Why are people atheist?

Question

Really, where you not raise religiouse, are you just bitter?
Why is it like a war between atheist people and Christians?
Why do some say God is a made up concept and then call yourself logical? If your so smart and perceptive, why rule anything out. Why just say it doesn't make sence. Think, what if it makes sence to me because I know things that you would'nt understand yet. Notice yourselves, is it a coincidence that I always thumbsdown when I use God in my answers? Or that I get insulted when I defend my belief. What if you call it a made up concept of God and your wrong when you die. Just what if?
How would you feel. Understand, your human, you have emotions that get in the way of reality. You see all these signs of revelation going on, and still have no fear of the reality that is to come. How are you so hard hearted? Why do you think it ends with what we see, your human, there's so so much more than what you see here. It's about time. Man sorry I asked, you guys are evil

Answer 1

this subject should be treated carefully, atheists don't believe in God, maybe they have their own explanation about who created us and the whole Universe, seriously what or who is powerful enough to create a never-ending universe? God only! who do you think made the Big-Bang occur? don't you think it's possible that all those miracles in the Bible are God's work through us and the world?? God exists and all in the Bible is true. If they were really logical they would come to the conclusion that if this Universe is so big and so complex where even the smallest particle to the biggest one has a part to play there must be a God that created it. It has lived forever and it will never die, you can choose to believe in it and live forever with it or...well, not to.

Answer 2

Why do you believe in god, the only proof you have is stories written in some book as proof. The need to believe in a all powerful & all knowing is subject to those who wish to think that something has to be responsible. Ask your self this question and your answer will be the best answer.

In one hand you have a apple (science) this apple is red and looks delicious in the other hand you have a invisible (imaginary) apple (religion) this apples doesn't look at all for it's not really there it's a figment of the frontal lobe of your brain. which will you eat?

it has be scientificaly proven that there is a region of the brain that associates with religion the very religious show more activity in that region the more reality based persons have a lower or no activity in that region.

so I ask you is god nothing more than a active need to believe produced in a region of the brain or a tangible apple?

oh and caffinee FAITH is nothing more than a williness to believe in something without any tangible proof. Which do you prefer the story of Noah or the much older and much more likely persian version of the STORY. passed down verbaly through the ages. Anybody play the telephone game as a kid?

Answer 3

I was raised in an atheist home and was never taught the fear of god, so I don't suffer from "what if" type fears. That makes no more sense to me than fearing that "what if I get eaten by a dragon on my way to work tomorrow?" Why would I fear something so bizarre? The concept of god is just as bizarre to me. I'm an atheist because I don't believe that anything exists outside of the natural realm. Surely there are many natural phenomena that exist that neither I nor any other human have any clue about, so it has nothing to do with things ending with "what we see." I simply don't make absolute assumptions about things that are unknowable, religion does. That you see atheists (fellow humans) as hard hearted and evil says more about you than them.

Answer 4

No offence to those who believe... But people are atheists because that is the real default. Because there is no sign of revelation... there is no evidence for any type of a deityof any kind. Only fools think there is real hard evidence, because they generate their ideas from the quoting of ideas of other fools that never checked the facts as well! As a mater of fact all evidence points to the contrary. Sadly, doubt and fear fuels most faith...Not goodwill! Most religions exist through the indoctrination of children by terror stories and unveryfiable rewards (the old carrot and stick), and sometimes continues due to mental lazyness. Many respected philosophers within the "church" itself (great theology thinkers) have understood this simple concept...! And have burned their brains trying to figure their way out without any success. Some of which are now canonized, even dough doubt twisted their existence and some died without faith. It makes no sense in any way to be a "theist" unless you do it to bend to, and/or benefit from social pressures. In very few cases it may be sincere devotion driven by comformity and mental comfort. Because, evidently, the definition of faith is that it is completely irrational. It must be independent of reason, logic, or evidence to be considered faith in the first place. Otherwise it would not be faith! It would be reason/logic/science.
Furthermore, being raised within an idea doesn't make it right. If it did, we would still have slaves, we would have tribal lords instead of Presidents (Prime Ministers, etc), and we might not even be using agriculture...!
Freedom of speech? Please!? Another thing which was not there before... and its creators/supporters were raised differently! Raised without any...!
I have met many good, intelligent people who are/were religious, and they don't/didn’t bother me. Because they know/knew that faith is personal. That if you have faith you should not allow it to interfere with others. That courtesy and respect is inbuilt into most faiths' teachings, however, few follow it.
Go become literate. Read something else, besides religious texts or religious agenda texts, and come back to this question with respect for your own faith in absolute lack of reason/logic/evidence. Then I may respect you, even if disagreeing with your faith. Then we may even start talking! As a mater of fact I just don't know why I even bother to answer silly people like you... Maybe it is in the good “faith” and hope that they may gain some light of reason. But that is too much to ask! After all… Faith is not based in reason or evidence.
BTW... it is not the atheist that attack cristians... No atheist exploded himself taking the innocent with him. No atheist killed his own children over honor. No etheist forcing others to read religious lines in school. Or forcing people to not be what they are and want to be... No atheists disgracing the purity of a "religion" in durty politics... No atheists preachig ate on TV... No atheists sending children to war over religious differences...

Note: From a thinker of the past... The gods are true to the commoner, false to the wise, and useful to the polititian.

Answer 5

People are atheist because humans are rational. We are made to find and create reason, and in reason comes doubt. It is human nature to doubt about something not sensed. It doesn't matter if you are born religious or atheist. It is your choice to believe or not in a certain idea. Atheists do not believe on a divine being because they want physical evidence of a certain being. It is not evil to be doubtful about it. Isn't it that God gave humans free will?

No one knows 101% the real origin of the world and humanity. There are theories but they are just speculations, including the Genesis story. I am a Catholic and I believe that whatever is written in the Bible is not 100% true and I respect atheists that yearn for evidence of the existence of God.

Oh, and one thing. Please don't judge people.

Answer 6

People are atheists because they chose to reject the idea that there is a God out there... you need to seriously tone it down.

you sound incredibly uninteligent, you are a shame to Christians (you seem to think you are though i am in no place to judge), you should not be given freedom of speach!

what kind of message do you think you are sending? is it the one you want to send? If your upset, fine, theres nothing wrong with that but don't vent on the internet.

Revelations, by the way, is apocalyptic literature and open to individual interpretation. You can not tell anyone else what is going to happen before, after, or during the coming of Christ with certinty. Go reread what have said to the billions of people on the internet.

I hope i havent offended you terribly.

Answer 7

Nope, mate, we're not evil...At least not all of us, in the same way not all religious types are hypocrites who try to control and manipulate others in the name of their gods...Some religious people out there are wonderful human beings...
Anyways, there are many reasons for being an atheist, and some people do stop believing in gods out of resentment against a particular religious group or organization, or the concept of god itself...Being a true atheist is not easy, and a true atheist shouldn't offend religious people as if he/she had something to prove...It is YOU religious people who have A LOT to prove, yet you use emotions, feelings, frauds, and lengthy explanations to cover up your lack of proof...There are many arguments against the existence of god, but that doesn't mean that it is a completely proven, no-shadow-of-doubt fact that god doesn't exist...I think there's no god, so I have to live with that and the consequences of that opinion...
If any god turns out to be real, then so be it, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it...

Answer 8

Well there are some VERY long wordy and defensive answers here. The thing is, that usually a person has been hurt by organized religion or their parents were and raised their kids as athiests and they know no other way.

However, ALL will one day know or hear and have the right to choose. As for the 'Here is an apple or hard evidence' and 'over here there is no proof or tangible evidence of God'...I like to refer to the line in the movie Contact when Jodie Foster's character is asked....'did you love your father'...and her reply is an astonished...YES!....his reply....PROVE IT!

It may not have to be provable by us to be true..that is FAITH!

Answer 9

I think there are two reasons, OK maybe three. Either they were not brought up in a religious family, were brought up in an atheist family, or something bad happen, like someones death they were close to and just decide there could not be a god, or why would a God let that happen. These are the only logical answers I can think of.

Answer 10

I am an atheist because I don't believe in deities and the word atheist describes this state of disbelief. I don't believe in deities because no argument or evidence presented to me in support of their existence has been convincing.

1. Biology adequately describes life and emotions without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

2. Astronomy adequately describes the formation of stars/planets/universe/etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

3. Geology adequately describes the evolution of the Earth, land formations, etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

4. Psychology describes the human psyche better than appealing to mystical invisible dieties

5. Appealing to mystical invisible dieties is an appeal to ignorance

6. There's no physical evidence for the existence of mystical invisible dieties

7. A myriad of mystical invisible dieties have been posited by emphatically superstitious societies and have been proven to be products of overly active imaginations (today's religion is tomorrow's myth) and ignorance.

8. Believing in mystical invisible dieties seems to become quite absurd when those who posit the mystical invisible dieties begin explaining why and how they exist in the face of contradictory physical evidence.

9. As scientific knowledge increases, the role of the mystical invisible dieties oddly gets pushed further and further back.

10. Mystical invisible dieties are mystical invisible dieties (ie can never be found by empirical methods)