Why do people believe there is no God?

Question

why does everyone believe there is no God? I just don't understand. Even as a Christian, I'm confused. please be nice. no dumb answers IF YOU PLEASE!

I believe in God because I have faith. I don't know why else. I just do.. i can't live without at least believing that he is there.

Answer 1

god is a dreary old pervert!
Satan is the true Lord and Master of creation!

Answer 2

Your question asks why does everyone believe there is no God, that is not true what the problem is, is religion, people need proof of God, and because what we as believers accept is not enough for some, the bible and other Holy books have been written by man, what man has done here is written Gods words so man can understand it, try and explain to someone hundreds of years ago how the earth was made, it says in the bible 6 days, but there was no such thing, so saying 6 days to a man years ago would be so much easier, but people do not accept that there is something far greater than man, one day they will know, keep the faith

Answer 3

I've been puzzling over this for weeks. Believers truly believe, atheists absolutely don't, and neither faction sees any sense at all in the opposite side's position. My personal guess is that Christians are solipsistic thinkers, which means they assume that their own subjective perceptions actually are objective reality. I think atheists tend to think abstractly and to conceptualize an almost entirely academic view of the nature of objective reality. Solipsism is the "default" viewpoint of human conscious awareness and atheists do rely on it when driving their cars or watching a good movie. The difference may be that atheists also use logic and reason to define the boundries of their view of reality.

For example, take the existence of radio waves. A solipsistic thinker has no choice but to BELIEVE that radio waves exist, because his radio obviously works and everybody he knows swears that radio waves are real. On the other hand, an abstract thinker can measure the length of an antenna, measure the frequency of the radio signal, look up the speed of light, and use a mathematical formula to confirm that the measured frequency is exactly equal to the calculated frequency. Because the math works perfectly every time, the abstract thinker KNOWS that radio waves are real. The problem with God is there is no objective test for His presence. Because of this profound lack, an abstract thinker has no choice but to deny God's objective existence.

I would also like to point out that I do not "believe" in anything, not ever. I either know, or I don't know, but I cannot compromise my integrity by accepting a proposition as true, without substantiating evidence. That would be blatantly dishonest.

Answer 4

I'm a scientist, and i don't believe in God in the literal way that you do. I'm a deist, meaning that i believe that everything in the universe is a part of something bigger, that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. I suppose you could call that God. The ebook "God's Debris" is a nice thought experiment on this topic, and so is the book "Tales of a reluctant Messiah" and they shouldn't offend your beliefs. People fill the hole where your faith is with other faiths, superstition, love for friends and family, hope, and our own private religions. These are based on how we see the world, what is lucky and unlucky, etc. Others break down without faith. I'm not one of them, and locically, the bible's veiws make little sense in modern terms. This is because they were writeen 1000-2000 years ago, when peoples's veiws were different. It is unlikely these people who knew so little of the world around them could truly understand the complexity of a God's message anyway. This is why people become dissolusioned with the church version of God.

Answer 5

human beings since the dawn of time have tried to find answers to what they don't understand or can't explain. in the ancient civilizations like the greeks and persians, there were many gods. Some persian guy at the time introduced the notion of good and evil and monotheism. Since then it has progressed to various religions of today. My guess is that in about 50-100 years humanity will wonder how most of us fell for the religion babble. People believe there is a god because it fills in the gap for what they don't understand or can't comprehend. Honestly, you can fill that gap with anything. Most choose to fill it with a supernatural being because they reason that something humans cannot understand must have been made by something above humans. My question to you is why do you believe there IS a god. Have you read the history of religion and god? I challenge you to look into the origin of your beliefs and see how strongly you hold on to those beliefs after your research. Start with the first civilization onwards

Answer 6

People don't beleive in God because it is their choice founded out of their experience, education and existence. Some people might not be programmed religiously. Therefore would see no need for God. The question is like, why would I wear red shoes and you yellow? The beauty is everyone is different. I wouldn't put the need on coverting people. If you believe then that is what matters to you. If you ask why others don't beleive, your begin to ask the wrong questions. From that you wont get the best in what your belief and faith offers you in the first place.

Answer 7

It's kind of like any enormous claim somebody might make...why would you believe something out of rational belief that has no evidence? For example, if I told you that there was a society of monocle-wearing giants that make chia pets living on Neptune's moons, would you believe it, even if you couldn't prove that they (and the pottery that grows) aren't there? It's more likely that you'd be asking me why I believe in such a thing. If I couldn't provide you with a good reason to believe as I do, wouldn't you end up rejecting the belief?

For the record, I, of course, don't believe in Neptunian gentlemen gardeners, but I also don't believe in a god. Or in multiple gods, for that matter. People have tried proving the existence of such a being for hundreds of years. All logical arguments...that's every single one written by some very intelligent people over a long time...have failed. The way god is descried as being (as a formal definition is rarely forthcoming) usually makes him unprovable in an empirical sense. Why might somebody not believe in a god? Because there's no reason to believe in such a being anymore than the aforementioned giants.

When rational thought and sense perception reach dead ends, I am not aware of any other reliable way of determining objective truth. In the end, to believe in god(s), however defined, requires acceptance on faith.

Answer 8

Technology!

In general if we look at ancient civilizations such as the now scientifically proven aura, telekenisis, telepathy, empathy all before were accepted as spiritual powers. Whats happened now is our reliance on machines has closed our minds so it is much harder to break through to see the more subtle things.

In my comment above, many such previously termed as occult things have only recently been proven yet had been accepted by ancients for more than 7000 years. Are we really advanced or actually backward?

Relying on proof is just silly because some things cannot be proven at the moment. Like the big bang theory, why does the biggest things (stars, planets, galaxies) are all spheres yet the smallest things (neutrons, electrons etc..) all spheres too? And act according to a nature? Accept it or not there is a subtle conscious and nothing in the universe is quite simply random. Thats why all genius like Einstein, Neuton, Stephen Hawking etc... in fact find themselves more believing in God.

The hardest thing for us living in a world that presents limitations is the concept of eternity. Yet when we look at space its right there in front of us. God is blindingly clear but our eyes are still blind!

Answer 9

People believe there is no God in the same way we believe there IS a God, because he gave us free will.

I always say a wee prayer for people who don't believe (and ,no, before someone becomes all irate and writes a comment, i'm not being condescending) because in dark times or times of trouble(that bit sounds like a line of a song
:-)) i can turn to God and place all my troubles into his hands and be comforted whereas who does an aetheist turn to.
There are times when no other human can help you and this is when i need God.

Maybe i am deluded and its all a man made notion but do you know what i don't care. There is no use people asking for proof because i dont have any i just know its true in my being.

I think you have to stop worrying about what other people think and just be strong in your own beliefs.

Answer 10

I think that by saying you believe in God "because you just do", you're coming close to answering your own question.

First, a lot of atheists just don't feel there's any evidence for God, and "I just do" isn't going to convince them. You imply that you base your belief purely on faith: you disregard reason and evidence as a way to answer the question of whether God exists. A lot of people, however, think that you should have a good reason to believe in something. If faith is your only reason, then you might as well believe in Thor, or worship Ra, the Egyptian Sun God.

Of course, there are probably quite a lot of atheists too who don't believe in God because they... just don't.

Answer 11

Well 1st realize that the reason you as well as others believe in god is because this is what we're taught here in the english langauge, and just accept it without researching the langauges english was derived from. For instance english derived from latin, greek, all the way back to aramic hebrew and even further, but lets deal with aramic hebrew. The word that god was derived from in aramic was eloheem which means many gods/these beings, which is plural. Now go to Psalms 82:6, and you'll see that the one above supreme creator is referred to as the Most High, and the gods are the children of the Most High. Even with the little g big G factor, in aramic there is no capitol or lower case letters, only the letter G which is pronounce Gimel. Basically the confusion comes in when english translators copied the ancient scripts they didnt understand fully the ancient langauge so they translated the best they could and interpreted accordingly. Now, go to John 10:34 and you actually see the one called Jesus talking to humans here on earth saying "Is'nt it written in your laws I said that you are gods." Hes literally calling humans gods, so to even put the Most High in this same catagory is true blaspheming. All to say that you, me, we here on this planet are the gods and the one that everyone is truely praying to and calling on is the Most High, highest of all in existence. No there is no name as we call it cause the Creator is above and beyond names/titles.