Could you be wrong, thinking there is no God?

Question

Atheist are probably normal intelligent folk, who gave great thought, about God, come to a decision' that nothing exist after death, but'' you are only thinking in human terms,
,example'' a maggot thinks only in maggots condition of thought, if you get my drift' Could you' a limited human in this vast universe of creation be wrong.

Answer 1

Of course ... "we can only think in human terms" How can it be any other way?

Answer 2

I see that this isn't the "But what if your wrong?" kind of question that goes with Pascal's Wager, but more of a question of "What if you're really, REALLY wrong about the nature of deity?" I remember George Lucas saying in an interview that cavemen probably understood God at a "1" level, where as we do so on a "5" level, but the scale actually goes up to a million. Of course, this would mean that theists are essentially wrong too.

The bottom line though is that there is nothing that I feel the need to deify by calling it "God". So I'm still an atheist.

Answer 3

Yeah, I could be. So could you be wrong, thinking that there is one.

However, I challenge you to provide me with convincing evidence that he exists, because I haven't seen any. I put it to you that neither of us will know until we die - and even then, we will only know one way or the other if he really does exist. If I'm right, we will never find out.

BTW, humans can only ever think in human terms. And every religious text that was ever written was written by a human. Think about that for a moment.

Answer 4

just as you could be wrong thinking there is, from the same argument that you conceive of a god that made you in his image, how like a human is that. A dog would think of a god that is in its own image, same as a maggot or a fly or any other imaginary conception.

Answer 5

I'm a Pagan and I don't think I'm wrong to believe there are multiple gods. I've had experiences with them, much as you probably feel you have with your god. Yet many christians denigrate MY beliefs as superstition and devil worship while holding up their own as sacred and holy. And again I ask, why this obsession with death and the "afterlife"? Is not this life good enough for you to get the most out of it without fearing every moment that you are going to offend your god?

Answer 6

Of course I could be wrong but that's why I consider myself an agnostic as well as an atheist. I do have no problem rejecting the major religions as being correct because they are so flawed and their history points to mere man-made stories than anything to do with a god.

Answer 7

Could be, but I doubt it.

But at least I'm thinking in human terms, unlike some believers who are simply accepting what they are told.

Even the maggot is thinking for himself....

Answer 8

I could be wrong, but I most probably am not. The burden of proof must be with believers. Nothing I see or experience tells me there is or even could be a god in control of the whole thing.

Answer 9

There are a lot of "what if's" that one could worry about in life. It comes down to fear and probability. If I am going to bother worrying about something, I'm going to worry about things that have a high likelihood of happening. I know it is hard for someone who was raised to fear god and worry about the afterlife to understand, but I don't fear or worry about these things.

Answer 10

Yes it possible that I'm wrong, but as far as I'm concern my "maggot" thinking is good enough for my purposes.

Answer 11

Could you be wrong believing that god exists? considering the total lack of evidence outside a 2,000 year-old book which also contains a talking donkey?