ok i respect your beliefs so please dont answer meanly. I am NOT trying to offend you in any way. I just am interested. What is your reason for being Atheist?
2007-12-25 13:54:32 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What about Faith?
2007-12-25 14:08:04 · update #1
I reject the idea of a personified God because it makes me feel like a doll and rather pointless. I can see a creative power in the Universe, but for me, it's more energy and facilitating than somebody in charge.
Peace!
2007-12-25 14:00:48 · answer #1 · answered by carole 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I understand why you might ask this.
I would say... Realisation that what I had believed in for twenty odd years was purely for comfort and because I had randomly been born into that particular religion. It's almost impossible for a strong follower of a faith to stand back and be logical and open minded about what they believe in, because the years of belief just cloud everything. The thing is that it became so patently obvious that some people just can't cope with the prospect that there may be nothing looking after us or nowehere for us to go after we die. Fact.
It also became very obvious to me that 'even if' there is a higher power of some form, it's incredibly arrogant to just assume it will be totally in line with the religion we happen to be born in to.
There are flaws in every religious book, questions that can't be answered, and someone who is avid who will interpret the way they want and assume they can answer when really they cannot because again it's assumption on interpretation.
Faith picks and chooses what it applies and doesn't question itself as much as it questions and condemns everything around it a lot of the time. Which I feel is very wrong.
Not enough people are articulate or theologically educated enough to debate with a religious believer with good understanding so it doesn't happen as much as it should.
My simple question which started me off was... If I look at the jealous, bloodthirsty, warring God of the Old Testament... how can I believe in something that seemed to sum up the sins condemned? Lovely as the New Testament is, it's validity is often questionned, so how can all of the Old suddenly be forgotten because of the New?
There are various answers to this of course, but it was what provoked my initial change of heart and belief and led to hundreds of other questions that have yet to be answered well enough to lead me to return to my previous thoughts. I would be very glad to feel the bible to be true, but unfortunately I now don't.
So maybe the answer to your question is simply... An Open Mind, Science, Knowledge-Seeking and Logic.
2007-12-25 22:10:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Evolution makes more sense.
2. What the hell is God thinking, if he's there, screwing up this world?
3. I have no proof there is a God, so why should I believe in him?
4. My best friend is an Evangelical Christian (I'm fourteen) and she is SO brainwashed I don't want to be like her and she's made me realize how psycho religion is.
I'm not answering meanly and you didn't offend me.
2007-12-25 22:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by Sucre Noir 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No offense taken. I'm glad you respect my disbeliefs.
I am an atheist because there is no evidence to support the existence of any god.
2007-12-25 22:03:31 · answer #4 · answered by CC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There isn't a shred of empirical evidence for any god, let alone your god in particular. There is ample evidence that humans make up gods; there are several thousand.
So no matter what god you pick randomly (and without evidence that is the only way to pick) the odds are really, really good that it was made up.
2007-12-25 22:00:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No evidence for any gods. I concluded that as a small child.
It didn't hurt that my Christian parents were very interested in science and the arts. My father was quite the adventurer.
Oh, and my best friend is a very devout Pentecostal.
2007-12-25 21:58:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Try this:
Read the bible and then make up your mind instead of making up your mind and then reading the bible.
If you already have your mind made up, its hard to make a fair assessment of both sides.
2007-12-25 22:05:18 · answer #7 · answered by Apollo's Revenge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't really have a reason. It's not like I chose to be an atheist, it just happened. You may as well ask me why I continue to breathe.
2007-12-25 21:59:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is insufficient empirical evidence to support the hypothesis of a god or gods.
2007-12-25 22:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I talked to God, and he never talked back. I asked and he never answered. I prayed and he ignored. I begged and he did nothing. I walked away and he disappeared. That's when I realized that all those times, I was alone and that there is no god. I'm Atheist now.
2007-12-25 22:00:06 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋