Is it normal to NOT want a God to exist?

Answer 1

Of course. Nobody wants to be held accountable for their actions.

Answer 2

That would depend on the way that God was explained to you, which God(s) you are talking about and why. For example Christians don't want Allah or Krishna or The Morrigan to exist. If your experience is that a God is vengeful and angry and obsessed with sin. In any of these ways then yes I would say it was normal not to want a God to exist.

Answer 3

Yup. Especially when you're 18 and about to bang your neighbor's 26 year-old hot, blonde wife. When I didn't "want" to believe in God were the moments it was most convenient to not do so. I just hated the never-ending guilt I couldn't escape day or night for the things I was doing. There was no-one to talk to about it, and there were times I desperately wished one of those door-to-door bible "types" would ring my doorbell.
It got so bad that I finally did the unthinkable- I actually sat down with my mother's dust-laden Bible and opened it up. That was the most fearful experience of my life up to that point. Imagine being 18, having sex with a married woman, and coming across the 7th chapter of the Book of Proverbs and realizing it was describing you, what you're doing, and the exact way it was happening.
That was the exact moment in time when I realized that this God that I had heard about so much about actually DID exist. I had never been more sure of anything else in my scant, eighteen years of life on this planet.
Since then, I've believed in Him and have studied the bible intensely to make sure it made sense when I compared it to what was going on around me in the world and in my own life.
It has never "not" made sense to me, and only continues to confirm flawlessly what I know and believe about God and the nature of humanity.

Answer 4

Any religion, or lack thereof, is normal if it's what works for you. There are a lot of fundamentalists and extremists that would try to guilt-trip you into feeling otherwise, but try to tune them out.

I'd be interested to know why someone wouldn't want there to be a higher power of any sort. Seems depressing to me to think that we're all there is in this universe.

Answer 5

God exist and you can feel it. If you believe that there is an air even though you do not see it, then why not believe that there is God. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4:24

Answer 6

I think it's normal. It's hard not to wonder that. I'm a Christian. I've never said God doesn't exist, but I've wondered. I'm sure a lot of religious people have wondered that from time to time whether they admit it or not.

Answer 7

It's just another way of looking at life and the world. If it helps someone to believe or not believe in God then it's ok. Whatever gets you through your life, it's alright ( J Lennon)

Answer 8

It is NOT normal. Which is why the most extremes of brain-washing are needed to instill the idea. And on vulnerable people like children.

Why? To what end?

So that it can be a weapon used by the Powerful against the "Peasants" like you and me.

Answer 9

Definitely glad the OT god and the god of the Koran don't exist.

Answer 10

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believe you me,
there is nothing abnormal,
as far as you are honest with your-self, and
not want a God to exist...
it`s o.k. but if you want a God to exist in future, then also
be honest with your-self and express that here...
the way you have expressed to-day.. with-out any
hesitation... it ought to be like this only...
being honest with self,
irrespective of others...
i respect your standing..