To atheist and non-believers. What did your parents teach you about Creation?

Question

I am still shocked over the amount of non-believers and atheist who exist in this world..I am curious..What did your parents teach you as a child concerning 'who created man' ?

Thankyou so much for sharing how you feel and believe..Your beliefs are so mind blowing to me..

also..to Athiest and non-believers..Who do you believe is more powerful than man?

Answer 1

My family taught me that there are many theories about creation and humanity's role on this Earth and that they are all equally valid, because there is truly no way to know the Unknowable until it is too late to matter.

By now, I believe that there is clearly a creative energy that powers this existence, but I reject the idea of a personified God. I think more that we come here with our own agenda for education and God facilitates that. What we dwell upon in our heart and in our mind is what we see in our life - that implies that we have a role in the creative process.

It has recently been suggested to me that it is us - we as a group - that collectively make up the God energy. I find this idea fascinating - the idea tha we exist simply because we wish to and we facilitate our own existence here (maybe that's why so many of us are awake all the time). If that were true, then the concept of good and evil really becomes a sort of steering mechanism and we try to convert others to our point of view to help manifest the world we wish to live in - communicating that with what we dwell upon in our hearts and in our minds. An elegant system and interesting to think about...

Peace!

Answer 2

I was bought up in a hardcore christian community.
Everything was God related.

When I got older, I started holding my own beliefs.
Like how Religion evolved as a result of our evolution. As humans began to talk and to wonder about our existence and the world we live in people started to theorize about reality. In the beginning religion was an early attempt at science and to create order in society. Religions evolved into social institutions creating a conglomeration of ritual, science, law, and government.

People didn't always know we live on a planet. They saw the sun and the moon and the stars and wandering stars that we now know are planets. There were storms, thunder and lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. There were good years of plenty and bad years of famine and drought. Insects ate crops. People died of mysterious diseases. The world was a vast and mysterious place that created great wonderment and inspired the imagination, and the imagination went wild.

With no scientific information to work with people imagined that there were Gods that were good and evil and that they were powerful and controlled the universe. The sun and moon were gods. The thunder being brought the rains. Life was everywhere so people concluded that stars and planets and the sun and moon might also be alive. They wondered about beings that live in the clouds. They wondered about what happens to you after you die, or where you were before you were born.

Answer 3

My parents taught me some really out there stuff. That some magical sky fairy poofed everything in to existence in 6 days.

As for what is more powerful than man? Time, Nature, the Universe... a lot of things. We are just a dominant animal species on a planet.

Answer 4

I went to Catholic school, and was taught that God created the world. I was also taught about Santa and the tooth fairy.

I'm not sure how rational you are to be shocked that people would be so aware to believe what can be proved. Do you not find it alarming that one can believe without proof? Would you trust a doctor who said "I'm taking it on faith that this procedure / medicine will work for your condition"? Do you not prefer the one who says "This procedure / medicine has been tested extensively under rigorous scientific controlled expirements and has been found to be safe and effective"?

That said, anecdotal evidence does have some merit, but even the anecdotal evidence for Christianity can be refuted by logic, without even resorting to science.

Let's take the idea of miracles: Many Christians have claims of evidence for such. Were not what Christians call miracles evidenced in other parts of culture, they might have weight, but "cancer cure miracles" are not unique to Christianity. Cancer has been shown to go into spontaneous remission even in atheists, as well as in other faiths. The truth is that nothign that is claimed as a miracle in Christianity has not occurred throughout civilisation.

Too, things that would be definite miracles do not seem to happen. No-one in reported Christianity has been found to re-grow an amputated limb. My grandfather, a man of great faith died a paraplegic. Were people such as this to be healed after prayer, it might lend credence to the Christian position.

To date, though, Christianity has not been shown as good as science at explaining our universe, nor better than any other philosophy or religion at changing lives.

Answer 5

Ok.. so I'm not an atheist but I have a funny story just the same. So I was raised as a Catholic, my Dad sent me to Catholic school where apparently some nun taught me that angels gave you babies. My Dad's sister happen to be babysitting for me the day I came home from school and shared that with her... she totally flipped and called my Dad and cussed up a storm that if he didn't tell me the truth she was going to because she wasn't gonna have me come home one day 'knocked up' and not know what happened. LMAO!!
Then she hung up and told me about sex and having babies. My Dad was pissed. LOL!

Answer 6

They attempted to teach me the irrational, but I never stood for any of their abuse, I always knew they were wrong, and when I found out more about the real world and myself, I rejected their pathetic mysticism and other defense mechanisms completely. I don't drink, smoke or lie to myself like them either. And no longer do I have the anger, pent up hurt, and passive-aggressive evil which they continue to spew upon the world, nor the self destructive guilt they inflict on themselves.

I'm just me, an imperfect reasoning mind in an imperfect world surrounded by other imperfect minds, all of whom have a right to live free and pursue their passions and goals, who intends no harm neither to myself nor anyone else, doesn't lie, doesn't beg, doesn't steal, doesn't initiate the use of force, but rather practices fair trade. If I make a mistake I feel bad and apologize, and I expect the same from others. I stand up for what's right, earn or trade fairly for what I want from others, and I never make sacrifices. I mind my own business and expect others to mind theirs.

No religion can live up to my standards.

As far as I'm concerned, the reasoning human mind is the pinnacle of evolution here on earth.

Answer 7

My parents were skeptical of what religion insisted that everyone believe. Don't believe that the Adam & Eve story is the word of God, because when members of the same family have children, the offspring are always born with genetic defects like sterility or Mongolism (Down Syndrome). If you want proof, marry your cousin and have children.

Answer 8

They didn't. But they did teach me HOW to be a person. How we came to be is much less important then how we treat each other and our selves. As to who created man, Who says we need a creator? My mother and father created me, so on and so forth. The rest is basic biology.

Answer 9

Atheist, and my parents taught me truth. They knew far less about evolution than I do now (I was first taught in the '50s), as we've advance incredibly with the fossils uncovered and species identified, and I've since avidly read the likes of:
- Richard Leakey.
- S.J. Gould.
- Richard Dawkins.
- Sci AM., Discover, Nat. Geog., Time and others, with many, many articles/issues on biology and evolution.
and much more to be quite familiar with evolution.

About "Creation"? ... IIRC, it took scant minutes to go over - there's hardly anything to "learn", after all. I mean, Genesis takes no time at all to read and dismiss as folk-lore.

Why on earth are you "SHOCKED"? ... What's shocking?
"Mind blowing to me": Your attitude is rather mind blowing.
[Edit]: "More powerful"? ... Elephants, bears - griz/blacks, etc., rhinos, hippos and lots more. But we augment with pure firepower. In the ability to royaly mess up the environment, we are unmatched.

Answer 10

I don't even remember asking them how man was created.. I do however, remember being preached all this **** about the big bang, and cavemen, and then God living in isreal, and healing the sick, and then getting put on a cross..so, I honestly don't know what to think..

I don't even know if there is a real GOD..