Everyone, believers in God or not, believe in something that they have never seen. Some people believe in aliens and not God, some believe in evolution with out NO proof its any more then a THEORY. Everyone believes in something because everyone has a spirit that questions life.
We all wonder whats beyond the earth, what happens when we die, what happened before we walked the earth. Our spirits long to learn and find comfort in something. My something is God because to me, He is more real then the air I breath.
I think they are as diverse as any one. No one group believes all of the same thing. Even among Christians there are huge differences in many beliefs.
I think that Atheists are people who do not believe in God and that is their right. I may not agree with it, but I think they are people who have made the choice that they are free to make.
I think Christians, atheists, agnostics etc. Need to stop mocking each other in this question area and take it to the forums.
No I don't agree. An athiest doesn't say that we want proof. We say simply that there is no god.
Seriously, it's pretty simple to an athiest but I guess for others it is complicated. It isn't a matter of proving whether god exists but it is a matter of looking at the world, using our mind and realising how silly believing in something like a god really is. You seem to be on a mission to make athiests look bad.
Pretty christian of you.
You are aggregating Agnostics and Atheists into the same category as those who are obviously confused. Agnosticism is the belief that we cannot possibly understand the mind of God and that we will probably never know. True Atheists deny the possibility of a supreme being.
Those who want proof in order to substantiate their belief are the same types who will likely drift between religions until the day they die. It is frustrating for religious folk because they want to lump everyone into a category of what they believe. Once you decide that you have no religion, you belong to no group.
Atheists diverge in opinion aside from the "no God" aspect. I have never struggled with religious beliefs and have been an Atheist since my early teens. An Atheist simply believes that there is no God.It is no more intricate than that.
Lee Stroble, a journalist and former atheist wrote a nice book: THE CASE FOR CHRIST. As an atheist, he set out on a research to prove that Jesus and God didn't exist but later in the process, he wrote a different story that has changed many to believe in God.
I do believe in God and I do believe many thing about God that is inconsistent with organized religion. I believe in most cases organized religions do not know God well. They got God all wrong.
Having said this, I do respect the opinions of all atheists. I understand many of their frustrations come from those who falsely proclaim that they know God well. They are frustrated and naturally do not trust these religious view.
Religions preach of an ugly God, full of vengeance, anger, and jealously. They also preach that we should fear this God who will condemn you to eternal damnation if you don't accept him. This is something even atheists will not wish for anyone else.In fact it is quite natural to turn away from such a God if that is the case.
Every atheist will come to know the truth about the wonderful our God in his or her own way. This can even happen after death.
Once in the presence of God which is full of Love and Joy, the Grand truth will be obvious. Do not condemn them for their path and views, for God has a wonderful plan for everybody.
Some believers will say "I know he exists" without any proof (that is exactly what a true believer is, someone who doesn't require any proof to accept his belief). Some will say they have felt him, some will say he is within me, some will say they have seen his miracles.
So the "mass confusion" and "disarray of spirit" as you mention surrounds you believers aswell. I also see an empty plate!
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs).
Today the least educated children know much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think - though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one - that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.
Yes I agree, but its not fault of the atheists that they don't believe god . If god wants atheist to love him he can force them by creating situations, but he do not force anyone because one or the other day or in other life they have to go back to kingdom of god . Atheists think that they don't care about god ,but they try to show their disapproval of god's existence(therefore they're thinking about god in one or other way ,However its not favor-able for them but ,god wins , atheist may think he do not care of god but they are doing by trying to deny his existence, if god really never existed or the atheists have firm belief that there is no god then why to try so hard to deny him rather why to even care to think of him?
If really god never existed why all the countries on the earth have their own god so there is god )since they are thinking about god even without forcing them ,so again god wins.
I don't care if someone is an athiest. If someone claims to be an athiest but they are kind and considerate then they are far ahead of a person who claims to know God yet hates others for no good reason.
A scientist proclaimed he could create life and did.
He was on Opray's show one day telling how.
He listened as the scientist said he gathered up some sand.
Then put it in his discumbobulator machince, pushed the button.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.