What is the number one reason you are an athiest?

Question

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

Answer 1

I feel that I do not need metaphysical answers to the questions of this world. I am happy with living for all that I can in this life rather than spending it preparing for an afterlife thatmay or may not exist.

Answer 2

I find it interesting that the bible-based religions tend to lump Atheists and Agnostics together although I am not suggesting that you are doing so. I personally am a Quasi-Agnostic. I won't go into a detailed explanation of that term at the moment but suffice it to say that there are Agnostic qualities attached to my belief structure.

I am an agnostic primarily because I believe in a God concept that does not fit with any religious structure of which I am currently aware.

I would assume that a pure Atheist would say that their primary reason for being so is because 'there is no God'. Otherwise, they are not truly an atheist, they are simly an agnostic in denial.

Answer 3

Extrodinary claims need extrodinary proofs, and god just didn't give me, or anyone else proof. It also liberating to know that there is no one watching you do whatever you do and is judging you, while it doesn't make sense for that same being to watch the shoulder of millions of other people as well. I also feel that the reason why he exist, to explain what we so far cannot answer, is slowly having no reason to exist. It exist solely to fill the gap that is left from the expanding universe science, eating up where god once was.

Answer 4

Whether you're agnostic or athiest the experience is similar. Like these others for me it has to be the freedom, being jailed by all the rules and regulations of church is not the way I like it, I was suffocating. Therefore... why care? If you are a decent person and there is a god he should refrain from sending you to a hell anyway.

Answer 5

I just have a hard time believing that a God a metaphysical being demanding intelligence far superior to our own 1. created a universe with billions of planets and earth as one of them. as well as 2. that he did this having not been created himself but always having existed.

If you want to say that something existed always why not just say the universe as russell does as 'a brute fact' rather than a God that only requires more explanation than it solves ( if it does that).

However, i do find it hard not believing, because i suppose God provides an eternity, a moral good and code to follow and even a meaning to life. And i suppose i have no answer to these questions.

As with theists have the problem of evil i suppose atheists have the problem of morality.

Answer 6

I am not. From looking at the answers of actual atheists here so far, which impress me as having pretty much the same distribution as those of atheists I have encountered elsewhere, it looks like they can be generally categorized this way:

#1. Lack of information on the actual documentation concerning the existence of a Creator, relative to the information one has from other perspectives.

#2. Personal distaste for the idea because of bad experience with people who purport belief in a Creator but themselves lack enough information, relative to their other pursuits in life, to accurately reflect that belief.

Why would a Creator allow this lack of information to exist?

#1. Notice I say relative to information from other perspectives. Every person, no matter how isolated, has the opportunity to examine this possibility. This is proven by the fact that every culture on earth, no matter how primitive or advanced, has had the concept of a Creator. Whether a person does examine this possibility as thoroughly as she or he is able is purely a matter of choice, and is determined by that person's desire for material pursuit/self-advancement vs. desire to be at peace with everything and everyone.

#2. Unexamined belief can be more harmful than open disbelief, because it is actually disguised disbelief. People like this inspire others to reject belief out of hand because they give them such noxious experiences related to their purported belief in a Creator, experiences caused by their pursuit of self-advancement rather than being at peace with everything and everyone, and ascribing what they do to belief in a Creator, when in fact belief in a Creator is in its very essence antithetical to this behavior. If there is an intelligence that created the universe, and has limitless powers of creation and limitless love/desire to preserve the conscious beings created, then those who believe that should have nothing to fear that would cause them to do anything that hurts others to advance themselves.

Having said that, there is no one who does not at least occasionally succumb to desire for self-advancement that trumps desire to be at peace. What makes the difference is whether or not a person recognizes that and seeks to overcome it.

Answer 7

Because my logic prevents me from believing a being existed before existence. "Existence exists" explicitly means that it is necessary that existence exist. This makes god unnecessary to "creation." If he exists, he is superfluous to the workings of the universe.

Answer 8

The freedom it brings from God looking over the shoulder. Oh, wait, I'm not an atheist.

Answer 9

Hundreds of reasons, the number one being that there's no proof....

Answer 10

Whatever is exists in the Infinity and cannot contain It, much less 'create' It.