What is to gain by denying God's existance?

Question

only cold emptiness, a void of ignorant intellect, a vast sea of usless morals?

what do we loose by turning to God?

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allow me to clearify my ambiguous poetry:

cold emptiness contributed by fear and loneliness without someone with power far beyond your own for help.

Ignorant intellect - yes, an oxymoron, as it would appear, but I speak of the blind ambitions of the atheistic to learn of this world, dispite the fact it matters very little.

and a sea of useless morals, refering to the view of the athiest. One who goes through this world indeed WITH morals, but they don't matter much, for what's the benefit of them? a few years of respect and then an eternity of nothing. sounds grim don' it?

Answer 1

Some people view religion as a crutch for the weak, a way to excuse themselves from taking responsibility. We lose nothing by turning to Him and we gain everlasting life!

Answer 2

I'm agnostic.....I don't deny God's existence....I merely question whether we can know what there is (God, Gods, Goddesses, Buddha, whatever) or if it is even meant for us to know in this physical existence.

I don't feel any cold emptiness, I don't feel a void of intellect...in fact, I have used this to expand my intellect by reading texts by Freud, Nietzsche, Sarte, Kafka, and many other fine intellectuals. I don't feel that I am in a vast sea of useless morals; I was raised until age 9 as a Catholic and have studied pagan, Wicca and occult very closely. I try to live my life treating others as I would want to be treated, I try to give back to my community, I try to fight against the unfair treatment of others, especially those who cannot fight for themselves and I believe those are some pretty good morals to live by.

As far as what someone loses by turning to God.....that's entirely a personal thing. It depends on how you turn to God...is it through organized religion or just in a more personal way? I personally feel you lose alot of your own "self" when you become part of an organized religion but that just MHO.

Answer 3

What is to gain by denying God's existance?

Integrity, I do not believe in any deity(s) and to say otherwise would be a lie which would compromise my integrity...

only cold emptiness, a void of ignorant intellect, a vast sea of usless morals?

Thank you for judging me based on nothing more than my belief that deity(s) do not exist.. However as you can see above integrity is a moral and a very useful one..

what do we loose by turning to God? My integrity, turning toward something I do not believe in would be to turn against my integrity..

** Please note I left your spelling just as you wrote it not a bklc; hgskuldvgjg!!! word was changed..

Answer 4

"Useless morals"? What exactly does that mean?
Morals are only good if you're using them as a bargaining chip to get into Heaven? If you "benefit" from them? News flash: that's not true morals.

And what do I have to lose by turning to "God"? The same thing you would have to lose by turning to Zeus. A heck of a lot of time and energy. It's a WASTE of time, energy, and brain power to be on your knees worshiping an imaginary entity like you're some superstitious ancient man who doesn't know better than to believe that "gods" are the cause of everything.

Answer 5

I agree. Those who refuse to worship the Daghda, the Morrighan, Callieach, Lugh, Tailtu, Brighid, and the Horned God have pretty much nothing but cold emptiness, and are void of ignorant intellect,.. they have a vast sea of useless morals.

What you lose by turning to the christian God is your self-respect, rational thought and ability to accept others for who they are.

Answer 6

Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. You are ignorant. Intellect is the capacity for knowledge. You don't possess intellect. That cold emptiness you refer to is probably the space between your ears that usually contains a brain. I guess you got left out. By "turning to God", you spend your time looking upward and will eventually fall in the giant hole that everyone who looks straight ahead can see. Morals are by definition only useful for the individual. My morals will not be yours, nor yours mine. They are left to the individual and are influenced by society, your parents, your friends, etc.

Answer 7

Sorry, but maybe you need help if you believe that our intellect, universe, and moral codes are useless.

What do you lose by worshiping deities that do not exist? If life is finite, then every moment and opportunity becomes more precious. Our actions and behavior become more paramount if humanity can only rely on itself.

Good luck finding which one of humanity's two thousand gods are real. Not that there is evidence for any of them.

Answer 8

I would imagine one would gain the comfort of their refusal to deny logic, and their own sense of rationality.

On the contrary, many atheists do not have cold emptiness, but fulfilled lives spent on purposes they themselves have determined. Many atheists continue their education, and have avoided the ignorance with which you have associated.

Beliefs in god/s do not guarantee useful morals. Many atheists live very moral lives understanding that societies function better with laws.

Answer 9

I don't "deny" it, there is nothing to deny. I reject the claim jout of hand as unsupported. It's easy to do, I do it every day. You say there is a purple hedgehog tree in my car? No, there is not. See how easy that was?

"Ignorant intellect", by the way, is an oxymoron, and it's "lose", not "loose".

What do I gain? A rational mind that doesn't just accept every bit of crap that is shoved its way. A healthy attitude toward death. The knowledge that I am not walking around mentally dooming other people to eternal suffering in the afterlife (which basically equates to: I don't get off on the idea of my fellow human beings burning in Hell). Morality that is based upon love for my fellow man and not fear of a non-existent deity. Behavior that is not based on childish systems of reward and punishment.

And the opportunity to drink whenever questions derived from Pascal's Wager come up.

Cheers!

Answer 10

Here's what we gain: rejection of a sadistic, bipolar tyrant who 'loves' one moment and then punishes the next; rejection of a deity that set up the whole 'life feeds on life' system' as well as age, disease, death, birth defects, suffering babies, etc. And we also gain the egoless state of not pursuing the self-centered and egotistical goal of wanting to live forever.

Answer 11

Gain: The ability, or so we think, to do whatever we choose and there be no consequences. We are not held liable for our actions as a human being. We can kill people and call it population control. We can kill babies halfway out of the birth canal and call it choice. We can live our lives for our own direct unadulterated pleasure and not care or consider what our actions may do to others.

Lose: Emptiness, searching for what we are on this planet for, no idea what our purpose is, the ability to have no moral compass, the ability to not care about others, eternal damnation and pain from being separated from Father.