how can people who do not belive in god explain the world and about what happens in the world?what is their motivation for life?why they dont get depressed?how they see the life?......
2007-05-20 08:39:13 · 18 answers · asked by shahram 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
gr8 question! ive always thought the same thing, my life rotates around Him! I love God!
2007-05-20 08:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
They explain what happens in the world by a combination of social, environmental and biological factors. Their motivation for life is family, friends, pleasure, the will to succeed/achieve. Some do get depressed, but so do many believers.
2007-05-20 15:43:38 · answer #2 · answered by Bipolar Bear 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The beauty of not believing in God is being free to figure out how to explain the world and all that happens here. Being free from religion opens minds to new ideas - evolution, biology, astronomy, cosmology.
In Christianity, the idea that the "original sin" was taking an apple from the "Tree of Knowledge" pretty much sums up religion's views on nuturing the human intellect.
2007-05-20 15:46:14 · answer #3 · answered by knowmeansknow 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before you can even ask such a question, you have to define god, and where such a concept came from. Were you born thinking such a thing existed? Or were you taught it from a young age? You want to believe such a thing exists, that there is also some sort of supernatural afterlife; we all have such feelings as children. It alleviates our fear of our own deaths and the fear of the deaths of our loved ones. But no such thing exists. When you die, your body decomposes. None of us wants to end existence, but we all will, someday.
Also, you need to ask yourself why people claim a god exists. Beyond blind faith in a religious tome and fear of death, there is the additional attempt to explain why the natural processes happened that brought us here. People once thought that the gods occasionally stole the sun. Now we have learned what a solar eclipse is. People once thought god caused earthquakes. Now we know how plate tectonics work. People once thought god caused wind, rain, pregnancy, the moon, the sun, infections, disease, and war. We now know the true causes of those. One day in the future, they will say, People once thought god caused the Big Bang. We now know the true cause of that.�
Once you answer the questions of the definition of god and why people claim such a thing exists, you will realize that asking Atheists why they are sure god doesn't exist is really putting the cart before the horse. A much better way to attack the problem is to ask a theist why they are sure that god does exist. With no logical answers to the question, and no proof of their point of view, why should we believe in such a made-up concept? The viewpoint of the Atheist makes infinitely more sense.
2007-05-20 15:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't believe in God because of the people who go to church. They're there for the social event, not the worship. People twist the words of the Bible around to make themselves look good. When you study science for a while, you learn things, and all your unsolved questions are answered. I don't have piety, I don't fear going to hell. When you die, you die; rot away in a casket. All the extreme Christian groups in the midwest discriminate against you because you're not an American-born straight caucasian male.
Why don't I get depressed? I don't have any higher power to fear, so why should I?
Motivation? What about trying to make yourself a better example for others, or trying to find a cure for cancer? We don't live for God, we live for ourselves.
2007-05-20 15:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is very easy for rational people to not believe in magical, invisible sky-fairies. For a rational person, the evidence in support the idea that magical, invisible sky-fairies exist is not compelling... and thus insufficient to initiate or sustain a mental state of 'belief'. So, rational people do NOT believe for EXACTLY the same reasons that they do not believe in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, bridge trolls, garden gnomes and monsters under the bed.
With regard to "explaining the world... " - who says we have to be able to explain the world? When a rational person can explain something, he explains it... when they cannot explain something, he says "I don't know." He does NOT find it necessary to use self-delusion to create the ILLUSION of knowledge, by saying "I can't concieve (or imagine) how this might have come to be... therefore, 'God did it'."
One of those positions is intellectually honest... one is not. Can you discern which is which?
2007-05-20 16:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do people who are religious get depressed? This is such a stupid question it's almost not worth answering. They are educated and understand the world. Motivation- we have families that we love, and want the best for them. We need no other motivation. It's okay to die and be nothing, as long as while living, we made those around us happy and safe.
2007-05-20 15:52:56 · answer #7 · answered by Minuit 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'll just buzz through these real quick.
1. Rationality.
2. It's called "logic" and the "scientific method."
3. I enjoy life. Life is addictive. People care about me. I care about people. That's all there is to it.
4. I don't have chemical imbalances in my brain. I also love life, I love people, and people love me. I don't need an invisible man in the sky to have those things.
5. Life is a complex system of energy and matter, traversing time and space.
2007-05-20 15:44:22 · answer #8 · answered by Dylan H 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Do you really think that you need to have an explanation for everything right now? Let's say I don't know what gives me the headache when I eat ice cream too fast. What makes more sense? Wondering about it, realizing I don't know the answer, and accepting that (or studying/running experiments to found out why)? Or wondering about it, realizing I don't know the answer, and assuming that it must be devine punishment for my over-indulgence? I'm not saying that this is what people actually think. I'm just saying that just because we don't know certain things doesn't completely destabilize our lives.
2007-05-20 16:37:21 · answer #9 · answered by Phil 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do we even exist?
Space with no end, complex life (heart, lungs, blood, kidneys, etc) created by a God. This is all beyond our reasoning.
We must have faith in God that he did all this, and that he lives, and not question how He was created.
2007-05-20 15:59:13 · answer #10 · answered by flylow000 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well for a start it's not by applying denial, bigotry, arrogance and ignorance, like for eg; ..christians...
Wake up and smell the coffee, education, understanding and enlightenment are wonderful things..
2007-05-20 15:48:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋