Atheists...

Is God dead, or did he never exist?
How does your reasoning for being an athiest go?

Is God dead, or did he never exist?
How does your reasoning for being an athiest go?

If someone believes something and there's no proof against it, does that make it real?

If your deluded, yes.

My 9 year old boy just went through his first communion last week, and had to do some reading beforehand.

I think he's on the road to being an Atheist, since he asked me about the flood: "If Noah was supposed to get two of every animal, and there's fifty thousand types of animals on Earth, wouldn't he die of old age before ever catching them all?"

And, "40 days and 40 nights is a really long time to stay on a boat...what did they eat, since they didn't have refrigerators and freezers back then to store food?"

Yeah he is definitely a skeptic.

Say everybody, I do not like the direction this topic is taking. Remarks such as

and

are quite "off" to me. I we would reason in such a way I could easily say that each and every one posting in this topic is deluded (and be right about it instead of just saying it as de budding did).

Lets look at this from an impartial point, shall we?

The reason people ask questions about "God" is because "God" has been the solution to all causal chain-reactions for milannia. Nowadays many call this "God" "Big Bang". "Nature" has also been proposed to take the place of this "God", and "Nothing" is a nominee as well. The fact that all of these different people feel the need to give such things a name proves that we do not know what is going on and we do want to know. ALl of the above are wondering what a solution to the question of origin might be and all are equally guilty of the same thing: guessing.

All of the answers to the question mean the same thing: origin; creation. So, there you have it people, atheists are really religious nutcases, just like all others.

Is God dead, or did he never exist?
How does your reasoning for being an athiest go?

Religion isn't really concerned with questions anymore; they've done there bit now they just sit back and work on their apologetics department, in fact the less questions the better as far as they are concerned... where as the older I get the more skeptical and inquisitive I seem to get.

Also I'm open to change my perception and view at any time, and I often do entertain religious thoughts but, even thought they never lead any where because they are wrong I still entertain them from time to time.

I think the behavioral, social and historic side of religion speaks for itself, there was never any need to delve deeper than that, save the questions for experts who will at least accept the answer they get and not try to manipulate it into their world view.

For me, there's just no reason to believe something so silly - one would think in the 3rd millennium that we'd be past such dumbness. Humans have such capacity for love, sharing, fellowship and discovery. As long as we hold to ancient myths, the longer we'll stay divided and at arms length to our brothers and sisters.

So religion in and of itself keeps us divided as a race? Religion in and of itself isn't damaging, in fact, many religions (and churches for that matter) preach that we should unite, whether those who follow a certain religion do or not is not necessarily a product of that religion. I find that the Human desire to be better than their neighbor is more damaging than religion. Religion is just an easy target to point a finger at.

Those who find religious beliefs silly and dumb can be just as damaging to human relations as any religion.

Thanks for responding, and apologies again for any offense

My assertion is that one's religious views strike to the very heart of their existence - they're very personal and colors every perception, every thought, every input, every question.

Once accepted, a theological view becomes a mantle they always wear. Given the voracity with which many religious humans cling, this itself becomes a point of divisiveness that drives wedges in communities, between coworkers, neighborhoods, nations and continents.

Forgetting wars, it becomes a reason to gather those of like-mindedness to reinforce the tenuous beliefs they hold. Yes many religions preach embracement of all (hell, I think almost all do) yet their nature precludes this. What results is a club complete with secret handshake and decoder ring.

When there are multiple organizations running around perpetuating this same divisiveness we end up with one over-riding result: Polarization. It is this divisiveness, perhaps moreso on a personal level, that I bemoan more than anything else.

Yes, I've heard the argument, "Religion is just an easy target to point a finger at" but look at what's happening in the world today

It's my belief that if such a day were to come, we'd not only have more compassion and charity for each other, in recognizing and accepting our mortality it'd become a supreme motiviation for cherishing each and every moment of our lives.

Honestly believing in a historical figure Noah who collected the animals, ect is silly. Bright kid to catch onto the absurdity; nine is very young to have such an independent intellect

Now our beliefs may be separate us, but yours are hardly religious. However, I almost guarantee that our beliefs don't. Because we are rational enough to understand that differences are what makes life interesting.