2007-08-17 01:50:00 · 17 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This quote best describes it.
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen Roberts
2007-08-17 01:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For years I tried to include a belief in God in my understanding about life. I went through a couple of difficult periods in my life and found that prayer was ineffective in getting me through it. I had to turn to books and gain a greater degree of self awareness in order to recover from those periods. I tried to make sense of it by believing it was all a part of Gods plan and by trying to interpret what lessons God was trying to teach me but that only added to the confusion I was experiencing at the time. I got a lot of help from Buddhist literature and Buddhists dont include a God in their belief system.
Over time it became harder to include a God in my understanding about life. I read 'The End of Faith' not too long ago and finally accepted that believing in God never really worked for me. Now that I admittedly doubt his existance life is much less confusing.
2007-08-17 11:13:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To believe in a God requires faith.
To some, including myself, believing in something without physical proof (i.e. faith) seems ridiculous.
Also, when religious people often say they have proof in the form of the bible, it seems ridiculous to believe in one old book over thousands of other old books. Just because the stories in this particular book are about a God, it doesn't make it any more fact than any of the other old books.
Show me a bit of proof and I would absolutely have to agree with you, but the only proof christians have is feelings inside themselves and a book which they have elevated, irrationally, above all others.
2007-08-17 09:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by Adam L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand why people keep asking this question. In this world with the secular humanistic crap going on all around us, it's amazing that God has as many followers as there are! The world is full of things that are telling people that there is no God.
Believe me, I was an atheist and there was plenty of reason to believe that. It was only by God's grace that I saw the truth and became a believer.
2007-08-17 08:57:39 · answer #4 · answered by William D 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are as many answers to this as there are atheists. For me, I simply don't believe. I didn't have to work at not believing. There wasn't a moment in time when I suddenly stopped believing for I never did in the first place.
2007-08-17 09:02:56 · answer #5 · answered by moondriven 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For many of the same reasons you do not believe in the big bang I suppose. You gather information from your sources, bibles, churches, ministers and such, and we gather information from ours, physical evidence, theorization, experimentation, you know science methods. Your information leads you to one conclusion, ours leads us to a different conclusion. Not saying your's is definately wrong, just think ours is highly more plausible.
2007-08-17 09:06:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which god are you speaking of? I don't believe in the christian god, allah, zeus, hera (goddess technically)...
I don't believe in santa claus, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, unicorns...
I like to read fairy tales, but that doesn't mean I am going to start worshipping leprachauns! Although...at least I might get some gold out of that one...
2007-08-17 09:04:53 · answer #7 · answered by alia 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh dear... another one...
And by the way... the apologetic state in which you asked the question in the first place tells me that you're not so sure yourself... perhaps you should cross over to the other side of thinking for yourself and free-will...
2007-08-17 09:06:04 · answer #8 · answered by ~*Live, Love and Blessed Be*~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The exact same way you don't believe in Odin, Zeus, Ra and the easter bunny.
2007-08-17 08:58:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Easily.
2007-08-17 08:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by Reported for insulting my belief 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋