Do any atheists out there question atheism?

Question

I asked a similar question directed to Christians:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgfELs4WxqAxvzULEZGV0xPsy6IX?qid=20070605014929AAMqZSc

Christians stated that they question their faith often, but don't rest until they have satisfied the answer.

In contrast,
Do atheists ever question their LACK of faith?

Answer 1

It's hard not to when most of the world believes in SOME type of higher power. But I remind myself that most of the world also believed the earth was flat and the center of the universe.

"Eat ****: 10 billion flies can't be wrong!" is similarly not good reasoning.

Answer 2

I'll answer as a former atheist, is that okay? I DID question it. For twelve years, as a matter of fact. I read many books (by both Christian apologetics and atheists), and I studied science (it brought up more questions than answers). I was never happy with the answers. They seemed just as...rehearsed...as many Christians' answers seemed to be before I became an atheist (officially when I was thirteen, though I had doubted the whole thing since I was about six. The entire Bible just seemed like a book of fairy tales. Come on, a man being swallowed by a whale? A worldwide flood? A talking donkey?!).
My science teachers would give answers, and then I'd ask, "Well, how do you know?" Then they'd tell me about some discovery made by a scientist, and I'd ask, "Well, how do THEY know?" Then they'd recite the evidence, and I still wasn't convinced.

We should always question. That's how we find answers.

As a sidenote, the same evidence that once convinced me there was no God, now convinces me that there IS.

Answer 3

I often question the subject of gods.

I want to know the facts, and the question of a deity is a big one. But I'm constantly confronted with information that shows how religions are based in emotions as opposed to reality, and how a god probably doesn't exist in a universe run by natural processes.

There are billions of planets in our universe. It's bigger than I can comprehend. I want to know the answers, but I can't stop questioning.

It's too simple to write off the universe to an invisible man who tabulates the number of hot dogs I ate on Sunday. I don't want faith; I want to understand.

Answer 4

I was doing this sort of thing when I was Christian couldn't handle it so I held onto my unanswered questions till I finally found out about atheism. Since then I don't have questions if I do I don't have to hold on to them which is great in honesty for me.

Answer 5

Of course but so far I have always come to the same conclusions.If there were any evidence (note the word evidence not proof) that a god existed then I would re-evaluate my position

Answer 6

how can I question my lack of faith if faith is the belief in something for which there is no proof. In other words, how do I question something I do not know exists?

Answer 7

I am an atheist and when I see that millions of people believe in one or more gods, afterlife, reincarnation, horoscopes, prophecies, ghosts, or fairies, I often wonder if I am lacking something, for example a vivid fantasy.

Answer 8

Yep, I question my lack of belief in Gods all of the time. I just have not found any suitable evidence to suggest otherwise.

Answer 9

Yes, why not? I questions everything.

For Christians, their satisfied answers mostly end up with "God works in mysterious ways, you should not strive to understand god, but only have faith"

Answer 10

NO! Most of us comes to our position from reasoning!
Not faith.. Once the superstitions about the supernatural is intellectualized, no doubts remains!