Question to Atheists:: Why not take a chance and believe?

[MMS]

Who would even know the power was switched off?​

too true

maybe we have a power switch too

Spoiler

put a lil twist on it and it becomes a Q

We are living in a world of illusion

 

[xCivicx]

how good is a person really if their actions are motivated by fear of whatever deity/deities they believe in?

Thats a great point

But if you're making the world you live in a better place then i dont think the reasoning matters as much imo

 

[duncanthetall]

Because most of them are terrified of actually being held accountable for being horrible human beings

Assuming because someone doesn’t follow your faith it means they’re a horrible human being. Doesn’t sound very Christ-like of you

 

[MMS]

Assuming because someone doesn’t follow your faith it means they’re a horrible human being. Doesn’t sound very Christ-like of you

saying and doing acts you wouldnt have done to yourself is generally frowned upon regardless of faith wouldnt you agree?

why would people do it other than for belief they wont face reprisal?

 

[ThirdAct]

I'm not an atheist, more an agnostic...but it's hard for me to accept someone who is alive telling me what happens when we die. You can certainly theorize on what you think happens, but don't tell me with certainty. The truth is none of us will know what happens until we die. Or we won't.

 

[xCivicx]

Assuming because someone doesn’t follow your faith it means they’re a horrible human being. Doesn’t sound very Christ-like of you

Where did i mention any specific faith??

Point it out

The thread is about believing in a Creator. Thats it

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is not gonna make a lotta sense but believe it or not, a lotta atheists might actually be closer to heaven than a lot of true believers.

All paths ultimately lead to God. Some paths may take longer than others…and some paths people are on just prolong the trip and make it HELLishly long. People be taking all kinds of detours, hustling backwards, taking naps, getting lost…killing people and having to stop to bury bodies, setting traps for others and falling in em themselves, eating mushrooms, falling off cliffs, taking harder mountain roads just to spite other people, fighting bears, getting trolled by demons and all kinds of mischievous spirits, getting distracted by butterflies, blinded all types of shyt.

Atheists are just people who chose to walk the path without navigation.But their belief in themselves sometimes ends up working better for them than religious folks belief in God outside of themselves which blinds them to their own problems. Even Paul told ya’ll that in Romans.


As somebody who knows God, it’s not my job to try and beat people over the head with my beliefs or spiritually harass them. God doesn’t require your defense. Instead, I’m supposed to live my life in such a way that the divine emanates through me. That emanation sparks curiosity and inspiration and sometimes it makes people wanna walk with you.

Work out your own path and stop worrying about others. Their non-belief is no threat to anyone else. In our own religion we are even told to leave others in other faiths alone. We are also told not to talk about who is going to Heaven or Hell. shyt, we are told to do a lotta stuff we don’t do.


Also religion is merely a guide…not an exhaustive Mandate of Heaven. It’s divinely inspired but funneled through human limitations, dishonesty and has been changed according to human agenda. It’s a starting place and we are meant to go far far beyond it. Otherwise, you can get just as lost on your path through dogma as that Satanist over there petitioning demons for powers humans already got.
Somehow on the way down, we all bumped our heads and forgot what we are/were/will be. In our frustration at ourselves, we often hyperfocus on others to distract from our own confusion. Because when you lost and feel like you are losing a race, you wanna at least feel better than somebody else.

Some people will remember in one lifetime. Others will take eternity to solve the mystery. But ultimately It’s unfukkable. Just a matter of how fast or slow you wanna get there. But stopping on your own journey to be preoccupied with somebody else’s journey will make your own path HELLishly long too. Trying to control others and dragging them down your path makes it HELLishly long too. Instead, love, walk and never stop. And you’d be surprised at how people just sometimes end up walking with you.

We all gon make it.

Spoiler

And if I’m wrong, then I won’t be here to argue with you about it anyway, we’ll all be having dirt naps…

This reads like some new age pastor in jeans and sneakers with sleeve Tattoos tries to reach out to new followers


I mean seriously. Just leave us alone. You don’t gotta insert your book into our lives as if it magically is apart of your side quest on your life RPG.

 

[UpAndComing]

I'm not an Atheist at all. I'm more of a Spiritualist or Hermeticist

 

[CarbonBraddock]

not an atheist, but there is no 'choosing to believe.' you either believe in something, or you don't.

 

[kingofnyc]

the equations and devices used to estimate geological dating are assumptions

it assumes radioactive materials become what they are from star fission/fusion which has never been proven

meaning the "half lives" of many of those isotopes are just extrapolation error. In measurrement systems most devices have an "accurate" region of measuring. Geologists have collectively told themselves millions and billions of years out of laziness not out of truth

so in fact, your dinosaurs could in fact be only in the thousands of years old rather than millions

Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue.

I’m not a scientist but you can argue with this highly respect Paleontologist all you want

 

[MMS]

I’m not a scientist but you can argue with this highly respect Paleontologist all you want

I actually worked directly in radiology as a student, I understand how they do it. Its that the equations they are using utilize assumptions that cant be proven (the origin of radioactive isotopes)

in other words they have no isotope that they can say "we were there....billions or millions of years ago to take a measurement to say: this is when it started" then use that as a reference for other isotopes

rather what ends up happening is they can create artificial isotopes from fissile material and attempt to work backwards

the whole of academia just believes it, I'm not gonna argue it mainly because the reason they do is that many "backwards-looking" fields rely on this assumption to stay alive

whereas science that measures a present state to make inference on a future state is much more reliable. IE you cant measure something today or in the recent time, and then make an inference on something that happened before the measurement

 

[The Lord Doc]

Because that isn't how faith works. It isn't a matter of effort but compulsion, and I haven't been compelled to believe in any gods.

If there is such a thing as a creator or supreme being, I doubt that it is like what most people believe in. After all, most gods seem like idealized versions of the people who believe in them. Only problem is, most people's idealized version of themselves ain't so ideal to others.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[FLYINHAWAIIAN]

That's not how belief works.

Christiana might as well take a chance and believe in all the hindu and buddhist gods while they're at it

 

[FLYINHAWAIIAN]

I'm an atheist, but I find it entirely plausible that a man named Jesus was roaming around Judaea in the first quarter of the first century AD. There's more near-contemporary evidence for his existence than about 99% of anyone else who lived in the region at the time. Apart from the supernatural aspects i.e. the Nativity, the Resurrection, the basics of his life in the NT--an apocalyptic prophet putting forth an eschatological message of imminent change--are believable, given the milieu.

The letter "J" didn't come into existence til around the 17th century