wat do u think about athiesm?

Answer 1

I think it is just as foolish as Christianity. Saying you know there isn't a higher power and saying you know there is a higher power is equally harmful.

Answer 2

Not too much as it's a possibility based purely on an
individual belief system No proof suppositions are
just those and debating them a lesson in futility. One
can be positive there's a God, another scoffs at the
idea and says heaven's here are Earth. I'm pragmatic
and tend to believe what I can see, touch, love, smell
and roll in.

Answer 3

from this bunch up top it seems to be varied with some hard-core zealots and atheists and some anti-atheist's?!?!? with a reformed atheist that just went back to believing the lie he sought to rid himself of

I'd have to have some personal experience to talk about atheism. the closet thing i've come to would have to be a calvinist. then again i don't care what your religion is cause i'm impervious to promises. simply said, atheism is just like every other segment of religion in this world of ours. it has it's followers and stone-throwers, it's no different at all

Answer 4

I think that, when it comes to matters of the spirit, everyone should listen to their conscience.

If your intellect and your conscience both agree that there is no higher power, then that's the way it should be. As long as you're trying to live a moral life (in the do-unto-others sense) it makes no difference to me.

I'd rather see people being true to themselves, than faking a devotion to a God they don't really believe in to avoid social condemnation.

Answer 5

I am an atheist, so I think it makes more sense than any other ideas about gods. I see some agnostics reply here. They are uncommitted to any idea about gods. Some of my relatives believe atheist is a dirty word.

Answer 6

My son used to read the bible...he would have some small arguments with us about it, he tried to preach it to us to a small degree, but he was a kind preacher in the sense, he would NEVER say that we would go to hell if we didn't believe in the bible. Then he became an atheist, and we would have arguments with him about this...one day I asked him why he stopped reading the bible and he told me quite honestly that it was too rigid and that you weren't allowed to make mistakes or God would be upset with you...and sadly , at 20 years of age he did a completed suicide [nothing to do with being an atheist though]:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/taylerslife/
Now my whole family has become atheist and or agnostic.

Answer 7

Athiesm does not cross my mind much, but i think of it as let people believe what they want to believe.

Answer 8

Most of the people who become atheists are so, not because they dont believe in the existence of God, but perhaps because some of their strong prayers have'nt been answered or life has shown a hard face towards them eary in their life.But that is human nature of reacting to disappointments.
Some philosophers are atheists because they want personal proof of God.

Answer 9

Don't think about it. It is a simple statement so obvious that no thought is required. Those who insist on a higher power need to prove it with other than their wishes to transfer responsibility and their desire for oversimplification.

Theists insist on higher power's or powers' control of events down to daily decisions of mates, jobs, fortune, car, color children, health............ That way they unhook from responsibility and from causes producing effects.

Answer 10

The Franciscan William of Ockham famously said there is no theological arguement for, nor scientific evidence of, God's existence and that a belief in him must be based entirely on faith.
People who try to inject reason into the subject do so because Boethius said, "In so far as is possible, join faith to reason."
I prefer to DISjoin faith from reason in order not to muddy the waters, and in doing so I conclude with reason that I cannot have both faith and reason. I chose reason.

Answer 11

i think if your an atheist it dosnt basically mean you dont believe in something it just means that ur idea's and beliefs dont fit into any religion. I consider myself an atheist because none of my belief's fit into any religious catagory. I dont think if you dont believe in a certain thing that makes you a bad person, and i dont think anyone can tell you how to live your life. Just because u dont believe in something dosnt mean ur evil! like all them christian/muslim/jahova's witness's preach about!