What do you tell people when they ask you why you don't believe in God?

Thrusting into the mind-anus.

 

I guess it depends on the person who asks. Some people are fun to exchange thoughts and beliefs with, others are not. This is not limited to their religion of course, nonbelievers can be even more annoying. Generally people who like to discuss this kind of stuff don't like it when I don't narrow down my thoughts about God but they just happen to be not that concrete. Also fun is the reaction when you tell them you believe sometimes. What's wrong with that? Does your personal belief has to stay that consistent?

 

I do not believe in any god/deity, as i believe humans are there own gods in a matter of speaking. Logic and thought have brought humanity to this stage in its evolution and just to feel special a man/woman must pray to someone who's higher than them just to feel special. Everyone is special and equal no one is to be judged otherwise. On a plus note i also highly disagree with some religions moral codes with discriminating against gender or sexuality. Peace, and love cats

 

what really annoys me is this assumption, that i cannot believe in a god, unless i believe in what THEY imagine themselves to know about it.

 

I think if there was a God we would have evidence. Then again the world, universe and nature is so beautiful and awesome that it's hard to believe that it came around by accident. If there is a God it's the best at concealing itself although we have archeological artifacts and ancient text of Gods and relgions. The really strange thing is why has mankind, since early caveman times, has had a need to create and imagine 'Gods'? Mankind usually does things for a logical reason or survival need. Whats the evolutionary purposes of Gods and religion? Is there a reason for mans need of God or is it an evolutionary quirk?

 

It's just as much a quirk as culture or fashion. The urge for mankind to create a pantheon is very very logic and natural: to explain the unknown. This is why so many people nowadays do not believe, they feel they have the knowledge to know better.

 

permit me to clarify. i believe whole heartedly that there is something big, friendly and invisible. maybe hundreds of them. maybe billions. and maybe just one of them that is orders orders of magnitude more powerful then anything else that exists.

what i DO NOT believe in, is that we live in a universe that was created by a petty vindictive, all powerful spoiled brat that needs a good spanking AND a good psychiatrist.

 

What God? The god of all the religions or some other cosmic possibilty?
We need definitions before this impossible question can even be glanced at.

 

I had a cop pull me over and ask about the ATHEIST sticker on my car. He said "So you don't believe in god?" I answered "No because there is no proof of any god" Then the cop says "Proof? It's all around you, look around." I wanted to say "Are you fucking retarded?" Instead i just nodded my head and said "Okay"
He didn't give me a ticket, I guess he wasn't a real christian....or maybe he was.....I get confused. What's a real christian again?

 

The definition of a real christian is not defined by some petty action of a single person.

I don't.

 

huh? I thought Christianity taught to help your neighbor. That the world would change thru the individual's acts of love and kindness.

 

So? Teachings are not always followed. Adapting christianity does not makes a person flawless. If the person in that post wants to express his frustration it should be about the (action of the) cop and not about the teachings he may have misinterpreted..

 

Thank goodness for that.

 

If they ask - I answer "do you really want to know?" and then if they so, then I explain my faith with vigour and conviction

 

I have to explain that I'm not just confused or waiting to be convinced otherwise but that I have had a lot of education on many religions and that Christianity is just another one. I tell them that all humans should either choose to live with one higher power or none at all. Religion causes disagreements all the time. It's a war-starter.

I tend to like the idea of a universal consciousness. I feel close to that perspective.

 

I think people do have one higher power or God. We just have different cultural interpretations of God. Christians, Jews and Islams all have the same God of Abraham. That's when they stopped having multi-Gods. There's a word for that I cant recall. Its the one Gods 'prophets' that seem to cause all the disagreement.

Me too.

 

Is seems to me that the god of the bible is a souped-up version of the human male ego. He gets angry like us; he gets jealous--of what he himself says does not exist--like us; he is vengeful just like us; and he even blames the flaws in his own creation on others, just like us, and then destroys the evidence via flood.

The bible starts out with an obvious flaw in the chronological order of creation. It says that the earth was created before the sun, complete with plants and trees and all manner of green things. After reading that, I could not bring myself to conclude that the rest of the text is true.

 

How did genesis go again? I think it said DAYS existed before the earth. One complete revolution of the EARTH existed BEFORE the EARTH EXISTED!?

Anyway, yeah, it fucking blows my mind that people actually believe the bible when it is so clearly made up by man... completely blows my mind and shatters my hopes in humanity really. What a bunch of stupid idiots the world is full of. Chock Full O' Nutjobs!

 

I don't envy anyone who has to explain to their children that God is love in one breath, and then warn them of the eternal torture that awaits anyone who doesn't accept--or return--his love in the next breath.

A minister tried explaining this contradiction to me by using an analogy. He said that if you tell your child to not touch the stove, and he keeps trying to touch it, their must be a penalty, or he will not learn. Of course, I had to ask him what Hell is going to teach me, especially in light of the fact that I'm never getting out of Hell to live by my newly learned lesson. It appears to be pain for the sake of pain.

And then they have to tell their children that violence is no way to solve anything. Why not just tell children that two plus two equals five? Makes as much sense . . .

 

What God are we referring to here? Jennifer Love Hewitt? Chanta Rose? Who (or What)?