Everyone without God is a loser.
2007-09-28 07:49:05
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answered by midnitrondavu 5
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If I was a Atheist, a god does not exist.
Religion is a creation by men and maybe women that is based upon a series of teachings, writings, superstition, wives-tales, symbols, history, and ceremony.
Most which do not are not based in scientific study or reasoning.
It sounds like an Atheist has a pretty good arguement.
However, you believe because it brings to YOU comfort in perhaps knowing that your life will have made a difference while you are alive, and that there is a place for you somewhere else when you die.
Most of us will not find comfort. Restlessness, frustration, and unwillingness to make a commitment is the sad truth and the existence for most. The life of an existentalist.
Just for anyone's information:
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ex·is·ten·tial·ism (ěg'zĭ-stěn'shə-lĭz'əm, ěk'sĭ-) Pronunciation Key
n. A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.
It is kind of selfish.
2007-09-28 08:18:04
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answered by Anonymous
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Do you ever think about how you will feel if you are wrong, the Muslims or Buddhists or (gasp!) Atheists have it right, and you stayed sober all those Sundays for no reason?
People, in general, do not spend a lot of time thinking about how they would feel if their most deeply-held beliefs are wrong, because they hold those deeply-held beliefs to be unquestionable.
Personally, if there is a god (I'm agnostic, so I'm allowed to speculate!), I expect one of the following outcomes:
1. S/he is not remotely like the god in the bible, in which case s/he will probably just be happy with people being good people, and s/he doesn't give a hoot whether or not you believed in her/himas long as you were a good person (applying whatever standards of good personhood this god feels like);
2. He is the Christian God, and I would not remotely regret not worshipping such an unbelievable bastard (as I burn in hell with Satan, who is a much more sympathetic character anyway);
3. God is completely different from what any stupid humans contemplate, doesn't care what we believe, and will do with us whatever s/he will - I'm thinking maybe some 8-eyed tentacled monster which is just raising us as farm animal and eats our souls when we die. Yummy.
In any case, the odds of any particular group being right are so infintessimal that you've just as much a shot at "heaven" (on the off chance it exists) by worshipping the Invisible Pink Unicorn or converting to pastafarianism.
2007-09-28 07:57:09
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answered by slytherinferret 2
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I'm not sure, but I think that the only reason alot of people believe in God is out of fear that they may be wrong in thinking that one does not exist, so I suppose that they believe that there something Godly or God-like after life here. I'd hope that most people want to think that there is more than just dieing & being stuffed into a box, then shoved into the ground. But no I don't think that everyone should belive in the same God.
2007-09-28 07:53:22
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answered by justaskme 3
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"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Psalm 14:1
And Pascal's challenge of more or less "If I believe in God and you don't, I do not lose anything if I am wrong in the end but you do" is true. If one lives their lives as honoring to God (even if some people may say there is no God) then they will have lived healthier, happier lives that were of more benefit to others too. But I can promise you from the bottom of my well-read and educated, 140+ IQ heart - there is a God, one True God, and regardless of whether you believe in Him or not - HE IS. You can "believe" that a bus will not hurt you when it hits you - but the TRUTH will catch up to you.
Said in love -
2007-09-28 08:00:28
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answered by ycartf 2
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If I really was an atheist that didn't believe in god, why in the world would I call myself a loser? If there is a god, and what the bible says is 100% true and accurate, then yes, I would be a huge loser. It would suck to be me, wouldn't it? But being an atheist means you don't believe in god, no matter how much you would like to or how much the thought comforts you in times of distress. If I did say there was a god, I would be lying and being intellecutally dishonest, because deep down, I will never believe there is a god.
2007-09-28 07:48:20
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answered by Uliju 4
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I was once a devout Christian. I never stopped questioning things. Eventually I realized that people were being dishonest with themselves and I realized that this dishonesty could not possibly be noble or spiritually correct. I decided to take the high road and be true to myself. I realized the bible was not worth believing, that the religion is founded on superstitions and thought controlling ideas which scare people into believing.
2007-09-28 07:58:46
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answered by Earl Grey 5
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I will finally have the proof I have been asking for. That makes me a winner (if I have read your question correctly, which is the only thing I am not sure of right now)
2007-09-28 07:54:17
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answered by Peter A 5
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You say you know there is a god, OK then, prove it, give us some hard evidence of the existence of this magical being in the sky, and in the end, I'm a winner, because I don't waste my life believing in utter crap.
2007-09-28 07:50:43
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answered by Anonymous
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If there is a god, I can rest assured in knowing that neither you, nor anyone else, has any more knowledge about such a being than I do.
There's no reason to believe that a god would give a rats behind whether or not we believed in it.
2007-09-28 07:50:03
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answered by Anonymous
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In the end all will know He is Jehovah. If you are a winner or a loser its all in your ball park.
2007-09-28 08:00:57
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answered by Anonymous
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