Since the beggining of time, people have believed in a superior Being or beings (spirits, gods ect.) Why don't ateists believe?
2007-08-28 08:13:41 · 14 answers · asked by Adriaan K 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because (some) people have become more intelligent since that time
2007-08-28 08:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm an aithest I guess you could say - I don't believe in God - reason being is I feel people should be accountable for their own actions and I honestly feel if there was a supreme being of any kind then there would not be so much hate and unhapiness in the world. Any one who has watched a child suffer horribly can not possible say there is a GOD and that such suffering is HIS will. More distruction has been done in the name of a GOD than anything else...I believe in Jesus but I believe he was more like Ghandi than the son of God - just a man trying to do the right thing. When something good happens we say it is God's will - when something bad happens we say it is God's will - it is obvious to me it simply IS WHAT IT IS and the use of him is only a coping mechanism. If we are wrong - so be it - doesn't your bible say as long as I ask for His forgivness on my judgement day I shall be forgiven and enter to heaven? Point two is that if there is a GOD then there is a Devil - yet I have seen or heard nothing to substantiate that - when something bad happens why don't we say it was the Devil's will? I also don't believe in aliens as our creators or mythical gods - but to each there own
2007-08-28 08:24:47 · answer #2 · answered by ppnj4 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because I do not see any evidence that any supernatural god exists.
There's actually very little difference between you and us. Do you believe in the Norse god Odin? How about the native american god Manitou? The greek Zeus, or roman Jupiter, or Indian Krishna? How about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
If you say "No, of course not, these don't exist. Nobody would believe in them now, because they don't exist", then I agree with you. The only difference is that I believe in one less god than you do.
2007-08-28 08:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As the Word of God sais in John 1:5 "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." The Light being a reference to God and darkness to the unbeliving masses of humanity and the domain of the dead. We live among the spiritually dead...
2007-08-28 08:30:31 · answer #4 · answered by DoorWay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ralfcoder-you said that the Indian god Krishna(it actually is a hindu god, indian is a nationality. Its like saying the American God) doesn't exist. So you are saying that the Hindu religion isn't alive and well, but you are dead wrong! It is, and many people who are Hindu believe in it.
Also, Atheists would rather know than believe.
2007-08-28 08:26:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since the begining of time, people also believed in ghosts and magic.
Now that we have science and logic to explain the world, we don't need the "magic" of a creator spirit to explain how the world came to be and why we're here...
Atheists prefer "knowing" to "believing"
2007-08-28 08:19:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Human existence has evolved past the point of needing mythology and religion to help us understand the unexplainable things about the universe.
2007-08-28 08:22:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because those beliefs were founded on ignorance. Man didn't understand how Thunder was created so he creates a God of Thunder and so on and so forth.
2007-08-28 08:19:03 · answer #8 · answered by The Return Of Sexy Thor 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lack of evidence and more rational thought than people of the Stone Age.
2007-08-28 08:18:21 · answer #9 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
wrong - not since the beginning of time - do some research.
2007-08-28 08:21:25 · answer #10 · answered by Jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋