Is there something wrong with being an atheist or for that matter an agnostic?

Question

Old Know it All; I know what the words mean and I don't need a know it all to tell me. Next time read the question and answer it. If I wanted it expounded I would of said so.OK?

I think Andrew w has the best answer but I'm leaving up to you people to vote on it.

Answer 1

Nah, I'm fine with it.

Answer 2

Not at all, so long as you don't treat others with derision for their beliefs your free to follow your own.

Atheism is a legitimate belief, why does their have to be something else in this world, science can explain the majority of it, and probably will the rest.

Agnostics consider that there could be, but at the same there might not, after all some things might never be explained.

And it's perfectly alright to be spiritual but not religious, people who believe in something, but not from any set group (like believing in a god, but not an afterlife or anything like it).

As a Celtic pagan I believe in a range of gods, but not magic of any sort. However I understand how some people do, as well as seeing the reasons for others' beliefs in different paths. It's individual, people have a right to believe or not believe what they want, just respect other people's rights as well.

Answer 3

Nothing wrong at all.

A new look at Pascal's Wager:

If there is not a God and you are Atheist then you have lived a fulfilled life following your own mind and ultimately devoting more effort to your current life due to a lack of belief in another one.

If there is a God worth worshipping then it would accept you anyway as you have used your mind (that that deity would have given you anyway). You would also follow the morals already implanted in your mind by that deity.

If the God only wanted belief without giving you evidence then it was not worth worshipping in the first place and ultimately; the paradise given by that God would not be a paradise at all; the god has already proven itself to be selfish and egotistical; the paradise would merely be another shrine to that God.

On the other hand; if you are religious and there is not a God then you have wasted your life worshipping a huge nothing and using up time that could have been much better spent.

If there is a God you have a 1 in 16,000(+) chance of having worshipped the right one. Really, if you worshipped the wrong one then you are buggered; not only had you not used your mind to try and find the truth but you also would have been following a set of rules ultimately not set down by the actual God and so going against that God's will. Ideas like 'it is morally wrong to clone human body parts for transplant because it is playing God' would certainly not be appreciated by the actual God if the actual God would have preferred you to save lives. Especially since you would have recieved the information from a false 'Holy Book'.

Answer 4

That depends on how you define what you are.

If there is a God, it's of paramount importance to know whether he expects anything of us. It is therefore even more important to determine in your own mind whether there is a God or not. This is a process that takes a long time and requires a lot of study.

If at the end of the process you decide that there is no God, you are an atheist. If you decide that there might be a God, but it is not possible to prove it one way or another, you are an agnostic. There's nothing wrong with you if you reach either of these conclusions (although I would argue that you are incorrect).

If you decided that you are atheist or agnostic on the spur of the moment, or because your mates are, or because you can't be bothered to work through it, there is certainly something wrong.

Commerce feeds on greed and lust, neither of which sit comfortably with a belief in God. Most people who claim to be atheist or agnostic are merely seeking the hedonism that commerce offers them - or to use religious terminology, Satan's empty promises.

Answer 5

There is nothing wrong with being an atheist/agnostic; by the same token, there is nothing wrong about being a theist or other type of religious believer.

Right and wrong enter into the equation more in matters of how we treat each other than in what we believe or do not believe.

Our beliefs or lack thereof, albeit important to each of us individually, are really quite unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

Answer 6

I think it's fine - I was brought up a Christian then became a raving athiest for years until paganism bascially landed in my lap. I consider myself to be spiritual rather than religious. It's what matters to me, and I couldn't really care less whether anyone else decided to convert and join me or not! Finding your inner truth should be a blessing not a burden - all that should matter is what makes sense to you, not what other people tell you should make sense, and what you should and shouldn't believe.

For a supposedly omnipotent and omnipresent being, I do find it rather amusing that people say "God is this", and their quest to define God, and pinpoint precisely what it is when surely God is theoretically everything and yet nothing like anything we will ever be able to comprehend. If you want to believe in God, your God is whatever you want it to be - not what other people want you to believe.

Answer 7

Nothing at all if you're right! Nothing morally wrong if you're not right, either, so long as your position was reached conscientiously.

Any position on belief or non-belief is wrong unless it has been honestly adopted after due process of deliberation.

Answer 8

No, I find there is wrong only, we start not considering other people's respectfully and analytic opinions. and when we accept opinions without having a legitimate physical or psychological evidence as fact.

psychological = (spiritual for that matter since nobody has seen the psychic process )

Answer 9

Well if you ask if there is something RIGHT or WRONG with being an atheist or an agnostic then it means that you must beleive there is a RIGHT and there is a WRONG.

If you are asking which one makes mroe sense, agnosticism or atheism. I say agnosticism. As agnostic you aknowledge that you have no way of knowing what is there. That is the more rational way to think about it because you cannot prove there is NO God, nor can you proove there IS a God.

I believe there is a RIGHT and WRONG. The Right thing is to believe in God , the creator, and to understand that since he created us people we are entirely at his mercy. Not only that but also that we are not worthy of his love. He made us and we are refusing to worship him. We have to get on our knees and beg him to forgive us for our selfishness and sin and to submit to his will.

Answer 10

"God hath not cast away His people which He foreknew… Even so then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace" (Romans 11:2, 5).

Answer 11

I think it's wonderful to be agnostic, because you believe it is impossible to know whether there is a God or not, yet you are still open to the fact that there are people who have faith in their own Gods.

I believe being willing to consider the possibilities yet not wavering from your own opinions is the best state of mind to be in.

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