Question for Atheists: Do you believe we are here for a reason?

Question

I am Christian and I feel God put us here to help and love one another.. I respect Atheism as a diffrent view and I respect it even though I don't agree with it at all.. So Im curious can you be Atheist and belive that we are here for a reason? I look foward to hearing answers...

Answer 1

First of all, thank you for expressing respect for my point of view as an Atheist. It's been my experience that is extremely rare to receive from a Christian.
I believe no one really knows if we have a purpose for existing or what that purpose is. I think you made an excellent choice of words in saying "I feel that God put us here to help and love one another". You express it as a personal feeling or a belief, rather than misrepresenting it as a fact.
I think everyone decides their own purpose for living based on his/her own philosophies and priorities. Personally, I feel that my purpose is to learn everything that I possibly can while I'm here. In accordance with that, I try to be conscious of what knowledge I'm taking in no matter what mundane things I'm doing.
Thanks for the intelligent and respectful question!

Answer 2

We are here to create - we have an amazing oportunity to leave a legacy that can live on and make a positive impact on the human race we are here to create not destroy.

I'm an Athiest, I do not believe in the supernatual - I believe that just because we dont have the ability to explain it does not make it supernatual.

Have you ever considered this?

Turn off your bullshit filters before you read on.

The story goes that 14 billion years ago there was a big bang and an amazing amount of **** happened. When I say 14 billion it’s just a number and it’s hard for our little brains to fully appreciate. So consider that if we were to take a walk and every step we took represented 1000 years we would have to walk 140 thousand kilometers to represent the time line of things past. The last six steps of the journey is recorded history, the last foot print is the age of technology and the last and the last toe imprint we leave on this 140 thousand kilometer journey is our time here on this planet.

Now consider that the area of the screen you are looking at represents everything that is known to be FACT proven beyond reasonable doubt that is known to man everything in every library, every university, and every web site everything that man knows to be FACT.

Ask yourself how much of this do you know yourself. What area of this screen would you know yourself – think about it. It would probably be represented by one pixel.

So if all you know to be true is one pixel and in the 140 000 kilometer journey your time here is represented by a toe imprint we really know very little about this great cosmos we live within – yet we all believe we have all the answers.

Is it not possible that there is so much more to know but we turn on our inhibiting bullshit filters to disregard stuff that could be a possibility?

We don’t have all the answers and it is possible we have got it all incredibly wrong, given that only a couple of hundred years ago we discovered that the earth wasn’t flat, wasn’t the centre of the universe and our planet revolved around the sun and then we discovered our sun wasn’t the centre of the universe.

We are incredible creature here to create and discover, let’s put aside all our differences and join together to celebrate this amazing gift we have been given, the gift of life. We are all searching for the truth perhaps what we have been lead to believe isn’t what is perhaps if we all stopped and had a good educated think we might just see that life is really simple and life is meant to be a journey of fun and discovery. We should all be looking for enlightenment. And to find enlightenment we must open our mind to the potential of new discoveries.

Take time to consider think this through and like me you will find an inner peace that will take you places you never thought possible.

We are here to create not destroy.

Answer 3

Well life itself is the most precious gift there is. Since there is no supernatural reward, and our time is finite, we must live every day as if it was precious, for it is. We have but one chance to live and affect the world around us. We should love our family and friends, to make their lives better while here on the earth. We should do good works, so that our effect is felt by people long after we are gone.

There is no ultimate universal point to life. As the saying goes, life is what you make it. Meaning the purpose of life is to give it a purpose. And I think the goal of life should be to enjoy it and leave the world a better place.

Answer 4

This tiresome question has been asked endless times. It is impossible to explain the concept of existence, when people have been conditioned to believe that God has a plan for them. What reasons do you want to hear. An invisible supernatural deity wants us to love one another ? Peace on Earth ? Give the Native Americans their country back? Vote for Bush? We are here simply because we are here. To tie in superstition and Bible nonsense is just ridiculous.

Answer 5

Giving our lives reason is something that I believe is up to the individual. My reason for being is to be the best father I can be to my children (we're working on our first). The best husband and lover I can be for my wife, who is my best friend and my partner in life. The most knowledgeable personal fitness trainer a person could ever hire. In short, to be the best I can be at whatever endevor I decide to partake in. I'm not in competition with anyone other than myself, and at the end of the day, I hate knowing that I could have given more of myself to what I did. So I guess my point in life is to never go to bed with that feeling!

Otherwise, do you honestly think God created anyone for the sole purpose of playing video games and eating Cheetos? My point is, God or no God, there's a lot of wasted potential out there, and it's up to us to pick up the slack. There's medicines to create. There's diseases to cure. There's people to feed. But we've got to make the decision to do something about it--or it'll never happen. We choose our own purpose.

That's my two cents, and I believe I owe you change!

And by the way: Thanks for being so respectful in how you asked your question! We aren't used to that, and it goes a long way toward ALL of us acting like human beings.

Answer 6

I actually totally agree with Markyyyyyy.


Add the qualities that you want, that enhance your life. I always imagine, actually growing up someday. It doesn't just happen.

Embracing so many things, being willing to restructure yourself when it no longer works....there is so much that humanity is capable of if were not distracted by flawed ideals that keep us busy living inside of perimeters.

I'm not just talking about religion, either. I'm actually talking about anything that eventually has us serving "it", rather than "it" serving us.

Sometimes I feel endless, that no matter how deeply I dive into my own unknown I will never get to the bottom of it.

Why anyone would despise anyone elses personal journey is a real mystery to me.

Answer 7

Atheism is not a world view or a religion, it is just one concept, just like "Monotheism" is not a religion or world view, it is just once concept.

As a Christian you are a monotheist, but not all monotheists are Christians.

The same goes for Atheists- some may believe in concepts like souls, the higher self, karma, reincarnation, and even a specific purpose or plan for each life even though they don't believe in a God.

Personally, I believe that as an individual, you create your own purpose in life- no one creates it for you.

Answer 8

why worship a god that asks for all the existence and would not provide something returned out of it? God claims to have great POWERS. the place are they? do no longer provide me verses from the bible to tell me because of the fact regardless of if those have been actual, they have been from over 2011 years in the past! If he replaced into so useful, he would not be too rooster to coach them. "Ask and ye shall acquire." ok then i decide on God to deliver a magic bottle with infinite pills to therapy herpes, aids, breast maximum cancers, etc from the sky - utilising no helicopters, planes, etc... If he has the flexibility that he claims to have, then that would desire to be no problem for him. Telling me that it is not in his will isn't something greater desirable than an excuse or a scapegoat. by utilising having a scientists or scientific person create a pill for it may basically be God taking credit for someoen else's complicated artwork.

Answer 9

i dont know why im here, but I'll try to make the best of it. BTW, god didn't "put us here", we,the human species, put ourselves here, cuz we are the most intelligent species on this planet. Therefore, with that intelligence, we'd survived the ice age, and the time when dinosaur roamed this planet. These days, some of us are less fortunate than others, so we have to pay of bills to survive. also, it just saddens me than we, the human species, were once united on a common goal and that was survival. nowadays, we are divided by religion.

Answer 10

what does god have to do with whether or not we are here or not. We are the ones who give love and help to each other, there is no almighty power that tells us what to do. There is no such thing as fate, we make our own lives, we chose who we want to be and what we want to to. Why are we here, we are here because we are people and people populate this planet. We make things work on the planet. We plant trees, we grow plants, we take care of the animals that feed us. This planet is ours and we rule it. We are not God's little puppets;