Question for atheists by an atheist, please read this if you are religious and have something against atheists

Question

Ok, so a lot os religious folk (not all so don't tell me I'm generalizing!!) seem to be under the impression that all atheists are just angry at God, so everyone please explain why you're atheist, try to be mature about it so they can take it seriously, I want to show them that we disagree with organized religion for what we see as blinding them because I'm sick of the "Can you really be an atheist" question.

Answer 1

when reading the bible i used common sense and found it to be fictional. scientifically unsound. i found yoda to be a credible source of wisdom so i believe in the force

Answer 2

I simply do not believe the claims for Gods made by the religions. I think they are all just myths.
I do not believe in Brahma, Shiva, Zeus,Apollo, Allah, Ahura Mazda, Jehova, Allah, Jesus, Krishna, Kali, Odin, Baba Yaga,... whatever
It is a very long list.
I am not a disbeliever because I am angry at a God or the Gods. I would have neither the energy or time to have enough anger to go around.
I do not believe in Gods because they are just made up stories.
Take the Christian God as an example. The description changes through the bible. It is not always the same God, not in the attributes or in the behaviour.
I do not believe in Gods because there is no evidence that they exist. The outlandish claims of the bible and the bible believers are not evidence, and they never provide any evidence.
So the stories are not consistent, there is a total lack of evidence and every religion claims that they have the truth about their Gods.
There is one more thing.
God explains nothing about the world or behaviour of the world. In fact it complicates the examination of the world and makes getting real answers to real problems much more difficult.

Answer 3

Alright, i am an atheist, and the reason is not at all that I am angry at God. I just feel that I do not need to have religion in my life. I have grown up with atheist parents, and I have gotten by just fine. Many religious people say that they need God in their lives to get by; that Jesus is saving them and whatnot. I have lived a life without religion and i have never had a problem.

In the past, people had used religion to controll and organize the people of their societies. It was a source of authority and was used as a government system for many years. However, now that we have an organized government that focuses on expanding our society and solving economic problems, we do not need the belief of a God that will reward us for our well-chosen path in life any more. We have organized ourselves at this point without the promise of "saving", and now religion can and has been used for power. There is this reason as well as the fact that there is scientific evidence that simply makes so much more sense than the stories stated in the Bible. Not to mention that the ideas in science can be tested and has countless pieces of evidence, while with religion, you are blindly putting your faith in ideas that have nothing more than a book and a few biased people to back it up.

Answer 4

I became an Atheist due to several reasons. Please keep in mind that I use to attend twelve years of Catholic school. I would ask questions about god and why he did or did not do certain things and many answers were just cop-out answers such as gods plan, only god knows, it is not for us to question god, read the bible, the bible says so, have faith, just believe and of course the most common one free will but also gods will.

All of these things added more to my desire to ask more questions. Plus the idea about god being all powerful, all loving and all knowing also does not add up when you ask questions about god with these traits.

I realized that there were many religious fallacies
and that I could no longer tolerate these ideas. I could no longer just believe in god when there is no proof of his existence, no indisputable proof of any kind. He shows himself and does miracles in the bible and yet he doesn't do them now.

It just does not make sense. Plus people have used god and the bible to justify atrocities towards others. Religious denominations have used god to hinder science at every opportunity it can.

Answer 5

As the late Carl Sagan said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." The evidence for a god, Christian or otherwise, has not been compelling enough to convince me of it's existence while the scientific evidence of an atheistic universe seems more logical and complete to me. Yes, faith is needed either way, but that is the beauty of the scientific method, we can predict the parts we don't have knowledge of and if it is wrong we are willing and able to modify the theories the new evidence contradicts.

Answer 6

I have been an atheist since as far back as my memory goes. Even as a child I found the concept of god ridiculous. My mother was non religious but not really an atheist, it was more like the whole concept didn't exist. I only remember religion coming up once as a child and she told me how the bible was a nice book of mythological stories just like all other cultures had myths.

Edit-Then I believe had to go and ruin a perfectly good thread by using Pascal's Wager.

Answer 7

Perception of God depends on individuals' upbringing / environment . Similarly,god ,heaven & hell are created by the so-called religious folks for the society to run smoothly..
But has any body seen God ? - what one has seen is his own mental reflections.
A true atheist may not believe in the existence of any formal God / religion as prescribed by all religions,But he believes in the existence of a force covering the whole universe. irrespective of religion ,color nationalities etc. and this knowlegde leads him to spirituallity- the root of all religions

Answer 8

How many Gods has there been through history? Zues, Apollo, Thor, Hades etc.. etc.. Today we call those Gods myths. But what does that tell you about belief in
God(s) in general.
They made up Gods to explain natural phenomenon. The God Thor made lightning. You make up God to explain natural phenomenon as well. The phenomenon we call life and the Universe.

When people say I exist and God exist these two statements are not equal. Why? Well because to say that something (Exists) is to say that it has a certain property. For example if I say that I have a hand. One property that defines my having a hand is that it is attached to my arm. It has fingers, a palm etc.. Well when we say things (Exist) the word exist has certain properties as well.
Property - Everything that exist is dependent upon relative realms of scope and possibility. I exist but am depedent upon a brain, atoms, molecules, water, blood etc... Trees exist but is depedent upon roots, soil, photosynthesis etc....
Therefore "I" meet a property of existence which "God" does not.
Another thing is that everthing that exist has a limit. I was not born in tehran, i`am not a female, I do not have red hair etc... When you compare all of these things to the few things I do have etc... I`am 25 years old, I`am a male, my name is Ken.... We get our "Identity"

God is said to be a limitiless being. But to talk of something that has no limit means that it has no identity. Which means you are actually talking about "Nothing"

I can go on and on ......

Answer 9

It never made sense from the first time I attended Sunday school, so I have been an atheist all of my life. I had to keep quiet about it until I was 18.

Answer 10

I would love to be religious. It would make my life much easier and I would instantly be accepted. The problem is none of it makes any logical sense. I'm not even going to bother to say why. It's been done to death. I don't enjoy thinking this way I just can't believe more people don't. On the brighter side, I would like to think the world would be more advanced without religion.

Answer 11

I'm not "angry" at "god" since I don't think god exists.

In fact, I never did. I was raised in a somewhat Christian environment, but even when I was a kid, religion just seemed illogical to me.

I have been an atheist all my life. I have nothing to be "angry" at "god" FOR, since I have never entertained the idea that god existed.