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I am a christian, but only because this is what my family believes, I was born into a christian family. I've been looking into alot of religions and i just wonder what the athius believe because i don't understand with all the things that happen that seem to be miracles how someone couldn't believe in a higher power. Im not judging, im just trying to understand

2007-09-10 10:00:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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No Problem Smiley, allot of us were in the same boat as you growing up.

Atheists don't believe in God, because there is no proof what so ever that he exists. You mentioned that you see things that appear to be miracles. The truth is that they are only coincidences. Religious people like to add meaning to life, through a belief in God because it makes us 'feel' safe and not 'fear' death.

But Atheists are built a little differently. Atheists require proof for belief. So when it comes to creation, we don't believe in it as written in the bible. There is just too much evidence that mankind evolved over time, in the form of fossils and biological studies that trace DNA. The bible states that plants existed on earth before the sun existed. We know that cannot be true, along with a host of other claims in the bible, so if the bible is inaccurate about the past, there is no reason to believe its predictions about the future, or trust that it has truth about an afterlife.

Hope this helps a bit.

2007-09-10 10:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1 2

Without knowing more about the "things that happen that seem to be miracles" that you're talking about, I can't tell you much about them. But I've never seen anything that could be called a miracle. Only coincidences.

I am an atheist (and note the spelling, please) because I have not ever seen any evidence that any supernatural god exists. No burning bushes that don't get consumed by the flame, no pieces of food that magically multiply to feed hundreds, nobody raised from the dead.

In my opinion, primitive man created religion to explain things that they couldn't explain any other way. Lightning and thunder was caused by an angry god. Everyone knows that it's just a little static electricity. Earthquakes are just plate tectonics, hurricanes and tornadoes are just storms.

Let me ask you this: Do you believe in the greek or roman gods? How about the norse pantheon, or the american indian god Manitou? If not, you understand why I don't believe in a christian god.

2007-09-10 17:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0 0

By one definition, a "miracle" is any event without a practical explanation. Stage magicians perform feats of misdirection that look like "magic", but they don't actually do anything supernatural at all. Sometimes we know the trick, sometimes we just have to wonder how they did it.

There are unexplained events beyond human control that appear to be significant. They could be simple coincidences or we could simply have failed to properly perceive them. In the early days of the Enlightenment, proto-scientists observed that maggots spontaneously generated from rotting meat. They were wrong because they didn't understand how to perform controlled experiments. But they were closer to an understanding than people who never tried to figure it out.

To the ancients, many things about the universe were not understood, and a great many "miracles" occured then. As more and more of the universe was understood, the prevalence of miracles waned, not from a lack of faith but because people had natural explanations for what happened. Nowadays, miracles are more likely to happen among superstitious people. Many "miracles" are emotional events that can only be observed by people who are expecting them. Non-beliving witnesses see an event that can be explained naturally or by coincidence.

If you believe in the supernatural, you can excuse the unexplained by saying it was supernaturally caused. If you don't, than you can only investigate further until you find out the real, natural cause. That's the difference in being an atheist. You don't throw your hands up and say, "God must have done it." You can only say, "I don't understand it yet, but I will someday."

"Creation" requires a "creator". We're used to thinking in terms of cause and effect, so we assume that there must have been a first cause. If the universe started simple and became complex, then we assume someone smart must have done it, but it could simply have been the nature of matter and energy that, given enough time and space, it would have developed anyway. Magical beings are not an explanation for the world.

And without supernatural beings, we don't really have an artificial purpose. Continuing on and learning make sense, so our "purpose" would be to do just that. But since individuals die, it's the species that must do this. This requires a cooperative lifestyle, which leads to the idea of "morality". We see value in each individual and try to preserve life because that's a species survival trait. It also seems to be a species survival trait for individuals to age and die. We can modify our circumstances somewhat, but essentially everyone gets some kind of turn at life, then makes room for the next generation. What is remembered of the dead helps the successors to improve life for all.

2007-09-10 17:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0 0

I don't know how the universe came to exist, but that doesn't mean it needed a creator. If it did, isn't it just as difficult to understand how an all-powerful being came into existence out of nothingness? We seem to have evidence that the universe had some sort of beginning, although we don't know much about it, but there is absolutely no evidence of a higher power. And to answer your other question, I think that when I die, I'll be in the same state I was in before I was born -- non-existent.

2007-09-10 17:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well for one, I don't know what "athius" means...but I believe you mean Atheist...Atheists usually believe whatever they want to...usually evolution, and other scientific theories...but it could range from pretty much anything...about death, we die, we poof, or we die, we go to some sort of afterlife, or we die, we get born again...you're asking a very VERY broad question regarding a particular belief system (or lack of one). As for miracles, depending on the "miracle" it could be parlor tricks or just simple freak occurrences...NOW the true miracles in life is stated in the movie, "Bruce Almighty" when God (Morgan Freeman) is talking to Bruce (Jim Carry) about what miracles really are...hope I helped some...^_^

2007-09-10 17:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't really know if this totally answers your question, but I always thought atheists believed that:

-You are brought into existence from sexual intercourse (not a magical God).

-When a person dies, their body ceases to function (like a fly when you swat it, or a tree when you chop it down), as opposed to having your spirit come out of your body and go to Heaven.

-Nothing "awaits" you after you die.

Believers really seem to have a hard time accepting that last atheist claim.

When you die, you're dead.
"Well then, what happens?"
Nothing.
"Something HAS to happen."
Says who?
"The Bible!"
Human beings wrote that.
"But it's the word of God!"
Well, then God's wrong.
"How dare you, Atheist!"
Oh nooooo.
"Thou shall not speak so harshly of our Lord!"
Thousands of years ago, people thought lightning was God's wrath...
"W-well... well... God exists!"
Yeah, alright.

^ What an Atheist-Christian argument might sound like. =]

*Not trying to "bag on" religion, I'm just trying to give an answer without necessarily taking sides. But go ahead answerers, give me thumbs down ratings if you want.*

2007-09-10 17:19:19 · answer #6 · answered by Dark 2 · 0 0

Oh God, I bet you hit a sarm on that athius >.< Hang tough!
I am with you. Whether or not Christianity is real, a higher power does exist and I know this for truth.

2007-09-10 17:06:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Atheists don't believe in God, you're right.
But there have never been documented or replicable miracles that defy physical law in any experiment, nor have they ever been witnessed by any scientifically minded observer. Every photographical piece of evidence that seems to depict a miracle, we've found to be falsification, or to have a natural explanation.

2007-09-10 17:03:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 9 1

i believe the origin of our creation is a mystery and will remain so
in death we will find some answers--but they cannot be answered in this lifetime
accept the only truth and be at peace

2007-09-11 17:49:33 · answer #9 · answered by slopoke6968 7 · 0 0

What the heck is an athius???? I mean I've seen it spelled bad, but you managed that one twice......

Atheists usually look to science for our answers. There is ample evidence for the Big Bang, and there is no evidence that anything happens when you die except you die. Hope that helps.

2007-09-10 17:06:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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