think about it,
to thiests, your current pysical bieng is only temporary and you will "continue to live" therefore isnt' belief in an afterlife cheapening human life and lessens the gravity of the decision to kill someone, see them die or whatnot.
athiests on the other hand see that there is only one shot. you take away someone's life, thats it. There is higher value to the athiest becasue life will not continue in some magical imaginary realm with ponies and flowers and robotechnology.
2007-10-11 05:18:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You might argue that atheists believe our life is more precious than theists because they don't believe in an afterlife. Many here may be too young to recall the ridicule that environmentalists and ecologists took from religious groups.
The very notion of ecology was believed to be against the basic principals of christianity because the earth was just a brief stopover before your real life.
But of course like every fact and scientific discovery that christianity finds impossible to continue denying and fighting against they have recently embraced ecology and folded it into their belief system.
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I also see that someone has trotted out the tired "look at those atheist communists" silliness. A purely atheist government would be best for both theists and atheists because it would concern itself with governing and would stay out of religion. It would be religiously neutral because that is essentially the definition of atheism. It is not anti-theism. Sadly to find an argument against atheism people have to first redefine it just as 'Near of DN' did.
It isn't that an atheist government has been tried and failed it simply hasn't been tried.
2007-10-11 05:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by Demetri w 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People are people. We all get swept up in the same human emotions as the next guy.
When you think spiritually like Christ did, His teachings tell us to live in THIS LIFE with peace love forgiveness and longsuffering.
If someone was to run around like a crazy idiot thinking it was okay because they are Christian or religious and they would be accepted in the after life they will have a rude awakeneing!
We will be judged by our actions here on earth in the afterlife.
2007-10-11 05:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by brown eyed girl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have enormous respect for all organic life. I don't like spiders, so I step over them. If they're in my house, I practice "catch and release" procedures, even though I'm afraid they'll get out of the box and crawl up my arm.
I bring all my summer plants indoors in the fall. They don't survive but I loved them and nurtured them all summer so it kills me to just leave them there to get frostbite. Nuts, I know.
I fought to keep my Mom alive even though she was 72, terminally ill and most people figured, "Hey, she's had a good life!" I enjoyed her company for another 2 years until her illness overtook her. It's WORTH it.
NOT caring about living things is bordering on psychopathy.
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2007-10-11 05:33:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It has always amazed me that a substantial number of "Christians" support capital punishment and oppose poverty relief programs. For them, it seems, what matters is the soul, not the body. You mustn't tolerate the killing of zygotes and blastocysts, but once they've been evangelized and made their choice to accept or reject "salvation", life is a superfluous luxury, nice but not to be taken seriously.
Essential Christian teaching demands love of neighbor, even enemy, but the dominant subculture of Christianity treats flesh-and-blood life as a meaningless rehearsal for the unexperienced main event. Without that reassurance, atheists generally show more interest in preserving life and improving its quality.
2007-10-11 05:54:34 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Among the things I believe is the idea that language is intimately connected with thinking.
The words, "theist" and "atheist" are derived from the Greek "theos," meaning "god." Notice that the "t-h-e" form remains when one adds the suffix "ist" and the prefix "a."
2007-10-11 05:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, yet the Nobel Prize was awarded to two men for their work on the Big Bang. Although, the Big Bang has NOTHING to do with evolution. The Big Bang would fall into the Abiogenesis category. I prefer to think that the God and Goddess made their own "big bang" (if you know what I mean) and here we are.
2016-05-21 22:07:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a very interesting observation, Bluto. Now, having given it a bit of thought I'd say NO, they're not MORE likely. A true christian would recognize that they have no right to take a life. God is the "giver of life" and that right belongs to him alone.
2007-10-11 05:28:55 · answer #7 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Nobody I know thinks that way. I got a hunch that if you could get honest answers out of them, most cold-blooded killers would be atheists. (That's not to say that most atheists are killer-wannabees; just that theists are normally taught a profound belief in the value of life.)
2007-10-11 05:27:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
hello bluto,
now c'mon, most of the (somewhat) sane people in the world value human life-simply because it is...life. now that being said,since i don't believe in an after life, i plan to live it up!!!
2007-10-11 05:23:53 · answer #9 · answered by sweetie3.14 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it seems that way but to an atheist there is no consequence for it after you die, but for a theists they will pay for it in hell. so it basically leaves the value of a persons life about equal to either view.
2007-10-11 05:23:16 · answer #10 · answered by halo1mike 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋