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3/13/2014 7:54:23 PM
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Why are so many of you atheists?
I ask this because apart from a few debates that I have watched and a few conversations that I have had with atheists, I never actual have known why somebody became an atheist.
P.S. please don't leave any snarky comments that are meant to be offensive. I just want specific reasons why you became an atheist.
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The chance of there being a god is so insignificant it doesn't pay to give it any thought. And if there is, which one is it? Wouldn't want to spend my time worshipping the wrong one. And plus I disagree with almost anything any holy book says so there's that
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I'm atheist because the Bible says god is real and the bible is right about a lot of things.
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I'm not atheist.
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because Hitchen's Razor
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My reason is because of lack of proof of a God.
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Because hippies
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I [b][u]continue[/u][/b] to be an atheist likely because of my inclination to question everything, especially as I grew up and incessantly asked everyone "why does this...?", "how does this...?", and so on. I was given electronic kits, chemistry sets, telescopes, etc... and loved trying to figure out how things worked and finding out would would happen if I did [i]x[/i]. I guess it's not too much of a surprise I do experimental research at uni now. I think my first exposure to religion would've been in RE classes in primary school at some point. It was a weekly class where someone external to the school would come in and have us go through a booklet with pretty pictures of how supposedly great Jesus was and what he did. I remember thinking from very early on, under absolutely no coercion from anybody else, how absolutely and utterly ridiculous and stupid it all was. I could never take any of it seriously and quite frankly saw anyone who did as having something wrong with them. I didn't find the material any different from what was being taught in "story time" where we read fictional books, so if it [the RE material] was intended to be presented as something different (a la, factual), it failed spectacularly at trying to convince me. I doubt whether I'll ever be religious, but if I do, it's certainly not going to be because I joined a religion like Christianity, Islam, etc.... It'll be because I've come to my own decisions about what's real or not, what's important, and what's right and wrong, as I already do about everything already. It [u][b]absolutely will not[/b][/u] be because of what someone else says, because [i]x[/i] amount of people believe it, or because it's written in a book. I'll have my own beliefs, not someone else's.
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Personally, I just don't see their being absolutely ANY proof of a god existing. You could argue that science hasn't proved that there isn't one either, but in all honesty the idea of evolution and the way things work in life just seems more realistic and possible to me. When people say that god created everything and plans every event, than why does he let bad things happen? Why would he make people suffer? Why would he allow his followers to have led wars since the dawn of religion and murder millions under the name of him? A god, IMO, wouldn't allow this. At least I wouldn't see this as being good. Not to mention there are so many religions with different ideas, where do you cross the line between what's true and what's false? Why are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism more correct than Scientology? What about all the even older religions with multiple gods or different realms, mystical creatures, etc. Where do they all fit in with this. Most religion is a jumbled mess of peoples opinion that have been altered and changed over thousands of years. People say there is only one true god, while the Greeks and Romans believed in multiple gods/godesses. They also believed in demi-gods, and mentioned creatures that we've never seen. Mayans and Aztecs believed the sun was a god, or the moon. Who is to say Christianity is right just because "it is". Who and what is to say the truth and the lies. If every religion were considered correct there'd be so many conflictions that it would be a joke. Most religions now are still full of things that defy modern science that can be proven. Most note worthy in my mind is Noah building an Arc and getting two of every animal in the world onto it. How would deep sea fish survive? What about all the microscopic organisms that are asexual? How does he get two of each, why does he get two of each? Also, how did Moses part AN ENTIRE SEA? Where is the reality and possibility of that!? To each his own though I guess. We live in a world full of opinions and people that believe different things. If we all believed in one thing though, what point would there be to living? We as a species have evolved so greatly that we question ALL things, it makes no sense for us to settle on one single thing without one person wondering "what if this isn't true?" If we lived in such a way life would be dull, boring, and meaningless.
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[quote]I never actual have known why somebody became an atheist. [/quote] You start life as an atheist, you become religious, not the other way around Also in the UK, I'd imagine that these days the majority of adults around my age and of my ethnicity are probably atheistic
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If there [i]was[/i] some god up there loved us all, don't you think we'd be living in a utopia? Not this sick joke of a thing we go through every day? Instead we live in a land where someone always has something to complain about, where a child is compelled to take their own life because of how the other kids treat him, where a family is turned to the streets because it's easier to turn a blind eye to those in need and I say things are fine than it is to do something about it. When a lovely young couple is lost in a fire, many of the religion following people will say things like "they were just being called home to heaven", but what about the poor little boy they left behind? What happens to his happiness? Why does he have to attempt to live on with nothing when his parents got the easy ticket out? As I sit here and hear on the news that war rages on around the world and about the cruel treatment of others, I think to myself, if there really is a god out there, what is he doing right now? And you [i]dare[/i] tell me life is unfair but god loves us all? Perhaps a reevaluation is to be taken on why we live as we do.
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Because I don't see the point of believing in these higher powers when in today's age we have science to answer these questions. We know how the universe started. We know how the planet was formed. We know where the water came from and what makes it up. We know how the animals formed to what they are today and in the past. The only thing higher powers are is something to use when you don't know what the answerer to it is. [i]"I don't know, therefor God." [/i] The other thing is that we have these complex religions in sci-fi and fantasy things. Some of them like in Lord of The Rings are complex enough to be a real world region. I don't see the point of believing in a god or whatever that was just made up by somebody or a group of people that liked it and caused it to spread.
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Because of evolution
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I think I've just put my philosophy/belief train on hold until I get time to contemplate how I feel. Blanket statement: atheism. Long story: I have no clue what I am and I need to do more research on both beliefs and epistemologies to find something that I'd be comfortable being classified as. This year in school I'm getting a ton of existentialism thrown at me through Theory of Knowledge and IB English so that just confused me even more cause I agree with a lot of it and yet I can't believe in everything. I'm choosing atheism because it works the best in the context of my current perception of the world. Atheism accurately answers questions and explains the world at this level of knowledge/ignorance. I also believe that I shouldn't even worry about religion or philosophy and should just focus on happiness and personal success because that is more logical than introspection. I'm not going to leave an impact on this world through my philosophy and there is nothing for me after death, so I should just live life. Basically I practice what works and am trying to ween myself off of this huge existential fiasco so I can just experience life the way it is. Right now I'm a bundle of contradictions and confusion. I'm also a hypocrite, but let's not get into that. TL;DR anyone? Is this just nonsense?
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I didnt grow up in a religious household and my parents taught me a lot about maths and scientific principles.
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I used to be pretty devout actually. Believing in the greater good and what goes around, comes around and all that. After a while though, you start to realize that a lot of those people that "surely must be going to hell" are generally a lot better off, and happier than you or people like you will ever be. It's stuff I've thought a lot on, and I just don't see how there could be someone claiming to be the good in the universe, when there's just so much shit that goes on. You just kind of stop believing, as it doesn't do you any good.
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1 AntwortenI choose not to center my life around something supported by no solid evidence rather something with definitive support, in that, if a god created [i]everything[/i], where did he come from? And this realization first came to me at the age of 4, while attending a catholic-biased preschool when the teacher put me in time out for not believing in the same things as her
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1 AntwortenBearbeitet von AnAverageGamer: 3/13/2014 9:58:30 PMAtheism comes with an eternal feeling of euphoria as well as a higher IQ and larger penis. The only negative side effects are that you immediately obtain a guilty pleasure from watching My Little Pony and all women everywhere think you're too nice to be dated. On the bright side, you get a free fedora and pony button of your choice when you sign up.
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Going to Church slowly made me realise how creepy a cult Christianity was, with everyone speaking in unison worshipping an idea. I didn't like the way that it was considered fact that Jesus was the son of God, or how much hatred and wars were due to religion. About the age of 10/11 I just realised how stupid it all was and was angry that my mother had forced me to "belong" and subscribe to certain ideals for so long. I see this as my having been brainwashed by my mum due to her mother brainwashing her years earlier.
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5 AntwortenMost people here'll yell about "MUH FREEDOMS" and "MUH EXPRESSION" while failing to realize that having a shared religion within a community helps keep that community and its people unified and willing to contribute, regardless of whether that God is real or not. Religion is healthy for society and without it people grow further apart and become less interested in anything other than their own pleasure (just look at Western civilization today)
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2 AntwortenBearbeitet von Elbow Macaroni: 3/16/2014 4:26:35 PMI'm not atheist, I just don't believe in anything due to not knowing what is really true. I'm kinda in that limbo state, ya know?
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I'm [i]technically[/i] an atheist, but I opt not to label myself in any such way, because my lack of belief does not define me or my existence. That said, I'm not religious simply because religion doesn't make sense, personally.
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2 AntwortenFor me it was just a realisation based on my sense of logic, common sense and that 1 + 1 = 2. Christianity just never added up for me, and it seemed to me that the only reason 99% of people were Christian was because their parents had taught them as they grew up, as in they were indoctrinated. Plus.... You know.... All the horrible unjustifiable shit that happens in the world.
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Because of Stephen King.
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I am a God, I believe in myself. Thus I am not an atheist nor I own a fedora.
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I personally believe that the Bible, and many other religious texts, were written not from a strong literal or historical standpoint (although I do not doubt that some events in the Bible were true, and many of the people in the book existed) but as a way to teach how to live a good life with your fellow men. You don't have to be Christian to see that the Bible teaches life lessons. I'm an atheist because I was never taught any religious practices, but I can see that most if not all religions are meant to better the human character. When people take it as a history book or try to force others to accept their point of view, problems arise. Religions can do terrible things. I think that if people didn't subscribe to one mindset and accept only that, but instead read many texts and many different ideas, they could form their own ideas and their own ideals about how to live their life and their life alone. Maybe the world would be a better place if religions had formed as philosophical groups instead
