What would be the benefits of becoming Atheist?

Question

According to you.

Except giving up your brains.

According to me that is.

Kris I'm already married.

Pangloss: LMAO

You seem to have close relation with Him, perhaps that's why you earn so much money?

Answer 1

Atheists are more intelligent, earn more money, are nicer, better looking, happier and have incredible love lives.

or is that just me?

;)

"Except giving up your brains.
According to me that is."

I guess another benefit of being atheist is that I do not feel the need to slam an entire group of people merely because they do not share my viewpoint.
Nice Christian attitude- Jesus would be proud.

Answer 2

It frees your mind! As a freethinker you are now able to consider ideas for themselves, on their own merit, not based on how well they conform to some church doctrine. You have no conflicts between religious training and your own conscience. You can judge people by how good they are, how they act, what they do, rather than by what religious group they claim to belong to. You can judge the goodness or badness of -everything- based on what good or bad comes of it, not some abstract 'Will of God'. You can read the Bible, the Quran, the Rig Veda, etc. etc. just as fascinating ancient literature, and you can also read various commentaries and interpretations without feeling you need to reject out-of-hand those that don't conform to the private doctrines of your particular sect. You can learn practical values and moral precepts from -anyone-.

(For instance, check out 'The Humanist Manifesto'. A great statement of basic values, but totally without mention of God. A fundamentalist Christian would feel required to derogate these values, only because they're not tied to a 'Christian' theology. But one can't really deny them, they are self-evident!)

After a while you realize that believing in God is gratuitous; you can if you want but your values in life and morality, the things that are -really- important, your judgment of good and bad, are the same whether or not you believe in God, in fact whether or not he even exists!

Answer 3

I didn't become an atheist for the benefits. I became one because I can't be anything else.

Whatever benefits there may be are inconsequential, therefore.

I can tell you this much, it certainly doesn't make your life any easier, not in this country at least. I often sit and wish I didn't know all the things that I know, so I could fit in with the religious majority.

It might make me an idiot, but at least I wouldn't have so many people hating me for not belonging to their cult.

Answer 4

probable not, yet in spite of the incontrovertible fact that there are not particularly that many reward to having a faith the two. the main significant income is which you're much less in all risk to make judgements inspired by using a concept in non-existent entities, that's probable a competent factor in maximum circumstances.

Answer 5

Benefit? None. I'm still the same person I was before I became an atheist.

It's a conclusion I arrived at when I couldn't stand the illogical and manipulatory theology I was raised in.

Answer 6

you allow your framework for understanding your life to start from scratch, rather that having a belief system determined for you by members of a group who, whether they admit to it or not, enjoy certain benefits of belonging to a specific group. most atheists don't enjoy the same group solidarity, but they don't have to put up with being torn on an issue when dogma and reality turn out to be contradictory.

Answer 7

Spiritual freedom.

Increasing your value of life. Since there is no afterlife waiting for you, it makes your current life more valuable.

Not being subservient to an invisible entity.

The ability to make your own choice about morals and personal values.

The ability to make judgements based on facts and reason.

Not having to worry about being eternally punished for minor offenses.

Not having to be a bigot to appease some section of a 2000 year old book.

Not having to justify or rationalize the countless contradictions and hypocrisy in religious text.

Etc.

/not an atheist

Answer 8

I no longer think that I'm a sinful piece of ****, my self-esteem is way up, I no longer let "churchies" take advantage of me, I'm not afraid to lie a little bit if it keeps me out of trouble, I'm much, much, much, much happier, I don't constantly worry about whether or not I'm being prideful/sinful/selfish..., I get to read and study what I want without fear of it "not being godly," I hang out with who I like instead of who I feel a god wants me to hang out with, I value life for its own sake instead of as a finite scrap of time by which is decided my eternal fate, I don't annoy people by constantly talking about how "good" my eternal-torment-bent god is, I have *** when I like and how I like, I can let my mind roam without fear of eternal retribution, I feel free and purpose-driven instead of fear-driven, I take ownership of my good and bad aspects instead of wondering exactly what is coming from me, what is coming from the Devil and what is coming from the Holy Spirit, I love passionately, I judge according to what *I* feel is right, I get to spend time doing FUN stuff with my family on one of my few days off of the week (Sunday), I'm allowed to love sleep (and I do), I'm allowed to love food and occasionally eat way too much, I'm allowed to deny a beggar beer money, and last but not least (and definitely not all), I no longer think that everybody I love is going to suffer in some form of eternal torment for decisions that they made in this finite, infinitesimal, laughably tiny smudge of an existence.

How's that?

Answer 9

besides not believing something without question and only do to faith, I'd say commonsense and hopefully gaining some fact before you commit your life to something.
but if your in a religion only do the benefits then your ain't a good christian are you?
PS i don't call believing in something without no real evidence and following a book full of hypocrisy and contradiction written by men not god, using your brains.

Answer 10

Honestly, as an atheist, you have to first deal with mortality, then you've got to take responsibility for yourself and your actions, and finally you have to act mature and intelligent when presented with the fairy tales of religious cults. Is it always easy...no, but that's part of growing up.