did you become an atheist just so you could do everything you want to?

Question

I just read some answers from atheists who claim religion holds us back from living life to the fullest. that's sorta true. but if you didn't become an atheist for the right reasons (logically figuring it out), you are messed up. what do you say, my fellow atheists?

actually answerer no. 3 I didn't say that. I am an atheist too.

did I not word this question right? hmmm....

ok sorry. ignore my additional details.

Answer 1

Actually, most atheists have an internal "common sense" and sense of the "golden rule" that makes them better-behaved than most "religious" folks, who feel free to do as they wish and then "pray for forgiveness" later.

How much have atheists had to pay recently to settle charges of unsavoury deeds inflicted on young boys?

Answer 2

I didn't "become" an atheist, I just logically figured out that there isn't some made up whatever greater power that will make me close up my mind to life and to the world around me.
By the way I know a lot of believers that do what ever they want to do (even immoral things), so what?!
And I think that religion is the thing that relieves people from taking their lives in their own hands and setting their minds free to roam the universe.......

Answer 3

Who determines what right reasons are? Or wrong reasons? Where does right and wrong come from? The Bible says that people have a natural knowledge that God exists (Romans 1). In the world, it's called your conscience. And by the way, jonjon, everyone deserves to go to hell, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" and "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 3:23 and 6:23). I don't know why the "good little Christians" you referred to were scared to say that. It's only by God's grace through Jesus Christ dying on the cross to pay for that sin, that any of us go to heaven. If God is just a human construct, then good and evil are just human constructs as well. They don't really exist either. That's the source of our worry about atheism corrupting America. On Fox News last night, they were debating whether we should allow people to walk around naked in public, or to have sex on the street. The Bible clearly teaches that such things are wrong, because innocence should be protected and sex is a sacred gift to married couples, but when you take God out of the picture, there's room for debate about anything. I don't think anyone would argue that our moral values have gotten better since like the 1950's when God and the Christian faith were more respected in our country, unless they are the type that believe traditional ethics are evil.

Answer 4

I am an atheist because after doing the readings in various beliefs and researching it to my full satisfaction I decided based on the what I have seen that deities do not exist.

However, I do try to live my life to the fullest possible but that doesn't mean I do get to do all I want or that I should get to do all I want. I think living life without fear of superstition hanging over ones head leads to living the best way a person knows how to.

Answer 5

Everyone has the ability to do everything they want. The only things that hold them back are:

1) the potential consequences of their actions
2) their limited ability

Atheists and christians can and do act as they choose. The only difference is that atheists do not consider any god as a consequence.

There are no right or wrong reasons to be an atheist. You can arrive there through many paths. The key point is that you have arrived there.

Answer 6

No, I logically figured it out. And I continue to figure it out everyday. I've also figured out that you can't (or shouldn't) do everything you want to - and I don't need a supernatural-based religion to tell me that. For example, you can't (or shouldn't) kill other people (or be generally destructive) for no good reason.

And for those of you who call yourselves atheists, might I suggest moving beyond atheism...

Instead of defining myself by what I don't believe in, I define myself by what I am - a father, a husband, a scientist, a teacher, and a free thinker. I have, not a disbelief, but a belief about god - and that is, I believe the idea of god is a construct of the human imagination - an illusion (or delusion).

Answer 7

You don't 'become' an athiest, that would suggest you believed all the religious nonsense in the first place. Religion was just a way to control the masses and I am absolutely amazed that people still believe that junk. No one with the tiniest bit of sensible logic would accept any of the preaching of the nutters who's only interst is in lining their own pockets.

Answer 8

One thing about be a human is you can do anything you want within reason for any reason. I'm an atheist because I did logically figure it out. Those who no longer believe in God because it holds them back, never really believed anyway and that's fine too.

Answer 9

I agree that the person who said we are programmed into religious believes. I don't know about the whole holding people back thing. I do think that even if you don't have a set religion you should still have certain morals during your life and not go to crazy. I'm just one because religion does not make sense to me.

Answer 10

LOL...please. The "atheists are immoral hedonists" smear. I just answered another question about whether people who drive drunk deserve to go to hell, and all the good little Christians responded that no, of course they don't, because it doesn't matter what you do, because all that's important is whether you "accept Jesus." So you tell me who's immoral.

Per the above, which is the standard "Christian" theology, it's the Christians who can do whatever they want, as long as they pay the bribe to God of the "acceptance" of the blood of His son as having vicariously atoned for their sins. Maybe that's why Jesus is such a popular guy in prison and rehab.