For the atheists... I am just curious...?

Question

What would be the one reason why you would say there was no such thing as God?

I've been reading all of your answers and I completely respect your beliefs, but I read one that bothered me... If I was faced with the choice to deny God and live or to die I would chose death... i believe down to the very depths of my soul and who I am that there is a God... No doubts... may be in some areas confused...but i do not doubt God... I just wanted to hear the atheists point of view so that i could better understand! :)

Answer 1

Because my dad died when I was five leaving my mum with three kids under the age of six and while she was 8 months pregnant living in a foreign country with no family......... I could go on. At the end of the day I could never (at that age and even now) figure out why someone apparently so almighty would allow things like that to happen!

Answer 2

The one reason you speak if is what many others have written already. Evidence - there is none. The whole concept of a supreme being and all that entails is exceptional. Such exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence - it has yet to be shown. I find it extraordinary that although religion and belief can have positive effects the downside is that there is so much nonsense and life destroying stuff in the good book.

Or should that be good books? There are so many different variations on God and who he is. Either one is right or none of them are. Millions of other people accept one God but reject other versions of a God because they find nothing compelling in that religion. And that is the way I view all religions.

Answer 3

There are thousands of religions, each with their own history and their own God. That led me to think people need to create such stories to explain things they dont know. Lightning for example was an unknown phenomenon to the ancient Greeks, thus they created Zeus. They all believed in Zeus and the other Gods, they had their own books and prayers. After a while people found out the truth about things they did not know. Just like we will find out things we dont know about the Universe one day.

Answer 4

A serious lack of faith. Extreme doubt. Lack of substantial evidence to prove otherwise. Disillusionment. There usually has to be something tangible for us, something that can be experienced through one of the five senses, and since we lack these experiences, we choose to believe otherwise. Usually, we go for scientific theories over belief to stories written by man in various religious texts. The question we ask out of curiosity is "Where is the proof?" Rejecting religion and religious condemnation is completely understandable. Being a pain in the exterior arguing that existance of every single thing in the world isn't due to a creator isn't.

The inventions, fanatic followers and social constructs of religion all CLEARLY discourage athiests from believing such absurdities.

However, isn't it absurd to believe there is no creator? In order for something to exist, it HAS to be created first.

Answer 5

Well, I'm not exactly atheist, but I don't believe in a personal God. Einstein said: I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. He also said: I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Answer 6

I agree with most of the above, but does there have to be a reason?
Let's get things straight here, i don't believe in God in the same way i don't believe in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, The Tooth Fairy, Father Christmas and that women actually get a round in once in a while.

The biggest problem i have with religion is that it's just so full of hypocracy.

We athiests are supposed to burn in hell and yet, millions has just been payed out to children abused by priests, and how many times have we heard that story?
Tell the truth, how many times have people connected to the church been caught abusing children? Yes, thousands and thousands of times.

Many religions have billions of pounds, they own land, art, property and yet are watching people all over the world starve to death.
Why don't they sell off everything and give it to the poor and needy? My local church was burgled and they took 20 thousand pounds in the form of gold crosses, goblets, etc, that's 20 grand!!!

If there was a God then everyone connected with the church would be the first ones to burn in hell.

I think they should start by selling off the Vatican, i think it'd make a cracking night club.

Answer 7

I don't have to prove God doesn't exist, any more than I have to prove that the Loch Ness Monster or Little Green Men from Mars don't exist. It is intuitively obvious to anyone who examines the claims that such things do exist with anything like a modicum of rational, objective thought that they do NOT exist. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs, so the claim that "God" exists requires the most extraordinary proof of all, and there is none.

Answer 8

It seems to have all been said not one scrap of evidence that a god exists in the form that religious people would have us believe. In fact there is excellent evidence that such a god does not exist.

Answer 9

Everything that points to god is hearsay. You aren't born knowing god, you don't discover god. You are told about god by other people who are told about god by other people who are told about god and so on. Do that for a couple thousand years and not only does it solidify in the eyes of some due to time, but it also evolves as interpretation gets added to it. Otherwise christians and muslims would still follow judaism.

Zero solid proof and hearsay that has trickled down through time is not enough to convince me.

Answer 10

I apply Occam's Razor (which ironically was used by Occam to PROVE the existence of God), which basically states that unnecessary explanations must be removed to find the best answer.

The universe is a vast and complicated entity. If God exists, then he has absolute power over this vast and complicated entity. The universe + God is (considerably) more complicated and more unlikely to exist than the universe alone. Therefore, it is more reasonable that only the universe exists.