name something that atheism teaches, as a belief, that is negative?

Answer 1

Are you kidding me???

How about that God doesn't exist!!
That's negative enough to condemn souls to an Eternity of Hell!

Answer 2

Well, I do not believe in gods of any type, and I follow a philosophy named Taoism. We do not have sins, but we do have things we call evil deeds. Here are some of them;

Going against the virtue of selflessness.
Being unreasonable.
Using evil intentions to guide your actions.
Being cruel and destructive.
Taking advantage of kind people.
Talking secretly against your parents and elders.
Showing disrespect for your teachers.
Engaging in rebellious actions.
Framing the innocent.
Slandering your co-workers.
Being deceitful.
Lying to your relations.
Being aggressive and resentful.
Taking things for yourself whenever you wish.
Not knowing right from wrong.
Talking behind people’s backs.
Making your subordinates work so that you can gain favors.
Being ungrateful for others’ help.
Harboring conflicts and grudges.
Looking down on less fortunate people.
Drinking and starting fights.
Competing with your siblings.
Being an undedicated and dishonest son.
Being an unruly and wild daughter.
Creating conflict in the household.
Not respecting your spouse.
Delighting in boasting.
Being jealous.
Not providing for your spouse and children.
Being rude to your uncles and aunts.
Neglecting your ancestors.
Going against the wishes of your elders.
Committing destructive actions.
Being narrow-minded.
Letting hate and love cloud your judgment.
Swearing at the well and the stove.
Taking food from other people’s bowls.
Injuring children and life in the womb.
Engaging in subversive activities.
Carousing on days of chanting.
Being angry on days of the new and full moon.
Crying and complaining.
Crying and mourning over food.
Wasting energy.
Getting up in the middle of the night naked [refers to passing a contagious illness]
Slaughtering during harvest festivals.
Gazing at the sun and moon for long periods.
Hunting during the months of spring.
Killing turtles and snakes.
Delighting in stealing and grabbing from others.
Plundering.
Giving rewards and punishments unjustly.
Being boisterous, unruly and without a sense of shame.
Being unkind to subordinates.
Threatening others.
Swearing bad wishes upon other people.
Swearing and complaining about the wind and rain.
Delighting in arguments and competitions.
Participating in gangs and secret societies.
Listening to the gossip of your spouse and opposing the will of your parents.
Forgetting old friends when you have new acquaintances.
Saying one thing and thinking the opposite.
Coveting riches.
Lying to your supervisors.
Spreading rumors and lies.
Framing your subordinates.
Helping guilty parties.
Swearing at any good fortune.
Going against the harmony and flow of things.
Abandoning your relations.
Not returning what you borrowed.
Asking for much more than is appropriate.
Indulging in excessive sexual desires.
Exhibiting compassion externally and harboring evil thoughts.
Ruining the livelihood of others.
Leading people astray with false teachings.
Measuring with a false ruler.
Weighing with a false scale.
Mixing the artificial with the real.
Prospering from unethical dealings.
Being cruel to people who are kind.
Ridiculing those who are retarded.
Coveting.
Starting quarrels

Answer 3

It takes more faith than I have to believe in atheism. I think it is negative to believe people evolved from monkeys, the planets evolved into existance out of nothing, and that theres no deeper meanings to life... what a downer... I'd have to really be convinced this is how it was, but even if I did supernaturally know all the hows of everything there is to know... and it was something like atheists believe... I would choose to believe a "fantasy" instead.

Answer 4

Survival of the fittest.

It has been used to justify genocide the world over (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, The slave-owning South, etc.). And unfortunately, unlike the Bible (which occasionally has been used for the same thing), this belief contains no "passages" that can allow the reasons for genocide to be debated (i.e., though the Bible has warlike passages it also contains peaceful passages, facilitating a debate on whether a war should be taken. This also means that war can be justified when it is needed, and rejected when it is not; the Bible contains a much more rounded view on things like war and peace).

Answer 5

I think you mean harmful to others? Theism justifies harm to others and uses bigotry as defense. Try this-

Positive and Negative Atheism
Negative atheism rests on the rejection of specific theistic beliefs; thus atheists through the ages have rejected the Greek and Norse pantheons, the afterlife, the divinity of Jesus, and the very existence of God. But there is also the sort of atheism which comes from positive assertions about the nature of the world based on observations and interpretations that simply don't involved God; this is the atheism of Darwinism, the Big Bang, cultural relativism, and reductionist materialism. Note that I don't mean to distinguish two types of atheist, but two types of atheism; an individual atheist will both disbelieve in specific religious assertions and believe in certain natural philosophies.

Negative atheism is the easier sort to overcome in favour of religious belief. Christian faith is more than believing in improbable miracles and inexpressible mysteries; theology offers rational, well-constructed arguments for God's existence, God goodness, for the necessity of evil, for Christ's incarnation and death, and for the muddle of baseness and nobility that is humanity. And where specific doubts persist, Christian ritual and spirituality which speak to our everyday experiences and perceptions can shore up a flagging faith. And behind reason and experience, religious belief is supported by the seemingly universal human need to believe in something.

Positive atheism, being not simply the lack of a theist worldview but providing rather an alternative philosophical system, offers a more serious challenge to the threat of religious conversion. Religous belief in the face of this sort of atheist requires not merely suspension of disbelief or acceptance of doubt, but rather the overthrow of whole systems of acceptable, rational ideas about what the world, the universe, and humanity really are.

I believe that it is the recent ascendency of postitive forms of atheism that has secured its modern currency, after centuries of near-universal religous faith.

Answer 6

Some people tend to forget that atheists do not attend weekly meetings to learn the word of atheism. Generally, an atheist simply does not believe in God, and goes about his or her life with work, family, school, etc.

Answer 7

Atheism doesn't preach anything as a belief, except the denouncement of religion. It doesn't really "teach" anything because it isn't any kind of organized community.

Also, MURDER.

Answer 8

There is no God. No is a negative. Your main belief (or is it disbelief?) is the Ultimate Negation. Come on. Ask something hard. Blessings!

-The Theist

Answer 9

That God does not exist. This statement is a negative statement, not necessarily morally, but in its lingustic structure-- it is telling one that something is not, rather than that something is. Therefore it is considered a negative statement.

Answer 10

The biggest thing to me is that it teaches there is no God.

That means it's impossible for the universe, and my life in particular, to be in the hands of a loving, all-powerful God.

That's a real downer to me, dude. "Gimme another beer and pass the bong!"

Answer 11

I wasn't aware that atheism teaches anything except that logically disbelief in God is the default position.