Thought process behind atheism

[Napoléon]

God came to me one day and told me he didn't exist.

I've spent the last 10 years in a mental home.

[jonb]

God came to me one day and told me he didn't exist.

I've spent the last 10 years in a mental home.

Don't worry Nap

God coming on you is bound to upset you a little

[mr.atheist]

Pretty much what has already been said.
I am also an anti theist and am anti religious,because of how terrible religion is.Not only because people are killed because of it but because people are controlled by it and deluded by it.

[Cyberman]

Can't believe I didn't catch this thread before now. Anyway, my "thought processes" run similar to those already expressed. I've never been brought up to be superstitious, or if there were any such influences I certainly have no memory of them. For the same reasons I don't feel obliged to knock on wood, bless a person for sneezing, or cross my my fingers - except perhaps ironically - so I feel no obligation to subscribing to any god or divine being of similar distinction. The sheer amount of logical and linguistic leapfrogging in misguided attempts to define such beings into existence at best, or to entrap me into conceding the point at worst, only serves to push me further away from entertaining this stuff.

Then there's all the socio-political baggage that comes with theocentric systems, such as the world suffered during the Dark Ages, plus all that I've learned about how and why the more popular holy books were put together, and the resulting soufflé signs up to an atheist forum under the name of Stimbo.

[Minimalist]

Could someone explain to me why they are atheists?

Because I am not impressed by idiots who walk around repeating ancient superstitions without a shred of evidence that it is true.

Got it now?

[Whateverist]

I have no way of knowing what to believe about 'gods'. I've never found a proper definition and what I have heard is so vague I wouldn't know a god if I tripped on one. I can't invest belief in anything so poorly defined as 'gods'. Do you know what exactly they are? Any help on this score would be greatly appreciated. No one seems to know.

[Gilgamesh]

I lack a belief in the god claims being true. That's it.

[paulpablo]

When i was a child i went to a catholic school so my first doubts of religiousness was seeing some of the more religious kids getting into fights about who was closest to god. Also the men and women of the church even when i was a kid seemed hypocritical to me, preaching about jesus and how you should be kind to the poor yet at the same time they would make fun of the clothes people wore or people with less money. Then when i was a bit older about 8 or 9 you ask yourself "what about the dinosaurs?" for a book that describes each detail upon the creation of the earth but then forgets to mention dinosaurs is a bit strange. The bible would have been more accurate if it would have said "then god created giant terrible lizards but he wasnt pleased with the lizards so he killed them then created great apes which would eventually evolve into man" then obviously man got on his nerves too so he killed all of them except noah and his family.
Then later i got to know other religions and realised they are basically all as strange and unbelievable as each other and all rely upon evidence from over heresay from over 1500 years ago which isnt good enough.
I still say god or some gods might exist but if he or she or they do they obviously dont want to be known about, or arent trying very hard to be believed. And i think if they are judging humanity i think religious people will have more to answer for in terms of being gullible, cowardly and hypocritical.

[naimless]

Could someone explain to me why they are atheists? Like your logic thinking etc. Because I'm a christian and I would really like to at least understand your point of view.

I was raised Christian. Then I realised Muslims were raised Muslim and Jews were raised Jews... I noticed a trend in whatever environment you were brought up in generally equating to what religion you were.

As this universe is bigger than the environment I was brought up in, it is also bigger than the belief I or the 7 billion other people in this world were given.

I was quite happy as a Christian but I realise, like any other belief, it's just a ride. I'd love to hop on another, unfortunately I haven't found enough relatively objective reason or evidence to do so.

[downbeatplumb]

Lets evaluate the evidence FOR god shall we.











Finished.

So why should I believe in something that has no evidence for it AND if I do believe bang goes my sunday, I have things i want to do on sunday.