I don't have enough faith to become an atheist, help me?

Answer 1

No faith is required to be an atheist, just reason and logic.

Answer 2

Your question is, "help me?"

My question is help you with what? For one to say they "don't have enough faith," they imply they have faith. Even more, this small faith or lack of it seems to be a requisite, in your eyes, to become an atheist.

If becoming an atheist requires a huge faith, then your help needs be to have more faith. Atheism does not require a huge faith, therefore you need no help.

Even more, do you need help to not become an atheist or to become an atheist?

Let's define the word help:

To give help or assistance; be of service; be of use; improve the condition of; aid: the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; contribute to the furtherance of; improve; change for the better; avail: a means of serving; serve: help to some food; help with food or drink; etc.

Since you have come to answers.yahoo.com and do seek information from complete strangers, then it is completely okay for me to make judgment and say that one cannot possibly help you to become an atheist because one is not helping in the original and only sense of the word.

I, nor anyone, can "help" you become an atheist because being an atheist gives no assistance to you in a time of need, it does not further you just turn you completely around, and does not improve you for the better.

What is atheism? A faith? No, of course not. It is a refusal of faith and the refusal of very basic instincts and human logic. You think not? Does not the cultural differences on this planet testify against this "atheism," with a faith for every nation and tongue? Surely, you are apart of this cultural phenomena because you "don't have enough faith."

I will help you in saying do not become an atheist, but follow what faith is: the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. I will be happy to answer any further "questions."

Answer 3

That's already too much faith. Atheism is a lack of belief in any gods.

I can't force you to become an atheist any more than I could force you to believe that a god exists. It isn't an active choice. Either you're convinced or not convinced.

However, I can present the evidence for and against a god existing.

Evidence for a god: Lots of anecdotal evidence about people "feeling" a god existing and some odd events interpretted as "miracles". Many "prophecies" that, if you really stretch them, kind of fit some events that happened later.

Evidence against a god existing:
1) All religions have beginnings. If a god is supposed to be eternal, his religion would be eternal.
2) All religions have very human origins. All the texts were written by humans and reflect the society of the day.
3) Human nature seems biased towards making up and strongly believing in superstitions, myths, and urban legends. Religion shows all of the hallmarks of being a superstition. For example, the stuff written about Jesus earlier has much fewer details than the gospels written decades later. This is the same as you see in many urban legends.
4) There are many "prophecies" that have been shown to be false. Many claimed to be fulfilled can't really be confirmed. For example, the New Testament claims many of the earlier prophecies fulfilled, but it is apparent that the writers purposefully wrote the story that way. None of it is really verifiable.
5) No real miracles happen. For example, there are many claims of people being healed of stuff that might have healed itself anyway. However, nobody has had an amputated limb restored.
6) Religions tend to rely on emotional hooks that play on human insecurities, instead of reason, logic, and evidence. It often resists scientific discovery in favor of its own superstitious belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Answer 4

It takes just as much faith to be an atheist as it does to be a theist.

To make the absolute statement “God does not exist” is to make a claim of knowing absolutely everything there is to know about everything – and of having been everywhere in the universe there is to go – and having witnessed everything there is to be seen. Of course, no atheist would make these exact claims. However, that is essentially what they are claiming when they state that God does not exist.

Answer 5

Don't worry. If you have very little faith, that'll HELP you to become an atheist. Abandon whatever faith remains and take it upon yourself to get into a "habit of reasonableness". That's a surefire way to become an atheist.

Answer 6

That's your problem right there - you're trying to apply your fundie beliefs to atheism.

You gotta throw off the shackles of your imaginary friend, apply standard Logic and Reason and realise there is NO evidence to support the invisible man concept.

Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

This 'god' thingy was invented to keep the people in line.

Seneca: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Realise there is good money to be made from religion IF you can keep a straight face.
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Answer 7

"Atheists have faith (definite, have faith) that non-residing issues became into residing issues - some thing that has yet to be validated." LuLz i will wager you probably did no longer even see the IRONY there, huh? it relatively is basically so IRONIC... lololololol "As a theist i think that life originated from a residing Being we call God." See how this piece fits in there much greater acceptable? "some thing that has yet to be validated." that's from a Christian: "Creationism" i.e. fundamentalism, or "Biblical literalism" is an affront to authentic faith. How can they make a case for a divine "clothier" at the same time as interior the comparable breath denying the information of the "layout" (i.e. evolution)?? at the same time as maximum persons of Christians (alongside with Catholics) or perhaps Jews and Muslims (& human beings of alternative faiths) have faith that God did certainly "create" the universe and all life -- we understand and recognize that S/He used the "vast bang", abiogenesis, and evolution (basically like gravity & relativity) to DO it! “Creationists are surely doing greater to wreck Christianity than any atheist or scientist ought to care to. They make anybody of religion (exceptionally Christians) seem retarded.” The Christian spoke of as you human beings retarded... no longer I. ~

Answer 8

It's OK, you don't need any. All you need is to *not* have faith in a concept for which there is neither valid argument nor objective evidence - i.e. the existence of gods. It should be very easy to not believe in something that there is no valid reason to believe in.

Answer 9

It actually does take faith to step up and take firm belief that there is nothing spiritual out there that we cannot see. Because there is no proof (There is no proof for the existance of God as well, according to atheists... so it works either way).

But, I think life is much more fulfilling with God.

Answer 10

Atheism is lack of faith, silly child.