2007-08-01 06:33:53 · 25 answers · asked by Page 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I dont think so. I think they are religious because of existential crisis. The deep rooted feeling that everyone has. The notion that on a certain level we are completely utterly alone. They choose to fill in this aloneness with an imaginary god critter. Personally when I am laying in bed at night and that feeling comes I let it completely overload my senses. Just floating in a mental space of nothingness. I think people avoid these times. I can remember a time when I did.
2007-08-01 06:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many theists seem to be incapable of imagining (probably a result of programming) that someone else might be able to find meaning and happiness in his life without religion. Therefore, all atheists must be miserable and unfulfilled.
2007-08-01 13:48:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think religious people believe that Atheists are empty because that's part of their belief.
2007-08-01 13:41:18 · answer #3 · answered by LEMON the good life 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont think people think much at all about atheists, When I do its really kind of like wondering what they would think or do in situations. I kinda do feel sorry for them, its such a comfort to believe that we are going to live forever and that our lives are not meaningless as they would have to be if there were no God.
2007-08-01 13:40:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People 'imagine' without regard to race, creed, gender or national origin. Religion has done the most damage. It is what I have chosen as "not necessary" behavior. Who and what I choose to be is MY affair. My "God" is more pwerful than most and I keep in close proximity to my cosmic 'family'. Trust me...you don't want to mess with a storm as powerful as we can generate in our wrath.
2007-08-01 13:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, for one, don't think that atheists are, by virtue of being atheists, "empty".
And I certainly don't need to look down on them to feel good about my life.
2007-08-01 13:57:22 · answer #6 · answered by Raven's Voice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a side of life that is missed and cant be seen or heard without a relationship with God ... so in that context yes i think they are empty and no it doesnt make feel better or worse its just a fact ..
2007-08-01 13:43:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but rather because a life lived without meaning is hollow. Hollow=empty. Since atheists don't believe there is or should be a meaning to life, and since it has no point, I don't imagine their lives to be empty, I take them at their testimony that they are.
2007-08-01 13:37:44 · answer #8 · answered by Steve 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am religious, but I will only speak for myself. I actually don't care about atheists as long as they don't insult anything that has something to do with me as a person.
2007-08-01 13:36:28 · answer #9 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I imagine atheists are tired of the ceaseless attempts on the part of zealots to de-secularize our society.
2007-08-01 13:42:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋