these who hate all talk of God have had very troubled childhoods, either through... well you know the various ways in which a kid can get messed up. The problem is, they blame God, initially(because all children have belief in an eternal being, we're born that way) because of the terrible things that have happened to them. Poor me, poor me... pour me another drink to run away from the Truth! And they then "exchange the truth of God for a lie" and after a long time, they may actually believe it. That's fine for them, what I believe is fine for me. I just know that I had an equally terrible childhood as ANYONE and I will say that all of that had a different effect. I came to God screaming, hating Him at first, even cursing Him for making me this way. The whole thing peaked with me laying broken before Him, knowing that I deserved death. That's when I received life. Now I know that all of the "bad" I have gone through is to a greater Good that I may not even see while I'm here on Earth. This I know... I must decrease, He must increase.

Grace & Peace, yo!

Answer 10

Human emotion is a major part in believing in gods

Answer 11

I don't think so... usually, highly intelligent people are less emotional than others and highly intelligent people tend to be non-believers.

I'm an emotional person and religion was always a big deal in my house growing up. For me, it may be. But in general, I don't think so.