Why would you become an atheist?
I believe that there is something that created me and wakes me up everyday and gives me life; but why would you become an atheist. I know atheism is the rejection of the belief in the existence of deities. But if you do not believe in deities what the do you believe in and why?
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Why did i become an atheist? For me it was the realization that there are many different religions in the world. There seemed only three possibility from this fact. either they are all correct and there are multiple pathways to God/ Haven/ eternal afterlife. There was only one true religion and if you followed the wrong one, you were going to hell. Or they were all wrong.
Now I don’t think there are multiple paths to God becuase the worlds religions contradict each other. I also don’t think a fair and just God would send you to hell if you happens to be born into a county that follows the wrong religion. As a child it made more sense to me that all religions were wrong and either there was no God or there was but he did not care about the affairs of humans.
Recently learning about the history of religion has kept me an atheist.
thank you for your comment
I didn’t believe horoscopes, psychics, mediums or feng shui, because there was no evidence and I could rationally explain why people believed in them. When I realized my own hypocrisy in believing in God with no evidence, my deconversion from religion was pretty inevitable.
brettjacobson1986 also makes a great point; why believe in the Judeo-Christian God above Vishnu, Allah, Thor or Zeus? There’s no reason. If you’re born in a Muslim country you’ll probably end up believing in Allah, if you’re born in an Indian country you’ll probably end up believing in Vishnu. And it’s likely you’ll have the same faith as your parents. To me that certainly implies that organized religion is hooey.
The BIGGEST reason was my understanding of psychology and hypnosis. It made me realize: why people believe, how people had religious experiences they couldn’t explain, why anecdotes are useless in terms of evidence, etc etc. That was very, very helpful.
thanks
What do I believe in? Everything! Kindness, sincerity, love, humans, science, rationality, logic and reality, and most of all, the amazing mystery of life.
You know exactly what it’s like to be an atheist. You don’t worship Thor, the Norse God, do you? How does that feel? Well, that’s how I feel about all gods.
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Must I believe in Belief?
What do I believe in? If you’re purely speaking about the divine or supernatural the answer is nothing. I believe that nothing exists that cannot be explained without reference to an un-natural cause or creator, not that we know everything but that all the gaps are merely temporary.
As for why, I’ve not seen anything to cause me to believe anything else. Its pretty easy to disprove the literal interpretations of any religious text and as soon as they become metaphorical they become no different Aesop’s fables or any other fairy story with a moral message. Useful for teaching children how to live in a society but utterly detached from any necessity of divine inspiration.
Why do I Believe
I believe in God because he has helped me through those difficult times in my life when I felt like giving up.
As for religion: each religion is actually spin offs of parts of the bible that they prefer and so if you follow God because of religion. You might as well not.
As for Budha / Allah / Selassi / Mary or any other person that maybe worshiped those persons were meerly prophits that believed in God and saved their persons from natural disasters or Wars and people started worshipping them and over time persons forgot the real reason.
The only real thing you can believe in is the Bible. All the other religions would not get you anywhere.
Muslims would say the same thing about their religion. Hindus would say the same thing about their religion. Sikhs would say the same thing about their religion. Jews would say the same thing about their religion.
If you had been born in Pakistan you would probably be a Muslim. If you were born in India you would probably be a Hindu. If you were born in the time of the Vikings you would believe in Odin.
How do you know you’re right just because you were brought up as a Christian in 2012 rather than any of the other hundreds of religions mankind has had?
well i guess when we die that mystery will finally be solved
Indeed, and I’m guessing you don’t care enough about how grounded your beliefs are in logic to respond to my questions, which is fair enough. Thanks
My beliefs are based on the bible and not in religion
re·li·gion/riˈlijən/
Noun:
The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
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