To Athiests, why you dont believe in God?

Question

I am just curious to know your reasons thats all, you can be brief as possible but express your views as you wish, thanks.

I see when people see there is no evidence, but isn't about having faith? if there was direct proof then what wud the point of life be? what wud the point of test in this life? as religion says this life is a test.

Answer 1

I suppose they feel that a certain faith holds nothing for them, they cannot find proof. A shame they feel they must have proof all the time. Sometimes life throws different situations at people though, and they have a change of heart (and mind!)

Answer 2

This question has been asked many, many times here. I'll try to give you the Reader's Digest version:

1: Complete lack of evidence of a deity of any kind.
2: Complete lack of evidence that the Bible is the word of a deity of any kind ("Because the Bible says so" is not an argument.).
3: Claims made about the real world that are testable...and have failed testing (Worldwide flood, migration from Egypt to Canaan, enslavement of Hebrew in Egypt).
4: Claims of impossible events without evidence that they ever happened at all (Talking animals, sun standing still for an entire day, dead coming to life, poofing" the universe as is).
5: The poor behavior of the most vocal members of the faith (Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ken Ham, Kent Hovind, Michael Behe, Ted Haggard, Peter Popoff, various Popes, historical atrocities, etc...).

Answer 3

You are absolutely right in that belief in god is a leap of faith and I for one having made that leap have jumped back as I found a belief in the Christian version of a deity increasingly irrelevant and unbelievable. I can no longer accept the 'truth' of the Bible or that such a rambling collection of stories is divinely inspired, although I will accept that some of the morality in the New Testament remains useful guidance for today's world. Looking back in history, I see religions developing from a need to find a meaning for life and as civilisations develop and change, these religions collapsing. Quite frankly I no longer see a difference between belief in the gods of ancient Greece (except in the detail) and belief in any of the surviving religions of the 21st century.

Answer 4

I think there is reasonable evidences available for reasonably minded people. Evidence such as the fine tuning of the Universe and Specified Irreducible complexity in life. There is no absolute proof there is no God so how one can say there is no absolute proof there is a God doesn't seem like a scientific reason to discount God's existence.

Answer 5

Your religion says life is a test. That is between your religion and yourself. It has nothing to do with those who disbelief in an imaginary master.
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For Rob C ..... you HAVE to be an atheist not be believe in the existence of a god. You HAVE to be an Antitheist to believe there is no god. You HAVE To be an agnostic to believe there might be a god, but not in any human defined logic.

Read the definition of Atheist and Agnostic :

Agnostic :
a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

Atheist :
One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.

So basically, in atheist, you tend not to believe in a god unless proven otherwise, for agnostic you tend to believe in a god unless proven otherwise.

Therefore it is either you believe or you do not, there is no in between. Even if you sit on the fence, you tend to believe therefore you sit on the fence.

Believe there isn't a god is like having a religion. Disbelieve the existence of a god is not a religion, it is more like human nature which sway towards disbelief of the unproven. Agnostic tend to belief towards the unproven.

An open mind means the ability to doubt and the ability to accept the doubt. Both Atheist and Agnostic have the ability, it is the two extremes, the theists and the antitheists that is lacking in the ability.

Therefore your logic isn't logical either.

Answer 6

First, I'd like to point out that there are no "athiests." There may very well be atheists, but no "athiests"

I may have been led to doubting the existence of God by having blundered into a library. There were books there! Books about history, and comparative religion, and anthropology, and mythology. I read them. I read other books, too. Books on evolution and neurobiology and psychology!

Answer 7

I dont believe in God and I'll explain why. Within every civilization throughout history humans have believed in some sort of deity or supernatural occurrence. So what exactly separates your God from the hundreds of thousands of others that man created? Psychological and evolutionary study suggests there’s some inborn human need to have non-ordinary experiences and superstitions. I mean does general human history every strike you as illogical? The inhabitants of ancient Egypt would argue severed donkey heads bring them luck. In medieval times, Doctors would argue the cure to their patient’s ailment is to drill a hole in their skull to release trapped demons. Christians believe that a talking snake tempted the first beings and doomed mankind, so for some reason an all loving and all powerful God found it necessary to torture his son to save them. Muslims believe Jinn dwell in bushes and trees, and that Satan lives up their nose. God did not create man but rather, man created God to rationalize what he could not understand. Nowadays, in this age of knowledge, a man would be considered insane if claims he is a prophet and is able to hear God. An amusing phrase is: If you talk to God you’re religious; if God talks to you, you’re Schizophrenic. There is no evidence God-it would be jumping to conclusions to say that there is. I can conclude that God only exists within the imagination and fear of humans.

Answer 8

I am christian and I respect athiests beliefs, but, when someone argues logic as a reason for not believing in ANY god, that is plain wrong.
If you look at it logically isn't it more reasonable that someone/something created us rather than we just appeared out of a bang and their is absolutely no point whatsoever to our existance.
Fair enough if you don't believe in christianity, but logically their must be something that created us.
People think the idea of God as illogical because that is what society tells them, on such shows as family guy, simpsons etc. or by what philosophers say.
I'm not going to say to athiests must believe what I believe and believe it now, but at least look at both sides of the spectrum before concluding your own view.
Be safe - Stay Informed

Answer 9

If you think about it logically then the presence of a God would be impossible. If you read the bible and read what God is meant to have said, then compare it with how the world is now they just dont tally.....why would it be that the last time we heard from him was 2000 years ago? Has he abandoned us now or what? Just left the planet he's meant to have created in our hands? If I believed in God I'd be wanting him to be around a little more y'know?

Answer 10

You don't have to be an Athiest to not believe in god.
My question would be to Athiests, why do you believe there isn't a god?
There has to be some sort of controling force, an explanation for our existance.
To just blatantly believe that there isn't a god is practically like having a religion of your own.
Im an agnostic, i sit on the fence, im have an open mind, and will not step across the line either way until something sways me in a direction.
So therefor i don't believe in a god , neither do i believe that one doesn't exist.
To my meat sponge this is Logical!

Answer 11

well...i dont believe in one God. i believe in many. which doesnt make me athiest but this question caught my eye. at one point in my life i was athiest. i lost alot of people that ment alot to me in a short amount of time. so i started wondering what sort of higher power would do that. then i remembered all the other horrible things that happened through out history and i decided it was to much for one "person" to do. so i decided that there had to be many gods(esses). which is why i am now polytheistic :D