Atheists. What are your reasons for not believing in god?

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  1. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    Many atheists I talk to say that there could not be a god in a world as bad as this. Is this the reasoning behind y'all? If not, what other reasons do you have?
     
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  3. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    You have it all wrong. We don't have reasons for not believing in god. We have no reason to believe in god.

    What are your reasons for not believing in unicorns?
     
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  5. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    Well what about death, and salvation?
     
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  7. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    What about em?

    Death = oblivion

    Salvation = delusion
     
  8. glaucon tending tangentially Registered Senior Member

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    ??

    These are reasons for believing in unicorns??

    Regardless, those notions are defined by us, and how we use them. There is no intrinsic relation between them and some fantastical entity.
     
  9. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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  10. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Hey! Neato! Now we have our very own bible! Yay!
     
  11. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    So you are comfortable knowing that you will no longer exist after death? This idea does not scare you or bother you?
     
  12. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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  13. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    Not enough to make me grasp at wishful thinking.
     
  14. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Awesome! A prophet to boot. We will save you all from yourselves.
     
  15. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Not in the least. Think about it, if you can. Try to imagine not waking up from a deep, sound sleep. Will you be afraid? Experience regret? Sorrow? Anything?

    No.

    What frightens me is the process. A prolonged suffering before oblivion. That would suck.
     
  16. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    That isn't an argument against the existence of a god or gods. That is an argument against the existence of a supposedly loving god. Maltheism, the belief that there is an evil god, is perfectly consistent with a world such as our own.

    The riddle of Epicurus:
    Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

    Is he both able and willing?
    Then whence cometh evil?

    Is he neither able nor willing?
    Then why call him God?
     
  17. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    No doubt. Evangelism seems to be an essential portion of the New Atheism.
     
  18. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    Agreed. Here's hoping for a quick and painless death.
     
  19. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    This is how I have always felt. Terrified of the process, but nit so much of the end result.

    But also the idea of no longer existing. RepoMan said it well:

    I've always wondered if that is all that religion is.
     
  20. glaucon tending tangentially Registered Senior Member

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    Why would it scare or bother me?

    To think otherwise would be odd indeed.
     
  21. greenberg until the end of the world Registered Senior Member

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    But that's because you have already accepted some Taoist premisses, no?
     
  22. kenworth dude...**** it,lets go bowling Registered Senior Member

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    that should have absolutely no bearing on what you believe.if the only reason you believe in a god and an afterlife is through fear of death then you do not truly believe, you hope.

    i dont believe in a god because it just doesnt make sense to me.
     
  23. redwards I doubt it Registered Senior Member

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    Thank you, that was exactly what I was going to say here.
     

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