2007-11-01 07:00:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
this is best avatar...lol
yeah, their beliefs are based on fairy tales & myths
2007-11-01 07:04:32 · answer #1 · answered by Hector (atheist) 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The next time a doctor administers 8 units of blood to your mother who is hemorrhaging to death from complications from an internal bleed caused by surgery, she is throwing up blood and convulsing. The doctor pulls you aside and says you better start praying because there is nothing more we can do. Do you make a choice to turn to a book of "sheer say-so" drop to your knees and summon all the humility you have and beg for God's intervention or do you simply accept the word of a man that is fallible? The reason I ask is because this recently happened to my family, and everyone in the waiting room of that ICU was on their knees in prayer. Sometimes it just takes faith to believe in something that you can't see and for others it takes a sheer kick in the gut to get their attention. I'll stick with the faith, my mom is currently on a cruise ship some where in the Mediterranean with my dad celebrating a wonderful recovery and a brand new God given outlook on life. So no I don't need sheer say-so. I've got proof.
2007-11-01 07:21:43 · answer #2 · answered by fire_side_2003 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't have to back anything, God has backed everything, you read the Bible and start seeing all these prophesies that have come true, Isaiah, That The mesiah was coming, read it, and about Israel, there are alot of prophesies that have come true, they've found evidence in history books, archelogical digs, and God is with us, When we believe We invite The Holy Spirit into our lives, We see a change, we become new, what more proof do you want.
2007-11-01 07:08:38 · answer #3 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If they find comfort and meaning in it, they obviously are experiencing or feeling things that confirm the validity of their beliefs to them; otherwise they wouldn't believe that way anymore.
I never got that confirmation; but I don't begrudge anyone else who is able to have faith just because I can't.
2007-11-01 07:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sure you mean books like...
The God Delusion, Letters to a Christian Nation, Why I'm an Atheist... and sheer say so of the big bang, abiogenesis, the cambrian explosion...etc....or do all atheist just KNOW the research behind it all....i sheer think not!!
2007-11-01 07:04:41 · answer #5 · answered by Hope 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
That and the indwelling Holy Spirit of God.....who confirms it to be true
2007-11-01 07:07:58 · answer #6 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Hey... those bronze-age, semi-nomadic goat herder stories are SO believable!
*sigh*
2007-11-01 07:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
that pretty much sums it all up..
and of course the compelling need to make sure others believe the same thing for the same reasons...
2007-11-01 07:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
that and undisputed doctrine as well as unexplained phenomina, as well as science.
what makes yours any different
2007-11-01 07:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by Adam of the wired 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We get to talk to God.
Try praying sometime, only it don't work if you ain't sincere.
2007-11-01 07:07:00 · answer #10 · answered by Optimusprime 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋