I honestly don't think an invisible man in the sky even comes close to a topic that can be debatable. Why do some people not only accept, but embrace faulty dogma throughout their lives that many points of which have been proven false? People stop believing in the tooth fairy and easter bunny, why not god? The universe had to begin somewhere - there couldn't have been a god before nothing... and since there is no evidence of there being anything resembling a god anyway, why couldn't it have began with the big bang? I fail to see any sofr ot logic behind this.
2007-06-24 23:43:50 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dang this place is just like, if not worse than Fanfiction.net and Livejournal.
Hey if people choose to live a life with God in their lives, then I'm happy for them if they are happy themselves.
2007-06-24 23:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I suggest you read mere Christian, by c.s.lewis
Just want to say:
1. The moral law - do you have moral conscious? Have you not once felt guilty for doing anything?
2. Not all, so called "Christians" are using so called "religion" for their own selfish, ambitious, greedy etc desires.
3. Science only applies to mesurable things. I have never seen anyone able measure things like love, justice, etc. using science.
4. And if we so called "believers", believe because we need something more and feel insecure I would like to say that if we are indeed God's creatures then we would naturally feel as though there is indeed more to this life and that that "more to life" is or was there. For example, does not the hungry man prove that he must have come from somewhere where food was eaten to repair the body/for energy etc. although it does not mean that he indeed has food at the moment.
5. Time means a begining and end, but if someone or something is out of time or created time itself, could time apply to them/it.
6. The 2D man could not have comprehended the the 3D man ( it defied all of 2D science, belief).
2007-06-25 08:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Atheism is fine if that's what you believe. However, your opinions are not the ones that everyone would accept. Trying to collect evidence for god would be like a cell in your body trying to collect evidence for you . . . you could look around and say nothing you see resembles god, or look around and say that everything that surrounds you is god. The notion of an "invisible man in the sky" is one interpretation, but not the only one. As far as for faulty dogma, it depends on what you take as your basic axioms . . . some people believe that your consciousness goes on forever and thus through intuition and contemplation you can know god. This can neither be proven nor disproven but has to be taken on faith or experience. This belief hardly equates with the Easter Bunny. The one thing that does annoy me about a lot of atheists is that having come to their own point of view, they tend to regard anyone else who disagrees with them as idiots or morons and often a sort of disgust that I usually associate with the very type of religious dogmatism that they pretend to reject. As Nietzsche once remarked, "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." Be careful that in opposing religion and narrow-mindedness, you do not become as religious and narrow-minded as those you oppose.
2007-06-25 06:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by Runa 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think followers of any god are kidding themselves. Religon in my understanding came about in a time where there were no rules, no police, no real system or guidelines to live life by 2000 years ago. So religion was put in place as a system that seemed to work until we got ourselves sorted out. Religion I believe is now something for people that are more in need of something to believe in because their minds crave the thought of more and they are not confident within themselves. They kinda need someone else to blame so why not the invisible boogy man named god.
Science has proven all things religious wrong. I know what in putting my faith into.
2007-06-25 06:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by dazmac1 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because for some people being a good person is hard.
If they need a reason to be a good person, then fine. As long as they're doing it, the "why" doesn't much matter to me.
Also, just so we're crystal clear, atheists do believe in things. Just not one true god, which is apparently a huge deal-breaker with most of the christain types here on YA!.
2007-06-25 06:49:17 · answer #5 · answered by p37ry 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
i think atheism/religions both r acceptable. But I am against persecuting other people based what they believe. If someone want to believe in God, it is up to them. If someone doesnt want to, that is ur choice. Be it false or not, human always have something that they believe on. And what Robert S? said is interesting, that they r believer, it is just that they r doing it the hard way.
2007-06-25 07:11:30 · answer #6 · answered by araizex 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You ask about Atheism in the heading, but it seems like you really have questions about Christianity, which is fair.
The fact that you refer to God as "an invisible man" tells me that you (and this is going to sound mean, but it's really not) have no idea.
The beauty of God is when you don't have scientific proof. Every Christian knows that they can not prove his existence to a non-believer.
We have faith. We've been touched by God we've felt His presence and we have seen His work.
You can not prove that in a lab.
It's all about surrendering to something larger then all of us.
You claim that there couldn't have been a God that created the universe but you can't prove that He didn't either.
To be an Atheist takes a certain different kind of faith too. Because really no one has proven that God does not exist either.
-B
2007-06-25 06:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by The Brian 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I think religious belief is so deeply ingrained in our society that people are unable to logically think about it. Its something that is hammered into us from the time we can speak. There is societal pressure to conform. Its not easy being an atheist in America (and even harder in a place like Texas) Its interesting that the pressure to actually attend church seems to be dropping, but you are still expected to believe in God.
2007-06-25 06:49:57 · answer #8 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
That's not even the worst of it man! god says not to be jelous right? well then why does he get jelous when we believe in other gods? why doesn't he just smite satan? why does he let all this crap go on in the world? why is he so judgemental and says not to judge others? THE ANSWER? BECAUSE GOD IS NOT REAL AND EVEN IF HE WAS REAL I CLAIM HIM TO BE AN TRANSEXITE HOMOPHOBIC ATHEIST!!!! WHO LOVES HITLER!!!!! (lol hows that for ironic?)
2007-06-25 07:17:31 · answer #9 · answered by L~likes~cake* 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think atheism is good, as long as it's not used as a battering ram to push ideology down unwilling participants' throats as happens with the book religions.
BB :-)
2007-06-25 06:46:55 · answer #10 · answered by J9 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋