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I am a commited athiest. With all my heart and brain, i believe that we are biological creatures. We are created(sex), we live, if our genetics and social structure allow, we die, of old age or through accident or similar.
With everything I know, i utterly disbelieve that ANY religion is true, meaning that they are ALL false.

We have ONE life. WE have our ID(soul). When we die, we are gone, our brain stops functioning and we are no more.

Is it not true that WE ATHEISTS, who don't belive that life everlasting is waiting for us are more likley to moral people, to hold onto this life with everyhting we have?

If i believe i will be saved on my death bed, as a life long serial killer or abuser or whatever, by truly being sorry, does that not make me a worse person?

I live my life as best as i can, with my wife and my children, is this not truly the moral high ground?
Does this not make more sense than believeing God or Mohammend will look after me in the next?

2007-06-08 11:15:54 · 32 answers · asked by Chris M 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

32 answers

Your thoughts are my thoughts. I believe, though, that the average atheist and the average godbeliever are equally likely to be good and moral persons. The diehard fundamentalists (of any idea, be it religious or not) are the really bad guys.

2007-06-08 11:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 3 0

I'm an atheist too, from what I see from xtians, is that a lot of them do crappy things in the name of god which I just find disgusting. Then again at the end of the day, they're just people with the xtian label attached to them. Not all atheists try to do good. But its awesome that you're living your life and are doing the best that you can. What else can anyone ask out of you?

To be honest with you, I don't need god "to do" life on my own. I do very well on my own without a god looking out for me. Religious people think its impossible to be happy without faith, but even if there was a god, hypothetically speaking, it shouldn't be its responsibility to make me happy. You know?

2007-06-08 11:30:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Well, I prefer to call myself an agnostic. I am sure there is no god or anything similar. But there is always the possibility that I am wrong.

Born-again atheism seems to me a bit like born-again religion.

For me, the enemy is "true belief" of any kind. I hold no beliefs that are not open to amendment should new evidence be produced.

On the other hand, you're obviusly nowhere near as nuts as someone who believes in an eternal life spent polishing harps on a cloud!

2007-06-08 11:24:43 · answer #3 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 3 1

Sir, I am a christian, I respect your honesty, You sound like a good man, You cannot except the Idea of a Supreme Godhead figure, OK don't reproach yourself, There are as many bad people in church, as there are bad atheist outside, Put it like this, if you are a UFO- eulogist you believe in other creatures from another Galaxy, you are still the same person, selfish, vain, or nice, We Christians are exactly that, We are not perfect, Christ says I came to this world to judge, so that the blind should see,, and those who see should become blind?

2007-06-08 11:55:54 · answer #4 · answered by denis9705 5 · 0 0

You can stick with all of that and still be agnostic. It doesn't mean you haven't utterly rejected the idiotic deist religions and their pathetically narrow-minded ideas of what spirituality is.

There's far too much unexplained and unknown aspects to life, the universe and everything to go rejecting the idea that there might be something real which should be called God.

For example: Do you think any one of your braincells is aware of your own consciousness? What if your consciousness is only the equivalent of one of God's braincells?

The real free thinkers of the world are not atheist. They're agnostic.

2007-06-08 17:38:11 · answer #5 · answered by Frog Five 5 · 0 1

I agree, by knowing this is all we have, we live it to the fullest and I am damn proud to be an Atheist. To you who said, "Jesus gave us these rules to live by," well I say, O wow, some guy repeated what is common sense to the rest of the world and made him seem "Godly" 'Jesus' could be that hobo you just flipped off you idiots

2007-06-08 13:56:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Speak for yourself, personally as an atheist I'm Buddhist and therefore I believe whatever works for others, to teach them wisdom, altruism and compassion is what's best for them. Leave people alone.

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2007-06-08 11:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0 0

Yes you are correct in a way. All a Christian murderer has to do in the end is turn to Christ but an Atheist murderer would know it was the end of the line forever. but honestly I don't think it makes any difference the religion of the murderer but instead the mindset of the psychopah leads to what he does...not his spiritual beliefs.

2007-06-08 11:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Death bed conversions are a man made thing. God does not judge only the final moment of life, but all of the things that you have thought, said, and done.

2007-06-08 11:21:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

no no no.

i'm so tired of this argument from both sides. atheists are not any more moral than religious people and vice versa. a person's religion has nothing to do with how moral they are. there are good and bad people of all religions.

quite honestly, people like you running around claiming to be superior to others piss me off, i dont' care what your religion is

2007-06-08 11:20:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4 1

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