OK, FELLOW ATHEISTS: Which is it?

Question

a - You don't believe that God or Hell exists, period.
b - You don't believe in God despite the fact that there is an outside chance that God and/or Hell exists.

Answer 1

a. If I believed b, I'd be agnostic.

Answer 2

B.

There is a possibility of anything being true... but generally the probability thereof is so ridiculously small as to be negligable, judging on all that I can experience.
Then again, I also acknowledge the distinct possibility that my own perceptions are entirely faulty and thus even to try and calculate rough probabilities based on my own experiences has a theoretically infinite margin for error.

Rather that just take that solipsist standpoint though.... for sake of Ockham's Razor, in some form or other, I choose to believe by default that while there is SOMETHING.... that there is no more that can be known about it than that.... and that existence as we know it is all a load of codswallop.

And of course if I could actually destroy the Universe.... to clear it up and make it all much more sensible.... I would.

That is why I call myself a Nihilist.

Answer 3

There isn't a zero percent chance of the possible existence of anything. However, the chance of God or Hell, as defined by the Bible, existing is so infinitesimal as to render belief utterly absurd.
So, my answer is somewhere in between A and B.

Answer 4

a. Interesting that you mention Hell but not Heaven. I do not believe in either. And I don't believe in any God that would be comprehensible to a Abrahamic monotheist. I do think it is possible that pantheism -- the Universe itself is conscious -- is true. But if so, then we are a part of the great I AM.

Also, please note that it is plausible to use various god-images as metaphors, such as Ra, the sun god, because all life and energy comes from the sun. Indeed, from any distance out in space, we would be considered to be a part of Sol. You can only see the planets when you get pretty close. And Gaea, or Mother Earth, is a reasonable goddess-image, at least in metaphor. She is, realistically, our Mother.

Answer 5

A
There is a small chance that God exists but none what so ever that Hell does.

Answer 6

I definitely don't believe in heaven or hell, but I am open to the possibility that something exists. Whether or not it is god, I have no clue but there is no way the christian god exists.

Answer 7

a- No Gods.
There isn't the chance of a snowball in Hell that God, Heaven or Hell exist.

Answer 8

Option b is not acceptable. How can you confidently assert that there is an "outside chance that God and/or Hell exists."?

If you accept that, you have to accept that there is an outside chance that the Tooth Fairy exists? Do you accept that there is such an outside chance?

Answer 9

"B," I suppose. Technically, I do not believe but I think it's impossible to know, so I'm both agnostic and atheist.

There's a chance of pretty much everything. There's a chance that there are fairies flying around Saturn. It would be hubris, in my opinion, to assert that I *know* that there is no such thing as god/s. However, until there is objective evidence of them (and the Saturn fairies) I do not believe.

Answer 10

There is an outside chance there is a god, but the odds are so low that it really isn't worth the time to consider.

Now there is no chance at all that the Bible is right.

Answer 11

I don't believe anything exists without supporting evidence. Otherwise, I'd have to allow for the possibility of anything conceivable, such as tiny cartoon characters running around my house hiding diamonds under the radiators.