atheist argurement?

Question

whay do ppl become atheist? besides we have no proof?
do ya'll have any argurements ( facts) that can go against the belief in christianity?

such as some from the bible to argue against?

i AM agnostic!!!!!
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i am wondering if i should become atheist

Answer 1

People become atheists because they find no evidence or reason for belief in a god.

People leave Christianity for their own reasons. My journey out of Christianity began with the cruel nature of Yahweh. It continued and eventually concluded with the scientific mistakes and contradictions in the Bible and the lack of any evidence to support Biblical claims about the supernatural.

I'll give you an example of each, and from there you can read about it on your own.

Cruelty - Genocide
Joshua 10:40

Contradictions - Here's a list, I'm tired.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html

Scientific mistakes -
The Bible claims that bats are birds, that pi = 3, that the world is a circle instead of a sphere (and several other references to a flat earth), that plants, which must have sunlight, were created before the sun, the the earth was created before the sun and stars, and on and on and on...

Best site for finding all the objections to the Bible -

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

Edit - agnostic is a term that describes a philosophical position on what can be *known*. It means you take the position that it cannot be known whether there is a god or not.

The opposite of agnostic is gnostic, meaning that you think you do know or can know whether there is a god or not.

Belief is a separate concept. Just as you must either be gnostic or agnostic, you must either be a believer in a god or a non-believer.

You can be one of four things - a gnostic believer (theist, deist, whatever), an agnostic believer, a gnostic non-believer, or an agnostic non-believer.

Answer 2

Actually, I've never needed any type of religion before. And seldom think about the subject. I like to think that I'm a fairly nice person to everyone I meet, be them religious or otherwise. And don't need the promise of a heavenly afterlife, or the threat of hell to be such a person.

In my life, I have met many different types of people. Some I will always remember with fondness, Others were real low life's, who at the time I really wanted dead. However I can not at this time think of anyone who I would like to see burning in hell for all eternity. Can you?

I don't think most Atheists "choose" to become so. I think they live their lives never thinking about it very much. So if there is some sort of supreme being, and a day of judgment. The Atheist will probably be the only people who ever lived the way they did because it was what they honestly thought to be right and just. And not because they had to be enticed or threatened to live such a life.

Answer 3

Why do you equate rejection of Christianity with atheism? After all, most of the world rejects Christianity, yet most are not atheists?

Besides the textual and historical problems with the transmission of the texts of the books of the bibles, as well as the fact that we have no reason whatsoever to believe than any authors of the new testament ever even met Jesus (for example, it says clearly in Acts that Peter and John were illiterate, yet supposedly they wrote six of the books - in a foreign Greek tongue no less - included in the the NT), the NT also makes the following claims:

1. Someone walks on water (someone else does it for a short while)
2. A man is raised from the dead
3. Many more people are raised from the dead and walk around
4. Fish and bread are "multiplied" to feed thousands
5. Lepers are healed
6. Someone rises himself from the dead
7. Someone makes 150 gallons of wine out of water
8. All this happened 2,000 years ago

Pretty far fetched thing to believe without any evidence, let alone any decent eyewitnesses, no?

Answer 4

Well let's start right at the begining. In the begining there was God. But since there wasn't a universe for God to exist in either a) the Bible implies the universe was just a big empty space (which physics says is impossible as gravity would collapse it) or b) physics didn't apply - which is pretty odd to say the least.

Moving on a bit we come to Noah. Now it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and in that time enough water fell on the Earth to cover mount Everest - or at the very least cover a LOT of the Earth's surface. That's a lot of water, and cats and dogs probably doesn't quite describe just how fast it would have to come down to do it in 40 days. More importantly, where did ALL that water go? 3 miles of water ABOVE sea level? Plus, how did all those plants survive? And the saltwater fish wouldn't have survived living 40 days in very very fresh water.

Next we come to the concept of God him/itself. Now we can take for a fact that evil exists (excluding moral relativism for a moment) Is God able and willing to get rid of evil? Then why doesn't he? Is he able but NOT willing? Then he isn't loving. Is he unable but willing? Then he's not all powerful. Is he neither willing nor able? Then why call him God?

Answer 5

Um...I became atheist due to (lack of evidence) and because of personal experiences...

The Bibe has pretty much disproved itself since its conception! I don't care what any Christian may say about "taken out of context" the fact that one book/line says one thing and then another says the exact opposite, well, an elementary student can write better...Who wrote the Bible? A bunch of men who were "inspired" (which probably means there were smoking something...) and was rewritten so many times in so many langauges the whole meaning behind it is pretty much a55 rap3d....

I'm not going to go into any "facts" since if I did, a Christian can just as easily refute it saying, "God did it," or some other annoyingly static answer....

Answer 6

To me, the real question is, "Why would I believe in ANY religion, since they're all the creation of human minds?" If I could just accept Jesus once, submit to Allah just once, perform some other ritual--and be done with it for the rest of my life, that'd be great. However, religion is something that takes up a significant part of life, and if there's no reality behind it, I'd rather have no religion or make up my own, since that's a much more fun alternative...

Answer 7

Well why do people become Christian? Pagan? Muslim? It's what you feel to be true.

Not everyone is so willing to conform to what is "normal" in our society. If more people were true to themselves, they'd probably realize that most (not all) of the time, the thing they are raised in is not the thing that they believe. For example, I was raised in a fairly non-religious manner. However as I matured, I realized that I was drawn to paganism. Now I'm pagan. Voila. This has nothing to do with "proof" of one god over another. It's what I feel.

Answer 8

Fossils... They are a damn good argument in and of themselves...

Second… Christianity started as a small cult that happened to survive long enough to get “Official” status…

The fact that human culture existed for thousands and thousands of years before Christians came along with MANY MANY other gods and goddesses so what makes you new-comers think that you are right?

Blind faith where to think for yourself is hericy? No... I'm good...

I have dozens and dozens of others but I'm hungry and need to make dinner... Since prayr won't fill my stomach...

Answer 9

Actually, I have done quite a bit of studying and researching. There is no empirical proof that supports the existence of a deity. However, there is an overwhelming amount of support for the contrary.

Answer 10

Well birdy,

Atheists do not need any proofs. Atheists make no claims.

It appears that christians make all kinds of claims and so far not one has offered anything akin to what would pass for a...proof!

Got anything that might pass as a proof you would like to put forth?

I suggest you read Dr R PhD in Revolution; there is some good information in that piece.