Do people that Don't believe in God, don't believe because of how people describe him?

Question

People:Imam, Priest. Rabbai, Monks, shamen,father, mother, (holy books), Torah, Quran, New testament, etc.........

I am not asking to find fault im asking to understand this is not an argument

Answer 1

I don't believe because I have yet to see, hear, feel or read anything that would make me believe.

Now as far as the Christian god...lets say I get some proof of a god. I doubt I would accept the Christian god. I would at that point be a deist. The Christian god sounds like an A-s-s to me honestly and I don't think I could follow the teachings of him.

Answer 2

I believe in a super consciousness, that we can tap into, can come to know and can eventually live in consciously all the time.
I have experienced myself in a more "divine" expression, and I have experienced others, so I have what I need to believe.

I moved away from more traditional western religions when I was about 12, because I could not come to terms with the hypocrisy that I experienced. Nor did I believe that any God would really want people to live in fear and shame.

Answer 3

I think people belive, or don't, for different reasons; their upbringing, some turn away due to tragedy and a feeling of abandonment, some are scientists for whom God is an illogical contradiction. Remember that just because people don't believe in God the same way doesnt mean they don't believe. Also, I think that all paths lead to one, so no matter what someone believes (or doesn't) , we should respect their choice. I personally don't believe in God the same way as monotheistics do simply because of their interpretation conflicts with my personal beliefs. To each his own, nothing is worse than someone trying to convert you!

Answer 4

I don't believe because the gods of today are just replacements for the gods of the past.. Whenever humankind can not explain something a god crops up to be the explaination. When the real explaination is found the god becomes obsolete..

It's just a matter of time before the gods of today become as obsolete as the roman and greek gods.. I am just a woman ahead of her time because in my mind the gods of today are obsolete already..

Answer 5

I can say with 100% certainty that God (capitalized to mean the Christian god), as Christians define him, doesn't exist. I can say this because a self-contradiction can't exist.

Another example: one can say with all certainty that a square with three sides does not exist. Not because one has searched every iota of existence without finding it, but because a three-sided square is impossible, being a self-contradiction. So too, is the Christian God, as Christians define him. So, here's the short version of my proof that the Christian God does not exist (there is more than one self-contradiction that will fulfill the same purpose, but I'm only laying out one):

The Christian God is defined as perfect, and also as a creator (it isn't really important what God created or didn't create, just that he created something). To be perfect is to be complete. To be complete is to lack nothing. Desire can only exist when there is a lack of something (that something is what is desired). Therefore, since God is perfect, he desires nothing. Since he desires nothing, obviously he would not desire to create anything. A perfect being would do nothing but exist, because actively DOING something would imply a desire (to do whatever it is), which a perfect being cannot have by definition.

Therefore, an entity who is both perfect and a creator is a self-contradiction that cannot exist, just like a three-sided square. Since Christians define their god this way, one can say with absolute certainty that this god does not, indeed, cannot exist.

Answer 6

Since nobody has ever experienced God, the only way anyone would know about him is by what others, who claim to have experienced him, describe him.

That in itself is enough for me to not believe.

Answer 7

People don’t believe for many reasons.

Realistic Optimist, you are basing your theory on word meanings/interpretations and our incomplete understanding of matters beyond human understanding.

This makes your entire argument rather silly.

Answer 8

Good question, I know I don't believe in religion because of how people describe God

Answer 9

No, I don't believe in god because there is no evidence that supports the existence of any god.

Answer 10

I think what you're referring to is 'lack of empirical evidence for the existence of God or gods.'