Atheists...do you know who you are?

Question

I submit that the Atheist, in disbelief of God, does not know who they are...children of a loving and wonderful God. And live in hollow, self-serving lives.
They will argue and mock but there has to be that place in their hearts and minds where they feel something is missing, and life is incomplete a place where God longs to be... to give them peace in the questions of life that are not answered without him.
I only wish that hearts would be softened and the healing and love of God to give abundance in this life and the glory of eternal life with God would be with them also.

Answer 1

i pray for them everyday thats only i could do for them.

Answer 2

Yes. We know who we are.

Our lives are not hollow.
We serve the highest ideals of truth.
We are no more self serving than others. We are less self serving in fact. We serve the positive forward evolution of mankind, not the repressive religious insanity that holds mankind back.

We don't ask for money.
You won't see an atheist preaching on TV asking for money.

We don't start wars.
We especially do not support wars that are ostensibly because of any "belief" system.

We don't ask anyone to blindly believe anything without proof.

We only ask for reason and facts.

Atheists are more rational, ethical and realistic.

We don't have a fictional deity to forgive us, so we have to be ethical. We must live with ourselves without hypocrisy.

We are rational because we see and understand facts.

We are realistic because we know the greatest good we can manifest is in reality, not fantasy.

Thanks for your nice forgiving thoughts, ...if they are genuine. History and life experience shows us that most Christians are hypocrites. Not all mind you, just the ones who talk about their insane ideas the loudest or the most.

The world is changing for the better by questioning everything and disseminating information. We ask questions, and when we find evidence, we tell others. That's' all. Our questions are not different or better. Our answers are better because we demand proof, not faith.

God can't help you or forgive you or give you eternal life. This life is the only life you can know. If there was a loving god, he would want you to use the intellect he designed you with, not deny it by demanding faith. Only a phantasm of man-made fiction could be so absurd.

The atheist's heart is not hard. The believer's brain is soft.

Answer 3

Go post this in R & S and see how many answers you get in 20 minutes.
I must confess that I was one of the chosen "children of that 'loving & gracious' God" once. For many many years. My mistake was to read that Bible that you all seem to follow to the letter. I thought I was seeing things so I read it again, still thinking I was crazy I read one that was not KJV that the Baptists love so well. Have you ever read all the things your "loving" God is capable of? I decided that if there is a God and he did all this baby killing etc then he is not worthy of my praise and worship. Further reality based thinking led me to the conclusion that I had lived my whole life as a LIE. The only regret I have is that I wasted all those years
And Skippy let me tell you if my life is hollow etc then I am very thankful. I have found that without religion telling me who is "good & bad" there are some really lovely people in this world. There is no more prejudice in my heart since no god is telling me who I should hate.

Answer 4

I submit that it is a religious person who is missing something in their lives. As a non-religious person I do not feel the need to explain my own existence by accepting the writings of man and other myths as "fact". Religious people feel the need to convince others that their beliefs are correct so they can feel more secure in their choices - if they have more people on their team, they must be correct, right? I couldn't care less how many people are on my "team" - I am happy in the decisions I've made over the course of my life, and whatever happens after it's over I'll discover then. No one, and I mean no one truly knows what happens when we die, so to say anything else is wishful thinking. There's nothing wrong with wishful thinking, but that's all that belief in God is - just admit it, and you'll be happier too.

Answer 5

I'm not atheist but i don't believe in god. (yes there is a difference)
You do have the right to believe what you will but i think it is stupid that you would try to claim something you know nothing about. Don't act like you know everything because you don't. I have friends that believe in god and gods and nothing and everything and i can tell you that everyone feels like something is missing at least once in a while and you cant tell me that you haven't felt that way. Different people find different things to fill the void. Understand that we are not created the same we are all different and have different needs and wants just because it works to fill you doesn't mean that it will fill someone else.
think of it like a child's toy, the one that had different shaped holes in it (ie. square, triangle circle) and you tried to fit the right shape in the right hole. People are like that we have different shaped holes and different pieces fit into those holes. even those who believe in the same things you do may differ in specific things.
Don't Judge 'Lest You Be Judged.

Answer 6

I am too late. Everything has been said already. May be I can just add one more comment...

Faith is a dangerous emotion. It takes faith to believe that our life is incomplete without a mystical, supernatural imaginary being that holds our hand through life and tells us what to think. It also takes faith to believe that when a comet appears in the sky it His sign that beckons us to go "home" and meet Him. That same strong faith makes us believe that it is the will of God that commands us to hijack a plane and fly it into a building to be a martyr and go to paradise.

Answer 7

Well I don't know if THE atheist knows who they are,
but I do know who I am--AN atheist.

I'm not a Westerner, so I was not raised with western religion. I believe in God as Merriam Webster defines it ("supreme reality"), but I don't believe in celestial beings like the Jade Emperor--hence "atheist."

I feel great compassion for people that tragically have been blinded--convinced that they need to be told what is right and wrong when the spark of God was inside of them all along.

I too wish people wouldn't harden their hearts--harden them against the world around them in all it's wonder, including fossils and the like.

Answer 8

I'm an atheist and only 16, and I love my life. I don't feel brainwashed. There's too many holes in the bible and in religion for me. I don't feel like anything is missing, except maybe my ex boyfriend, and I'm sure no god can fill that position.

I answer my own questions on life. I believe in what I believe in, not what something tells me to believe in. I rely on myself for my opinions and I don't need some book or some fake god to tell me who I should be, what I should care about, and what to believe in.

I've read the entire bible, cover to cover and all it is is a bunch of words from old dead guys. Where is the proof? I'll tell you where. It's in the hands of dead guys. No one has the authority to say that it is true, therefore no one can say that god is real.

Answer 9

You do realize that by serving a God with the primary goal of achieving an everlasting life in heaven for yourself (and/or attempting to keep your own tail out of hell), YOU are by definition leading a self-serving life. Ironic, eh?!

So for you to define my life as self-serving is like a shark defining a tree as being carnivorous.

Did you have a philosophy question?

Answer 10

To answer your question, I submit the following:

In this big universe,
in one small corner,
I live in one run-of-the-mill galaxy,
of a billion or more,
called the Milky Way,
in one small,
out-of-the-way corner,
in a run-of-the-mill planetary system,
of one star
out of a billion or more,
called Sol,
on a minor planet called Earth,
with a billion or more
forms of life,
as one small man,
of the same kind,
called homo sapiens,
as a billion or more.

Yet, I am told I am important.
Now, you can see why I laugh!

Face it! It is a cold, lonely universe out there. We need to find ourselves another specie to call friend. We don't need mouths like yours picking a fight with them as you have already done on this planet over some impossible, supernatural invention just because you're scared of the dark.

Answer 11

Wow... what a self-righteous little **** you are. I'm perfectly content with my life as an atheist. I'm happy that I haven't been subjected to the brain-washing of religious HYPOCRITICAL BS. It's the weak ones who "need" to have some higher being to believe in.