Alright, I know that you all are immediately going to shout "The truth!"- but honestly, if it is the truth, why even bother? If you die and Atheism is correct, you cease to exist, so your beliefs in life have no meaning, whether they were right or wrong. But if religion is correct and you are an Atheist, you are bound for hell- but if you were religious, you spend eternity in bliss. So in conclusion, Atheism just seems like a lose/lose situation to me.
Thanks ahead of time for your answers.
2007-12-27 11:28:50 · 45 answers · asked by Ory O Oreo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To waste your life in self-deluded slavery to nonsensical mysticism while you threaten and harm people through your activities and votes is a worse fate than what any intelligent, honest, passionate, dynamic atheist faces.
2007-12-27 11:54:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't think Atheists go out of their way to "Convert" other people to be like them and follow their beliefs? So as far as "OFFERING" anyone anything; It is a tough question to answer.
Atheists live for the "Here & Now" and many of them are moral, kind, caring, giving and positive contributors of society.
As for "Bliss" in Heaven >>>>>>
I have no proof that heaven does not exist, this is just my opinion. If I am wrong, I guess I will have to pay dearly for the consequences of my "Wrongness".
I have just never been able to believe or buy into the afterlife in any capacity. When you die you die; No more & no less.
Obviously, MANY many people buy into and wholeheartedly believe in the afterlife and heaven? In the bible, Jesus stated the time was near and coming, yet 2000 + years later nothing has happened?
2007-12-27 11:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by rickcas06 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A: Why would we try to tell YOU what the "truth" is?
B: Your beliefs in life have no meaning anyway, whether you are right or wrong.
C: I don't listen to anyone who tells me I'm going to hell.
D: I'd rather take full responsibility for my actions & their effects on others, I'm not reassured by an idea of "god".
E: Actually, those who tithe are losing a lot more than I am by not tithing or attending church.
F: Other people sure do get jealous & mean about it when I remark that I sleep until noon every day. Even Sunday.
That's because my work allows me to sleep late & stay up as late as I want, & I've wanted that since I was a tiny child.
G: Why bother proposing this argument, yet again...?
*drink*
2007-12-27 12:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by Moonstruck Lady 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
it rather is an exciting poem yet I disagree with dissimilar the failings the author says. I do discover convenience in Atheism. There are common truths, which comprise my freedom to determine on; my freedom to be triumphant on my own reward; the shown fact that i'm unconstrained by utilising ridiculous non secular rules. there is an pretty much religious freedom to being an Atheist, in that i understand i'm made up of the comparable stuff because of the fact the completed universe - i'm an element of it and that's an element of me. i'm completely stimulated by utilising Atheism. It evokes me to do issues for me and the human beings i admire - even the human beings i do no longer love. i'm stimulated to assist create a extra useful international for each individual and each thing interior this international - for all the destiny generations of my species and the different species they'd sometime come upon. i'm stimulated to unfold the interest of Atheism to all people who're imprisoned by utilising faith. for the comparable motives, Atheism facilitates me fulfil my aims because of the fact I do remember on an afterlife or a rebirth to 'attempt back' if I cut back to rubble in this existence. Atheism DOES tell me I belong. It DOES tell me existence is well worth residing. It tells me extra truths than I ever imagined have been available. To amend the tip of the poem: So Atheism provides me each and every thing That faith lied approximately and tried to thieve from me formerly.
2016-12-18 09:43:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations, you've basically just discovered Pascal's Wager. The problems with the wager have been widely discussed elsewhere and are numerous, a simple google search should do the trick.
My lack of belief in a deity has done nothing but enhance my appreciation of this life. I believe that my time here is all I have, and it makes me appreciate each moment to its fullest. I will not spend my entire life working for a reward whose existence can not be verified by even the tiniest shred of evidence.
2007-12-27 11:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by NameGoesHere 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is just a release from the "norm." A sense of freedom. The ability to create their own morals and live a good life without an "oppressive god."
So what if they are wrong? To them it doesn't matter. God is a fairy tale made by men long dead to control the masses. What does eternity mean to them?
Their search for meaning in life isn't just going to come from a "why-not" situation
2008-01-01 17:30:35 · answer #6 · answered by Sanus R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being an atheist affords me the opportunity to determine right from wrong on many issues that the churches do not.
I am a strong advocate of the death penalty in some situations. If you intentionally kill someone, you should die. I am in favor of abortions when there is really no other option. The Catholic church apposes the use of condoms in aids stricken Africa, and even though this has led to many children being born with aids, with no hope for recovery, which sentences them to a short life of pain and misery, the church still forbids anyone from getting an abortion. This also applies to all other Christian churches.
As far as the truth of the existence of god goes, nobody knows for sure,there is no proof either way. One thing I do know though, and that is this, if you claim that god exists,then the burden of proof is on you.
2007-12-27 12:05:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You say that life has no meaning if you are an atheist that dies. What you don't seem to understand is that an atheist could be a child cancer researcher - if that is your idea of a "wasted life", I pity you.
There is no Hell - its a myth (except for the small town in Michigan named "Hell"). The concept of "hell" is based on a place called "Gehenna" - look it up.
I'm not an atheist, but I had to change my definition of what "God" is to mean "the natural universe", and not a supernatural being.
There are 3,000 different beliefs in a deity on Earth. If only one of them is right, then 2,999 of them are wrong. So if the possibility is that in 1 in 3,000 beliefs is possibly correct, that should tell you something right there.
2007-12-27 11:40:50 · answer #8 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheism for me equals personal honesty. I have no idea what the “truth” is about why we are here and I don’t believe anyone else does either.
“But if religion is correct and you are an Atheist, you are bound for hell- but if you were religious, you spend eternity in bliss.”
You could be religious and spend eternity in Muslim Hell. I don’t see how you are any more protected than I am.
2007-12-27 11:34:44 · answer #9 · answered by NH Doodle 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry but this is the most ignoble of sentiment.
My beliefs in life and what I consider valuable mean enough to me in the here and now that I don't feel anything detracted from their value simply because they are not eternal.
To be religious simply to avoid a bad consequence (hell) and to achieve a good result, (heaven) strikes me as a base motive and the only reason it is not recognized as such is because years and years of these messages shouted from the pulpit have granted it solemnity and seeming merit.
Besides which, is there any reason to accept Christanity over any other faith in this wager of Pascals? Christians could just as easily be wrong. Are we to believe in all faiths just as a little added insurance against burning?
2007-12-27 11:54:14 · answer #10 · answered by K 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pascal's Wager again? Yawn . . . if you're a Christian, and Islam is correct, what then buddy?
Atheism doesn't offer anything but a release from what is an irrational concept and the conflicts that comes with it.
Atheists are only human and so offer as much as anybody else can.
2007-12-27 11:37:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋