Christians, why do you think we Atheist do not believe in your God?

Question

Please, take time and think about this.. Do not answer on a gut feeling but take some time into thinking about this.. Put yourself in our shoes.

I have taken years to think about why you believe in God, and still take honest consideration in it. So, I ask you to try to do the same for a few minutes.

Answer 1

have you noticed that Cindy has the same answer everytime? also Slayer has the same story, mmmmmmm? lol

they can't look at it from our side, their faith prevents it. we are free to look at it without bias, that is why we can see the truth.

Answer 2

Well, I used to be an atheist myself for several different reasons, and I saw in a previous question that I asked that every atheist has at least one of the reasons I had for being an atheist:
1. Hypocrisy in the church, and in all religious people.
2. No physical evidence for God, including no scientific evidence.
3. I doubted the accuracy of the Bible.
4. The fact that there had been so many other religions before, and most of them are now considered mythology.
5. Most people who are religious were raised that way.
6. When I had difficult questions, I was told just to "have faith." I started to believe that faith was not only the belief in something despite a lack of evidence, but it was the belief in something despite evidence to the contrary.
7. The evil in the world.
8. Natural disasters which claim the lives of dozens, hundreds, and even thousands. I didn't feel that a merciful God would allow that.
9. I believed that abiogenesis could account for the beginning of life without bringing God into it.
10. The atrocities that religious people committed in the past: Hitler and his "final solution," the Crusades, the witch burnings, the Inquisition, and so on and so forth.
11. I felt that the Bible contained too many contradictions.
12. I didn't believe that there was ANY historical or archaeological evidence to corrorborate ANY of the events in the Bible.
13. I believed that there was no way that the Bible hadn't been changed since it was written.
14. Prophecies schmophecies. I didn't believe there was any proof that any of them had been fulfilled.
15. I believed that the God of the Old Testament was cruel, violent, and vengeful.

Shall I go on?

Answer 3

My assumption is that you tend to rely more on scientific explanation than faith, and you believe that the time will come when scientific discovery will eventually explain how things came into being therefore explaining away the existence of God.

Other people may have started off with a belief in God, but later developed other constructs because things either did not pan out the way they expected, and the hurt and pain that they experienced as a result led them to conclude that there was no God or that God is not active in the universe even if He does exist.

Still other refuse to live by a moral code. They don't want to feel as though their behavior should be restricted by a moral being that they cannot see. Believing in God would force them to live by a moral code instead of doing whatever they want to do. They would have to admit that good and evil truly exist, and that situational ethics is selfish and self-serving.

I don't know why you don't believe in God. I haven't thought about it for years because I'm a kind of live and let live person. I do share my faith in God with people, but I don't try to push my religion on them. People will believe whatever they choose to believe, so there is no reason to try to force my beliefs on anyone. I just know that my belief in God is what holds my life together and it explains the inexplicable, and it gives me the capacity to love in a way that no atheist can ever love.

Answer 4

Actually I have done your suggestion, silently, sometime ago. And even to this day there are times I feel being in your shoes; as if God went so silent I can't figure Him out around me. And I felt like an atheist, although with discomfort because I am not used to it. But it didn't last. Not because of my own effort or my environment. Not even because of the force of habit - the habit of finding God around or within my own heart and mind. Honestly, I do not know exactly how to explain it, but it happens. In the end I always find myself assured that God is true. Don't think I consider philosophical or theological proofs, although I admit I know them, just like many of those who believe in God. But I think it has to do with some experiences I have had that can't deny God, and to me they are the strongest evidences yet to be destroyed. And mind you, these experiences I am talking about aren't the earth shaking type, they are so trivial you might even find them stupid, hahaha! But that's the mystery, God is so clear in them. I hope I can make you see it, but I can't, even to my family and friends. Perhaps this is why faith is called personal? And I am not insane, dude, quite sure about that.

Answer 5

Because God asks us to live by certain standards, and that sometimes means giving up pleasures of the flesh, and atheists don't want to do that, they want to give in to all the carnal pleasures they can find. God's standards include too many "no's" for them, and they can't stand to be told "no". God also requires us to advocate for his standards and atheists don't want to do anything for anybody else, just themselves. If an atheist gets a girl pregnant, he doesn't want to accept responsibility-he wants to murder the baby, and fools himself and others like him into thinking that there's not a baby, but just a collection of cells. Atheists make fun of people who don't believe what they believe, no one can be different from them, everybody has to tell them they're right about everything, just like dictators.

Answer 6

Speaking as a former Atheist..I just had not studied all the facts to their utter conclusions. The more facts & evidence that I discovered the more I reached a rational, logical decision that not only does God exist, but that He can be known. I have found that the same is true for many atheists, in regards to the FACT they just need to check out more facts & logic & reason. Given enough time & evidence logic & reason MUST win the day, if your are truly being intelligent about what you have discovered.
Great examples of this are Albert Einstein & Mr. Anthony Flew

Answer 7

There are varying reasons for not believing in God (or gods, goddesses, or deities). Many atheists I know feel that there is simply no evidence for the existence of deities, and therefore refuse to believe in them for that reason. Others feel that the sacred texts of various religions are flawed and contradictory. Some (but certainly not all) of my atheist friends also grew up in religious systems that they feel oppressed them. As soon as they came of age, they not only left their family's religion, but left religion altogether. I personally choose to believe in God, but I know that many people don't; however, their reasons are varying, and can't be condensed into a single quick, easy explanation. Ultimately, there may be as many different reasons for choosing atheism as there are individual atheists.

Answer 8

Consider that many, if not most, people decide that they are atheists when they are teenagers or thereabouts. A time of life when children are beginning to want independence from their parents.

The idea of God is very attractive and at the same time, very repulsive. We love the idea of a God who created us and loves us. We hate the idea of a God who constantly watches us and judges our actions.

The Christian idea is that God wants us to be His sons and daughters and so we must accept both the love and the authority of God. We have to choose.

After we make our choice, we gather "evidence" that supports our choice.

Answer 9

because of the fact from some human beings's attitude not believing in God does not make sense. they're definitely specific God exists and every person who claims to not have self belief in him is basically rejecting God or rebelling against him or whatnot. Edit: Yeshua is the suited occasion.

Answer 10

I think that every person has their own reasons for not believing, as every Christian has their own reason for believing. To some degree it may simply be a type of mindset that requires conclusive evidence in order to believe an idea. For others, it may be stubbornness or fear. To a very slim few, you may be trying to cut off your nose to spite your face. I'd say that many of you have been hurt, or seen a time when your faith or potential faith may have been destroyed by a person careless with words.

To all of you I say: science by its nature cannot prove or disprove what cannot be tested experimentally. I won't try to use science to prove that God exists, please don't try to use science to prove that He does not. (I know it's slightly unrelated, but it needed to be said.)

Answer 11

No one will ever know why a Atheist does not believe unless he asks the atheist, no one should assume the answer for this i wont presume to know each atheists mind. I do apologize and hope you forgive me if this is not the answer you wanted or the answer that pleases you, I want to answer, but what I have said is my answer I cannot assume to know shoes that I have not stepped into