A question for Atheist?

Question

I am curious to know why you choose to deny God.
What if you DO find out there is a God after you die? Does that scare you ?

Thanks for all your honest answers.

Answer 1

No. Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

I studied the bibles and went to churches when a teenager and after meeting the many hypocrites that claim they are religious .I came to the conclusion that there is no god and that religion was invented by man to control the people with threats of burning in hell etc as a means to make them behave where other laws may fail.Through history there is thousands of examples that show religion has created more problems than it has ever fixed.
When i die i am confident that i will not met up with a God or an after life. I am so confident that i live my life and enjoy it now because this is my only chance.
But say for arguments sake.
if when i die and i do find out that there is a god ,no i am not scared because i have lived a clean life and harmed no one at all ,And my only so called sin was i did not believe in him ,then he would be an unjust and cruel god to destroy me. So if i was rejected then i know that i will be with most of the folks who claimed to be religious and believers

Also what is god -- to me it would mean a higher being but he could be an alien life force ,or another planet from where humans came from, who knows but i don`t believe there is one

I ask the same when religious people die what if they find no God or afterlife and they wasted their life being afraid of what happens after death

Answer 3

I chose to deny god because I know that the notion of god is a man made one.
People that believe, do so based on a book that was written by man, edited by man, promoted by man to control man.

Additionally, most people are religious based on circumstance. Everything you think you believe now, is based on your environment and if you were to write it down, then have your history changed and your parents to be jewish, hindu, muslim, mormom, or even atheist, you would read your note and laugh at yourself for being so naive.

Nothing like dying and finding out there is a god could possibly scare me, because I don't believe it to be true.
However, I always look at the following scenarios based on actual happenings.

1) there is a god and he wants free will in which case he does nothing and we live our lives. Since he/she isn't contributing to life, he/she does not deserve your attention or worship

2) there is a god and he couldn't care less what you do. He is in heaven playing with his 4 dimensional time/space Xbox and laughing his butt off and all these people praying for success, money, health. In which case, she/he does not deserve your attention or worship

3) there is no god and you are worshipping absolutely nothing.

now all 3 of these scenarios have the same net effect, people go on doing their daily lives and the only time we do something positive is when we decide to do it.

Since it's been 2000 years since the 'christian god' made an appearance or net effect, if there was even an iota of any proof, it would have come out by now.

The only time we will achieve world peace is if we can eliminate religion. Religion has the same traits as hate and as long as people believe if some god, there will always be fights over whose god is stronger.


I can't even turn the question around for you, if you choose to believe in god and you die, only to find out there is no god, then it won't make a difference, you are still dead. You won't even know you spent all those years being taken in by con-men.

Lastly, when I die, if I were to discover I was wrong, then I know two things.
1) I was a lot more 'good' than a ton of people that do believe in god and
2) If god cared enough to be worshipped, then he/she has to do a little work and do something that people simply can't chalk up to circumstance.

Appear, make a little big bang right in the sky for everyone to see and then have a question period.


Now, my return question to you is this.
If YOU were god, would you want people to believe in you and what would you do to show them that you exist (remembering you can do anything because you are god)

Would you do things the same way, hang back and do nothing and just expect people to have faith in you???

Answer 4

In the first place, understand that this is not a possibility I take seriously.

In the unlikely event the scenario you described does come to pass, I will hold my head up high and tell him I made the best decisions I could, with the information that was available to me at the time.

What if you were to die and you found out that the true god was the python god of the bushmen, and he was going to spend eternity crushing you within his immortal coils for failing to worship him?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061130081347.htm

And if you say that's not a possibility you take seriously, that's your answer.

And if that answer isn't good enough, then I don't want anything to do with your god.

The people who say, "You may as well believe in god, just in case," don't even understand the difference between belief and lip service.

Answer 5

1. I have never believed in any supernatural deity even when I was being raised as a christian. I do not see it as denial, I see it as the way it has always been and always will be. If the day comes where empirical proof is available I will visit that again.

2. If there is so what, if it is cruel enough to 'punish' me for using my brain then why would I want to spend an eternity with it?

3. No that does not scare me in the least... why should it?

Answer 6

I'm not an Aetheist but an agnostic and at various points in my life I have given praise to all the major god figureheads, at some point, budha, allah, god, zeuss, mother nature...well you don't want to miss out or choose the wrong god and then find you were the infidel... or I guess that a person of another religion could also describe you as an atheist by not beliveing in their chosen subject of worship, religion, drugs, drink, dangerous sports....

I still think religion is a form of social control

Answer 7

To seriously answer your question:

I do not deny God. It's that I do not believe in God or Gods. The idea there is a being upstairs looking down on us has never made sense to me. I don't think God exists. This does not mean that I side with the devil. I think the devil exists just as much as I think God does -- not at all.

Therefore, I do not believe in any sort of afterlife either. I am perfectly content rotting away in the ground. I do not think I will be conscious of anything after death.

Answer 8

'Deny' implies that you know he is real. All you can honestly say is that you believe that he is real, the same as I can say that I do not. If there is in fact a God, He'll understand perfectly well why I didn't believe. He'd understand better than I could explain to you here because there are many reasons. It does not scare me to think that there might be a God because the Chistian God that sends pople to suffer eternal torment in hell is clearly a fiction, without the least bit of question in my mind. It is simply an absurdity that I do not believe is possible.

Answer 9

Do you "choose"to deny Santa?Seriously,do you have a choice?If someone put a gun to your head and said"Believe in Santa or die!"You have a choice what to SAY,you may SAY,"Yes!I believe in Santa"to save your life but,do you have a choice to believe?Of course you don't,the notion of Santa is patently absurd,and one does not "choose"to believe.You may have believed when you were younger,and belief in Santa was endorsed and encouraged,but your belief did not make Santa real,and you only believed because that is what you were taught.If you grew up in a family that didn't "do"santa,you would NEVER have believed.Well,to myself,and most of the world actually,the idea of the biblical god and worldwide floods is every bit as ridiculous as a belief in Santa.The difference being,belief in your bible continues to be endorsed and encouraged through adulthood.However,just as with Santa,the belief does not make the reality.God is no more real than Santa,there is NOTHING more believable about it.In fact,Santa is easier to believe.If you ever decide to actually want TRUTH,TRUTH more than your version of god,but truth.Just a little study and reason will show you beyond doubt that,if there is a god,the biblical versions are impossible to be true.Religion and blind faith are dangerous.If your god is a god of truth,then learn what man knows,then make up your own character of god,with what we do know and your personal philosophy.A real god doesn't fit in that silly holy book,a real god would stand up to the closest scrutiny.Find the truth,a REAL god of TRUTH would be pleased

Answer 10

Believing God exists is just as useful as standing in a railroad believing trains exist, but never moving a muscle...


So yeah, believe him or not..
Just Love your neighbor and put others before yourself.
Love your enemies.
Forgive everyone.
thats really what you have to do when you become a believer.
so just bypass the stuff you don't accept and obey the things you can't really object to...

If you believe you can be a good person without a god.
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS.
dedicate 10% of your income to begin with, help a charity or start one.
Then raise it up gradually.
Love people..

unless your denial of God is simply a way to appease your guilt over your greed..... well.. prove it with your life.

Answer 11

If I die and there is a god then I'm sure he wont punish me for not obeying petty little rules written down by men to control other men.

I will be scared. As will you. As would anyone no matter how good a life they had led.

But lets face it. Its not going to happen.

If there isn't any god how will you feel? There is no point in pretending to believe in God just because you are scared there might be one.