Does it take more faith to be an atheist than to be religious?

Answer 1

RU kiddin? ... We don't have a skydaddy who creates a whole Universes; septillions and septillions of quarks, muons, amoebas and manages 'em all; handles dog-farts, black-holes, brocolli, tooth-aches, phlem and hurricanes, yet "loves" <.0000000000000000034 % of Her creations.

Answer 2

This has been asked a bunch of times before. Is it one of the bits of propaganda you learn in your churches?

Faith is belief a claim even though there is no empirical evidence to support the claim.

You claim the there is a god. Where is the empirical evidence to support that claim?

I claim that the Bible is myth. There is a great deal of evidence to support that claim.

I don't know why the universe exists. Neither do you. Claiming that there must be a god to explain the existence of the universe is pointless, since even if I allow you that claim for the sake of argument, it doesn't do anything to prove that the god described in the Bible is an accurate description of the god the created the universe.

But I don't grant you that claim. Because if the existence of the universe can only be explained if it was created by something outside of the universe, then you need to explain what created the god that created the universe. It makes no sense to say that the universe can't have always existed but a god could have.

Answer 3

No, it doesn't. There's no faith involved in rejecting a claim for which no evidence has been presented. In fact, such rejections are necessary to coexist with the world around us and with each other. Why don't we listen to doomsday prophets in Central Park walking around with sandwich boards? They present no evidence. It doesn't take faith to dismiss them.

Faith is, in fact, believing something without or in the face of evidence. All atheists demand evidence for claims, or repeatedly demonstrable results of an experiment conducted under strict scientific conditions. All atheists will support their claims, arguments, and positions with such evidence or results.

Atheists are opposed to the very idea of faith, because they believe it facilitates the exploitation of human beings.

Answer 4

It takes faith to believe in something that you can't see, or have never witnessed yet, such as GOD, miracles, such as that, that is what faith is all about, you believe even though you have never saw/ witnessed. Why would you need faith to be an atheist, what is so hard about simply not believing, sure don't take faith for that, that is too easy!

Answer 5

It takes no faith to be an atheist. Only the guts to go with the best available evidence no matter where that leads.

Answer 6

if you really believe that DNA can spontaniously mutate to become a new life form; If you can believe that algae created itself from green goo, with all its infinite complexities; If you can believe that a monkey one day suddenly realizes that it is no longer a monkey but now human being and start creating reality shows on ABC; If you can take a look around at the nature of the universe and blame it all on some kind of cosmic accident;
Then yeah, I would say it takes a lot more faith to be an athiest than to believe in the all powerful god.

Answer 7

It's easy to be an atheist because it's wrong and I dont care if you rate me thumbs down I'm speaking my mind. It takes real faith to be religious and also know there is only one god and son of god.

Answer 8

Not necessarily. It largely depends upon the way you think. For example, I am a big fan of statistics, and statistics tells me that everyone believes in a slightly different or outright different god than everyone else. I could easily ask an open-ended question about the nature of god, and no one would answer the question in the exact same way. For example, I could ask everyone to reply to this: Without quoting any other source (in other words give me your own opinion), tell me why is god good, and list all of the examples you can think of that show he is good that have occurred in the last two thousand, one hundred years. So in reality, while Christians do share many common beliefs about god, none of them think of that god in the exact same terms. So, if the Christian god was the one true god, at most one person would have precise knowledge as to everything that this god would do, want, etc. So it is easier for me to accept that everyone is wrong about that god, so the religion is a failure to me. I simply apply this to every other form of god, and I reach the same conclusion. In the end, it is quite easy for me to believe there is no god.

Answer 9

I'm sure you had to have seen that this question has been posted a hundred or more times. Faith is belief in things that cannot be proven. We don't have faith, we have knowledge and reason.

Answer 10

I am a Christian, and I have heard it said that it takes more faith to be an atheist, but I don't agree. Many atheists are apathetic and do not care about things outside their daily lives, so for them, it takes little or no faith. They just don't think about it.

Answer 11

Define "faith".

Get back to me.

P.S. a word in seatllefan's ear : It is not kowtowing to the religious to capitalize the spelling of the word God. It is merely respectful. Agree or disagree with another person's chosen faith if you like, but always respect that faith. Please.