A question to all Atheist...?

Question

Being generous if you knew 20% of ALL the information that is in the world to know then that would mean that there is still 80% of things in this world that you do not know. (Now be honest no one knows everything) How can you be 100% sure that God does not exisist if there is a least 80% of knowledge that you do not know. See as an Athesit you are saying with out a doubt there is no God, So really it takes more faith to be an Athesit than a Christian or Muslim or any other believer in God And you say that Christians are naive. Your response please...

Answer 1

How can you be 100% sure Santa Clause doesn't exist? In all that stuff you don't know, there could be knowledge of Santa that you just haven't come into contact with yet. Why do you continue to doubt Sanat? He loves you if you have been good and not naugty. He just wants to give you gifts.

So be honest, you don't have to know everything to believe there is no Santa Clause. The lack of evidence is enough. Why should god be different?

Answer 2

I am agnostic, because I cannot say with 100% accuracy whether or not there is any sort of divine being. I feel it is a more rational position to take. However, I am often on the side of atheists when it comes to arguments pertaining to god's existence. Simply put, the arguments for god's existence seem a lot less compelling to me than arguments denying his existence.

I also think that this question is worded unfairly. It suggests that all atheists think a particular thing about religious individuals, and that is simply not true. If you actually are interested in what others think and are not simply attempting to get a rise out of a particular group of people, then do not make your question deal with the topic in a subjective manner. This question was biased from the start.

Answer 3

First, as the history of these type of questions already shows, atheist's answers will not matter to you (theists) in the end and someone who agrees with your premise will be selected as "best" answer instead of one of the atheist's to whom the question is addressed.

In answer to the question:
Atheist and theist could be interchanged and the pretense of the query would be just as valid. While someone may only know "20%" of all there is to know, that same person may know 90% or more of what there is to know about a specific subject.

The argument is circular since neither existence or non-existence of "God" can be proven. A logical scientific argument would deny existence until verification is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Anything short of that benchmark is called theory.
Faith is another matter. It is the ability to believe with the heart what the mind finds illogical therefore "proof" is unnecessary. One must admit however that there are some fairly incredible statements and inconsistencies in both the Bible and the Q'uran.

Answer 4

No atheist can be 100% sure that God does not exist. But I am personally 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999%

certain that the Judeo-Christian God does not exist, never has, never will. All major religious belief system which include a deity, and afterlife, and a creator are false.

I am as certain as I am that I am alive that Christianity is false. It does not take faith. And I was a flaming evangelical Christian myself at one time so I know what it's like to feel the holy spirit.

Answer 5

I believe in nature and evolution, I would never shoot down another persons beliefs or say they are wrong. Perhaps you should ask the same sort of question to the Christians, Muslims, and other believers in god too.How do they know 100% there is a god. If it was proved beyond a doubt then surely we would beleive the same thing. Interesting question though.. I look forward to reading the responses.

Answer 6

If we did know everything wouldn't we be gods ourselves? Sorry to answer your question with another one but far greater philosophers than I'll ever be have been banging their heads against this particular brick wall for millennia without coming up with a satisfactory solution. Surely part of the excitement of being a human being is that there are always new things to find out - it's what makes an otherwise humdrum existence interesting. And who knows? one of the things we might find out is that there is a god for certain but I hope it never happens because I believe that if we reach that stage human development will stop altogether.

Answer 7

I think there is a big difference between saying "This is the most logical thing I can deduce based on the information in front of me" vs "I don't know the answer so I'll just belive in something contradictory and absurd".

There is almost no certainties in life, but we can at least take the information we have and try to be somewhat logical.

Faith in science may be misplaced but at least we have ways of testing, retesting, questioning and continuing to learn about it.

Faith in God halts questioning by saying that an omnipotent being is pulling strings.

Answer 8

"See as an atheist you are saying with out a doubt there is no God" is not true. To be and atheist one only needs to have a lack of belief.

I don't "know" that there is not something terrible waiting at the bottom of the cellar stairs, but I am reasonably sure of it. The same is true about any and all of the Gods man has dreamed up.

Answer 9

I have faith. I am a pagan and a Taoist. I have faith in something larger than deities. I am unable to believe that deities are real, and I do not need more than 20% of the world's knowledge to feel comfortable with this.

I don't say, 'without a doubt there is no God' I say that the Christian concept of a deity makes absolutely zero sense to me and I am unable to believe in it. I believe in something else, that DOES make sense to me.

How about you work on your writing skills before getting all smug around strangers, eh?

Answer 10

It does not take faith to be an atheist. Atheists' positions are backed up by science and evidence, wheras religious people have to rely on information relayed through really old, not necessarily valid books. Atheism is the logical position.

And besides, where are you getting this 20%/80% stuff? How do you know we only know 20% of all the information there is to know? You really can't make assumptions like that....