what happened in your life to make you not belive in god? I really can,t understand this ,I as a young person Along time ago) never met anyone that would say that they were athiests, if you do not belive in God and the here after what do you belive in? who do you turn to in when life gets to hard sometimes? I turn to jesus christ for understanding and help, I don,t know what I would do if I was not able to do that because I was a athiests. I am not trying to be a mean or anything like that, I really want to understand why some people have turned there backs on god.
that's the trouble with people like you...
you cannot comprehend the fact that people think differently than you.
you said "people have turned their backs on god" but get it through your head... atheists do not believe in god, so there is no "god" to turn their backs on.
why are you so self righteous that you think your belief is the correct one?
you are just as obnoxious as you perceive an atheist to be.
I am not an atheist, however, I am no longer Christian and I am sorting out what I believe (which at this point seems to be a mixture of Neopagan and humanist ideas).
I will try to answer your question in a civil manner as you seem genuinely puzzled (but if you ARE out trying to "convert" non-Christians, I will be very disappointed, because this seems like one of the more genuine questions.)
As to the title of your question- why are there so many mean atheists?- well, many atheists would reply: "Why are there so many mean Christians? They trash my views on reason and science, when those views have improved lives everywhere! Besides, Christian beliefs, since they are false and cause untold harm, should be vigorously opposed whenever they are aired." (Notice how similar these viewpoints are to Christian views on atheism!)
What happened in their lives to make them (and me) not believe in your God? Well, this has a variety of responses- some were raised in non-Christian households, some had very negative experiences with Christianity (such as being the victim of abuse perpetrated by a priest/minister/nun etc.), some started to view what they considered as errors or inconsistencies become so numerous in their eyes that they lost all faith in the Christan God, some felt excluded by the patriarchal, homophobic, racist etc. theology.... the list goes on and on.
Regarding the point that when you were younger, no one you met would say they were atheists- you probably were living in a time and place where extreme discrimination and even persecution would be the result of declaring one's atheism to the world.
So, what do atheists believe in, if not the Christian version of God and Heaven? To whom do they turn when life gets difficult? They believe that life was created through evolution and that when we physically die, our conciousnesses are forever extinguished. When life becomes trying, they turn to other human beings as well as within themselves for the strength and courage to honestly confront their issue(s).
I hope this clears up some of the confusion on your part!
Good for you, now shut the f*ck up....
I am a happy atheist satisfied with life. I am not dependent on any religion and I turn to myself and biological instinct for ethical problems. It would go against natural instinct to perform a bad action (or 'sin').
Why are you so intolerant and 'mean' to us, different people?
Does the Bible teach you persecution?
If God doesn't exist, which is central to atheistic thinking, then there is nothing to turn one's back on. You presume God exists, atheists do not.
A more relevant question is "Why do you care what atheists believe?"
Am I really in need of a vaca, or are we just recycling questions now?
For various reasons, they are blinded from seeing God. Coming from a former athiest, I can say I didnt know much about the church or Bible. When it came to Christians, I tried to respect them as long as they didnt want anything from me. I regarded them like children believing in something make believe. I recall a girl that liked me trying to tell me about God, me asking for evidence, and then telling her she was believing in vain. Oh how I wish I could go back in time sometimes! That girl ended up marrying a complete loser and going down the wrong path.
Atheists largest problem is PRIDE. Deep down where their mind is not able to lie to themselves, they know there is a god but dont want to submit to him. They like the idea that they are off on our own in the universe and can do whatever they want without fear of eternal consequence. And they have little moral problem about antagonizing their perceived enemy and its people: the church, Christians, and religion itself.
They don't turn their backs on God they just don't believe that the God of the Bible exists.
Have you ever studied anything about religion, God, the Bible and church other than things written by Christians?
You should and then maybe you would understand why so many intelligent people ask questions instead of just "Believing" what some men and a book tell them to believe. You do have a free thinking mind you know and it's up to you to do the research.
Nothing major happened in most of the lives of Atheists to make them "believe in no God". Most of the Atheists I know actually researched the material for themselves.
Do you know why there are so many churches in the world?
Because there are more Believers than there are Thinkers.
Athiests are mean because they have nothing to look forward to after this life,, they're also mean because they don't think that anything they do will ever get punished so they run amuck hurting as many people as possible,, thinking nothing will ever happen to them
They'll be in for a shock one day. Hopefully it wonm't be too late
great question! i'd like to know myself....
I would be happy to answer this.
I turned away from Christianity when I was in college. I always had difficulty accepting what was not in front of me, and more so, the simple belief in blind faith. I suppose this makes me a realist. I have difficulty finding understanding in a "faith" or a belief. I have difficulty finding solace or comfort in an omnipresent being rather than a tangible truth.
You find it difficult to comprehend how anyone can go through life without believing in a higher power or being that will listen to your prayers and help you through your life. I do find comfort in this though. I find comfort in science; truth, to me, is what can be proven. The existence of God, any god, cannot be proven but rather speculated, or more appropriately, assumed. But it cannot be seen, felt, or touched. What you may describe as your senses "knowing" the presence of God is an internal feeling rather than external one.
I find comfort in books and scientific explanations. I feel more comfortable with the facts of evolution rather than the speculation of creation. I find comfort in motivating myself rather than guilt through faith. I find comfort in not having to worry about whether or not I am going to heaven or hell.
I am comforted through what is real.
Atheist and Satanist here.
I believe in myself. Everyone is their own god, they are free to accept it or not. Simple.
I happened to think. At age seven, I got informed, and realised deities were just about as real as Santa Claus. Of course, I was not raised in a religious context, my mother being non spiritual, and my father an atheist.
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Pastorb and so many others have shot you down so many times, thats why youre mean they ran away with their tails between their legs then
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I don't turn my back on a nonexistent concept. The deity, to me, just doesn't even exist.
I am not less happy because of this, I actually think I am way better off without this imperialistic and totalitarian dogma hanging over my head.
I am more of the science type, anyway.
P.S. If Jesus existed, he is now dead and the maggots have eaten him. He has rotten, and, since there is no afterlife, nothing happened. I am glad to think I will one day be food for other life forms, even though they're just maggots.
I've met some mighty mean 'Christians' in my life. I once got beat to within an inch of my life by a guy who was shouting that I needed Jesus.
I didn't say anything to him, but he didn't like the way I just walked on by.
Christ was a wonderful man, I'm sure. His followers need a little help understanding him sometimes. I think if he came back, it would be the TV Christians that nailed him up again.
Just my opinion of course. You will now condemn me to hell to show how loving you are.
I'd like to know why you associate not believing in god to be "mean." Why don't I believe in god? There's no proof and no rational explanation for a supreme being to exist. Period.
Who do I turn to? My fellow human beings, who realize that this earth and this reality is all we can know, and that it is up to us to make it the best place we can, now, rather than waiting for an imaginary reward after death.
Do I believe that the Universe was started by forces we cannot understand? Yes. Do I believe in an afterlife that is far more complex and different than anything we can comprehend? Yes. Do I believe that that super-reality is devised, run, and controlled by "God" -- especially the one described in the Christian Bible, Quran, or Hebrew Bible? No. There is no empirical proof for such a creature, and creating one out of whole cloth stirkes me as a waste of time when there is so much work to be done in the here and now.
I never had my chest facing him to be able to turn my back. I was brought up to believe in FACT, and that the way I live my life should be what I think is right, not what some book says.
thats why. And Im not mean. I just dont beleive in a god.
I'm agnostic, so not exactly the type of person that you're talking about. Born and raised a catholic in Ireland. I stopped in my early teens because of my belief in science, and because I cant get into my head the idea of people rising from the grave, turning water into wine, the entire human race beginning with just two people . I'm sorry but I find all these ideas patently ridculous.
Where do I turn to when life gets hard?
I just deal with it. You'd be amazed how strong a person can actually be without some supernatural being to look after you.
If I really need someone, I have a family to fall back on.
I don't believe in any organised religion but I do believe in a design to life. I studied science in college (biology) and I've seen the wonderful diversity in this great old world of ours. I'd consider myself very arrogant if I thought there was nothing more.
I have a very big problem with all of the organised religions. I prefer the idea of something completely beyond our understanding. That, in itself is VERY easy to understand. A famous scientist I deeply admire called Carl Sagan once said "The universe is not only stranger than than we imagine, but stranger than we CAN imagine" I hang around here alot but rarely answer unless its grossly innaccurate comments about dinosaurs walking around with humans or men gathering entire species of animals in advance of a huge flood into a boat and then redistributing them etc.
There are no shortage of questions here. Just a real lack of answers that do anything for me
I also make the habit of checking a posters previous questions. You seem genuine. Some people here are quiet mean and rude judging by some of the vulgar posters above me.
I try not to be.
You don't seem mean
I hope your kids and grand kids are doing ok.
Take care of yourself.
Colm.
If you want to know why people become atheists, then study, with an objective mind, the history of your religion, and critically analyze the things that you've been told to believe.
Atheists do not "turn their backs on god".
We realize that god, and the religion that created him, is false. He never existed. He never will. This is easy to understand, if you do the research.
But it has nothing to do with us WANTING to get away from god, or live sinful lives, or any other myth you've been told. It's simply a matter of rational thinking. If you're interested, here's a link to get you started.
http://www.godisimaginary.com
Edit: Yes, Daniel S... you sound like a true scholar... :)
Edit: Hand of Justice, you're a prime example of someone that was never an atheist to begin with. You said yourself you knew little of religion. That's called ignorance... not atheism. To this day, obviously, you still don't know much about it. I'd ask you to view the link above for starters... You really do need to educate yourself on your beliefs.
Because we don't need some book to tell us what is right and wrong in order to live, we learn that by growing up and going through stuff... Letters written on a page in a book that nobody really knows is true or lies isn't something someone should really depend on.
::EDIT::
As for your comment "I turn to Jesus for understanding and help", basically you're telling us that if your life was perfect with no conflicts or confusion you wouldn't need him in your life or have him in your life. Watch what you say and how you say it because it can be interpreted in many different ways.
As for your questions, "What do you believe in" I believe when I die, I'm going six feet under, there is no life after death, your dead that's it.
"Who do you turn to when life gets to hard" I turn to my fiancee' and family, someone I can really hear, see and touch, for support, talks and life lessons, I don't need someone who is't here or some book to help me, I have people in my life for that.
And maybe in the situation that someone was Christian and turned Atheist, They turned their back on him because he turned his back on them, Sometimes you don't always get what you want so you have to punish someone else for what you can't except.
Someone being an Atheist does not mean they have turned their back to God. It simply means they do not believe in the existence of God.
Blessings )O(
I was not trying to put anyone done, as a christian all my life I wantted someone to explain how as a atheist what you belive in. Report Abuse
Use the SEARCH BOX! Seriously, it'll help you without sounding like a condescending dick!
Well, why did you turn your back on the Goddess? I just don't understand why people like you don't believe in Her. What happened in your life to make you not believe in Her?
Are you getting it now? Some people simply do not believe...and it's not a question of turning their backs on God. They can't turn their backs on something they don't even believe is there. Did you get mad at Santa Claus when you found out he wasn't real?
becose God says in the Quran that He will make Hell full of people and demos,and that if we belivers like it or not most of the people will be unbelivers,so that is why Satan said that he will saduce everyone else except the true belivers and honest one.
God/Jesus/Religion is just plain silly! Try reading the magical fairy tales in the bible some time! Hillarious children's tales to be sure, but nothing that makes me want to actually believe any of that crap! I guess knowledge and logic are more important to me than make-believe. And I dont need to turn to an imaginary friend or magic wizard rainbow man in the sky when things get rough...its called life, its hard sometimes, and I enjoy living it myself, not under the thumb of the God of Wishful-Thinking Land. If I really need help, that is what friends and family are for...hell, maybe even the kindness of strangers...but real people, not ghosts.
I am not trying to be a mean or anything like that, I really can't understand why someone would believe in a mythological "god"...and even more confusing is this faith in "Bible" and the conspiracy known as "Christianity"! Truly confusing near the level of insanity.
One reason could be they were raised as atheists.
For your second question, if they needed help, they would get it from other people.
After rereading your question it looks like you meant to type, "Why are there so many atheists?" Spelling properly and using correct punctuation is important if you want people to take you seriously.
Well i have no idea cuz im Christian but not all Atheists are like that im sure
Hey Captian Atheism our religion is really true and u dont know what ur talkin about when u research Christianity for 2+yrs in college like i will, then get back 2 me
It's hard to have faith when you've read too many books. So much of the christian religion is either self-contradictory or borrowed from other, earlier religions that I can no longer view it as divine inspiration.
I believe in humanity. We're a messy, beautiful, fragile, fleeting species, but that only makes life more poignant. Laying our accomplishments at the feet of an invisible super-being cheapens them.
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