Atheism

Well im atheist an pple have been tellin me that der is a god an evrythin but im wonderin how can pple belive in sumone who dey cant see an well has brought so much pain 2 da world like starvation,bankrups,reposetion,suicieds,murder,ect...
So why do you...

belive in someone whos done so much crap an well have nevr evn seen?

"atheist will go to Hell just to let you all know. ;0"

And all Christians will go to Stovokor for eternal torment by klingons!

Bet you're terrified now! Oh, wait, you don't believe in Stovokor, do you? Hmm...

I am too. but for different reasons.
jesuscansuckittt. :]
I'm my own religion now.

first of all when you spell God use a capital letter and 2nd God didnt do all that 2 the world WE do! if you dont believe and Him then maybe you should go 2 church so comeone can reach out 2 u. He loves you no matter what and He'll forgive also. if you wonder why christians love God its b/c he 1st loved us...read the Bible you'll learn smething

--God Bless u

I hella believe you too.
the whole thinq is way too subliminal for even human minds to reqister.
I think people believe in God because,really, he's just a pseudonym; a fiqure of much hiqher authority that people rely on for their own inner tranquility.
&and people have no PROOF that he's real. if they say; look in the Bible..who knows if a random person didn't just MAKE UP the bible. as some kind of story and joke a long time ago and died before they had a chance to say.?
I don't qet how people just don't think about these thinqs...there's too many wronqs in the whole God thinq to make a right.
but TWO rights do make an airplane.<3

So what if you can't see him...that isn't the point. You shouldn't have to be able to see you should believe he is there. I believe in God, I accept Jesus as my savior. I'm not going to tell you to go to church because you have your own beliefs...I believe he is there and that there is a place after death...I wouldn't want to be floating around after death...or just in the coffin with nothing. I have hopes that Heaven is real...and that is a place I would like to go.

johnsmith1. You actually wish ill will on them and where they will go after death? Nice...real nice.

Theists tend to come up with contorted arguments as to why god isn't responsible for evil, and claim that their own inner voice is the voice of god.

I was channel surfing tonight and ran across one of those religious stations, and some whackjob was talking about how the lord works in mysterious ways. There's some sheister scam artist faith healer who physically assaults people *because god told him to*, and that they are healed by this attack. I'm all for separation of church and state, but that guy needs a straight jacket.

It is amazing to me how many things people believe in that they cannot prove or see, but then when it comes to God, the fact that it cant be proven without doubt is suddenly a good reason to not believe it.

I can't prove without doubt love, sadness, or what I see in my dreams, but I know they are real. Prove to me a dream that you had. Machines hooked up to someones brain while they are sleeping may prove brain activity but not the content of the dream. You could never prove to me what your dream was about so I could just call you crazy and say you made it up. What about people who don't remember their dreams? Do they go around saying dreams must not exist and expect proof? Not sane people. Some people don't believe in love either, they just think it is purely a chemical response to stimuli.

Why then do people want so much proof for God? One of my favorite quotes, "the greatest lie the devil ever told was convincing the world he didn't exist."
He did that so people don't know why they are having such a hard time seeing the proof.

Either only believe in what you can see, or admit there are things in this world that can't be absolutely proven. I don't know why people pick and choose to their liking rather than caring about the truth, I guess life is easier that way, but far from worth it, not to mention really hypocrtical.

However, people will make their choice regardless of tons of proof, so, good luck to everyone and God bless!

I belive in god but I undestand what you mean

lol arachnid!

you know there is a third alternative... a non interfering God... Look up Deism...

As for why people believe, it is faith, up to you whether or not to believe...

do you know what I find a little strange? How many people on here do not believe in God, and yet they blame all the worlds problems on Him. Cant really have it both ways you know.

luthien: Really? I haven't seen _anyone_ do that. Perhaps you're thinking of people blaming religion itself for the atrociites it inspires? That doesn't require a god to exist - just people that believe one does.

"first of all when you spell God use a capital letter"
In the jewish faith it is sacrilegious to write the name of god...so I don't use capitals or I write it as G-d.

"if you wonder why christians love God its b/c he 1st loved us"
No, he 1st loved us, the jews...

"read the Bible you'll learn smething"
right back at you...

I myself am an atheist. I believe that all religions have been made to save people from insanity. People wonder so much how the world was created and almost lose their sanity trying to figure it out. Therefore, they made something up. Boom there is one "God" and Boom there is another and another. It is all creative thinking I give them that. I don't think they would ever blame their "God" for the defects of the world because their "god" is too high and mighty for that. They sure aren't going to blame themselves for it either. That is where all of those problems have come from. You have made a very good statement but if you really wanted to have people take you seriously you might want to pass a spelling test first.

actually, I do blame myself for the way the world is. I blame myself and every other person in the world because we did this to ourselves.

oh, and arachnid, read the question. It clearly states, how can you believe in someone you cant see who has brought so much pain to the world. So there is someone "doing that" right there.

*** but then when it comes to God, the fact that it cant be proven without doubt is suddenly a good reason to not believe it.

It isn't that it can't be proven without doubt that makes it false, it's that there is no credible evidence for your god whatsoever, combined with the knowledge that your god concept evolved from anthropomorphizing celestial objects, combined with the fact that what we observe is inconsistent with claims of a creator god, combined with the fact that the creator god is almost always defined in contradictory terms.

Seems like we are again stuck in the rut of defining reality. If you are a physicalist and you set reality in the parameters of those things which can be physically observed... you will find it a hard course to believe in a god.

Dualists consider abstractions on par with corporeality.

Idealists maintain that mind is reality.

People who insist that one is correct, are actually telling you how they have settled their minds, [or brains... as it were] on the problem of reality.

Many atheists actually come to faith in Christ, by trying to prove that he does not exist. I hope you will find this true in your own life.

God bless...

miscegenymiser: And skeptics only believe in that which has evidence to back it up - which would put them down as "physicalists" in your taxonomy, yet doesn't imply having "made your mind up" about anything except that we can understand the world by using an evidence-based approach.

God is real. I hope you find him. Without faith it is impossible to please God.