atheists??

Question

Waht makes you think that there is not a God?? Were you raised that way?? Or can you just not imagine their being one?? I don`t understand..so please explain. Even if you are not an atheist...please share your thoughts!!!

Answer 1

If you ask the simple question where did we come from you'll find that there has to be a God. Let me condense the argument for you. The universe came from the big bang...which came from dense matter...which came from the collision the collision of two branes...which came from...which came from...eventually there has to be a starting point. That first thing is God.

Answer 2

I'd like to share this as well... the Jewish tradition started, oh, probably 5 or 6 thousand years ago... the Christian faith is at least 2000 years old or so... Modern science has been around for only the last 500 years or so. In fact, the greatest "unraveling" of our origins has only happened on the last 200 years or so. Religion has had a hell of a head start on science. Not to mention, most Americans lack the most basic education in science... most people never open a science book once they graduate from HS. Religion used to answer the questions that science now answers much more rationally. That threatens some people who want to believe that "a magician really can pull a rabbit out of a hat," so to speak. No... I don't believe in any god because the natural world has natural explanations. Some we have figured out,... others we are still working on. But I believe that someday, we will consider the judeo-christian god as no more valid than Zeus or Thor or Santa Clause.

Answer 3

my parents were agnostic, both of them apparently believe in the possibility of a higher power, although they're not very religious. i went to church a couple of times when i was young but what i found there seemed to me either dull or silly. it's easy to imagine there being a god but not so easy to see how that relates to the real world at all. basically i'm not convinced that there is any good reason to think that a god exists. i could be wrong - i don't know everything. i can only operate based on my own knowledge, intuitions and beliefs.

Answer 4

I don't believe that there is a god because there is an incredible lack of evidence and because the descriptions of gods in the popular religions of the world seem to be, pardon me, rather nuts. I can only imagine that gods and religion where invented by people for people's reasons.

And, yes, I was raised in a religious home but found that I could not accept any of it.

Answer 5

My usual answer to equally bemused people who seem incapable of imagining that anyone could think differently from them is - there is not one single shred of evidence that there is or has ever been a god, the concept of god introduces too many absurdities and contradictions, and the questions that are usually answered by "God did it" by theists are far more satisfactorily answered by rational explanations.

No I was not raised that way. There is just no possible reason to believe there is a god. Why do you think there is?

Answer 6

Most people are going to go with "lack of evidence"

Basically, there is no reason to believe there is a god. What proof is there? Most were part of an organized religion before becoming atheist, so really, we were introduced to the idea and understand it, but just don't believe in it.

Answer 7

It's just a fully illogical concept that fails anytime I try to run it through the logical circuitry of my brain. It doesn't make sense for a perfect god to make nothing but imperfect species on an imperfect planet. It doesn't make sense for someone to love you, but threaten you with an eternity of misery. It doesn't make sense that a perfect god would need to, first flood the earth to make a new start and then later come to earth in human form to change the rules of the game. It doesn't make sense for any being that sits in judgment to sacrifice his own child in a very heinous way to save his own creation from his own judgment. Surely a perfect god could have spared his own son and just said "I forgive these sins". It just doesn't make any sense. And then you get into the other major problem. The complete lack of evidence. We've supposedly known of god for thousands of years. Why hasn't any tangible evidence ever been shown to exist?

Answer 8

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Perfect timing, I just got off work. Now, on to the question. Atheists feel that there is no proof that a deity exists. Therefore, being very logical, literal-minded people, they feel no compulsion to spend their lives in abject worship of the (unproven) deity.

This is different from agnostics, who aren't sure either way, deists, who believe in a deity, but no real religion, or pagans, who believe in the more nature related deities.

Answer 9

I'll let Albert talk for me:

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
(Albert Einstein, Obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955)

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.
(Albert Einstein, responding to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein who had sent Einstein a cablegram bluntly demanding "Do you believe in God?")

Answer 10

There is no empirical proof that shows any deity exists so given that it is not real. I was raised baptist but never believed and when I was old enough walked away from the religion that was chosen for me.