Atheists! do you question your faith?

Question

People are always sayng Christians are dumb for never questioning their faith. Well, im a Christian and I question my faith all the time (and it ends up srtonger every time).

You might not like calling your beliefs "faith", still, do you question them from time to time? Do you search information regarding some other line of thought?

You know, I could read everything Nietzsche has ever written, than go to Marx and than Freud and not question my faith once in the process...

For people who wrote "I have no faith in order to question it", the accurate awnser would be: "No, I dont question my beliefs"

Answer 1

The process of becoming an atheist is long and full of search and questioning, and that process never really stops. After rejecting the conventional beliefs that the universe was created and is controlled by a supreme deity, new questions arise. Are we spiritual beings, or is that, too, an illusion created by the human ego's desire for power and eternal life? If there is a spiritual dimension to the human psyche, and if so, what is it's nature and how is it connected to the physical realm? If we are physical beings and nothing more, how do we explain evidence pointing to psychic abilities and reincarnation?

Oh yes, we question. I can't imagine ever running out of them.

Answer 2

if everyone believed in god, imagine all the discoveries about the universe and our world would never be made. I think the bible and religions need to be more dynamic "changing as we move toward the future." What will happen someday if we meet an alien species that we can communicate with? Does that change everything. You bet. It seems like if you ask a believer a question that they don't know the tangible answer, they answer "god"
Here is a fact - more people have died by the hands of other people due to religion. . .1.) The crusades, 2.) World War 1 and 2 3.) 100,000+++ people dying in third world countries because of religion. I question my faith - overall religion seems to do more harm than good, why can't a person be moral and ethical without being religious? I know that a moral person who does good things a better than a religious person who does bad things.

Answer 3

Always. I've thrown more outdated ideas out as time went on as you can possibly imagine. Always inquiring. The only difference is that you have a god, and I go within. I work from the inside, out. Changing perspective, is par for the course.

I've had to let go of every belief, eventually to gain access to deeper levels. Beliefs are tools that can hinder you if you don't recognize that thy are merely footholds and not set in stone. That they are not YOU, but ideas of expression.

If the beliefs don't evolve, neither can the person. They become set in place, while the world moves on around them. Watch a senior citizen who says that they'll never get a computer, or spends a large amount of time living in the past. In their thoughts, what they say to you or in how they live. What do they have to offer the present if they haven't moved themselves along with the times?

Or when a Senior Citizen has kept pace? Are they not breathtaking, and wonderful to be around. They have wisdom added to them through the development that they are constantly after and through taking their lifetime to do this, it's a gift to the rest of us.

Answer 4

Every day. That is what makes the belief of the scientific atheist so strong. Each day we question and test our assumptions, modifying them to accept new evidence in the search for truth. The atheists who are atheist to rebel against how they were brought up don't and are far more easily swayed. I came to Atheism when my faith could no longer be reconciled with the real world and the evidence before my eyes. Each day I search for God with no assumption regarding His existence and see if the evidence indicates He is there. Not once has He passed that simple litmus test.

Answer 5

You are quite correct,my beliefs are not faith,they are based on evidence and yes I continue looking at further information but I still haven't found anything which would bring me to the conclusion that a god existed

Answer 6

I have extensively studied religion, especially Christianity, and came to the conclusion that 1. religion is ridiculous and 2. there is/are no god/s. When new information comes along, I incorporate that into my "theory". As the only new information coming out appears to further support my theory, I don't see a "conversion" anywhere in my future.

Answer 7

I question it all the time -- I look for more evidence, or for an error in my conclusion.

Unfortunately for theism, my conclusion is scientifically and mathematically air-tight. There is no mathematically consistent way to invalidate the proof I have against every deific formulation of theism (I admit deism remains viable, but it is consequentially the same as atheism).

So, yes I continue to look, but no, it's not 'faith'. I have proven it in a mathematically rigorous manner.

Answer 8

Yeah. Some of the peeps on this site have some issues. I know. they act just like I do. :)

I'm not so much of an atheist, but my beliefs regarding god and the purpose of life change almost daily. no idea at all!

Answer 9

Actually, you don't question your faith, but god does question your faith by putting you under different tests....because faith is not only a belief, it's also an act / a behaviour.

Answer 10

Atheists beliefs come from scientific facts. Christian beliefs come from a non-copyrighted (which means anyone can change it) Fairytale book. Christians should question their faith a lot more.