|
Atheists
Why do atheists believe there is no God? I hear a lot of arguments against organized religion but I don’t hear many actual ‘reasons’ that there is not or cannot possibly be a God? So what are thier reasons?
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Miscellaneous category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Spirituality?
I'm not exactly an athiest, but I can undersatnd the point of view. One of the reasons that some of my friends are atheists is because, wellYou can't prove that there is a God or Higher Power. You cannot prove that anything in the Holy Books actually happened. Science really dissproves things such as creationism and whatnot. I mean, with science you can see and prove what's there but, but usually believing in God requires a lot of blind faith, things that can't be proven. I aplogize if I offended you, but thats one point of view.
MAd Love,
Victoria
]
ok you might kno im just explaing to everyone else. THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF GOD!!! its faith you have faith and know he is there. and believe me there is way more proof in Christianity then there is in atheism
]
I'm an athiest. People don't usually have reasons about why they DO believe in God; it's the same thing with athiests! I really don't want to insult you or your religion, but I think the whole concept of God is ludicrous. Again, I mean no offense to you or your religion.
*~!bbbbbbbeccajones*~!
]
Well, i think it has something to do with how illogical there is. There's no real PROOF, physical, tangible, proof that there really is a God. That's really what faith is though. Not needing proof. But if they do need proof, that may be why they don't beleive in it. Anything is possible, so there very well may be some form of higher being, but it's really how you interpret the idea. Personally i beleive that there are many Gods, or moreso, spirts, of everything around us, and that is is not strictly one God who created us all. (I think that's a little bit narrow-minded) but really, God is just a form of hope or strength for some people, and i think that whatever is helpful to an individual, they should continue that practice. Athiests may not beleive in God for many reasons, but the simplest thing is, that they don't. And there's no real reason why they should or shouldn't, they just don't. And there's nothing wrong with that.
<3 panda
]
For some the concept of an invisible spirit is just hard to grasp.
]
Okay, I'm going to be up-front about this. You're going to get the most honest answer that I can give you. So I'm going to ask you in advance not to rate this answer. Because, frankly, I've already been disappointed by the revenge-rating activity of two of the three Christians I've responded to on this site.
Please don't disillusion me further. If you want to discuss any of this, my inbox and email are always open.
That said:
You haven't put the question in the correct form.
It's not a matter of an affirmation, of a positive belief, but rather of a LACK of belief.
I'll try to explain. For the sake of this explanation, I'll assume that you're a Christian, if you don't mind.
Do you believe in the divinity of Thor, the Thunderer? In Odin, the One-Eyed Allfather? Do you believe in Krishna, Shiva, Allah, Zoroaster, or Mithras? How about Great Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep?
You don't? What are your reasons for denying their godhead, then? How do you justify casually denying the possibility of their existence?
I could have picked more common examples, of course - ones that you may have believed in at some time, such as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, E.T., etc. But the point is the same.
You don't feel any need to prove or justify your lack of faith or belief in all those gods. You most likely consider them false gods. Likewise, I doubt you've spent much time agonizing over your failure to keep faith with Kris Kringle - despite the fact that you had solid EVIDENCE of his existence for many years, in the form of the toys he brought to you as a child.
Atheists simply believe in one less god than you do. And their reasons for not believing in him are exactly the same as your reasons for not believing in Thor, the Hammerer: they don't see any reason to take it seriously. They may have studied comparative religion, and noticed that many religions share common themes and "proof" - so why should one ancient collection of stories (the Bible) be held valid over another (the Torah, the Koran, the Vedas, etc.)?
They may have studied psychology, and history, and noticed that religion and belief in the supernatural are a natural response of people to the unknown - and that when you go back more than a thousand years, LOTS of things were unknown. Our ancestors were primitive in many ways. When they heard the thunder, they couldn't explain it. Until the local witch doctor or shaman told them that it was his big magical friend in the sky throwing his giant hammer around.
Or they may have just noticed the complete lack of evidence for the supernatural in the world we live in and decide that common sense tells them that the chance of a god really existing is too small to worry about.
Example: you have no way of knowing that there isn't an all-knowing banana cream pie floating in orbit around Mars. It's possible, right? You don't know everything that's in orbit around Mars, so how can you deny the possibility of the existence of the Lord God Banana Pie?
Yet somehow, I don't think you've ever spent a moment worrying about your lack of faith in space-going pastry. :D
You might argue that there is evidence for the existence of God (as opposed to Banana Pie), in the form of the Bible. Atheists don't agree; they find the Bible no more convincing than any other ancient religious work. They may appreciate the Bible as poetry and metaphor (I do), but they DON'T accept it as proof of the supernatural.
The thing is, though, those are all logical reasons. And I don't think you really WANT logical reasons. You don't believe in God because of *logic*, after all.
You believe in Him because of faith and emotion.
That faith may have come from a lifetime of habit. It may have come via training from your parents. It may come from cultural patterning. It's probably a combination of all of those things.
Or you may have had a profound emotional experience, a religious revelation. That happens to followers of many faiths. You may have spoken to God, or heard His voice, or felt Him manifest in your heart.
But others haven't shared that experience. And they have no reason to pretend that they've gone through it. To profess a belief when you DON'T believe is the height of hypocrisy. I would imagine, if there were a God, that he would prefer a disbeliever who was honest about their disbelief over someone who falsely claimed a belief that they did not truly feel.
I hope that answered your question. If you were looking for an argument, you won't find one from me. I realized long ago - after my own struggle with and past religion - that there's no way to win a religious argument. Because the essence of faith is not logic and reason, but rather emotion.
I could talk until I was blue in the face. I could give you a million reasons not to believe. None of it would matter, as long as you had faith.
And in truth, I don't WANT to take your faith away. I wouldn't TRY. Why should I? If it makes you happy, if it gives you comfort, why on earth would I want to take that away from you?
I wouldn't. And I don't.
I wish you happiness and fulfillment in your faith. Good luck.
]
My opinion is that they see no reason to believe in God and they can't really find any proof of him anywhere in their lives or in this world, where though I can find several things in this world that I think can support the existence of God to show others. People's beliefs are different,I believe there is a God and he sent his Son to die on the cross for my sins (Christian). I believe He did create the universe and the earth, and he also created humans. I will leave my views to what I just said.
Also with this cry againts organized religion. Everything needs organization and religion is included in everything. But some people may be afraid that if there was too much organized religion then there would be too much power circulation inside those groups. Not even 600-800 years ago there was widespread and ultimate religious organization of everything was controlled by the church. If the Pope told the kings of Europe to stop fighting, they had to yield. If the pope wanted to get more money, he simple took the land and claimed it was God's right for him to have it. People may be afraid of a repeat of a fully controlled religious organization.
I am just expressing my views. I have absolutely nothing againts any kind of religious organization(s) and I enjoy the organization the my own church has. But I was just expressing my views on a "possible" reason people are againts it. They might fear any power it might bring.
I hope I answered the question to your liking and you find all the answers you need.
-Ryan
]
Atheism is not in fact the disbelief in God, it is actually the lack of belief. Atheists do not necessarily actively disbelieve, they just do not believe. Why? Simply because most of them don't see any reason to believe in God. They do not find any compelling evidence to believe so. Also, as atheism is not an active denial of God(I speak of the inherent definition, not the colloquial dictionary version), there is no need to prove that the idea of God is impossible. After all, it is impossible to do just that. I hope this answers your question.
]
I am Pagan, and recently turned Pagan, so I can tell you some reasons.
They believe there is no Christian God because they do not feel a connection with God. And not everyone does. Like me, I don't feel a connection with him, but I feel a connection with Paganism.
And sometimes God hasn't done anything for them, and/or they don't need/want a faith in their life, so that is why they are Atheists.
Need more reasons? Leave one in my inbox, I'm sure I can scrap a few more answers.
]
I am an atheist. Many reasons exist why I don't believe there is a god. Personally, I feel "god" is a made up character, like Santa, or the Easter bunny. The bible, to me, is a fairy tale that people have taken too seriously. I feel that the theory of evolution is FAR more plausible than intelligent design.
Also, why do you believe what you believe? Probably because it's how you've been brought up and because you want to as well. We atheists don't believe in any religion because we have found other reasons to prove our existance and thus disprove the existance of a god, in our opinions. Hope that helped a bit.
]
i used to be athiest, i suppose that what i believed was that a "higher" being. was impossible. its just not logical, which is the same reason why theres no such thing as magic or santa, or witches and fairys. i thought that people just believed in god to give them hope, so that they could tell themselves that "when i die, theres something else, so im not really dying." everyone is afraid of death, nonexistance. i believed that somehow some cells formed and then through evolution people evolved, that you lived and shrank, then died. then you were buried to take up space in the ground and became worms meat. people would argue and say "well what/who created the cells you think we come from?" and id say "well how to you think you 'god' has come to be?" and that the bible was written by a bunch of old bored men way back when who had nothing better to do, just like all the movies and books are created like today. but this is definately not something you can entirely discuss on advicenators. i also dont think im the right person to talk to about it because im not entirely sure how to explain how i came to believe. i hope you find what your looking for, im always here for questions
]
Athiesm is a religion in which you beleive you are born, you live, you die, you rot. There is no higher power.
It's basicially an independance thing. They beleive that there is no proof that there is a god. No proof at all.
The Bible wasn't written by god. It was written by people. Not god.
But if you would like to explain to me why Christianity is a good religion, I'd love to listen to your argument. And your reasons why there is a 'god'.
[I'm not athiest. I'm agnostic]
--Social Suicide
]
My husband is an athiest. He is very a literal and scientific thinker. He need's actual proof there is a God. He belives people belive in God just becasue they are told to. It all depends on location. If your parents are catholic, then you most likely would be catholic, but if your parents were jewish, then you would most likely be jewish. And if you were born a Native American, then you probably wouldn't beleive in God at all. What makes one religion more right than another? If you beleive in the wrong religion does that mean you go to hell? Who's God is the right God? And if there really is a God, why does he make himself such a mystery?
He thinks religion gives people a sense of hope, but he personal sees no practical reasons to believe. I am sure he has many other reasons, but he's not here to speak for himself.
He has asked me the same exact question - why do you believe in God? What are your reasons? Try it, it's not that easy.
]
More Questions: |