Atheists hate God????

Question

How is it possible to hate something you do not believe in. I am an atheist and that would be like me saying I hate Goblins or gremlins or Santa. You can't hate something you do not believe in.

Answer 1

That's silly, why would I hate someone else's imaginary friend?

Answer 2

An atheist hates God because he does not believe in God,The moment an atheist tells me I do not believe in God, I will ask him a question - what is the definition of God? What do you mean by God and he has to answer. You know why? Suppose I tell you, that this is a pen. If I say this is a pen for you to say it is not pen, you have to know the meaning of a pen, you should know the definition of a pen, you may not know what this is, but if I say this is a pen and if you have to say this is not a pen, you should at least know the meaning of the pen. The definition of a pen. In the same way if an atheist says there is no God, he should know what is the meaning of God, and the atheist they tell me that see these people around me what they worship, what Gods they worship. It is their own creation, they have got human qualities, therefore I do not believe in such Gods. Because the concept of God that these people have is a wrong concept. Since you reject the wrong concept even I as a Muslim reject these wrong concepts of God ‘The best definition that I can give of Allah of God Almighty from the holy Qur’an is Surah Ikhlaas, Ch. No. 112, which says ‘Allah the absolute and eternal’, meaning, he is absolute, he is eternal. He has no beginning, he has no end, he is the one who helps other people but does not require help…… ‘Allah, the absolute and eternal’…… ‘He begets not nor is he begotten’, he has no father and mother. He has got no children, no begotten children…… ‘And there is nothing unto him like in this world’. There is nothing comparable to him in this world. The moment you can compare Allah to anyone, he is not Allah …… this is a four line definition of Allah If anyone who you claim to be God Almighty, who you claim to be Allah fits in this four line definition, we Muslims, we have got no objection to accept him as God Almighty… which are your candidates, bring your candidates one by one and let us put them to test.

They will say we do not just believe in such definitions we believe in something, which is ultimate. We believe in science. I do agree today is the age of science and technology so lets put the scientific knowledge that we have. Let us apply it to the Qur’an in this book, QUR'AN AND MODERN SCIENCE - Compatible Or Incompatible http://www.irf.net/book3.zip

Answer 3

i agree with you. How do you say that you hate something you don't believe in. I think that is a thought perpetuated by narrow-minded people who don't understand the concept of not believing in anything, not having that fallback excuse or safety net for the way they live their lives.

Or just fear. Sometimes people fear what they don't understand, and for religious people, the absense of faith can be a confusing outlook. Fear makes people very accusatory.

Answer 4

Agreed. While you can hate the idea of a god or you could even hate the people who believe in a god (hypothetically), you cannot hate god because god doesn't exist.

Answer 5

"If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences." Source(s) If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau

Answer 6

I'm not an atheist.... but what I hear about how the church manipulates non beleiver is enough to make anyone hate the pope.... god of the christians is the pope and nothing else.

Answer 7

Atheists don't hate god.

I am an atheist too, though I suspect that you are not.

I do not hate god, because he is of course imaginary and it would be silly to hate something that does not exist. The thing that frustrates me is when people act cruelly in the name of god, like having holy wars or bombing abortion clinics, or blocking science in public schools.

Answer 8

I don't hate something that I don't believe in. What I hate is when people make a huge deal about it and criticize others beliefs.
I have only done that once because I was just sick of it!

Answer 9

Agreed. You can't hate god if you are an athiest.

You can hate PEOPLE who believe in God, though. Maybe people get confused by that. *shrug*

Answer 10

That's almost as good as the saying:

"Thank God I'm an Atheist."

Answer 11

Yeah, I hate God just about as much as I hate Darth Vader.