What is the main reason you don't believe in God...?

Question

Jesus Christ, Satan, Heaven, or Hell...ect...

Answer 1

Because it doesn't make sense.
If God existed, why would he let people suffer?
And then there's all the conflicting religions - Islam, Judeism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Buddhism - not to mention Ancient gods, like Zeus, Thor, Jupiter, Dagda etc.
They can't all be right!
Religion was just a way for ancient people to make sense of the things that happened in their daily lives that they didn't understand - the changing seasons, thunder and lightning, where people came from etc.
I'm surprised it's lasted so long.
And the church keeps changing its mind - you can eat fish on a Friday. No, you can't, it's a sin. Yes, you can, it's not a sin.
Make up your minds for crying out loud, it's a sin or it isn't!

You know, people feel there's a right time to tell children Father Christmas doesn't exist, that it's ridiculous to believe in a jolly man who lives at the North Pole and doles out toys to children all over the world in one night.
To be honest, I find the story about God making a virgin pregnant and the child being (at least partially) God himself - but also the saviour of mankind - and three kings get led to a special stable by a magic moving star, and then angels flutter down from heaven to tell a bunch of shepherds all about it (so on, so forth) far harder to stomach!

Answer 2

1. The god portrayed in the bible is a megalomaniacal sociopath with the maturity of a 2 year old.

2. Satan is a jewish concept and he is not seen as a fallen angel by those whose texts were ripped off by christianity. If the originators don't see him as evil, then he can't be.

3. No historical evidence WHATSOEVER for a biblican Jesus' existence.

4. The concepts of heaven and hell come from the greeks. The jews do not have this concept either, and if Jesus had lived, he would've been a Jew following Jewish beliefs.

5. I studied too much of the church's history to know that the new testament is a fallacy.

Answer 3

First, you have to define the term "God." The problem with most theists is that this term is a moving target.

In addition, because there is no evidence either for or against the existence of God, you cannot use deductive logic (a+b=c; therefore c-b=a). You can only reach a conclusion by inductive reasoning using the balance of evidence (90% of A is also B; C is B, so the chances are 90% that C is also A).

So to begin with, I will assert (and others may shoot this down) that the only RELEVANT definition of God states that GOD INTERVENES TO CIRCUMVENT NATURAL LAWS.

If God circumvents natural laws, then it becomes impossible to understand natural laws. All scientific findings would have to include the stipulation, "It is also possible that these results are an act of God, a miracle, thereby making our research meaningless."

However, we have been able to expand our knowledge of natural laws (evidenced by every appliance in your kitchen). Therefore, because the scientific method leads to applicable discoveries, and the likely conclusion is that God, at least the intervening kind, does not exist.

Additionally, if God is defined as all loving, all powerful, and all knowing, then it is impossible to explain suffering. Either God is not all loving (he acts sadistically), not all powerful (he cannot prevent suffering), or not all knowing (he created suffering by mistake because he didn't know the consequences of his actions). A God who is not all-loving, all-powerful or all-knowing is also not sufficient for the definition of God, because any God that fails to meet these criteria becomes bound by rules that are greater than God.

If God is bound by external rules and/or does not intervene in our existence, then God is either non-existent or irrelevant. The classic Bertrand Russell argument is that I cannot prove that a china teapot is orbiting the sun between the earth's orbit and Mars. But while I cannot prove this is not true, the evidence against it is compelling.

The evidence against God is equally compelling, and while it is not possible to prove beyond any doubt, it makes enormously more sense to live your life as if there were no God.

It is more compelling to me that humans have invented God (a) to help people deal with the pain and fear associated with death and loss, and (b) to reflect the thoughts of the ruling powers in a particular time. Humans are always searching for explanations. When none were found, it was the natural inclination to declare that the cause of the unexplained was "God" (or gods). As the faith grew, miracles (coincidences) and laws were ascribed to this Divinity, and an orthodoxy grew up around it.

Now it seems unhelpful to believe in such superstition. The only matters that aid in our ongoing well-being are work, location, health, sustenance, and pure, blind luck.

So that's why I don't believe God exists. And you know what? It's OK if you do believe God exists.

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Answer 4

I believe in God and choose to worship the God and Goddess - the masculine and feminine parts of God.

I don't believe in Christianity - this after being degreed in Christian theology and pastoral counseling. My reason is fairly simple: I do not believe Christianity can be a right religion because of the actions of those who are Christians.

Most Christians are wonderful people - but there is a very evil minority that has perverted and twisted this faith to the point that it cannot be what was intended. I simply refuse to be part of it for my own integrity. I know that many of you will think I am wrong, but that's okay. My opinion is the one that matters and I am willing to own it.

It sickens my heart to see how "Christians," spread hate and evil. I cannot understand how this beautiful religion of peace became one of a fervor to be right that is so insane, so infused with hate, that no one sees it for what it is. It is evil - maybe the most evil thing ever.

My opinion. Thanks for listening.

Answer 5

Because so many people have different beliefs. What makes one more right than the other. There is absolutely no proof either way. All are designed to answer questions that people don't really have answers to. As Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses".

Answer 6

I believe in God. I just don't believe in religion. Religion was created by the powers that be to control the masses in order for 1% of the popultion to control 90% of the wealth("if your a good little Christian and toil and suffer in this life, you will enter the kingdom of heaven when you die"....crap!!!)

Answer 7

I'm an atheist because there no prof for existence of God or any other gods/goddesses but significant prof against 80% of what the bible states and for the inconsistencies in it
so clear choice science(prof)V Christianity(no prof+bible with errors)
Science wins

Answer 8

**** NO EVIDENCE. **** This Question Should Be Banned.
( For the 63,694,863,725,835th time! )
SAME AS WHY *YOU* DON'T BELIEVE IN: Ra, Odin, Vift, Amotken, Zeus (+ 359 other Greek "Gods"), Baal, Jupiter, Shiva, Apo, Skak, Allah, Zoroaster, Cai Shen, Toci, X'quin, Quetzalcoatl, Asase Ya, Jehovah, Zeme, the Kind and Mighty FSM and 000s more.

Answer 9

Because those who claim to represent god don't.

Plus there are just far to many holes for the bucket of christianity to hold water.

Answer 10

It is not possible that God could exist as described by most religions...especially Christianity.