2007-12-03 04:43:18 · 16 answers · asked by Nick 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Having been in both courts, I can say that atheists don't hate God. How can you hate something you don't believe exists?
Some Christians think that atheists hate God simply because the idea of not believing in a Creator is completely foreign to them.
2007-12-03 04:48:17 · answer #1 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't hate "God" because I don't believe such a thing exists. The only thing I hate about the idea of "God" is that some people keep trying to make me believe in it, which I don't, so it's more of just annoying. So I don't hate "God", though I do hate the idea (and the actions) of people coming up to me, asking why I don't believe, and my friends distancing themselves from me just because after the four years we've known each other they finally realize that I don't believe in the concept of "God" and they themselves not liking the idea of an atheist friend are now being less friendly toward me, and possibly hostile. Religion is stupid, ruining friendships, creating wars and genocide, you'd think that if there was such a thing as "God", s/he would've gotten rid of all this rubbish by now. Those are just my opinions on the situation, and a little insight on my life. I know, I hate it too.
2007-12-03 17:04:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This question is often asked in discussions of Atheism with religious people. The assumption is that the "goal" of Atheism is to "attack" or "hate" their beliefs, such as the existence of a god. As an Atheist I want to set the record straight - I have no such malevolent intent. I want to simply explain that a rationalist approach to the universe is full of extraordinary beauty and wonder - all the more profound because it is knowable. A 'god" explanation is self deceptive and limiting. "Truth" is all the more powerful when it is an understanding of what actually IS, not what feels right, or what is intuitive, or what scholars wrote in documents in the distant past.
Rationalism, and the Atheism that naturally follows, is not cold. It is breathtakingly wondrous and appealing.
2007-12-03 12:59:55 · answer #3 · answered by Rationalist 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist. It's impossible to hate a God who doesn't actually exist. I hate what organized religion -- acting in God's name -- has done to human civilization. I hate the irrational superstitions, the Inquisitions, the Crusades, the countless witch burnings, and now we have suicide bombers. I hate all the terrible evils which organized religion has brought down upon human civilization. More than anything else, I hate that humanity is wasting a golden oppurtunity to improve our collective future, because we're busily squandering our intellectual capital worshipping the unchanging superstitions of our ignorant past. Religion prevents progress two ways: by denying that only the physical realm is objectively real, and by failing to recognize that subjective mental experiences can only be the fabrications of our own living brains. It seems painfully obvious that humanity will never realize its full potential, as long as we allow ourselves to be perpetually handicapped by the superstitions of our ignorant ancestors. Science is the only way forward, while religion relentlessly seeks to drag us back into the Dark Ages of mysticism and superstition. I fear our civilization will collapse before we develop the infrastructure and technology needed to colonize the distant stars. That would ultimately doom the human species (and its imaginary gods) to eventual extinction.
2007-12-03 13:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists don't believe in gods, so of course we don't hate any of them. RedQueen hits the nail squarely on the head: the seemingly endless flow of Christians who claim that "atheists hate God" are people who simply aren't capable of imagining that someone could really think differently than they do about religion.
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I'm impressed that you put the "s" at the end of "atheists", AND managed to put the "e" before the "i". Now get to work on "Christians".
2007-12-03 12:48:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I think Atheists hate believers.
2007-12-03 12:49:14 · answer #6 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's foolishly illogical to say that you "hate" something you believe cannot logically exist. Add on the icing that I never "hate" anyone or anything and you've got me pegged.
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2007-12-03 12:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
How do repeat questions keep getting thru, we keep answering the same way. You can't hate something that doesn't exist.
2007-12-03 14:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by calmlikeatimebomb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't hate any gods. They'd have to exist in order to do anything to earn my hatred.
2007-12-03 12:48:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
About as much as I hate Voldemort.
2007-12-03 12:48:52 · answer #10 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋