Quote:How Did You Become an Atheist?I've always been one. Though I do remember wondering during childhood, how adults could believe.
Quote:What happens when we die?
Our consciousness ceases instantly and our body decomposes.
Quote:What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!
I'll have to revise my opinion. What if you're wrong and one of the myriad of other religions is right?
Quote:Without God, where do you get your morality from?
The same place you get yours. No, not from god. No one gets their morality directly from what you think is god. You pick and choose and revise to fit the times. What do you use to determine which parts are important or in need of revision?
Quote:If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?
According to Christians god gave you free will. You are free to rape and murder. People do it all the time. Most of them believe in god. But, you have noticed that there are criminal laws haven't you? Those are the real deterrent to murder and rape.
Rewards come from feeling good about acting well and the approval of your fellows.
Quote:If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?
Define meaning? Really, this is essentially a meaningless question. If you mean how does it have value, it has value to me and others who know and love me.
If your life is merely a piece of someone else's plan, how does your life have any meaning?
Quote:Where did the universe come from?
Haven't got a clue. If there is a god, where did it come from?
Quote:What about miracles? What all the people who claim to have a connection with Jesus? What about those who claim to have seen saints or angels
What about people who claim to have: seen or talked with ghosts; have ESP; have seen the Loch Ness Monster; been abducted by aliens (with or without medical exams); been brain altered by the government; remembered their past lives; talked with Allah; seen Zeus; seen zombies; petted unicorns; seen fairies; been hexed? See a pattern here?
Quote:What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?
Love Dawkins books and his bombast about religion. I find Hitchens and Harris more thoughtful.
Quote: If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?
If there is a god why does every society have a different religion?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
