2007-11-21 20:38:16 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An atheist is like a member of a jury. He's heard the religious community produce its evidence of God and he has considered the evidence that no God exists. After careful thought, he has decided on the latter.
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2007-11-21 20:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mencken 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Some people just choose to say they are atheist so annoying and obsessive converters will go away.
Some reptile shoves a card in front of your face: "Which vampire would you like to pay to suck your blood? Clone One, Clone One, or Clone One?"
Why do people choose to say they are Christian, when they don't have a point of view of their own.
You who say you take up after the Christ.
Yehweh -- Had his own point of view.
If you ask most people to name their religion, you'll get a LIE - it'll only be what they SAY they believe, lip service to invisible super-beings on the off-chance that some might actually exist. Their politics define what they actually DO. That's the filter through which they filter everything. When someone says they are a conservative or a liberal, that self-determination reveals far more than their professed "religion" about their world view and their perceived relationship to the Universe.
What's the difference? Both parties bend over for their special interest groups. The Republican Party, once the most noble institution in the land, is now sold out to the country- club effete rich and superstitious religious fanatics. The Democratic Party, once the most noble institution in the land, is the fawning lap dog for the whining jerk-kneed, quivering under the table with it's tail between it's legs. Both have been broken under the Conspiracy wheel.
My outlook is so much more extreme than either far left or far right that, to me, they might as well be identical. Both ideologies are JUST MORE RELIGION. Both might as well be Cargo Cultist's bowing down before department store dummies. I believe in freedom of religion, and Cargo Cultists are free to worship dummies if they wish. But between the "Politically Correct" on the one hand and the "Theologically Correct" on the other, we're being P.C.ed and J.C.ed until freedom is D.O.A.
YOU CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY, and you can't believe anything you read. It's LIES all the way down the line, starting with your first-grade history primer and leading up to this very sentence. All this ballyhoo about the God-fearing founding fathers, and how this nation is based on the Bible - !#!@!*! Those guys were all Masons and Deists working under the Sign of the ALL-SEEING EYE! Check out the back of the dollar bill.
2007-11-22 05:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by YoungBuck 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heres a question for you, is an Atheist and Atheist if they dont know enough about religion to accept that they dont believe?
An Atheist is someone who believes in no God nor religion, but is that someone who is lazy and wont learn or someone who knows all about religion and opts to disagree with it all?
So People may choose to not learn or choose to disagree.
2007-11-22 04:49:55 · answer #3 · answered by dowsann 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's often not a choice, just the fact that all the religions with their ideas and rules completely fail to convince people. After all we are all born atheist.
2007-11-22 04:43:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personal choice, many know that being an Atheist isn't going to be easy as there are bound to be people with prejudice against them but life isn't easy, but through struggle we get stronger and hopefully whats right will come through.
2007-11-22 06:27:19 · answer #5 · answered by Krayden 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well since we are all born atheists I think the question should be "Why do people choose to believe in fairy tales?"
2007-11-22 04:43:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I choose to not believe in your and all other gods the same way I choose not to believe in the Easter Bunny.
2007-11-22 04:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't make a claim there is a God without any evidence to back it up ...this simple fact makes them atheist.
There is no choice involved, you cannot make yourself believe something you know there is no foundation for if you are a reasoning person...so I wouldn't call atheism a choice at all, atheism is the default human position before religious conditioning and indoctrination.
2007-11-22 04:48:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because of the evidence that exists that all gods have been invented by mankind through history. The current crop are just as false.
Easy question. Give us a difficult one?
2007-11-22 04:43:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason anyone chooses any religion.
2007-11-22 04:47:44 · answer #10 · answered by skame 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋