I ask this one hoping some athiests would think when they're alone...?

Question

okay many of you are enjoying your life

simply no restrictions of what god puts on a belivers life...

thats quite fun isnt it ?

you feel free and safe and enjoy it ... well some time you may get sad ...but it goes on and youll soon reach your happy days...

so what if you get blood cancer and doctors fail to heal you ?
do you know how it feels ?
you dont know weather your going to die or not
is it going to happen now ? tommorow ? a week ? a month ? ...
do you know how terrible is to die in fear and pain ?
do you know that you may get paralyzed gradually and loose your ability ?

can you protect your self of an earthquake destroying your house in the middle of the nigh while your having sweet dreems ?

why dont you just apoligize from your lord.. and comfort your heart by accepting the only one god !?

bad things happening to a beliver is punishments of what his done

God is never never never cruel to any one ... maybe one day you'll all figure out

all of my topic was only one example showing you that their is no hope in your dark life ... christians and muslims may die of cancer may face punishment
but they have a beautifull world beyond this small simple one which is all you can imagine and feel
and would last for ever

Belivers are never afraid of death ...and its different of your braveness

what can be better than death ?
simply rejoining your only one lord again ?

lack of evidence of god? just look at what you were ( a drop of sperm )
and what you are...

only 3 or 4 edits was enough for all the 40-50 answers given ;)

Answer 1

"why dont you just apoligize from your lord.. and comfort your heart by accepting the only one god !?"

Because we're smarter than you.

I'm not being facetious here - this is simply the correct answer to your question. You've chosen something that is simply silly, and you're perfectly okay with it. We're smarter than you are, so we recognize how silly and empty that "god" stuff is, and we're not interested in playing those games.

I'm sure that's not the answer you wanted, but it's the honest truth. If you don't like it, you might want to avoid asking again in the future, and instead make up some other answer that makes you happier. Just keep it to yourself, though - if you ask again, I'm going to tell you the truth again.

Answer 2

So I should accept your god because of fear of a horrible death? WTH? What a nice, guilt-filled, morbid spin on Pascal's wager.

I HAVE faced my own mortality before. I spent 3 weeks staring down the barrel of a very uncertain diagnosis that included a possibility of a very aggressive and difficult to treat form of cancer. I have also been in a car sliding off a snowy embankment into a very deep ravine with a river at the bottom -- life flashing before my eyes, realizing that I could very well die in the next few seconds, etc.

As an atheist, I live everyday knowing I have no divine safety net keeping me from being hit by a bus or killed in a freak accident or whatever. As such, I live everyday to its fullest, knowing each day could be my last.

So...I know what I'm talking about when I say I have thought about my own mortality and actually faced the very real possibility of dying sooner than later. It has served only to make me appreciate the life I DO have, not scare or guilt me into believing in a deity.

Answer 3

You are assuming that all athiests are happy and care free people. And once the good times run out, will look to a higher power. I've had some serious health problems in my life, but have never prayed once in my life. I understand the value of religion in a community, and I'm glad that people have that. But, not everyone has the need for a religion and a higher power in their lives. I am not anti-religion, but it's just not part of who I am.

Answer 4

I am an atheist.

I am not afraid of death, nor am I afraid of life and whatever it might throw at me.

Your imaginary friend doesn't protect anyone. It's all in your head. Keep your delusions to yourself, I have no desire to share them. I'm busy living in the real world. Terrible things HAVE happened in my life, but I have news for you: becoming an atheist was the BEST thing I've ever done, and yes, it makes me happy. Not because I have "no restrictions", that's complete nonsense, but because I am free of ridiculous beliefs.

I didn't become an atheist on a whim, and it's not a world view I've adopted for the sake of convenience. It is an integral part of who I am, and I went through a lot of reading, studying, and thinking before I gave up religious faith. I'll be an atheist until the day I die, and I will defend it right into the ground. I've done nothing for which I have to apologize, I don't think the way you do.

I see it in your writing, you speak of death so much. You are afraid of death, disease, pain, disaster...and God. It's obvious.

I'm not.

Answer 5

You have your religion, we have ours. You have your ways of coping with things, we have ours. Why don't you just accept it? People who aren't of your religion aren't any less of a human being than you are. You don't need to try and shove "God" down our throats.

Friends and family will comfort me when I am sick and/or dying. If you want to pray and that helps you get stronger - good for you, do it.

Can YOU protect yourself against an earthquake destroying your house in the middle of the night while you're having sweet dreems? No, you really can't. I believe in fate, and if my fate was to die that way - then so be it. If you think your religion and having the power of God on your side...then good for you!

Why don't you just accept people for who they are and realize that everyone has different religions, beliefs, and opinions?

Answer 6

All the situations you describe could just as easily happen to a believer. But then you feel they'll be comforted by some god. I will also be comforted knowing that there is no god. I do not require such a crutch to face a death that awaits us all. I am already at peace with myself and my life and I need no false hope of becoming a zombie and having eternal life to make me feel good. This unnatural fear of death that all christians seem to have really is disturbing and sad.

Answer 7

You are so wrong....about me..

"simply no restrictions of what god puts on a belivers life..."

You have no idea what restrictions I have in my life. I don't complain about them though..neither do I feel as inclined as you to 'boast' of them.

"so what if you get blood cancer and doctors fail to heal you ?
do you know how it feels ?"

Cancer can go into remission. So can arthritis and a few other systemic diseases. If cancer happened to me I would have hope, but not in Chrstianity or Islam etc...

...I HAVE actually been 'cured' of a disabling disease that the doctors couldn't cure, and I held pagan beliefs at that time.

The disease, like cancer, is characterized by remission. My faith in myyself helped me through. 'Placebo' is a strong psychological effect...so is faith. Any faith.

"you dont know weather your going to die or not
is it going to happen now ? tommorow ? a week ? a month ? ...
do you know how terrible is to die in fear and pain ?"

Do you? I nearly died once, and the fear was enormous and activating. I got angry. I saved myself...adrenalin is a strong effect...

"Do you know that you may get paralyzed gradually and loose your ability ?"

Oh come on, you are enjoying this now, this gets weird...

"can you protect your self of an earthquake destroying your house in the middle of the nigh while your having sweet dreems ?"

Maybe, maybe not, who knows unless it happens. Having faith in the supernatural didn't protect people 4000BC and neither does it now. Living away from geological faultlines does. It's OK, you can accept geological faultlines in your religon, can't you? Would you live under a rotten tree bough and say "how can I save myself if that branch falls other than believe in gods?" Or would you live elsewhere?

"why dont you just apoligize from your lord.. and comfort your heart by accepting the only one god !?"

I can't accept a fool's comfort anymore than I can admire the king's 'new clothes'...

Sorry.

UPDATE:

"Belivers are never afraid of death ...and its different of your braveness"

OK, I gave you the benefit of the doubt but now you flat out lied.

Ask any war veteran. I asked my grandfather (himself a Christian) about the D Day landings...the truth is, that religious or not, those men were sh*t-scared.

You might do well to be practice some honest enquiry yourself instead of living in that dishonest bubble in your imagination...

"what can be better than death ? "

Life. Now please keep your death cult away from those of us who enjoy living. No matter how self-righteous and self-satisfied you may feel, the truth is that your death cult only spreads hate, division, lies and illusion.

Answer 8

Wishing that there will be a loving sky Daddy waiting to take me to a paradise in the sky doesn't make it fact.

And can believers protect themselves from an earthquake destroying their homes in the middle of the night while they're praying and having delusions of Heaven? Are you under the illusion that believers don't die in earthquakes?

Answer 9

I see no difference at all. Christians and people of other religions get cancer as well. Babies get cancer. Is that some sort of punishment from a supposedly loving god? What could a baby have possibly done wrong that a loving god would inflict them with cancer?

If believing in some happy afterlife makes inevitable death seem less frightening to you, by all means believe. Just don't expect everyone else to need that security blanket.

Answer 10

What does the lord have to do with it other than having created it for me? You sound like you may be ill. Hopefully you are not, but what an amazing question.

According to the belief the lord created me - according to the belief the lord knows everything about me and everything I do and think. He must therefore know what horrors are bestowed on me. Why would I choose to worship something that has caused me all the pain that you claim could or would happen. I don't think I would look fondly on such a thing. I certainly would not choose to believe in such an evil being.