If atheists don't believe in God, then who do they believe in!?

Question

I don't get it!

Answer 1

Not to sound like an after school special but...
I believe in me!

Answer 2

That the world and the universe are vast and spectacular, and that the journey of our lives is to discover that we know more and more about less and less, the more we search...and that human beings have capacity for both great good and great evil, and we should all do our part to make the world a better place using methods that can be proven to work (vs. employing mystical wish-thinking).

I don't really understand the Q. Are you saying, if we don't believe in God, then do we believe in Krishna?? It's the idea of an authoritarian, big-brother-esque ruler that we find so unlikely, considering that the universe is as infinite and mysterious as it is.

God can't be proven or disproven, and anyone who is intellectually honest will concede that. Maybe there's a God, and maybe there's a divine purpose for our being on earth. The difference between me and believers is, I don't presume to know and I'm not satisfied with the mythology that believers have embraced. It's too similar to other mythologies that have gone in and out of vogue for thousands of years. The fact that so many peopled believe hasn't make them true, and won't make any religious belief true.

Answer 3

God is theoretical just like evolution and the Big Bang. There is no actual proof that God exists in any shape or form. It is a faith and discipline to believe in and if you grew up in an environment where there is religion you would probably believe yourself. I went to a big Scientology meeting just to find out more about it. I asked people why they believe and they said that they grew up with it. As a Atheist I believe anything is possible but without proof, just theory, I am sceptical. A line from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist' says God 'because proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing' 'But' says man 'it proves you do exist and so therefore you don't. Q.E.D.' and subsequently goes on to prove black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

Answer 4

It's not that difficult to understand. Athiests do not believe in a God. They do not believe that some super natural being created the world and is power behind everything in the world. Athiests go about their lives normal and believe in just enjoying the world without questioning where it came from...also some Athiests may believe in the Darwinian answer to how the world and the species in the world was created.

Answer 5

I don't understand why there has to be something like a higher power to believe in.
I do believe in some things btw, that's the intelligence, inventiveness, and the cooperative and humanist nature of humanity. The problem is that mostly religion and religious indoctrination (but also other power factors like money) seems to obstruct my vision of such a future for mankind and the earth in a whole.

Answer 6

Well they beleive in, just as said..Science. Funny they beleive in God's Handy work they eat, sleep, and have fun in but they don't beleive or reverence the creator who made it all for them!
Somewhere along the line an absence of anything else but their own Self and Survival came upon them through whether a bad circumstance or hardship..or just ignorance and they find it ridiculous to beleive this world was created. Because I mean cmon now " look at the human eye,, look at the flow of the weather and seasons..that just couldn't have been created dust came together! ( laugh laugh)

If you look at a car ..is it logical to say the car didn't have a maker? No .someone made the car and someone will drive the car and someone may destroy the car and start over

this is kind of scientific comment too but not religious you see..aethists think that because of the messed up perverted people who warped some parts of Christiantiy that there is a justification to go against God and christ and the church.
the bible says Satan is represented by the number 6, the prince of this world..who deceives..and who hates God..So if he is the God of this world..than he of course would love to see people worship themselves and deny a creator and he has done a great job to get people to beleive that.

One person was beat up by their drunken father and they grew up saying " there could be no god if he let that happen to me, or to them"
But if only they knew it wasn't God who did that..it was Satan who fell from the beginning..
Many aethists post their hatred of christians or anything relating to christ however they have never bothered reading the bible..while on the other hand beleivesr and followers of christ understand science and put it together with creation and God.

this is all I am saying for now

Answer 7

Athiests are their own gods. If you reject the influence of an outside entity, then the world is what your mind percieves it to be. This a is valid point of view as is believing in a god. It has nothing to do with science.

Most athiests accept the world as described by Newton and Darwin who were both Christians.

Answer 8

Belief is an emotional reaction. Atheists are investing emotional energy into the denial of god vs the theists investing in the existence of god. Self delusion is such a useless exercise.

Agnostic waiting for the facts one way or the other.

Answer 9

Obviously.

The first problem is with the two erroneous assumptions in your question, that is:
1. Atheists (and everyone, for that matter) must have beliefs. No, atheists LACK belief, at least in deities or other supernatural entities.
2. Belief must be in a "who." Wrong again; beliefs of some who might be considered atheists could include belief in a "force" or a principle, such as logic. Of course, even using the term belief is a stretch, if what you accept (such as logic) is something that has been demonstrably reliable for centuries - unlike the gods humans have invented.

Answer 10

You don't have to believe in any "one", that is "person" or "deity" . The universe ticks along pretty good without the need of a "god". The laws of nature and the physics that govern the universe are pretty amazing all by themselves. Most religious people (note I said 'most') don't understand the marvelous complexity and harmony of the universe. The behavior of sub-atomic particles is directly linked to the behavior of giant clusters of galaxies containing trillions of billions of stars. I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who said "the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine." Consider that every atom in your body was created in the center of an exploding star and that the same atoms that make up you also make up every blade of grass and stone and creature that lives on this planet. In light of all that, who needs a god?

Answer 11

I dont beleive in anything that does not exist, I exist therefore I believe in myself and what happens to me and other people who exist. As there is no god I think this is a rather better way of living than religious maniacs.