2007-06-05 17:39:20 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dylan thanks for the honest answer
2007-06-05 17:44:26 · update #1
thewolf..well thank you...because i ask a question doesnt mean i dont respect what you or anyone else thinks , i asked if it was possible , not that it was fact....it was simple question..and when athiest ask questions i answer them with out being sarcastic or rude so thanks
2007-06-05 17:52:43 · update #2
for all that answered just because i asked this question almost all of you assume i claim to be a christain, not all believers in god claim that
2007-06-05 17:54:58 · update #3
Nope, I tried that and it didn't work. It comes from searching through many different religions for god and coming to the only logical conclusion. Once I removed the superstition from my life everything started to make a lot more sense.
Please understand I am not trying to make you angry I am just answering your question as honestly as I know how.
2007-06-05 17:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not an athiests but i am close to a couple of folks who are and no I don't thinks its an unwillingness to submit to GOD.
I don't know that I submit to GOD but I try and live the way I think HE would want me too.
I had a hard time with the whole GOD thing for a long time because when i was 5 i went to a lock in and my uncletold me that if i didn't accept jesus as my savior then i would burn in hell. That really scared me I didn't know Jesus I didn't even know what savior ment I knew what burn ment tho
It has taken me some time but i have come to accetpt GOD into my heart in my own way and it seems to be working
2007-06-05 23:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by Cassie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. You've probably heard this many times from other Christians, but it's not true, at least for the vast majority of atheists.
We believe that the Bible is myth. We're convinced that the god Jehovah of the Bible is no more real that Zeus or Odin. Is your unbelief in Zeus actually your unwillingness to submit to Zeus?
2007-06-05 17:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was born into a Catholic family. My mom, dad, brothers are all still Catholic and as far as I know feel a connection to God. I, for all my willingness to want to believe don't. And this pains me deeply. I long for the feeling that is described by others when they talk about there religious experiences and have done everything I can to experience them myself. I have even explored other religions in hopes of finding some sign of God. I realize that people often say that faith is believing without proof, but it's not believing without feeling. I simply do not feel the light of God and I fear for my soul. I fear that it may not exist.
2007-06-05 17:45:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even if there were evidence for a god, it's highly probable that it would point to a deistic, or even pantheistic version of it. For certain, no self defeating soul would submit to an egotistical theistic god that some people have defined him to be based on ancient texts.
It is more logical to 'submit' to a pantheistic/deistic god, since it will follow we all just go with the flow of things in the cosmos.
2007-06-05 17:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by element_115x 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes that's it exactly. I am unwilling to submit to a fantasy. I fail to see how Christians have such a hard time understanding that simple truth. When they have nothing of substance to offer. Yet they will subject themselves to blind faith in the hope of an after life. They waste half the good life they have chasing a fantasy they will never find. Kisses BB
2007-06-05 17:52:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wow. Smug much?
I'm sorry, but even as a heathen---who DOES believe in Odin, thank you very much for the snarky example in multiple posts, folks---the condescension in your question is just stifling.
Why on earth *should* I be willing to submit to a jumped-up Canaanite deity? He's not godh to MY folk! And as for people who don't believe at all . . . their "lack of submission" is from YOUR point of view, isn't it? That's what the fundies usually call things like logic and science.
2007-06-05 17:53:59 · answer #7 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No; it is simply based on a lack of any sort of evidence to support any theory of god. Given evidence, I could then make a rational decision as to whether a god was worth submitting to.
2007-06-05 17:45:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Haven't you ever noticed how "most" people who don't believe in God get very angry when you open any discussions about God? These kinds of people also say some very nasty things to anyone who makes any comment to them about God. They need to figure out why they have so much anger in them, there is a reason for it, but they are too blind to see it. They are living in denial and are betrayed by "worldly science". God be with all of them.
2007-06-05 17:52:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
My unbelief in god is actually a conscious choice that I make because there is not a single shred of empirical evidence to support the existence of god.
The idea of submitting to an imaginary concept is just plain silly.
2007-06-05 17:43:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋