what do you think about people being athiests?

Question

I'm athiest.......and i get a lot of bad feedback from that.
whats so bad about it?

Answer 1

I joined an Athiests group that meets once a month at a local reas'rnt.. we met up thou the yahoo groups and meetUp.
You might try looking of people like yourself to meet up with once a month or whenever. we usually have about a dozen people and it is lively conversation.

Answer 2

I believe people are athiests because they donot understand the Bible and/or have listen to preachers' hell and damnation sermons.

I believe most athiests are true children of God, because of the love they have in their hearts, (which is why it's so hard for them to believe in a God they see as loveless);however, this is just a trick of the devil.

I too once had a problem with understanding. I cried out eighteen years ago, "God, You, teach me your Word".

I quit going to begging and damnation chuches, starting reading the Bible, praying for understanding.

Allow me to elebrate a little on Truth.

God is a Spirit, He cannot nor willnot come to earth. When He created (Awesome. Man makes everything from what He created - get widsom) Adam, (which was a soul) He made him a flesh and blood body, blew the spirit within him and gave him the earth.

When Adam and Eve sinned (tricked by a flesh and blood serpent - used by satan), the spirit in them died. This is the sin - the death of the spirit in mankind. Because God loves us so much, He sent Jesus (flesh and blood) to redeem/save us - return our spirit. You see, God can only communication with us through our spirit. This is what the Bible talk about. How and what God did to get man back to his orginal state.

God is love and would never make people suffer in such a place as hell. The word "Hell" used by most preacher means an eternal separation from God. ( To me would be hell).

I am with no religion ( it will mess you up). I am a child of God and I was taught by my Father (get understanding).

Oh, people are not going to heaven either.

What is so bad about professing atheistism? What if there really is a God.

Answer 3

I too am athiest, and it shouldn't matter to anybody else. But I would like to know from somebody what their big problem with it is. I doubt they'd be able to string two coherent sentences together to defend their case.

EDIT: OK, bburnin has put together a valid-enough case that I can understand, without any of that "athiesm is a bad religion" tripe. I can understand those who firmly believe in a god being distraught by athiests not believing in him/her/it after he/she/it has supposedly done so much.

So yeah, thumbs up for bburnin.

Answer 4

Aloha Chichi,

Believers get threatened by anyone that questions their fairytales. We represent what they already know - that deep down their beliefs are nothing more than myths and make-believe. This can be very unsettling to come to the realization that you've based your entire life on a lie. Better to lash out at the messenger than to confront the truth and your own insecurities.

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.
— Fred Hoyle

A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.
— John Shelby Spong, Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey

We preoccupy ourselves so much with changing the lives of others not out of proclaimed sentiments of selfless human charity, but out of our selfish desire to validate our own identities. There is, of course, enormous ego gratification in the exercise of power over other people, but such satisfaction is rooted in our need to have others believe and behave as we do.
— Butler D. Shaffer

Answer 5

I am a Muslim, and my brother in law is Atheist. We talk about religion, we disagree all the time. But at the end, we are still relatives. I help him when I can and he helps when he can.

Being a different religion, doesn't make you an object. You are still a human being with rights like anyone else who is Muslim/Christian/Jew/etc etc.

Answer 6

I think it's because, deep down, many religious people are envious of us.

Imagine having to go through life having to cower in fear of a damnation-happy Cosmic Sadist, not being able to enjoy many 'pleasures of the flesh', and having to drag your butt out of bed every Sunday to sit through a boring church service. If your life was like that, you'd probably be envious as hell towards people who don't live in fear of a god, enjoy physical pleasures, and can sleep in on Sunday morning...

Answer 7

I think they haven't had any true biblical teaching, they want to do what they want and not live by a creators commandments, I think they need prayer and love.

It's not what's so bad about it, it's what so SAD about it.
Because they are on a road to destruction if there isn't a change. I hate for them to continue in this mind set only to find out on judgment day how wrong they were just for being so stubborn.

God Bless, and He will if you let Him!

Answer 8

Most have been indoctrinated to believe that anyone who doesn't believe is a dreadful sinner and heathen. They can't help themselves. Know what?... As an Atheist, it does not bother me at all.

Answer 9

I am a Catholic Christian, and being one I have no right to judge anyone for what they believe or what they do not believe. God gave me free will and I am not better than what I have faith in. In my faith it says not to judge people, so I don't, but I do pray for them and for good things to come about in their lives.

Answer 10

Chichi was the best dancer. NO? She was the best at St. Bernadette.
Love the Atheists!