Do atheist's/agnostic's believe in nothing? a common misconception?

Question

i believe in mother nature.
i believe in myself......i love myself first and foremost..........
.i believe NO ONE has all the answers..........
i believe we are not meant to know the meaning of life but to search for the answer anyway
i believe i am not meant to serve anyone but mankind
i believe my free will is not meant to be stifled by rules and threats and fear..........
i believe in the love and my heart and determining what is right or wrong for myself.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ATHIESTS BELIEVE IN?

Answer 1

Actually, something of a scientific humanist. I follow the golden rule and view life with a (scientifically) skeptical eye (or two).

Answer 2

Atheist and agnostics believe in some stuff, which is how i always get put in those groups. I am nihilist, i believe in nothing which is contradicting a bit, but i really don't believe in anything. I am not into mother nature or god, i really don't care about life after death. The meaning of life, in my opinion, is that we are meant to die and nothing more. Our existence doesn't really matter, think in 100 years you wouldn't even really exist or ever really have.

Atheists have a sense of nature. They have sets of values and still have a good belief system.

Answer 3

Sure, I believe in a lot of things. This is different than saying I have faith in things. Faith denotes believing in something without adiquate evidence or in the face of counter evidence.

I believe I am a good person. But I've been wrong before. So I have no Faith I am a good person.

Answer 4

I'm with you on most of those. I also believe there are other realms of existence, just not the god type that creates and judges

Answer 5

I'm a Pagan, a Taoist, and an atheist. I have tons of beliefs. I highly respect yours that you listed.

Answer 6

I think it's more a question of what we don't believe in- god in the form of organized religion.

Answer 7

I believe the children are the future
Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Answer 8

This is a bit long (apologies) but it's the "Free Inquiry" "Statement of Principles" which I try to live by.

1. We are committed to the application of reason and science to the understanding of the universe and to the solving of human problems.
2. We deplore efforts to denigrate human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation.
3. We believe that scientific discovery and technology can contribute to the betterment of human life.
4. We believe in an open and pluralistic society and that democracy is the best guarantee of protecting human rights from authoritarian elites and repressive majorities.
5. We are committed to the principle of the separation of church and state.
6. We cultivate the arts of negotiation and compromise as a means of resolving differences and achieving mutual understanding.
7. We are concerned with securing justice and fairness in society and with eliminating discrimination and intolerance.
8. We believe in supporting the disadvantaged and the handicapped so that they will be able to help themselves.
9. We attempt to transcend divisive parochial loyalties based on race, religion, gender, nationality, creed, class, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, and strive to work together for the common good of humanity.
10. We want to protect and enhance the earth, to preserve it for future generations, and to avoid inflicting needless suffering on other species.
11. We believe in enjoying life here and now and in developing our creative talents to their fullest.
12. We believe in the cultivation of moral excellence.
13. We respect the right to privacy. Mature adults should be allowed to fulfill their aspirations, to express their sexual preferences, to exercise reproductive freedom, to have access to comprehensive and informed health-care, and to die with dignity.
14. We believe in the common moral decencies: altruism, integrity, honesty, truthfulness, responsibility. Humanist ethics is amenable to critical, rational guidance. There are normative standards that we discover together. Moral principles are tested by their consequences.
15. We are deeply concerned with the moral education of our children. We want to nourish reason and compassion.
16. We are engaged by the arts no less than by the sciences.
17. We are citizens of the universe and are excited by discoveries still to be made in the cosmos.
18. We are skeptical of untested claims to knowledge, and we are open to novel ideas and seek new departures in our thinking.
19. We affirm humanism as a realistic alternative to theologies of despair and ideologies of violence and as a source of rich personal significance and genuine satisfaction in the service to others.
20. We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guilt or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness, and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.
21. We believe in the fullest realization of the best and noblest that we are capable of as human beings.

Answer 9

It's nihilists who believe in nothing...

"Ve don't care -- ve still vant ze MONEY, Lebowski!"

Answer 10

where ?

religion haters believe one day they can play tap rugby inside a mosque or a chirch.