Atheists: Do you ever think there might really be a place call heaven where God and his Angels resides?

Question

Does it ever cross your mind that heaven itself could be a real place despite your present disbelief in God and in heaven?

Do you ever consider the possibility without evidence?

Would you consider starring this question for your personal reflection in the future?

Would you like to live there someday as it is portrayed in the Bible in Revelation 21 should your beliefs ever change about it?

Answer 1

Yeah, I actually think about it now & then. After being brought up Catholic and thinking one way for so long, those thoughts still creep in there sometimes. Then after thinking about it for a little bit, it goes away again. I don't really think about it as if it's really there, just kinda think about the concept sometimes.

Answer 2

I'm not sure I've ever been called that (to my face), but it's sad to me that so many people express confusion about how I know/decide right from wrong, if I don't believe in God. I think if non-believers (including agnostics) did a better job of explaining their basis for ethical and/or moral behavior, then theists would be more inclined to have more understanding, more respect, less fear, and engage less in black and white thinking. There might even be a few more "converts" to a more rational system of belief and at least some healthy consideration of the basis of agnosticism, if not atheism. There are rational justifications for ethical and moral behavior.

Answer 3

I have considered it.
If heaven was real it would have to be a very mobile place.
The Bible describes it as being above the Earth and as having water on the other side of it. I suppose the water had to be above Heaven to give it that blue colour.
Then it tell of God getting worried about a bunch of ancient archetects building a mud brick toer and needing to put an end to it before it reached heaven. OK.
Now we have sent men to the Moon and rockets to Mars.
We have seen the outer edgfes of the Universe.
We have sent probes out of our Solar System. Every time we look further Heaven runs further away. I would rather not spend an eternity constantly being forced to move my home. Thank you.
Have you ever considered accepting reality as an option and possibly returning to the real world on planet Earth?

Answer 4

Yeah, I wonder if there is a Heaven and a gods. I also wonder at times if I am just dreaming... Sometimes I think about being in the Matrix, and sometimes I think this is just a creation I made for myself. I even wonder if I have had multiple lives before this one. I think a lot about various scenarios. I have a very active imagination, and like to use it.. It is a good thing I am a skeptic otherwise I would be a nutcase.

Answer 5

I think about lots of stuff - right now, the idea that there could be multiple parallel universes layered over each other is providing much entertainment.

Thinking about religion and its concepts HAS occupied my thoughts - it must have done, because I've had to have thought about it in order to reach the conclusion.

I've thought over the evidence in my head - I've thought about how I can justify that we have evolved and how no evidence for anything beyond this world is given - and dismissed the idea of a heaven existing.

It doesn't occupy my thoughts anymore.

Answer 6

Nope. I have no reason to believe in ancient fairy tales, and plenty of reason to believe that my consciousness depends on a functioning--i.e., living--brain.

A god that leaves no evidence is a god that is *irrelevant*. A god that leaves no signs is indistinguishable from a god that is nonexistant.

My reflection on Christianity is done. I have seen the man behind the curtain, and cannot forsake what i know. If my beliefs ever change, they won't be to Christianity.

Give it up. You're wasting your breath and you're looking like an idiot.

Answer 7

Can't be. Heaven is defined as a non-physical place. That means that it isn't and cannot be a "real" place. Real places are PHYSICAL places. By your own definition (the definition religions give for heaven) it cannot be a real place. How could there be any evidence for a non-physical place. Has anyone ever presented any real evidence for this place? So you see, the question of "Is heaven a real place?" has nothing to do with belief or non-belief, it has to do with what it's definition is. Care to retract your question now?

Answer 8

I can't believe in magical sky fairies or anything else, especially a magical fantasy land that claims to make me ultimately happy when I am around people like Jerry Falwell.

The Heaven in Rev? NO FRIEKEN WAY! I would rather reside with the intellectuals and the wise in hell where the buybull sez I belong. It almost makes me wish for an afterlife.

But no. I don't believe in fictional places and beings.

Answer 9

Gosh, Gilbert, before I discovered this website, months would go by and I would think of 'heaven' and 'gods' not at all. Now, many leagues more than unbelievers here and their posts, it's the super-religious Christians, and particularly the fundies, who reaffirmed for me that 'god' is a rather tired (and tiresome) myth. Sir, when you're dead, you are dead, and that, as they say, is that.

Answer 10

On the first place: Atheism does not exist no more as term either as co notation in contemporary philosophy and theology..A-THE OI is old room-an, Latin word for the people who does not believed in pagan god's.
If you not believe in God why did you ask about heaven as place of eternity. You are in put yore self in contradiction?
Second credo says:"Credo Ce Apsurdum."
So if you tray to explain God either to give proof about his existence you should have destroy him. Evidence is just expected from Pragmatics's either from genius as Wittgenstein and Lord Rusell. Just experience about something is proof on the contrary they abandon all metaphysical questions. About: Love, Hope, God, Universe.
Kant says for evidence about it :"That is antimony,so I could not give a proof, I'd just have my believe." Since we are human intellectual human beings that suppose that we have freedom to make choice about beliefs and disbelieves. As human beings we have this hope and beliefs in God's existence.
And on the and:" would I like to live someday as it portrayed in the Bible in Revelation 21" is absurd question of you since you are atheist.
Comment:Post modern human beings just seeks for material proofs.