Do atheists have more faith than Christians?

Question

Do atheists have more substance of things hoped for and more evidence of things unseen?

Answer 1

Faith has multiple meanings. I would say that atheists have more of some types of faith than theists and theists have more of some types of faith than atheists.

As an example: Christians have more faith in the Bible than atheists. Atheists have more faith in the scientific process than SOME Christians. 2 very different types of faith.

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The defintion of faith (from www.dictionary.com) is as follows:

faith /feɪθ/ [feyth]
–noun 1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.
4. belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.
5. a system of religious belief: the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.
6. the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith.
7. the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles.
8. Christian Theology. the trust in God and in His promises as made through Christ and the Scriptures by which humans are justified or saved.
—Idiom9. in faith, in truth; indeed: In faith, he is a fine lad.

Answer 2

Faith is NOT a freaking "gift from God." Atheists can have faith that the sun will set every day, and they don't believe gods exist! Agnostics have faith the Earth is gonna revolve in 24 hours (give or take) and they don't know for sure if gods exist!

And it's stupid to say atheists try to "convert" the religious! Atheists don't give a rat's patootie if anyone converts to atheism. They just laugh at religiously maniacal people!

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Answer 3

I can't speak for all. But my boyfriend is an atheist and he has more faith and confidence in himself than anyone I know. He also has clear values and morals and respects individuality. I am Christian and we don't have any arguments over religion because he is so respectful.

I personally think that faith has nothing to do with religion. Faith is very individual. For christians it should be as simple as really meditating what Jesus said: "Love your neighbor as yourself" He already assumes you love yourself. How many people can really say they do? Not many. I think FAITH IN YOURSELF is more important than anything

Answer 4

Possibly! What a fascinating thought! Remember how Jesus was talking about the "whited sepulchers," and the hypochrisy of the Pharisees, right before they'd had enough, and snuffed him? I think we professed Christians get scared of the power, or the transformation, or the possibilities, or in the end we're just too, too selfish to let God rule. At that point we throw up roadblocks, lie, hesitate, and it's at that point -- where, I hate to say it, just about all of us seem to be -- where the atheists far outshine us with their purity of conviction. And just because of that, because they were honest and we waffled, I wonder if many of them will enter the kingdom ahead of us, if they are actually esteemed by the watching universe much higher than we who claim to believe but refuse to accept the total package of benefits and realities.

Answer 5

They hope in a falsehood and manufacture evidence. Faith no!

See: Evolution Frauds

Answer 6

Sorry but you will not find a REAL atheist here to answer you......I used to be an atheist before but thankfully not now, 100 % believer now and the atheists here that have not converted yet are only here for one reason, to learn more about God because they are fence sitters still not sure if they want to jump in. REAL atheists like I used to be would never hang out in a place such as this that is full of religion. in their questions and answers they will deny it but that is only so their friends that see their questions an answers will not make fun of them.They will put up a very strong anti-God front but a front is all it really is.....100 % here are secretly fence sitters,..no true atheists here so keep preaching, they really do want to hear it....

Answer 7

An atheist puts their BLIND belief in--

Time

and

Chance


If only enough Time passes

If only enough Chance occurs

Anything can happen.

That's ridiculous.

This world has a creator. Time and Chance did not create this world.

Here is the biblical quotation about faith:

Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Faith is evidence itself. Faith is a substance.

Atheists do not operate on faith--they operate in a blind trust of science, men's knowledge and time and chance are the two magical forces that created everything.

Answer 8

No. Is there something specific that atheists have "faith" in that Christians don't? I can't think of anything.

Answer 9

If you are an evolutionist atheist, you do need to have a lot of faith; you have to believe that life created itself without ANY intelligent intervention.



Whenever a designer decides to make something, he has a master plan; do you think that life didn't have a master plan?

How can you say evolution is not chance???



This is obviously not a question, rather, it's a way that you can try and be smart in front of all your other atheist mates.

Answer 10

first of all: definition of faith?

faith does not equal substance or evedence. it equals belief in things unseen.

personally, i think it takes a lot more FAITH to be an athiest than a Christian