Any atheists have any stories about experiences where they ALMOST thought God might exist. Even if ultimately u still don't believe, anyone have any stories? Thanks.
2007-09-10 06:53:55 · 15 answers · asked by ilovesunchips23 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
nope, no stories
oh wait, there was once... I hated my thursday class of safety (have no idea what it's called in English) and one day it was cancelled! can you believe it??? it was the week when I was supposed to represent my report and the class was cancelled!
2007-09-10 07:08:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, only the opposite kind, where I slowly came to realize how preposterous and contrived the "divine" retribution system was, or to realize that it was easy enough to figure out an ethical system of living without pasting "God" all over it. These usually came to me just after some preacher asserted that his interpretation of how God thinks is the only valid one.
The "God" I am capable of believing in is nothing like the petty, insecure, hyper-conscious micro-manager that virtually every Christian organization portrays. It would have to be much deeper, impersonal and more integral to the structure of the universe, not someone to directly address but something to experience unconsciously. And I'm still not convinced.
2007-09-10 15:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have had religious experiences. But not with the Abrahamic god.
I'm a non-theistic Pagan. Back when I was learning a lot about the religion, I thought I had a real connection to Hermes. I was aware of the mythos, I liked him a lot, I felt close to him, etc. I involved him in several spells and rituals.
But after careful soul-searching, I never found any indication that it was anything but wishful thinking on my part, and I couldn't force myself to believe in him as anything but a manifestation of my subconscious. Everything I expereinced was because I wanted so desperately to have someone to encourage and listen to me.
Never underestimate the power of the human mind.
2007-09-10 14:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually all the while I was growing up I believed in a deity. Through my long and varied spiritual path, my conception and definition of it changed continually until I stopped trying to define it and stopped calling it a deity. Now I'm a Taoist.
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
--Tao Te Ching
2007-09-10 14:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm... Well when I was still a part of my church and a closet atheist... they were going to show this religious movie... and mumbled if there is a God in heaven kill me now... I didn't die but the VCR broke at that time and well... It almost made me believe...
I'm an atheist through and through...
2007-09-10 14:03:57 · answer #5 · answered by Highlander 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope...
I make my life what it is. I make my choices.....and my choices affect the outcomes in my life....not God.
Whenever something good happens in my life, it happened due to the consequences of my choices. And the same goes for when something bad happens. If I am depressed, it is because I choose to be depressed. If I am happy, it is because I choose to be happy. No higher power has ever affected that. I have never witnessed anything that could be misconstrued as divine intervention.
2007-09-10 14:05:20 · answer #6 · answered by Abby C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never said there is no possibility that God exists.
2007-09-10 14:09:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what happens when you escape physical, mental, or emotional abuse and get support..... You heal...
Religion is the equivalent of spiritual abuse so when we escape religion we heal... the purpose of spirit is to unite us with earth and nature, this is a large spirit... so people begin to think in terms of god.... it is the spirit of earth and nature that causes evolution changes and healing.... because so many humans are herded back into religion we are taken out of these cycles especially the healing cycles... that is why we see no long term epidemics in nature (animals, plant life, insects) on earth as we do in humans.... earth and nature simply work out illnesses....
So when you talk about an atheist feeling his/her spiritual healing they feel the truth of nature and earth itself and are guided or evolved as it flows
2007-09-10 14:28:46 · answer #8 · answered by NO Labels 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No and Certainly not the psycho bloodthirsty god Christians claim to worship.
2007-09-10 14:13:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope
Sorry
2007-09-10 15:33:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋