Do atheists here seem alot like a bunch or self serving, egotists, rebelling against both God and society?

Question

For such a small horn, they boast some really great things.

Face it what comfort do you have for the dying? Sorry, no afterlife. What hope do you have for the despairing? I cant help you with how you feel, but we can give you some mind altering medication. What purpose can you offer mankind?
Maybe we will evolve regressively into monkeys, sorry I mean common ancestor of monkeys, or hey we might become birds. No hope, no light, no purpose----atheism. What a fun club to be in. And without God---you have no truth and follow a lie. Like it or not you have bought the lie.
And in your arrogance you deny the God who created you. Agree or not?

Answer 1

If your beliefs are to you what a blanket is to person in a cold room, then the atheists have you in their sights. They will strip your blanket from you and leave nothing but cold logic in their wake. They will laugh and ridicule beliefs that have provided comfort and spiritual sustenance for you since you were a child. They will pick you up by your ankles and shake you until the religion falls out.

Answer 2

We don't fear dying, because we know that we will have done good in the world. If there is an afterlife, I'll gladly go to hell. It'd be better than being with people like you. What hope do we have for the despairing? We work our way straight through it instead of praying to the flying spaghetti monster in the sky. What purpose can we offer mankind? Wiping away blind faith, and making the world a better place -- something most Christians don't bother to do. We don't need hope of an AFTERLIFE. Everyone needs hope that they are going to be alive the next day to live. We technically do have light. Ever heard of the sun? We have a purpose. To better mankind. "And without God---you have no truth and follow a lie. Like it or not you have bought the lie. And in your arrogance you deny the God who created you." - Typical Christian propaganda. You think insulting is is going to help anything?

Answer 3

Do you live life so unhappily that you need to really believe in something to rock you to sleep at night in fear of death? Poor you! If people are suffering- the best thing you can do for them is to be there for them and lend a caring touch and show that you are there- with them- for them. Love people, love life, love your-self. Without god I live, in no fear of judgment from the man judging in the clouds ALL the people in the world! Lol.. and without the imaginary friend, I follow the footsteps of the people who loved me here and now in the real world. I credit them and not some imaginary thing for everything. How beautiful! I have not bought into anything. I did not buy a car. I educated myself. Why do Christians fight like it is a war between believers and non-believers? If religion helps you get through life better- then great! It doesn’t work with me. Religion doesn’t work biologically, genetically, philosophically or logically. What does this mean: “And without God---you have no truth and follow a lie. Like it or not you have bought the lie.” This makes no sense.
If you cannot make yourself happy and if turning to religion does help you with that, then good for you. I am happy too- knowing that I have a weight taken off my shoulders! There is no such thing as a man in the sky judging your every move as the world is not flat!lol
Shut up and Live! 

Answer 4

Again, you're missing the point. What if there WASN'T some grand meaning of life? What if there WASN'T an afterlife? What if there WASN'T a being up above who loves every one of us no matter what? All those things would be great, sure. But so what? A lot of things would be great. But that certainly doesn't mean that we should go around telling people that they're true just because they get hope from them.

Human beings are the result of evolution. Whether that's not exciting or not appealing doesn't matter; that's how it is, and that's what I'm going to tell people.

Prayer doesn't work. Whether that's good or bad doesn't matter; that's how it is, and that's what I'm going to tell people.

It's not a matter of what sounds better. It's not a matter of what I personally would prefer. It's not a matter of what gives people more hope. It's a matter of what's true.

Answer 5

I don't need any comfort after death. There may very well be a bunch of self serving atheist here but there are just as many fake Christian's. Truth about it all is your complete idiot and not a good representative for Christianity. You are the lie in which I'm not buying. You have nothing better to do with your time than attack others who do not follow your beliefs. Which is against the very religion you claim to be loyal to. Your a fraud and a poor one at that. If heaven is going to be full of bigots like you who would want to be there? In fact you are no different than the Islamic radicals we are at war with.

Answer 6

lol, L2English.

I am self-serving, arrogant, and would be rebelling if I even cared to think about gOD in my day to day life. And I take mind altering drugs on my own. I don't need help, thanks.

We don't have or need a club.We are totally self-sufficient and don't need a book to tell us how to live. We are not scared to face death with-out the privilege of being subservient to the invisible man. We may have evolved from monkeys but you still act like monkeys. (monkey see, monkey do.)

Our purpose is our own. Your purpose was handed down to you by an invisible man in the sky and if you had it his way we'd all be enslaved to a set of arbitrary rules. Individuality and self expression forgotten.

I turned my lights on when I came home today.

Prove your truth and I'll follow you.

What else you got?
**Drink**

Answer 7

Religion brought me much comfort for years. It helped me to cope with a severely debilitating health condition. Unfortunately, all of that praying let me feel like I was doing something to help my situation and that I had some hope of improvement.

That went on for fifteen years before it finally got to the point where I could barely take care of myself. I was dependent on a soup kitchen for my daily meal. At the age of 33, I was looking at a care home. I had no real choice but to gamble a friend's money on 'alternative' treatments.

Those acupuncture sessions helped tremendously. Without the comforts and false hope of religion, I would have hit bottom earlier. If I had, I would have slowed the progression at an earlier stage and I would be in much better shape than I am.

My witness is that religion left me with little except overwhelming chronic pain and fatigue. I wish with all my heart that I had never believed. I'd rather have a life now than all of your promises of heaven.

Answer 8

I am not atheist but I have a ton of respect for them. Sometimes they can be anoying here but consider also how anoying the "Christians" are.
This might offend some atheists but honestly, as a whole, I think more atheists are close to heaven than most self proclaiming Christians.
They have challenging minds and demand the truth. Not religious dogma. Like Jesus, they are not interested in keeping peace at the cost of truth.
Atheists are disgusted with the way Christians preach-in lieu of practice. Preaching is something you do when you know nobody would ever approach you and ask how to be like you. Jesus did not seem to have this problem; he merely walked around answering peoples' questions rather than asserting himself on others.

Answer 9

Wrong. Atheists merely do not believe in gods. I have nothing personal against your religion or anyone elses whatsoever. The only thing I have beef with in religion is the actions of the followers, such as this idiotic outburst.

I'm pretty sure that the majority of atheists have similar thoughts there.

Answer 10

Our feelings really don't make us 'bad' or 'good' they just are. It is how we act on our feelings which makes the determination as to our intent.

I have many atheist friends who respect my religious beliefs and interact with me on polite terms and we are close friends.

I agree with your notion that this place has more of it's fair share of idiots with nothing to say and less means with which to make their feelings known -- but I don't think that it is a function of atheism; moreso I feel that the indicator is the distinct lack of raising and conviction of the heart that these individuals exhibit for the world to see as evidenced by their sentence fragments punctuated with profanity ... which are about the only words they know how to spell correctly.

I would be ashamed to approach another person in some of the ways I have been approached in the Yahoo Religion and Spirituality group. You have to have some sense of social awareness and global orientation to discern and cultivate tact and poise and not disagree disagreeably.

Atheism is sometimes merely the scapegoat -- and a poor excuse for a lack of mores and life of the gutter dwellers and bottom feeders who need to purvey their ideology whenever and where ever they can.
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Answer 11

I don't know about comforting the dying, but thanks to science, we can console the dying at 88 instead of 53.

Despair? Might be a chemical imbalance. Or maybe depression is caused by demons.

Purpose? How about 'make things better for others'? That works irrespective of religion.

Maybe, just maybe, you'll learn something about the theory of evolution before you leave.