For the Atheists: Why did you chose Atheism?

Question

I think the miracles of physics, psychology, the mind and body are absolutely amazing, and therefore must have an amazing Creator. Please don't scream at me for asking this. Just explain it to me nicely.

If you are an Atheist, why did you chose to become one? And why do you believe that there is no God?

Oooh, interesting. I just wanted to understand it a little better. Thanks everyone for your input.

Answer 1

I'm an atheist because there's no evidence whatsoever for the existence of any gods.

The "amazing Creator" thing is a complete non-starter, of course, as an explanation, since it doesn't explain anything and adds another thing to be explained ("where did the creator come from?").

It was really after learning quite a bit about the "miracles" of physics, psychology, and especially cognitive psychology (as I earned four college degrees) that I abandoned the "god" thing.

Answer 2

No choice. It just IS, without any emotions attached to it.

I was raised atheist, which contrary to popular belief does not mean that anybody told me that there is no god - just nobody told me there was one. If you don't know there might be something, the default position is to not believe.
My parents never spoke of the tooth fairy either, so I never thought that such a thing existed, not even at 5.

We, as atheists, think that all those amazing things are coincidence. And why not? The universe is neverending; the earth a tiny part of it and we really just unimportant in the grand scheme of things. I like that thought - I do not matter at all, considering the age and space of the universe.

I the end, there are some questions we can not (yet) answer. A smart person will try to find out the reason for why we are here, and in the end, we just don't know - than you have a choice: is god/gods the reason? A different higher power? Or none at all? Coinicidence?

I think that science can't answer everything at the moment, but I also believe that coincidence is more likely than anything else.

Apart from that: the bible and other holy books can easily be disproven, and even proven dangerous, so I don't hold much for people who believe the bible to be the Truth. However, believing in a higher power doesn't necessarily mean to be a bible thumper, and to think that it's the only way to go by. There are smart theists out there, and quite a lot! But sadly, some really don't understand that even they don't have a guarantee that they're right - just as some atheists don't understand that there is a, however tiny, chance of an existing higher power.

Answer 3

I didn't really choose to become one. I must admit that I was not brought up in a religious way, so in a way it was what I grew used to. What I feel is that until a religion makes more sense to me than the explanations that science is starting to provide, there is no need not to be atheist. As for the complexity of the mind and the body being a reason for the existance of God, I dispute this too. The thing which makes me feel this way is that most religions teach (or taught at the time their holy book was written) that the Earth is very new, perhaps only a few thousand years. As all the solid evidence points to the Earth being far, far older than that, it seems that there has been plenty of time - across thousands of generations - for evolution to take place to such an extent as it appears to me that it has.

Answer 4

Well I was in Sunday school and they told me that Genesis said plants were created before the Sun. Now I was only ten, but I knew enough to know that couldn't be right. So I actually read the Bible. There was more than enough there to convince me that it had no idea what it was talking about, and it was an awful story besides.

I see no direct evidence of a creator. Just because something is complex doesn't even imply one.

I really don't believe that I ever chose to be an atheist. In fact I spent several years hoping that I was wrong. The idea of a benevolent god is appealing, just unrealistic.

Answer 5

The stories told in the bible and other religious texts just seem made up. There may very well be a creator, but I don't think it is some human sitting on a throne in judgment of us all. To think god has anything to do with winning the Super Bowl or whatever else good or bad happens is foolish and indicative of those who are weak of the mind. I just don't get how someone can have such little faith in themselves and so much faith in a myth.

Answer 6

I was born and raised Presbyterian, I was even baptized. But as I grew up, I had more and more questions that religion could not answer. Besides that, religion and the bible began to take on a fairy-tale like feel. Silly stories, implausible superstitions and other ridiculous happenings in the bible left me shaking my head.
I quickly found that science was able to answer my questions as long as I was willing to read and learn. It was logical and involved critical thinking. It also had a foundation for all its beliefs. Religion has none of these. Just looking around the world and saying "Wow, really amazing...god must have done it!" is not acceptable. It is a weak, silly, childish way of thinking and does not involve logic, reasoning and ANY sort of critical thinking.

Answer 7

It wasn't a choice. I tried for many many years to believe in a Creator being--the Christian god, or Pagan gods/goddesses. I just couldn't because I can't see it. I've been a skeptic all my life, and being skeptic of an invisible being such as a god was no different. Plus, I don't believe that if there were a loving god that a lot of the things going on in this world would be going on.

Answer 8

We are all born atheists. Some of us form our philosophical and religious views and stick to them. some extrapolate even further. Some of us come back to our natural state and become atheists again. Point being, the god thing is a concept that we create later on in life to fill in the holes and explain things in an easy way. The real answers involve math, and well, math is hard.

Answer 9

The more I got older and wiser, the more religion started to not make any sense to me. So after using logic and reason, I just came to the conclusion that religion is false and god is a man made notion and there is no truth to it. There really isn't any good evidence to support the theory of a god. So in my heart, I don't feel like there's a god.

Answer 10

being atheist is not really a choice. True, the world is amazing but its hard translate that into beliving the world came from a man in the sky who created people to live in a magical garden with an "apple tree of sin" growing in it, and now we are all damned unless we read a book thats 2000 years old and belive it.