I've heard Christians claim that if atheists truly believe in God, but are unwilling to admit it for whatever reason.
Do any atheists believe that if theists were honest with themselves, they would profess atheism?
2007-08-01 06:33:44 · 21 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
— Mark Twain
2007-08-01 08:55:35 · answer #1 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a certain way I do. I think that a majority of them have been conditioned to believe in a deity while at the same time have been taught to never question the existence of such deity. People are people and everyone has doubts about things regardless of the subject matter. The only difference with religion is, by expressing any doubts that person would subject themselves to ridicule from others who believe in a deity rather than have a polite conversation
2007-08-01 06:41:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If theists were capable of being honest with themselves then they would see why atheists exists...and why god doesnt...but that's asking alot of people that use religion as a crutch...must be nice to not take credit for the things you accomplish in your own life and give someone that's never done anything the credit, and write off the bad things in life as a trial or test from above...guess that does make reality a sugar coated dream world....lol....ok time to wake up now....*eats cotton candy*
2007-08-01 06:43:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jedi Master Jer-Pen Dan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, obviously we are all born atheists. But I do think that the number of real believers is far lower than the number who would like to believe, and pretend they do, but don't.
It seems to me that professed believers who are stricken by grief at the death of a loved one know that the afterlife is just make believe. If you truly believe, then you believe your loved one is in paradise and you will join them again soon. You would treat the occasion no differently than sending your son or daughter off to a mission in South America, knowing that you won't see them for two years. A little misty? Yes. Excited and happy too? Very.
But deep down they know that, after all of the wishful thinking and reassurances, when you die, you die.
2007-08-01 07:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I think there may be some people "in the closet", if you will, about atheism...but certainly not all. Most Christians seem to be genuinely solid in their beliefs.
Furthermore, I really resent it when Christians try to tell me that, deep down, I really believe in God. Wouldn't it be pretty asinine of me to say the exact same thing from the atheists' standpoint?
2007-08-01 06:46:09 · answer #5 · answered by Stardust 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it particularly is an exceptionally exciting element. I constantly concept the 'all and sundry born atheist' argument replaced into based in undemanding terms on a technical application of the definition which isn't the main significant argument with the only precious implication that faith is something not innately human. That i think of continues to be genuine, no rely how animist people are.
2016-10-13 09:12:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think many of them are ambivalent about it. However I believe there is a large percentage of believers who are actually walking around hearing voices in their heads. The reasons they do this might be temporal lobe epilepsy or other mental disorders.
We are also genetically programmed to ascribe motives to anything active in our environment.
How many people do you know who believe that computers think or that swearing at their car makes it start better.
I think a lot of the religious types are beyond hope of anything like sanity.
2007-08-01 06:41:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
People are born Atheists. It takes years of brainwashing and conditioning to make them believe that fairy tales are real.
And it takes courage to realize that too.
Not many people can stand on their own. Having an intellectual crutch like religion is such a tempting thing.
But luckily, more and more people are turning away from religion and joining us in the real world.
2007-08-01 06:37:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No . I believe there are some people that no matter how many holes are shot into the concept of religion just can't live without their security blanket of faith. They can't accept that some things we just don't have answers too and so they run to whatever offers to answer those questions for them.
2007-08-01 06:43:26 · answer #9 · answered by discombobulated 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think atheists on R&S PROVE that all theists are at the very least, agnostic. Why?
How often do you see theists claiming that atheists should leave, or that we are trying to destroy the beliefs of others? Pretty much hourly. If their faith was so impenetrable, then nothing that anyone said would affect them, right? Right. Instead, they offer vitriol in the guise of love, anger, resentment, faux pity, and they report everything every chance they get (a form of censorship). What is this translated to? A defense mechanism triggered by fear.
Believers prove the point(s) of atheists here almost every day, and they don't even realize they are doing it.
2007-08-01 06:38:43 · answer #10 · answered by Deke 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋