Or are atheists fearless?
2007-12-27 03:53:05 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Er, you can't think of a third option? Really?
2007-12-27 03:56:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Last weekend my husband and I drove through a wicked snow storm, a two hour trip turned into 5 1/2 hrs. Did I wish that I had a promise from someone who could assure me that we would make it safely? Yes.
Instead of praying my husband, who is a great driver, maneuvered us through blinding snow on treacherous country roads. We made the right choices and avoided a 33 car pile up on the interstate which was supposed to be closed. I'm certain that most if not all of those people prayed to and made bargains with their God, yet my Godless husband and I made it home safely.
Fear is a natural response to danger and the unknown.
2007-12-27 04:16:09 · answer #2 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is fearless. The thing is to be able to cope with fear and do what needs to be done at the moment. Atheists have no invisible means of support.
2007-12-27 03:59:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not fearless, but I don't pray. There is a difference between praying and hoping things get better. In prayer, you assume someone is listening and is going to act. I just hope things get better, and when they don't on their own, I do something about it myself.
2007-12-27 03:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by Skalite 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
A know a man who was a medic based out of Da Nang during the Viet Nam war. He assured me that when a soldier was critically or mortally wounded during battle, he called out to at least one (and sometimes both) on this list:
1) God;
2) his mother.
Some pray; others don't. It's a personal thing.
2007-12-27 04:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They don't pray. They constantly wrap their brains around the possible, the what ifs, and should ofs. Anyone who claims to be fearless must have a plot ready for them.
2007-12-27 04:00:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I really don't! lol.
I understand why people pray - I'll give you that. I understand why people reflexively resort to a "parental" figure who will make everything OK again. But to my thinking, that's just more evidence that the "God" idea is a moral crutch, based on fear and feelings of personal inadequacy.
I've practiced Buddhist and Hindu forms of meditation - as an atheist - and at times I've used those practices to still and calm my mind and body. But no absurd metaphysical theory is implied.
BTW, I love the guy who digs up Madalyn Murray O'Hair's corpse as "proof" of the viciousness of atheists as a class, and gets 4 thumbs up. I see who your audience is here.
2007-12-27 03:59:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I put god on the same level as the tooth fairy. Expecting me to pray to god in a time of crisis would be like me expecting a Christian to pray to the Tooth Fairy. It just won't happen, no matter how threatening the situation might be.
2007-12-27 04:12:50 · answer #8 · answered by youngmoigle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Praying is useless, nothing to hear. So if frightened I just use a little science. I breathe long and slow from the deepest part of my lunges - it works.
2007-12-27 04:16:08 · answer #9 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say that " there are no atheists in fox holes"; but I can tell you from experience that there are no Christians in fox holes who wont also pray to the devil, if things get bad enough, and their god doesn't seem to plan on saving their butt.
2007-12-27 04:09:35 · answer #10 · answered by big j 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm certainly not fearless, but there is no point in praying to a fictitious "god" who cannot help.
2007-12-27 03:57:18 · answer #11 · answered by TriciaG28 (Bean na h-Éireann) 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋