2007-07-04 18:55:47 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How about rejecting Man's Religions and look for God in Nature and the Cosmos.
Ponder and you can find your inner light without man made mind control religions.
Give and receive. Sow and Reap.
I like a little Objectivisim and Rand Myself. I just blend it with Aristotle, Emerson and Thoreau.
Renewal is God.
Kant said, "Dare to Know"
The search for Knowledge is the true Light of Understanding and the path to meeting the One.
2007-07-04 19:07:43 · answer #1 · answered by scorn66713 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if there are advantages to being an aetheist or not.
Look at things this way.
1) There is either a God or there is not.
2) you can choose to believe in God or not.
This gives you 4 outcomes. Each has its own path of consequence:
1) There is and you believe as asked of you - you live a good life and receive salvation for your choice of belief
2) There is and you don't believe - you live a life of choices/consequences and you receive eternal damnation from God
3) There is no God but believed there was - you lived a good life while here with nothing to look forward to after you pass on
4) Therfe is no God and chose not to believe - you live a life of choices/consequences and have nothing to look forward to.
For those who think that Christians don't use any thought or logic - this is one who does.
These are the only options that exist when all is said and done. Aetheism gambles with the notion of not having any Godly existence, hoping that there isn't.
Personally, the logic of us existing at all with nothing after we pass on makes no sense. We have too many things unanswered that leaves you with nothing to hinge explanation on, except to say that something's out there. If this is even possibly true, then being aetheist is potentially playing with fire in the end.
At least the belief in a God gives you a sense of guidance that results in a life here that will be considered good by many standards our society holds as correct.
There are many of the 'non-believers' who will say that I am full of it. Yet, my original 4 possibilities will syill hold true anyway.
What are the advantages? Maybe the disadvantages may be a better sense of question to consider too.
Good luck with your searching. God bless either way.
2007-07-05 02:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by preichwein 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Friend
All the problems in this world are caused by those who believe in God/Allah/Jehovah/Ishwar etc. Very religious ppl become fundamentalists and fanatics after that they act like robots at the whim of religious leaders for their political advantage. Rather as a contrast, you will find the atheists as most peaceful , non violent people.
Welcome to the world of atheism.
Buddhists are atheists too. Buddha says "God is a mental construct"
Buddha left behind all old religious teachings and started his own research into the self analysis.
At the end he found that :
a) There is no God
b) What we call as God is actually the devil who creates a new body for you after death. Its only job is to make u suffer.
Buddha learnt the truth and attained many spiritual heights. He has consented that he could :
Fly in air; walk on water, swim in the rock/earth as if it was water. Know the thoughts of others. Implant his thought in others and make them believe. Come out of his body alive , create another body , yet another body & so on , work with these duplicates and then combine them as before.
In essence he was able to conquer nature by not believing in old religious dogma and only by his own contemplation and self analysis.
He does not want anyone to worship him rather he wanted that everyone else to develop this attitude of accepting hard truth available as down to earth experience.
2007-07-05 06:34:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clarity of mind, objectivism . the outside view of all people on the planet and the possibility of gaining respect for the future as well the chance to explore new ways of solving problems by correcting the deficiencies of the past .When one becomes a non believer they don't always throw out the baby with the bath water and sometimes a new paradigm is begun .
peace
2007-07-05 02:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Great choice!!! Here are a few advantages:
- You are following the truth as far as your senses are concerned.
- You don't have to waste time and money on worshipping something hypothetical.
- You become more responsible because you know that everything depends on you and no one's 'up there' to help you in any way.
- You get to bash theists ;-) . Hehe, just kidding.
- You can concentrate your efforts on how to improve yourself and the society.
2007-07-05 02:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by Natasha 2 · 9⤊ 1⤋
The biggest advantage to being an atheist is that there are no advantages to being one and it doesn't matter anyway.
2007-07-05 02:00:55 · answer #6 · answered by Steve 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You can hang with the popular kids here on R&S, you can be part of this big exclusive bunch of elitist atheists who all kiss eachothers backsides.
2007-07-05 08:18:03 · answer #7 · answered by art fanatic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you were a religious believer, religion stole something very precious from you...now you have reclaimed it. Your ability to think and reason.
Welcome to the road to recovery.
2007-07-05 21:21:40 · answer #8 · answered by John the Pinoy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No morailty based on what a decrepit book says. No you can decide for yourself what makes something "good" and "evil" and form your own sense of morailty. Hopefully one that is beneficial to society in general...
2007-07-05 02:05:21 · answer #9 · answered by theSleepingMan 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Being responsible to and for yourself. Some people may not consider this an advantage.
2007-07-05 02:00:28 · answer #10 · answered by punch 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋