RE: 10 Questions for Every Atheist
July 16, 2014 at 8:24 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 8:25 am by davidMC1982.)
Quote:1. How Did You Become an Atheist?
Like everyone else I was born one (and I have remained one). How did you become a Christian? Like everyone else you were born an atheist.
Quote:2. What happens when we die?
The same as happens to all other living organisms. What happens to you?
Quote:3. What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!
What if I'm right and you've wasted the one and only life you know you have?
Quote:4. Without God, where do you get your morality from?
With God, where do you get your morality from? If God commanded you to kill, would it be a moral action?
Quote:5. If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?
If there is a God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape. If there weren't a god would you murder and rape? Is it even moral to take actions only because of the potential consequences to yourself?
Quote:6. If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?
If there is a god, how does your life have any meaning? You're not much more than a superior beings play thing. Life has the meaning we attach to it.
Quote:7. Where did the universe come from?
Where did god come from?
Quote:8. 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 those who claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster, or to speak to the dead, or to have been abducted by UFO's? What about those who claim to have a connection with any other god or agent of god?
Quote:9. What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?
They don't speak for me and they are not an authority for atheists. There is none. Nonetheless, I tend to find Dawkins' arguments generally correct but I can't say he's entirely convincing. Hitchens' arguments are often harder to follow but I like the way he would tell people in no uncertain terms that their arguments were wrong. Harris, I find to have the best debating skills but find some of his arguments on the periphery of his views to be weak (to be expected when you're probing the extremes of an argument; language isn't perfect afterall).
Quote:10. If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?
If there is a God, why do societies have such different religions.
