I'm good friends with a few, but overall they seem very pessimistic and conniving. I'm beginning to see that they are all backstabbers and only nice to my face. I, myself, am agnostic. Actually a happy, hopeful, agnostic. But please tell me that there are some good, nice atheists out there. I think my mom has turned into an atheist, too, and she is super depressed all the time now. WHAT IS GOING ON!?
2007-11-14 17:16:16 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it depends. if you mean on the internet then good luck(you'll need it) but in real life atheists arent as big of @$$#0L3$ as we are here on the internet. I dont know about the conniving but the pessimistic part could hold a lot of truth though.
2007-11-14 17:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, one of the nicest and seemingly happiest people I know is an atheist. She's a coworker and she's always polite and sociable and upbeat. And that's without coffee. She's also very direct and I found out she was an atheist when we we're out for lunch and we saw this billboard for a church and she said "only idiots, at least on the philosophical level, believe 100% in God". But she's a nice enough person that she wouldn't say that in the prescence of a believer.
But in my, albeit limited, experience, I must agree with you that the religious people I've know are, on average, happier than the atheists. It's not a chasm between the two groups, it seems to be a little bit of corelation. And I must also agree with my coworker. In my experience, religious seem to be, on average, less intelligent than the atheists. Again, not a really large difference between the groups, but there is a corelation.
2007-11-14 17:32:42 · answer #2 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an Atheist, I choose to live by a moral standard that far exceeds that required by most religions. I am extremely tollerant of others, I am honest and forthright and I never find the time to be depressed. People in general can be backstabbers. It should be noted that people who operate in groups (or herds if you will) are more likely to be back stabbers than independent thinkers. Atheists are generally independent thinkers. It sounds like you have untrustworthy friends who happen to be Atheists. I am sure you have backstabbing friends that are believers too; however, since most religious people profess to live to a higher standard for fear of god, its harder to see their darker nature. Atheists, on the other hand, are seen as immoral because they don't live in fear of god so they must not have any moral compass to live by. So if they do anything at all that appears immoral or is socially unjust, it is automatically assumed that it is their non-belief that drove them to it. This is a fallacy of course.
2007-11-14 17:35:27 · answer #3 · answered by Wendy H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My uncle is an atheist and he is one of the sweetest people I have ever met.
But I see your point. For some reason, some do seem somewhat bitter. I guess it might be because they have to constantly explain to people the need for concrete facts to prove anything. They seem to lack the ability to understand that people don't need to prove their beliefs to anyone but themselves. For some people, faith is enough proof.
But I've seen far more meaner and immoral Christians than I have atheists.
2007-11-14 17:59:08 · answer #4 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of nice atheists....just today I met "I'm an atheist" on this site and he seems really cool. Other ones too like So-crates....I don't deny the importance of knowing Christ, only that there are alot of great people in this world, including atheists (who God created even if they don't believe in Him!)
2007-11-14 17:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm in no way rude. My mothers and dads raised me to be very well mannered, and that i've got raised my young ones interior a similar way. i may well be conceited yet in basic terms while confronted with smugness. i'm very slow to anger. human beings could desire to be taken as persons; ascribing particular features to huge communities is psychological laziness. If I meet an overbearing, preachy christian, i do no longer anticipate that each and every person christians are preachy and overbearing. in line with probability it particularly is time you accompanied a matching outlook.
2016-10-02 09:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by barrantes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have met many. One of the most caring people I have ever met is an atheist.
2007-11-14 22:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by lilagrubb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I married an atheist, and he is the most loving supportive person I have ever met
2007-11-14 17:49:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you described is 80% of the population or more. It is not unique to atheists.
(yes, I've met nice atheists. I even AM one)
2007-11-14 17:22:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I better not admit to being a VERY nice atheist, or some will accuse me of being "arrogant"
2007-11-14 23:13:29 · answer #10 · answered by I'm an Atheist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋