Atheism is a creation of christianity. it is a religion of its own.

This just makes me laugh

I'm an Atheist, believeing in the person 'GOD' is a waste of time I mean how do you know he's real. Don't say 'The Bible' because oyu don't know that. That could of just been a book like what we have now. It's still a mystery but until it's solved I'll never believe

its what i am

Uh... in desperate times, one shouldn't revert to themselves... because this is self destruction!

I think it is the sadest religion. How can you not have faith in anything?

Even though it is technically a lack of religion, there are more than a few atheists who seem to have some sort of faith in proclaiming their lack of faith.

i durnt relly like reilgion.

Agnosticism is reasonable, Atheism is much less so simply because it is far more arrogant an idea.

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I gonna have to give this 3 1/2 because they don't beleive in the bible so they are very smart for thinking...atleast they don't beleive in one of the biggest scams of humankind

Interesting that Atheism is listed under religions. After all, it is a religion by itself based on the faith that there is no God.

It is truth.

I do believe in God now and I used to be atheist, but I also used to get into trouble with the law alot and now that I believe in God it helps to keep my ass out of trouble believing that someone is watching me. Sort of like a parent that you respect but watching you 24/7, which helps my conscience in making the right decisions. It also helps to have someone to talk to when you cant talk to anyone else and lets face it, its cheaper than a shrink.

Religion was sorta founded on the same principal, as a way to keep people in line believing that if they do wrong they will utimatly get punished and to comfort them knowing someone is watching over them, to help them keep going. I dont believe in any one religion though because I like to believe in the idea of God than having a strict religion with rules and fanatical followers.

Atheists are just realists with a built in set of strong morals and a stable psyche, so they dont need the comfort or the guidance of an immaterial figure. I was one of them but I found it helps to believe in God, although religion ticks me off.


Anyways just thought I'd put that tidbit in...anyone who believes something different...well, whatever floats your boat; just dont try to convert me.

Or maybe it's more correct to say, as many below have proved, "People with absolute faith cannot be reasoned with." That's how the truism arose--it doesn't pay to discuss religion or politics. Why? Because there's no right answer; it's all a matter of personal belief. I'm glad you're comforted by your religious belief; people deserve all the comfort they can get. I don't care what you believe, at least not until you try to force your beliefs upon me, in the guise of your morality or otherwise. You believe whatever you want, and I'll do the same.

Atheists are people who do not believe in a god or gods (or other immaterial beings), or who believe that these concepts are not meaningful.  So that's the meaning of an atheist!!! Haven’t these people been around since the beginning of time!!! The core of Sin will deny God or Christ due to its want only to be away from God. Thankfully not everyone falls for this tick of the tail!! I pray for you all who believe in the false lie that draws you away from your Savoir who died for you!!

I do not believe in Atheism! Seriously, it is harder for me to believe in the beginning of life from no life as well as it is to accept that miracles are just a fluke of science.

Atheism has never taken hold. Its adepts are as strong in their non-faith as the opposites. Both appear to be of the same mind frame but on different ends. Isn't that typical? The human race has some atavistic urge to believe in something, and I leave it to the psycho-historians to explain why.

More people were killed by Atheists in the 20th Century then all the years of Jewish and Christian history added together over the last 3500 years. So please spare me the slogans about bloody religion.

It is all a bit wish fulfillment. Every religious person wants to believe theirs is the one true faith and they are special because of it. The thing that they worship is usually the blood thirsty monster who required animal and even human sacrifice in the Old Testament and allowed and instructed massacres of non-"chosen" people (yes, and their children, slaves and animals too). This creature also approved of slavery too.  How old fashioned!  We are all held to blame for the "original" sin of early mankind, which  was only expunged by of course more suffering and, yes of course, more death.  Oh yeh, give me that old time religion!  No thanks. It's not even comforting. Hard to believe that people whose brains are still in working order actually believe all that hogwash (as I did once, but hated it).  Better to believe in Santa Claus .... far nicer and no killing required.

  Here is a question for you Evangelical Right Wing Neocons.  If "prayer" can heal people of illness such as Parkingsons and such, "Why has "prayer" NEVER healed an amputee victim EVER?"

Most athiests don't recognize that they're as ignorant, arrogant, and intolerant as they accuse Christians to be.

Being a Christian as my self, i can kinda see how people have a hard time believing in Gods creation and Jesus willfully dying for mans sins.If you were to think about it without getting into detail.You kinda have something like this......Here you have a creator who made the universe and planets etc., man and woman (a.k.a.) Adam and Eve eat some forbidden fruit off of a tree and the whole world plunges into sin. So then you have God(a.k.a.) the creator sends his son Jesus to die on the cross for all of mans sins, and then by calling upon the name of the Lord and believing and him Jesus you become saved with a new spirit and been forgiven of all your sins and get to go Heaven..to a place that you never seen beore. And if you DONT belive in Jesus and get saved you go to Hell..in which again to a place that you have never seen before.Sound Corky ...sure it does. But reality of the fact is ITS TRUE! there is evidence that God created the earth and the life and times of Jesus were true. Its called the Bible. Theres tons of stories, miracles,battles etc. that has happened thousands of years ago and still leave evidence on this earth today! You have to learn how to read and understand it. Does the Bible give all the answers to everything about creation and why everything was made a specific way and how and when exactly? No, but thats when it takes FAITH!  To believe in the things that are unseen. 1 Corinthians 2:9 (However, as it is written; No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has concieved what God has prepared for those who love him.) Were not meant to know everything. We can't expect ourselves to know eveything. Thats like trying to take a Ant and make it understand the internet. It's impossible! It's impossible for us to UNDERSTAND all the answers about creation and when it exactly happened etc. God has kept some of those things secret but he put the things he wants us to know in the Bible. I know this is long but its important.           To ask an Aeitheist. When you die, where do think you will go. Nowhere? You think eveything will be just black silence when your dead? Wow.....thats alot to look forward to. People ask me why i believe in God.... and  i say its better than believing in nothing. Why? Lets just say if there was no God and no Heavenor and no Hell. I would rather live my life believing in God and then die being diecieved then going to a place of nowhere. Than living my life not believing at all..die and standing before God being judged and because of my unbelief going to Hell, a place of torture for eternity. In stead of going to Heaven a place of paradise. SO REALLY WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE! I hate to say it for you unbelievers, there is a God and there is a Devil. There is a Heaven and there is a Hell. Whether you belive it or not when we die eveyone will stand before God and be judged on what we believe and our sins. It's you cant escape it.  This bunch of "I dont believe it unless i see it" Is a bunch of crap.  You can't physically SEE the wind and the air you breath, but you belive in it cause you can feel its affects. Same way with being saved and believing in God. Even though I cant see God I can feel his presence everyday in my life and  more and more thruth is opened up in my eyes. If I was you I would get to believing instead of seeing. You never know when you last day on earth will be. Dont let it be to late.

I have argued for years with "atheists" that everything they claim they're against (religion) is what they themselves practice. Never could I understand why someone without any religious belief would give a hoot as to whether or not the Ten Commandments or on our currency. Why the outright hatred for God who you claim doesn't exist? I know that the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny do not exist yet feel no desire to ban them from society. They certainly aren't a threat to my civil liberties. If you truly were an atheist you wouldn't care what an individual or government has on display. In reality what most "atheists" are is against God which in and of itself is a religion, albeit a religion of hatred and intolerance because they do the bidding of the evil one.

Why is it that seemingly everyone on line who claims to be an atheist feels the need to advertise it? If I believe in God and there is no god....what do you care? According to you guys I am just engaging in a foolish little fantasy of self-comfort...that effects you how?

. . . technically "atheism" is not a "religion" so much as it is a stance that says that they don't have a religion. Some obviously (see some comments below for examples) take that belief to extremes of fanatacism (and I see some have made mention of James Randi, the guy who had been dissassociated with even the Skeptic Society). Interesting how someone could run around, crying "prove it! Prove it!" without providing any evidence that THEIR claim is true. But I would contest comments that somehow atheism is "bleak", and somehow has "no tomorrow" and thus would lead to "murder" ( . . . Superman couldn't have made THAT jump). These beliefs would be borne from the idea that life is not worth living without religous beliefs, or that one could not have any morals without religon. I'm not religious ("agnostic" is probably the better term), but I've found much in life that has been quite fulfilling regardless of the lack of religion, and while I'm not perfect I do have morals that I live by that don't allow me to just out and kill someone. And I don't know of any atheists who have ever come to the conclusion "well, if there's no God, I might as well go out on a killing rampage". That's just disturbing. UPDATE: Well, if it's any consolation to anyone, at least here's some atheists who have a good sense of humor (and aren't off their !@#$ing rocker . . . . seriously, someone's gotta adjust their dosage): Article: Gainesville Sun: Atheists Give Free Hugs to Fellow Students

ACCORDING TO THE ONE AND ONLY LIVING GOD THERE ARE NO SUCH THING AS ATHEIST!!!!! ......just people who think they are atheist since their mind has been darkened by turning away form the truth. They have themselves deceived into believing their whole atheist thing. God's opinion is the only one that counts, don't insist on your own opinion it will cost you your soul. That is too high a price for something that is false! Think this is just my opinion? No! I am just telling you what God says here in His Bible, I didn't think of this read it for yourself and see!!The Bible says... "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools,.." (ROMANS 1:18-22 ) Repent, turn around before it's too late God still loves you He sent his Son to pay for your sins!!

Just one of many acceptable ways to live.  It's your choice.

Absolute certainty about anything is just a wee bit arrogant, considering that we are just little bits of grit in the immensity of the cosmos.

  Who are YOU to question why YOUR GOD made me too observant to fall for the bullshit that conned YOU into David Koresh's Happy Hotel of Half-Retarded Holy-Rollertude?!

How DARE YOU, thou silly mortal!? Punishment awaits you for doubting Him. Seriously, He's gonna smite you all upside your ass.

I agree with Sam Harris (the author of "The End of Faith") in that I'm suspicious of the need for a word like "atheist", I mean, what do you call the kind of person who doesn't believe that Elvis is still alive - or the person who doesn't believe in Unic0rNs?!

(Unicorns ARE  mentioned in the bible, you know? More than 10 times! Do YOU still believe in unicorns? You kinda' HAVE to believe in 'em, dontcha'? ...and the "cockatrice" mentioned in the bible is a monster that's part rooster part serpent that can take over your soul by looking at you, whether you're talking about Balaam's Ass or Jeptha's daughter or the dozens of specific mentions of cannibalism, or even the verse in Psalms saying "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones" the bible is pure insanity - laid down in black and white. <~ period. That's why the preacher only talks about the parts that DON'T make you vomit day-glo! If that were the holy book of the Scientologists, you'd NEVER let them near your children, would you?)

Aaaaanyway...  here's my challenge: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If any believer can finish just 12 little steps across the surface of my swimming pool without getting the tops of their high-tops wet - I'll make-out a $500 check to the imaginary deity of their choice while we're uploading the video to YouTube so I can collect my million dollars from The Amazing Randi.

Until then, and in closing, let me just quote from the Holy Bible to all the "God is Pro-Life" thunder-monkeys: "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee"   -- Deuteronomy 28:53 --  (King James Version)

(blech!) Don't eat your kids, seriously. The bible is a horror show that no one would EVER allow their children to see without being sedated and chained down. The rapture is crapture.

  One more thing: WhyDoesGodHATEAmputees.Com ? 

Like millions of other Americans, my great-grandparents came to this country with their children at the beginning of the 20th century. Like many who passed through Ellis Island they made their home in New York City. For about 20 years they used overhead trains and subways for transportation. Automobiles were available but my great-grandparents saw no need to buy one as they felt rail transportation was sufficient. They knew a few people who owned cars and one time my great-grandfather actually tried to drive one, but without proper instructions and not being familiar with the controls, he lurched the car forward, drove into the curb, and stalled the engine. My great-grandparents never looked in a new car showroom because they had no interest in buying a car. Likewise, as new automotive features and conveniences were added it had no meaning for them. As far as my great-grandparents were concerned, the automobile industry may as well have not existed. I see atheists as being like my great-grandparents and the auto industry as being like God. If people choose to not allow God to have any influence in their lives then He may as well not exist for them, so I can understand why many of my atheist friends feel the way they do. Like my great-grandparents who were satisfied with rail transportation, atheists are satisfied with the way they go through life. Like my great-grandfather who tried to drive, sometimes they even "give God a chance." But making an attempt without first seeking some kind of familiarity more often than not leads to them walking away in disgust just as my great-grandfather did when he drove into the curb. So I don't jump on the case of my atheist friends because I would like to think that I have at least a halfway decent idea of why they do not believe in God. For my great-grandparents, the automobile industry may as well not have existed because they saw no need for an automotive product to be part of their lives. For my atheist friends, God may as well not exist because they feel no need for His "product" to be part of their lives. But just because something plays no part in your life doesn't mean it does not exist. Had I kept the door closed to the concept of God, never stepping out on faith and allowing God room to work, He would not have affected my life, in which case He would not have existed for me. But I had a desire to know God beyond what I was told by organized religion. Eventually it brought me to a greater understanding than I ever received from religious clergy or those who were supposed to be my teachers on the subject. In the same vein, some people want to know more than simply how to drive a car so they become mechanics or engineers and participate in the design, manufacture, or repair of automobiles. As a result, they learn far more about cars than they are ever told in a new car showroom. I had a desire to learn more about God than what I was taught by the religious mainstream so I sought answers outside organized religion. I know more about God now than I did when I was part of organized religion. In those days church was like being in a new car showroom where you learn only what the sales people tell you. My great-grandfather never learned how to drive but when his son eventually bought a car he enjoyed being driven around though he never gave a thought to the engineers and laborers who made manufacturing a car possible. I see atheists pretty much in the same way, as people who enjoy the creations yet give little or no thought to the origins of a creator. My atheist friends seem to be satisfied with the kind of an answers atheism provides so I'm not going to twist anyone's arm in an effort to change their mind. If they are at peace with themselves and satisfied with atheistic answers then so be it. I however, needed a more spiritually detailed answer and eventually I found it. 

The only real problem I have is the fairly bleak outlook of being worm food in the end and I really can't get one consistant belief structure out of them since the are the anti-religion and therfore have no such structure. the thing they do seem to want is religious folk out of there faces, and I want that quite a bit myself.

UPDATE: I'll give you a thousand dollars if you can make an airtight case that there is no GOD.

UPDATE: So were you gonna produce some proof for me that God isn't real? I got the thousand dollars just waiting...

UPDATE: All this silly re-posting when I'm puting up a grand? I guess I'll have to spend that money on lightsabers...

I could really care less about whether a person believes in one deity, three thousand, or none at all: it has no bearing on what sort of a person he or she is. Personally, I'm what you might call a deist, meaning I believe that there is indeed a Higher Power but I am suspicious of organized religion which in an objective way has indeed done a lot of good in this world- but has also led to so many deaths, persecutions, and so forth over the centuries. I do not like figures who believe their way is the only way- regardless of their religion or lack of.

I don't try to convert atheists into believers i just try to make them relize that there is a possabilty that there might be some superior being that made us. Just look at the sky the stars the moon and the sun....if there is no superior being then how do you explain how this Universe came to be? just the fact that the universe is here points to evidence that maybe god is real. and just because bad stuff happens in the world doesnt not prove god is fake bad stuff happen usually because of a result of mans sin.

They have their rights but keep on saying hateful things about others.

I aint a atheist but I can relate to these peeps. Ask yourself this...Is it really that bad that some peeps dont believe in a possible fictional being that none of us has ever seen or had contact with?? No...it aint that bad at all. But I believe in the Lord but he sure is gettin' exploited by a lot of preachers.

how can u NOT believe in God? i mean look around u and u can see He is in everything and everywhere

Simple minded idiots who know nothing.

Atheists are monkeys by natural progression. Matter plus time plus chance produces atheist monkeys.

Not technically a religion - it's a lack of religion/superstition. And the only logical point of view.

Many atheists claim they have an absence of belief in the existence of God because its impossible to prove his existence. OK. Well, I dont have an absence of belief in the existence of God because its impossible to prove his non-existence.

Both arguments, based in the same forms of logic, are flawed from an empirical standpoint. If theres no evidence supporting these viewpoints, where is the sound reason to promote either? Well.it doesnt exist.

Atheists, who believe despite the absence of evidence to support their idea, have a certain degree of faith in their beliefs. And, as many atheists seem to be such strong proponents of empirical rationalist frameworks, it seems highly inconsistent to promote such a strong assertion on the basis of faith.

Id be interested to meet an atheist with a logically sound and consistent justification. Id be interested to meet a theist with a logically sound and consistent justification. I dont think either exists. However, I believe the arguments supporting theism are more compelling than those supporting its opposite.

And to keep you atheists informed with the times, one of your strongest advocates seems to have changed his mind:
In December 2004, an interview with Flew conducted by Flew's friend and philosophical adversary Gary Habermas was published in Biola University's Philosophia Christi, with the title Atheist Becomes Theist - Exclusive Interview with Former Atheist Antony Flew. Flew agreed to this title. According to the introduction, Flew informed Habermas in January 2004 that he had become a deist, and the interview took place shortly thereafter. In the article Flew states that he has left his long-standing espousal of atheism by endorsing a deism of the sort that Thomas Jefferson advocated ("While reason, mainly in the form of arguments to design, assures us that there is a God, there is no room either for any supernatural revelation of that God or for any transactions between that God and individual human beings."). Flew states that certain philosophical and scientific considerations had caused him to rethink his lifelong support of atheism.

For anything to exist there must be a cause - something that can exist in and of itself; something that is not contingent on anything else. Either there is a God who causes all other things to exist, or the natural universe is, itself, self-existent. However: (1)science has proved that the universe had a beginning (the Big Bang*). Therefore (2)The universe was caused to exist by something. That thing is commonly known as God. [*The theory that speculated that the universe goes through endless cycles of beginning, expansion, and implosion has also been disproved recently by scientists.]

Seems kind of emo, don't you think so?

The fool hath said in his heart, "There is no God." Psalm 53.1

Atheism is not just a cheap way out as some of you speculate, or a product of a fear of god itself, it is more a destination of hard thought. It takes a lot of contemplaition and background knowledge to come to the conclusion that there is no god (at least for those who truly believe there is no god, not those who are only trying to be rebellious) and it certainly does not mean that you are a hateful, souless person. Quite the contrary, it really opens your eyes up to how interesting the universe really is. Atheists are often accused of being rude or belittling of others beliefs, but really (especially on RIA) we simply like to voice our opinions as much as religious people. Is that such a crime? Also, god does not give meaning to life for some of us, in fact I do not think there is a meaning to life, it isn't that simple. Just because there is no true meaning to life, does not make life unlivable.

I will not judge, i beleive in Jesus, God, but the bible teaches not to judge people around you, sometimes you fail, but Gods not out to get you, hes out there to offer you eternal life, it is mans free will to believe in what he does, any one can critze me, persucute me, but i know ill go to paradise when i die

Atheism is fine, personally i am more on the agnostic side. I see alot of spirtual snobbery going on now-a-days. Atheist always seem overly critical and cynical, kinda snotty. I can pretty much respect any system of belief anyone has aslong as they aren't pushing it down peoples throats.

Atheism is a cheap way out. they assume that the majority of the people in the past were wrong about a God that exsists. people complain that a loving God would not let suffering happen. yet the people that complain are usually in a comfortable position at the time.

I can understand why people wouldn't believe in something as outrageous as God, but most of how they explain why they're atheist is just nonsense! I think that they are just scared of something so powerful as God.

The courage to believe in nothing should never be underestimated. (update) I was correctly corrected in a private message. Atheists don't necessarily believe in nothing, and I didn't mean to make it sound like all atheists are nihilists. I was referring to the lack of a belief in a transcendant force above human will and the cold forces of nature - such that the universe has independent meaning of that which human consciousness subjectively assigns to it. I will rephrase when I come up with a better way of saying it.

I am an atheist. I go to church. I like helping people. I am raising three children to be good and moral people. Atheism is not a religion. We just refuse to believe things that are not provable (like Intelligent Design, Zeus, and vampires). I think most people are atheists at heart, but afraid to admit it for fear of the societal repercussions.

i'm tired of atheists telling Christians how stupid we are. apparently there is a very fine line between stating your beliefs and belittling the beliefs of others. If athesists are so sure of there being no God, why all the ruckus? believe what you want, based on whatever evidence you find true and compelling, but for your sake, you'd better be right... eternal hellfire sounds pretty bad...