Why are you an Agnostic or Athiest?
chemalurgy
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I became an athiest after studying comparative religion and realizing how little made sense when compared to facts. What about you?
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I have always been an athiest. Some of my earliest memories are of my parents dragging me to church and not beliveing a word of it. It has always seemed ridiculous to me.0
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I'm not really sure I define myself as either tbh. I'm not sure what I am but believe in the tangible or provable, something no religion has yet been able to provide.0
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If there were a deity, I would think that deity would be pleased by logic and compassion and joy and equality and science and love and health and truth-seeking and justice and kindness. I have never heard of such a deity . . .0
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I think I like this question! Why am I an atheist? 'Cos there's no such thing as gods.0
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I think I like this question! Why am I an atheist? 'Cos there's no such thing as gods.
Logical response. I like it.0 -
If there were a deity, I would think that deity would be pleased by logic and compassion and joy and equality and science and love and health and truth-seeking and justice and kindness. I have never heard of such a deity . . .
Most religions have deities that rain down fire and brimstone. When people are suffering, they are told to accept it as God's will and to know that he's a loving deity. These things don't compute.0 -
I am an Atheist I do not believe that God created the world.
I was brought up a Christian, I loved going to church as a child. In our small village it was a social thing as well as a religious thing. I was in the choir, read lessons, rang the church bells. It was all very nice and enjoyable, my family were not devout or fanatical about religion it was just a gentle belief.
As I got older I started to question the bible and the cruelty that religion has generated over the centuries in the name of various gods and I came to the conclusion, like a lot of people that any god that allowed millions of people to die in his name was not worthy of my worship. Learning about the Holocaust was the clincher for me.
Also I was discovering science and being taught how the world was formed and what creatures existed before man came along, I live fairly close to the Jurrasic coast in England and fossiles became a love of mine. I could not equate Adam and Eve with the evidence that I could see with my own eyes.
I am not rabidly atheist, I don't try and persuade believers that god doesn't exist but I have no time for anyone who is devout to the point of trying to convert me. Religion can bring great comfort to people but that element, for me, is far outweighed by the hatred, death and bigotry it inflicts so I have no time for it generally.
PS I love Dinosaurs
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I am an Atheist I do not believe that God created the world.
I was brought up a Christian, I loved going to church as a child. In our small village it was a social thing as well as a religious thing. I was in the choir, read lessons, rang the church bells. It was all very nice and enjoyable, my family were not devout or fanatical about religion it was just a gentle belief.
As I got older I started to question the bible and the cruelty that religion has generated over the centuries in the name of various gods and I came to the conclusion, like a lot of people that any god that allowed millions of people to die in his name was not worthy of my worship. Learning about the Holocaust was the clincher for me.
Also I was discovering science and being taught how the world was formed and what creatures existed before man came along, I live fairly close to the Jurrasic coast in England and fossiles became a love of mine. I could not equate Adam and Eve with the evidence that I could see with my own eyes.
I am not rabidly atheist, I don't try and persuade believers that god doesn't exist but I have no time for anyone who is devout to the point of trying to convert me. Religion can bring great comfort to people but that element, for me, is far outweighed by the hatred, death and bigotry it inflicts so I have no time for it generally.
PS I love Dinosaurs
I love dinosaurs, too. Love science in general. No, the evidence from fossils doesn't mesh well with most religions.0
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