Really such or do you not agree with any organised religions?
Or are you truly faith based that there is no creator or god out there?
2007-10-30 06:34:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I find it interesting that many say you don't believe in god but thats not faith based. What is the differance faith = belief = faith.
You may doubt but you don't truly know. It is still faith.
2007-10-30 06:51:11 · update #1
If there were proof of God, I'd believe in God. However, I believe that believing in God when all evidence points elsewhere, against all odds, is a pretty sad way to live. A person can find God if they're looking for him, but now-days they have to look really hard.
2007-10-30 06:55:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No creator, no God, no how. This may take faith, as many are quick to point out. The rational point of view is indeed agnosticism. But agnosticism isn't going to save society from the pox of Faith, no, Atheism can if unified. Agnosticism by nature is wishy-washy. It's hard to 'offend' an agnostic. It's easy to assume that they'll go along with religious laws and such simply because they don't know, or care enough to refute them. Whether or not this is true, it may be perceived.
Atheists, though, can take a hard line against religion and demand freedom from religion. Which is why I encourage all of my Agnostic brothers and sisters to take on the mantle of Atheism.
2007-10-30 06:43:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree with organized religions - it is a scam.
I do not see any reason to believe in a god. There is no need for a creator.
Do you believe in unicorns? Why not? Apply the same logic to god. There is no evidence for god's existence, so there is no reason to believe in him.
Turn up with a unicorn and I will accept that they are real. Show some evidence that your god exists and I will accept it.
Until then there is zero evidence to support the god hypothesis, and plenty of evidence of why and how humans create them.
Edit:
I'm sorry, but as hard as you try the lack of belief in something is not a faith.
Is the lack of belief in unicorns, dragons, mermaids faith based? No it is not.
For 99.9999% of what we imagine we require actual evidence before we say it really exists. The other 0.00001% is deities for which many people are indoctinated not to question.
The difference for me is that the rules you apply to 99.9999% of what you can concieve I apply to 100%.
2007-10-30 06:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt the existence of a God as the Abrahamic religions conceive of a God. I don't think that there's necessarily anything supernatural about the universe--only things we don't yet understand. If there is an intelligence out there, I suspect its a personification of Chaos, which is a mathematically proven force of creation. In any case, I'm agnostic in that I think there might be something bigger out there than humanity can conceive of, but I'm an atheist in that I don't believe in a father-like God figure.
Plus I change my mind about the universe all the time.
Make sense?
2007-10-30 06:44:17 · answer #4 · answered by average person Violated 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a faith. I believe there is no god or creator. I do not agree with the views of organized religion, but I respect people who do.
2007-10-30 06:39:18 · answer #5 · answered by {:3) 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheists don't believe in gods. Less than 1% of atheists claim, without a doubt, that no gods exist. So more than 99% of atheists are NOT faith based. They lack belief, realize that you can't prove a negative in this case, and call themselves atheists. No faith there.
2007-10-30 06:40:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist who has trouble understanding how anyone in the twenty-first century can believe in anything so primitive and superstitious and ridiculous as gods.
By the way faith is belief without evidence. Baye's Theorem shows that Lack of Evidence for a proposition is indeed evidence for the negation of the proposition. Therefore my Atheism is not faith based.
2007-10-30 06:39:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Personally, I'm faith-based.
2007-10-30 06:37:54 · answer #8 · answered by napqueen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is an illusion created by theists to explain the fact that there is not one shred of evidence to support the reality of a mythical flying creature.
God is imaginary.
2007-10-30 06:43:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really don't believe in any imaginary beings.
Until someone gives me some reason or some evidence to believe, it makes no sense to believe.
People who believe in gods aren't atheists. Atheists are people who don't beleive in any gods.
It isn't faith, it's called reason; you might want to try it some time. Reason works.
2007-10-30 09:04:23 · answer #10 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋