Atheists - Why are you one?

[QUOTE="channtheman1"]

[QUOTE="MushroomWig"] In a thread that's created for atheists? No, not really. That would be like going into a football thread just to say you don't like it. We get it, you can't handle that people don't believe what you do.MushroomWig

Maybe so, but I don't think I'm being offensive. I certainly don't see where you think that I can't handle that people don't believe what I do. A good debate is always fine for me, but usually people relegate to insults so quickly that it is just not possible.

If you are going to say God doesn't excist at least put it in spoilers.

How do you think I felt when I found out Ra wasn't real?

because I have superior intellect lawlz j/k I'm not an atheist

If you are going to say God doesn't excist at least put it in spoilers.

How do you think I felt when I found out Ra wasn't real?

Kcube

Don't worry Ra is real, here is proof.

[QUOTE="Kcube"]

If you are going to say God doesn't excist at least put it in spoilers.

How do you think I felt when I found out Ra wasn't real?

tenaka2

Don't worry Ra is real, here is proof.

Ima ima ima weeeeasel

I'm more on the agnostic side I guess.

I'm atheist in the sense that I'm not entirely sure what I've hear from religion is right or that God is real.

I'm religious in the sense that I'm not against the possibility of a god existing, and don't entirely refute a lot of the teaching of certain religions or their basis.

I think in this world, you have to be open to possibilities. You can't be a super religious person who puts ALL their faith in something and takes certain aspects of the teachings too literally, but you can't be someone who closes off all possibilities and looks down on those who don't. Personally I also think that you can be, say, a Catholic even if you disagree with some of the scandals the church got involved in or don't believe some of what the bible says. If its the rules you follow and you identify as a Catholic and are open to going to church now and then, you're a Catholic, and its the religion you follow, not the people in the church.

[QUOTE="TheMadGamer"][QUOTE="MrGeezer"] I'm an atheist because I don't believe in any gods.MrGeezer

who create universe.....??

alien....

the who create alien...??

Because religion makes no sense, its full of contradictions and to me it clearly shows it was funded by humans, most books they base their religion are clearly plagued by human ignorance and customs of the time. Is just another way of controlling people.

Religion just seems like a bunch of ancient superstition to me, and downright silly by today's standards. Why does God need to be worshipped, does he have a real self-esteem problem or something? Why would he make us and then threaten to hit a lot of us with eternal damnation? I mean, a good chunk of the world's population doesn't even know of the existence of Christianity, or it may very well be illegal in their country. Baptisms certainly aren't available, and without that you're screwed.

And the Bible is so obviously written by people who lived 2,000 years ago - there's no all-knowing diety feeding these words to these people. If there were, we'd be saying that some stuff in the Bible doesn't make sense, but then some new scientific discovery would be made and it would be like "A-ha! The Bible was right all along." But no, just the opposite is the case.

Besides, it's just a mishmash of a hundred other religions that existed at the time.

because i am so diluted i claim to know the unknowable without any evidence, because that is just how ego centric i am, after all god did make me in his infallible image, and that is how i know he does not exist.

TL:DR? derp da derp

I realized that the only reason I believed in god was because that's what I was raised to believe. I then looked around and saw no other reason to believe.. so I stopped.

Sword-Demon

How I was brought up, I don't have a reason to be an atheist, but I don't have a reason to be religious either. And no, I'm not agnostic.

i have yet to see anything that would give me a reason to believe in a god.

I believe in science, which I think holds the answers. Religion just seems too far fetched for me.

I don't believe in a religous god, and I don't believe a god existed that created the planet we see today. However, I am very curious as to how or what created the galaxies/universes etc.

I believe in evidence. No evidence? No belief in gods. If there were evidence I would believe but I still wouldn't "follow" any gods anyway.

thought todays comic fit this thread for some reason

thought todays comic fit this thread for some reason

surrealnumber5

There is no reason to justify being an Atheist; because it is the default state. Everyone is born Atheist, they are made a Theist by being indoctrinated by the rest of society.

A Christian is Atheist to so many things, they don 't think twice about their disbelief in Zeus or Thor. But for whatever reason, take issue with a disbelief in "their" particular belief system. Which of course is the one true belief system, because they have something that no other religion has.

Faith...

I think the better question is why I wouldn't be.

Oh man SN5 that comic made me ROFL hard :lol:

1. I need more than faith to accept that something is real

2. I never went to church whenI was a kid, and after going to a few services with friends/for weddings, it is really uncomfortable seeing those people just go through the motions, chanting, actually believing theyre eating the blood and body of Christ. I mean no offense, it is just really weird. If we acted that way for anything outside of religion, we would be called weirdos.

3. I do my best to be rational and logical. Religion is sort of the opposite.

4. I am a humanist. My faith is is mankind, my fellow people, not in a God. Mankind is god, as far as I am concerned.

5. If I were going to have "faith" in something, it'd be nature. It is the only thing that deserves our unconditional respect and, on occassion, fear. If we show nature the same devotion people show to their religion, this world would be a lot better.

6. Religious people are, not frequenly but often enough, insulting and hypocrites and ignorant. At least in my experience. Go to anywhere in the Central Valley, CA, and see for yourself :P

It's not that I dont want to believe, I just have a very analytical way of looking at things. I need proof or evidence. I cant just accept something especially when I find so much evidence to suggest the contrary. You cant just make yourself believe in something.

It's not that I dont want to believe, I just have a very analytical way of looking at things. I need proof or evidence. I cant just accept something especially when I find so much evidence to suggest the contrary. You cant just make yourself believe in something.

sonicare

And the Bible is so obviously written by people who lived 2,000 years ago - there's no all-knowing diety feeding these words to these people. If there were, we'd be saying that some stuff in the Bible doesn't make sense, but then some new scientific discovery would be made and it would be like "A-ha! The Bible was right all along." But no, just the opposite is the case.

Besides, it's just a mishmash of a hundred other religions that existed at the time.

Jackc8

http://www.bibletoday.com/archive/proof_text.htm

It would appear that perhaps the Bible did have stuff that people didn't know and then thousands of years later, find it to be true. It would only make sense that the "thing" that created the Universe knows everything about it.

i'm not exactly an athiest but i do know with 100% certainty that not one religion has what is really going on right and are just a collection of organized evil that has done nothing but make the world a worse place to be.

the reason why people feel it is safe here to bring up being athiest and why you see so many is because of the anonymity, you just cannot get along in the real world as effectively if you admit that.

i would never let it out to my friends and family that i think organized religion is an unending source of misery ignorance and evil. here you can(then get suspended for a week)

It just sort of came naturally through my education in psychology and physics. Not out of angst or watching some youtube vid :P

because I don't believe in god

I'm an atheist because I don't understand why a loving and omni-capable God would allow people to suffer so much.

Bad things happening to people in this world to me proves that either God is not powerful enough to stop bad things from happening to people or he does not really love everyone which means that he is not all-loving.

Stop calling me that, I spank you.KiIIyou

I find the concept of a being that is capable of absolutely anything to be a bit over the top. It would be nice if such a creature existed but alas....no.

Because religion is full of holes and overall doesn't make much sense.

There's no proof for god, and I'm not the type of person who can believe in something based on faith.

I can't find a reason or evidence to believe in a God.

Because I've seen no real evidence of God.

Look in a mirror and just look at your body. It's beyond insane to think that the intricate workings of your circulatory system for example are by "random chance." Clearly, something designed your body. There are way too many things that have to happen together for you to even be alive to believe it came about randomly.channtheman1

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that! And then you have magnets; how do they work?