As an atheist, I had no love interests, lived in crappy, cramped apartments, bounced from job to job, and drove 10 year old cars on their last legs. Since becoming a Christian, I've gotten married, had two kids, lived in a house for 8 years, held a steady job for 8 years, and moved up to a shiny 2003 Blazer. How can I doubt that God has blessed me with these things? Why would I want to give that up? Because of some false idea that being religious makes me intolerant, hateful narrow-minded and/or anti-intellectual?
2007-05-23 13:02:39 · 30 answers · asked by jinxmchue 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Julian, I guarantee you that I truly was an atheist and was not saying it simply to make my parents mad.
2007-05-23 13:12:41 · update #1
good testimony
2007-05-23 13:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by robert p 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Ok...SOME atheist are atheist because they are mad at the world and unhappy. Not having faith doesn't mean they are unhappy because they have no faith. They have no faith because they are unhappy.
When you find something to have faith in whether it be religion or yourself, you feel more in control of your life. You have a sense of community and support. That makes you want to be a better person.
Religion isn't by nature hateful, intolerant or narrow minded. Unfortunately a lot of the people practicing it is. Your soul is your business so do what feels right to you. Just give others the same respect.
And also for the record my husband is athiest, happily married to the most fabulous woman in the world (me of course) has three amazing children, a wonderful home, and I get to stay home with the kids because we both have a very strong sense in family. Being athiest doesn't mean you are unhappy. Being unhappy is just another choice in your life.
2007-05-23 13:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As a former Mormon myself i've got variety of taken on a mixture of agnosticism, and atheism. i comprehend one hundred% that each and every person faith is fake. i'm pointing my finger on the books, Bible, Torah, Qu'ran, e book of Mormon, and the different LDS or much less consumer-friendly books. What a stupid god to think of that those books might incorporate the notice of an all understanding all-powerful being. while they are so needless to say synthetic flawed. The claims those books all make have been dis-shown on quite a few diverse levels. Now as quickly as I point out agnosticism that's barely because of the fact i've got witnessed some issues that lead me to have self assurance there are issues that take place that have yet to be defined. they do no longer furnish any info in the direction of any faith's claims yet they are easily some thing that could desire to be investigated so as that we fairly comprehend what's happening. look up the poverty of agnosticism.
2016-11-05 04:23:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's funny, because I lived in a lot less luxurious situations, and was a lot less happy when I was a believer. Now I'm an atheist, and my husband and I just bought our dream home, we're very happily married, we have two BEAUTIFUL healthy, happy children, we have wonderful families that we are very close to, we have wonderful friends...
Your happiness is based on the responsibility you take for YOURSELF. It's not based on your beliefs. I don't credit atheism with making my living situation better, it just happened that the older and more mature I got, the better my living situation became. (And around the same time, I became an atheist.)
2007-05-23 13:10:11 · answer #4 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll stand up for you. I was an atheist for over 20 years. I returned to Judaism because I felt a connection to G-d.
I had also thought I didn't deserve good things, and after returning to G-d I could say I loved myself for the first time in my life, and I looked at life with hope, and I had a more positive attitude.
If atheists can accomplish this without G-d, good for them, they have more strength then I do. For me, I don't mind asking for help now.
Whether G-d has blessed us with our good things or not, I feel no shame in giving thanks.
2007-05-23 13:46:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
okay....
#1. you were younger then, obviously...and young people don't have families yet....their jobs almost always suck...and their cars are always falling apart.
#2. if you are a non-conformist (which atheists often are) you are more likely to see how life is thinly veiled lie... Where if you are a Christian (and a conformist, obviously), then you will believe the lie and not think about how sucky everyone else has it.
#3. I don't believe for a second that you were an atheist. It seems imposible to think that you understand the principles of science and life and then trade them in (williningly or unwillingly) for mythology. You just said you were an atheist to get your parents mad.
2007-05-23 13:05:12 · answer #6 · answered by Julian X 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Well... I highly doubt that you can really connect all of those things with being athiest/Christian. Atheism doesn't cause bad things to happen, nor does Christianity cause good things to happen.
I really think it's more about perception. I'm an athiest and I can still see the good feelings that being part of an organized religion can give you, as well as I can see why some athiests might become hopeless when confronted with questions of after-death.
To me, it's all about your outlook on life. If Christianity has changed your outlook for the better, more power to you. :)
2007-05-23 13:04:42 · answer #7 · answered by Tedium 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Life is how YOU make it, we choose to do the things we do, we choose to feel the way we do, UNLESS forced upon us, this life is a test, this life is temporary, God tests us in many different ways, to see if we strong minded enough to have & keep faith, whereas after life is the rewarding one, remember, there are so many religious people out there who's life is worse then ours, but they still belive, they never give up, they know affter life is rewarding one, its about having faith, God test us to see how we react to situations & others, i pray God guides u to the right path, makes u happy & gives u peace".
2007-05-23 13:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"How can I doubt that God has blessed me with these things? "
Sounds narrow-minded enough to me.
I don't think that being religious made you narrow-minded, but you've got to admit, you sure demonstrated some serious narrow-mindedness there.
2007-05-23 13:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
By your logic the fact that your situation improved as your beliefs changed proves the existence of a god - and specifically your specific god.
By the same logic the fact that somebody else's situation became worse as they started believing in your god would prove that your god does not exist.
* Do you claim there are no people like that whatsoever?
* Can you figure out what's wrong with your logic yet?
2007-05-23 13:06:34 · answer #10 · answered by eldad9 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't think your religion had anything to do with those things. If you aren't Atheist, then you aren't. I'm glad you're happy being Christian, but don't assume that all Atheists had crappy lives like yours was.
And I don't see how you could have ever really been an Atheist if you're back to being Christian.
2007-05-23 13:08:09 · answer #11 · answered by ....... 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋