Are there any Atheist out there who believe...?

Question

what they believe because of something bad that happen to them and how could a God do this, so therefore there is no God?
Referance a Roman Catholic raised int he south who wrote a short story about an Atheist women who got her wooden leg stolden by a fake Bible salesman.
He left her with no leg to stand on...LOL
You can't judge a book (bible) by It's cover
If you have time to read it, it will leave Atheist wondering if she is against or for religion.

link to story:
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/oconnorgoodcountry.html

story by Flannery O' Connor

Answer 1

If there are, they're few and far between -- they would more likely be maltheists....

Answer 2

No, and let me tell you, after suffering through a disfiguring condition far beyond what most could even begin to contemplate throughout my teenage years, I will tell you I have no bitterness. I would gladly suffer if it could be for the good of mankind. This outlook largely was built through the years of extreme mental illness I had during those years. It is amazing I'm here typing this today considering how close to the edge I came many times.

My suffering is nothing. What I can not accept about religions, beyond the logical fallacies, is the concept many hold that you must be of that religion to be granted eternal bliss, otherwise eternal torture awaits. I've traveled to Asia, the nicest people I've ever met on average have been those who follow the Eastern philosophies Hinduism and Buddhism. Religions that don't have the stated tlook.

I was constantly taunted, made fun of, and shunned for the way I looked for years in America. I don't meet many people who act close to what the story of Jesus presents him to be. We know religion is based on little more than culture. Any God that would judge someone by where they are born, thus they believe, is a twisted God not worth worshiping.

Answer 3

I see your point, and sure it has a leg to stand on! I'm sure there are a few Atheists out there that once were believers, and stopped due to a personal affront that they attribute directly to God, and blame Him enought to say He doesn't exist. From the Q/A I've seen from some Atheists in R&S, and the Christian bashing, I have no doubt this reason stands. Of course, then there are the other Atheists that adhere to their reality that God doesn't exists because it can't be "proven," they've never been believers. Good observation...

Answer 4

No. I simply seek science to answers. And if science doesn't have a answer, I will wait until it does rather then make one up. Every religion in the past seeked to answer questions in a non-scientific way, until science could then answer. At that time the religion went away. I don't see any difference in today's religions. And the idea of God was the original "I don't have an answer so I'll make one up". And it has continued because God was designed to not be able to be proven wrong.

Answer 5

I'm sure there are those out there who choose to say they disbelieve in God for the fact that they feel wronged by him.

Those people however aren't true Atheists, they're Theists who happen to be pissed off at God.

Atheists, such as myself, are those who believe that the concept of God is ridiculous and without proof or credible evidence. Usually Atheists believe what they believe not because they feel God has wronged them, but because they have become knowledgeable to the point where their knowledge no longer allows them to believe in something so drowned in myth and legend, followed by corruption and greed.

Answer 6

Not particularly to me. Relatively speaking I have had a very lucky life with few disasters.

However, the suffering of innocents that is rank in the world is incompatible with a omnipotent, omnicognizant, all loving god.

So the presence of parasites that maim and kill, natural disasters that maim and kill mean that the Christian definition of God is logically impossible. Most of the infantcide, genocide and cruelty in the first half of the bible is totally incompatible with this definition of God too. As is hell.

Christians, generally do not want to consider this though, and just repeat the mantra of "The Lord moves in mysterious ways." until they really think that it is a valid answer to this paradox.

Answer 7

I think you'll find that most Atheists have read the bible and other religious manifestos.
You will also find that bad things happen to everyone, and often those events will not change your views.
Nothing that bad has ever happened to me, and if it did, I wouldn't point at the sky and curse.
I don't believe in god because it doesn't make sense to me.

Answer 8

That's a common fairy tale told be fundamentalists to excuse atheists as some type of malcontents that are just misguided. In reality, if you're pissed off at some supernatural deity, then you aren't an atheist. That's the whole point, you don't stop believing in something because you're made at it. You stop believing in something because you grow up and realize that the belief was based on fairy tales.

Answer 9

I don't know ANY who are atheist for that reason. In fact, I wouldn't even call that person an atheist. (If it's just that they're mad at a religious person, or that they're mad at God.)

That's the most common way that the movies portray atheists. Think about any atheist character in any movie you've ever seen...they're all atheist because of some tragedy. (Some examples: "The Reaping"-lost husband and daughter, "Signs"--lost wife, "1408"--lost daughter.) It's really irritating to me to see that, because it just perpetuates the false idea that some believers have that atheists really, deep down, believe in God, but are just angry at him.

Answer 10

I think if you abandon a religion because you're angry with it you can't be an atheist. It has to be a logical decision that you don't believe in the existence of a higher power, not a temper tantrum.

Answer 11

Disbelieving God because of something God supposedly allowed to happen is retarded. Believing the Bible is false because God is described as good, then illustrated as evil is more reasonable. But to assume God loves us, is good, or even existent is completely baseless.