Is there something inside them that keeps them in check?
Is there a deep rooted admission in their hearts that a Being greater than themselves exists?
Do the limits of reason and science disturb them?
Do the unseen evidences of personality and consciousness cause them to contemplate life after death?
2007-12-03 21:33:58 · 30 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oldwise1 -- 'glug glug'???
It was cute for a while but your drinking game fad is over. Bell-bottom pants will come back in style before this does again.
So many disagree with the supposition, yet as I suspected so many Atheists responded and so many by their posts prove my point.
Thank you for being who you are. I just hope someday you truly realize what draws you here.
2007-12-03 21:45:22 · update #1
*glug*glug* Everyone has morals that keeps them in check, unless you are mentally disturbed, morals dont come from religion or from believing or not believing. Actually there really arnt any limits to science, it has pretty much explained and given proof to numerous erounious thoughts once held by believers. And I dont believe in life after death *zombie jesus* that is why we have to make our ONE life the best we can.
2007-12-03 21:38:23 · answer #1 · answered by oldwise1 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
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Yep and it ain't religion or fear of a vengeful god (little g on purpose)
Is there a deep rooted admission in their hearts that a Being greater than themselves exists?
Yep and it makes your Bibical god look like a fly on the wall.
Do the limits of reason and science disturb them? Not at all, they in fact empower me. Just think, only a few hundred years ago, humans thought that thunder and lightning were just the gods getting together for a bit of "pins". We now know that NO self respecting god would be caught dead at pins, not with the NFL on CBS.
Do the unseen evidences of personality and consciousness cause them to contemplate life after death?>> Not at all. it is one of the individual strenghts of an atheist that life is a wounderous gift, not from a vengeful or benovelent being, but a as yet unknown process for the universe (starstuff) to comtemplate itself, 10 billion, billion, billion atoms serching the COSMOS for answers. Each day finding new and exciting secrets, and each day throwing off the yolk of a diety to which absolute obeidence is demanded but absolute reciprocity is never delivered.
As a group, we atheist are a far more stabil bunch, no MORE moral then any other human, and certainly not prone to such illogical imaginations as you belivers are.
To you, this life without a creator is totally imcomparable. To us, this life without a creator is a true heaven. The differece is, to us, what will be will be. To you, what you can imagine as a utopia, is what you THINK will be. We do not labor under such delusions.
2007-12-03 21:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by De Deuce 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would believe that. If you ignore the things you disagree with, you can never learn. Your philosophical and spiritual aspects will stagnate. This is a problem of many christians, especially those with young earth beliefs.
2007-12-04 16:52:26 · answer #3 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists are nice people. They are very peaceful, as they life live according to reason.
Atheists love all of you, although they may not know of it themselves. The only reason why you see atheists bashing religion or God is because they want you to wake up to the truth.
2007-12-03 21:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by Sid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists engage theists in debate for the same reason you are engaging them in the same type of debate. They are trying to understand you and help you to understand them. They really don't believe in God by the way, they're just trying to figure out why other people do.
2007-12-03 21:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by Tea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
shouldn't your question be like:
why don't they believe in what is presented by different people to be a superior being
2007-12-03 21:46:18 · answer #6 · answered by ace m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in Batman, but I don't ignore him. In fact, I buy his books every month!
Religion, like comic books, interests me. That's why I come here.
*glug*
2007-12-03 21:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh yeah, I know in my heart that God is watching over me, I'm just in denial.
Look, this question has been asked so often, in so many different forms, and it's never going to work.
2007-12-03 22:07:56 · answer #8 · answered by skame 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wish you would ignore what you do not and do not want to understand:not only atheists but catholics,orthodox Christians, Hindus,muslims,jews etc,
Speak for yourself about who you are and what you believe and please take your own adviceof 'What I do not believe,i simply ignore" and no longer cultivate hate and ignorance about others who disagree with you. for hate is not what the lord wants from you. God bless,protect and direct you and yours.
2007-12-04 00:37:57 · answer #9 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because you don't believe in a specific God doesn't mean you give up thinking. Their minds are open to explore and find out about many different religions and ponder them without letting it change the way they think.
2007-12-03 21:39:27 · answer #10 · answered by lipstickcloud 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋