Is it easier to be an atheist or a Christian?

Question

Please identify your belief / non-belief. Your answer is closest to which of the following:

1) I'm atheist and it's easier to be a Christian because all I have to do is stop thinking, and let myself believe in fairy tales.
2) I'm a Christian and it's easier to be an atheist because all I have to do is give in to my immoral flesh.
3) I'm atheist and it's easier to be an atheist because I don't have to waste energy ignoring facts.
4) I'm a Christian and it's easier to be a Christian becaue I don't have to waste energy ignoring God.
5) Other.

Answer 1

You would do well to look up the meaning of "false dichotomy".
How is this?
Let us reverse your empirically biased reasoning.
1) I'm Christian and it's easier to be an atheist, because all I have to do is stop thinking, and let myself believe in the fairy tales of scientific theory.
2) I'm a Christian and it's easier to be an atheist because all I have to do is give in to my selfish desires.
3) I'm atheist and it's easier to be an atheist because I have to waste energy ignoring facts.
4) I'm a Christian and it's easier to be a Christian becaue I don't have to waste energy ignoring the myth of life by chance.
5) Other.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Cant really answer your question based off your five answers.
1. Many Christians study deep in their faith, not all stop thinking and just go along with it as you seem to think.
2. To quit Christianity and become atheist so you can give in to your immoral flesh still hold christian undertones, hence the word "immoral" used in Christian context.
3. Most atheists don't ignore facts. In fact most of them are far more familiar with fact than the Christian, at least in the "worldly" sense, and that's why evolution is accepted usually, as it goes along with scientific fact and theory.
4. Becoming a christian is just the start of it. It doest mean that you are automatically on par with god, theres still a lot of work to be done in the relationship.
5. I will have to go with other, if any.

Answer 4

number 5. Being atheist and Christian is easy. If I was an atheist I could do anything I want without having fear of the Lord. I could follow my own rules in this world without believing in God, God's love, and God's orders. I would not fear going to hell or being punished because of my sinful life for I don't plan to repent or ask forgiveness to God and live a strictly righteous life. If I were a Christian, I would be in the MOST TOLERANT major religions. I could commit millions of faults, commit handful of goodness and still be a Christian. I could believe in a Holy Book that has been changed for a lot of times losing it's divine meaning.

However, being a Muslim is never easy. Islam is the WAY OF LIFE and the ONE CREATOR is the Greatest of all. Though it's hard, it's the true path. --peace--

Answer 5

It's easier to be yourself and explore the truth through your journey. Not everything has to be labeled or categorized. Explore spirituality on your own level and draw your own conclusions. You will gain spiritual wisdom much faster by following your own path.

If you do not Feel what you are told then explore another direction where you feel closer to God. However, if you are a practical unemotional intellectual person with no love in your heart or comprehension of spirituality what so ever, you will more than likely not understand the concept of God and Creation.

The Ego must be put aside to connect to the spiritual energies around you. Materialistic practical ways of thinking limit you to only one perspective.

The truth is out there. But you must open your Heart to receive it. If you are confused by an Earth-Bound Belief structure, create your own.

Answer 6

My closest I guess would be #5. non-affiliate

I believe that every culture has those who choose a religon just because it is what the main stream expects of them. Main stream warps all religons. After all the Buddha said for people not to waste their time worshiping him as a deity, yet many Buddhists do. The Hebrew God said for his people not to kill, yet they do.
I think that it is equally easy to "say" you are Christian in America as it is to "be" atheist. Each one requires that you commit to nothing. Transversely I believe that it is equally hard to come out and "say" you are atheist as it is to truely "be" Christian. Either one will have people openly disagreeing with you and probably end up in more than one yelling match in your life.

Answer 7

5)It's much easier to be a Christian, but not because the lack of facts for Christianity. No one is about to say that ceasing to exist after we die is an appealing option, an atheist must learn to accept their mortality, which is hard for anyone to do.

Answer 8

5) Other. It's easier to be an Atheist or a Christian than be a Baptist.

Answer 9

For me, being Atheist is pretty easy. I don't have to please any god. I don't have to worry where I'm going to go when I die. I can enjoy getting an education in all things without worrying about something ridiculous like my soul. The whole world of experience is open to me and logic rules my existance. I just simply live as best I can.

There is alot of peace in knowing that the only things I have to worry about are other humans and natural disasters.

Answer 10

It's easier to be a Christian - He have the peace of God that passes all understanding;
While the atheist are tormented in their soul day and night. Even taking repeated holidays cannot bring any real peace to their heart.

It's easier to be a Christian - His conscience is clear and he struggle no more with the devil's lies and condemnation
While the atheist conscience torment him every single moment of their waking and sleeping time that they have to find distraction and escape into false sense of security like drugs, sex - especially the abnormal one they called their right of choice, musics, songs, wines , etc,
What a debilitating exercise and expansion of wasteful energy that lower your immune system and exposes you to harmful infection

the list could go on, but I spare you to your own imagaination