ATHEISTS:You believe that if something cannot be touched, seen, heard, or measured in some way, then it must..

Question

...not exist, yet you fail to see the irony of your calling Christians "narrow-minded".
You say that there is no God and that those who believe in God do so in blind faith, yet your claim that there is no God also rests on blind faith.
Therefore, if my hypothesis is correct, God exists.
What do you have to say for yourselves?
Laughing, saying "drink", saying "LOGICAL FALLACY", or some other irrelevant thing will be interpreted by me as you admitting you cannot answer me and that you do believe in God.

Answer 1

Hey Greg... Do you believe in fire-breathing, flying dragons? What about trolls, fairies or elves? How about Unicorns? Or Bigfoot? No? Why not? Each of these creatures has been written about in detail, many times over. Many are in ancient art as well and modern art. Stories have been passed down from generation to generation alluding to the existence of these creatures. Many still believe in one or another of them. People have even claimed to have seen them with their own eyes, with as much conviction as you have about your god being real! So why don't you believe in them?

Okay, okay.. more close to home then: Why do you believe your Christian God is real, but all other Gods ever written about or believed in aren't real? You do realize there are literally hundreds of other Gods who have been, or still are, believed in don't you? How do you weed through all of them and pick JUST ONE?

You're reasoning for these other Creatures and Gods not being real, is the same reasoning Atheists use.... only they go one step further and include your god on the list of "non-existent" creators created by the human mind.

See how that works?
Interesting, ha?

Oh... You're Welcome!

Answer 2

What? I think you lost me at the on-ramp. I was with you up to the point where you said that an atheist's belief that there is no God rests on blind faith--I'll admit to that, since I'm an agnostic and not an atheist.

But then..."Therefore, if my hypothesis is correct, God exists."

Huh? Where did that come from? I can't see or touch or feel him, therefore he's real? What on earth...that's just...wrong. How do you arrive at that conclusion? Atheists and Christians BOTH deal in blind faith; but pointing that out doesn't suddenly mean *POOF* God exists!

If I've misinterpreted your assertion in some way by all means email me and let me know.

Answer 3

Why is it ironic to call Christians narrow minded? You didn't prove that point. (I don't personally believe all Christians are narrow minded. There are open minded people of all faiths and close mined people of all faiths so just picking on Christians is wrong.)

What is your hypothesis? You haven't stated or proven anything. All you've done is talk yourself around in a circle making absolutely no sense. Belief in god rests on blind faith and non belief rests in blind faith. Ok agreed, nither side has rock solid evidence to support their claim. So what? How does this prove that god exists?

YOU MAKE NO SENSE!!!!

Answer 4

In actual fact, what you've just said is blatently close minded. Most people don't choose to beleive in a particular god or religion, they are born into a family that does and are inherantly indoctrinated.

Atheism is a choise for free and open thought and discussion, religion is reading from a book and obeying what you are taught, by people that were taught the same thing, who were taught by people that were taught the same thing and so on.

Being an atheist allows you to think outside of a strict set of laws and beleifs, outside of societel norms and into what has clasically been etherical to give it a more ritch and tangible meaning for the future.

A few thousand years ago, volcanic erruptions and storms were the work of a god infuriated by a lack of appeasment, now we know that it was the slip of a tectonic plate or a hydrogen bubble, or positively charged electrons in the atmosphere caused by cold wind meeding hot wind.

So, what will happen to the beleivers once science and alike can explain away all that was once etherical, will you ceice to exist too?

Answer 5

The two most common logical fallacies are "jumping to conclusions" and "ignoring the possibility of other options."

Because evolution cannot yet answer every question about the universe does not mean the only other option is to believe in a Judeo-Christian god.

Becuase I don't personally believe in a Judeo-Christian god I should not make the mistake of saying there is no god what-so-ever.

Answer 6

Sorry, but that doesn't fit. Christians assume that a specific deity exists with specific names and rituals and then further suggest that all human beings must worship and venerate this deity. Talk about jumping to conclusions based on a narrow-minded view of the universe. How likely is it that one deity created in a culture 2,000 years ago somehow represents a universe with a trillion galaxies and planets that we barely even know about? To suggest that humans are the center of the universe in some psychological stage with a god sounds far-fetched. Some creationists have also taken narrow-mindedness to a new level: In order to discredit science and support their literal interpretation of genesis, they deny the empirical age of the earth and the universe.

I lack theism because there is no evidence to support belief in the supernatural -- that includes Allah, Buddha, reincarnation, Jesus, Yahweh, etc. Faith is still blind because it jumps to a conclusion without a just cause. I do not claim there are no gods -- I claim that gods are unlikely to exist, that religion is a social manifestation, and that the lack of evidence means that agnosticism and atheism are more logical than theism by default.

Answer 7

Ugh.. you're assigning way more beliefs to us than atheism accounts for. It comes down to one simple fact - we don't believe in gods. The reason for it is NOT SPECIFIED, it is merely a position in relation to theism.

My personal opinion, which is shared by others but not all atheists, is that the lack of evidence and the need for blind faith do not convince me that gods exist. Why should the default position be that they do exist? I simply took a neutral position and based my opinion on which way the evidence swung it - the result is that there is no reason - beyond simply complying to religion - to believe that gods exist.

Answer 8

NO NO NO this is the whole point- we cannot explain infinity, we cannot explain telepathy, we cannot explain the origins of the universe BUT when we cannot explain something we do not make up stories and pretend we have all the answers, we admit we dont know and keep on questioning, hence we are here hoping to be given realistic answers. if you came to my house and introduced me to some old guy who could turn water into wine, or part my fishpond, or bring my dead father back to life i would pretty soon be a believer. most of us do not say GOD DOES NOT EXIST we say we do not BELIEVE god exists

Answer 9

Blind Faith: Believing something exists without any logical reason to.

Blind Faith: Not believing something exists because you have no logical reason to.

You're not making a lot of sense there, you do realize that right?

Answer 10

It seems that most answering this question who claim to be atheist are actually agnostic.

According to dictionary.com, "An atheist is one who denies the existence of a deity or of divine beings. An agnostic is one who believes it impossible to know anything about God or about the creation of the universe and refrains from commitment to any religious doctrine."

Actually all it takes is one person having an experience with God to prove He exists. To prove He doesn't exist, you'd have to search all points of the universe at all points in time all at once, so you'd basically have to be a God yourself.

Many people have had experiences with God, but many just refuse to believe those witnesses. It's like a trial. A jury can choose to believe the witnesses or not.

Now, it is important that every person find out for himself or herself and not just rely on blind faith all their life. And it is possible to do that. It is possible to have an experience with God that proves to yourself that He is real and that He loves you. But it takes work. It's not as easy as just reaching out and touching him with your hand. You have to start with a desire to believe, then exercise faith by studying, praying, and doing His will. In God's own time, He will answer your prayers and prove His existence to you. But you have to be humble and patient enough to wait on the Lord.