I don't get Atheism

[Anonymous]

Why?

I'm 23 and supposedly most my age aren't religious, but I don't understand how you can just say you don't believe in God anymore? Do you think you're more intelligent because you're an Atheist? I'm pretty free thinking myself, so I obviously don't let religion influence my thinking. So what is it about Atheism that is appealing to you all?

[Anonymous]

If you think you have to capitalize "atheist", I think you haven't done very much to try to understand it.

[Anonymous]

It is the latest American fashion, nothing else. I will die out just like it did in most cultures that tried to instill it as the official state religion.

I grew up in a mostly atheist household, although my parents were not nearly as militant as some atheists on DCUM LOL I find atheism kind of pointless and very narrow-minded. It's a pitiful way to go through life. I'd rather be happy (or at least at peace) than right.

[Anonymous]

It's not particularly appealing, but you can't decide to believe something that makes no sense to you. You either believe or you don't. That can change over time.

[Anonymous]

I lot of what religions teach is irreconcilable with the observable world and truth, contradictory, and deeply offensive. It's easy enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why?

I'm 23 and supposedly most my age aren't religious, but I don't understand how you can just say you don't believe in God anymore?

I never did believe in god/gods. I was a bit more of a vocal atheist in my youth but have mellowed with age, it rarely comes up. It's appealing because it what comes naturally based on my ideals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why?

I'm 23 and supposedly most my age aren't religious, but I don't understand how you can just say you don't believe in God anymore? Do you think you're more intelligent because you're an Atheist? I'm pretty free thinking[b] myself, so I obviously don't let religion influence my thinking. So what is it about Atheism that is appealing to you all?

Some people never believed in God to begin with, so there is no "anymore" involved.

You are, it seems, not free-thinking at all if you cannot understand that people experience and try to make sense of the world and its mysteries and what happens to us (here and after we die) differently from how you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lot of what religions teach is irreconcilable with the observable world and truth, contradictory, and deeply offensive. It's easy enough.

Well said. You don't get atheism? I don't get religion.

The randomness of the universe is easily explained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why?

I'm 23 and supposedly most my age aren't religious, but I don't understand how you can just say you don't believe in God anymore? Do you think you're more intelligent because you're an Atheist? I'm pretty free thinking myself, so I obviously don't let religion influence my thinking. So what is it about Atheism that is appealing to you all?

I don't believe in God. There. You happy now?

[Anonymous]

OP, for me the question is... well which version of "God" should someone believe in, and why? There are thousands of versions of god that humans have created. Which one is the right one, and why are all the others the wrong version of God? For example - do you believe in a vengeful god or loving god? Why? How are you making your decision? What qualities and attributes are the right and wrong ones, and how are you making your decisions? Based on what?

There's an oft quoted saying: "I just believe in one less god."

[Anonymous]

I wonder why so many DCUM atheists have anger issues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why so many DCUM atheists have anger issues?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why so many DCUM atheists have anger issues?

Oh yeah, so much anger on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why so many DCUM atheists have anger issues?

Lol, and this is based on what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, for me the question is... well which version of "God" should someone believe in, and why? There are thousands of versions of god that humans have created. Which one is the right one, and why are all the others the wrong version of God? For example - do you believe in a vengeful god or loving god? Why? How are you making your decision? What qualities and attributes are the right and wrong ones, and how are you making your decisions? Based on what?

There's an oft quoted saying: "I just believe in one less god."

Atheism is more than not believing in anthropomorphous gods. It is materialistic in its essense, i.e. if I can't see it, it must not exist. It is a lot more restrictive than many people realize. It's one thing to say you don't believe in, say, Christian gods. It's quite another to say that what we can't observe/explain in materialistic terms cannot possibly exist.