I don't believe in god(s) because the world around me, that I've known for over 44 years has offered far more to disprove the existence god than it has to prove it. From starving children dying miserable ...
... the financial responsibilities that the churches now fulfill." Religion seems to be necessary in our world to keep some sort of san ity in the whole mess. I don't know how you could get rid of it and its ...
I don't know that I ever believed. I remember going to church as a child with my family. It was never a pleasan t experience. My father was the catalyst for the family's church attendance. My mother was ...
... based on two things. The "problem of evil". The inefficacy of prayer. I had a close friend, a professional lifeguard, whose wife was pregnant with their 1st child. He had saved hundreds, perhaps thousan ds, ...
... in San ta or the Tooth Fairy) I also outgrew the need for this simplistic moral preaching and view of the world. I had decided by my early teens that the greatest happiness was the basis of my morality. ...
... presumably all the good atheists or people of other faiths are going to hell… I later read most of the Bible and found the Old Testament shocking – bizarre or barbaric laws, massacres supposedly san ctioned ...
I don't believe in gods because... Alzheimer's disease exists. Well, that's really an oversimplification: I don't believe in gods because of a multitude of individual reasons, and I never fully believed ...
... it. Ultimately I realized I beleived in God for the same reasons I used to believe in San ta Claus. San ta rewards you when you've been good but gives you a lump of coal when you've been bad. There's no ...
... am a relatively new atheist and couldn’t feel better about it. All I’ve got to do now is get out of the damned Bible belt before I go completely insan e! ...
... my emotional life, to be more manageable. My life since I was a pre-teen, has been dominated by depression and emotional upheaval. I wanted to feel safe, secure and san e. I wanted this for my friends and ...
... believed in Father Christmas because, “there are too many children for him to visit in one night”. Admittedly, this doubt was quickly quashed by the realisation that no San ta meant no presents…) but was ...
... few doors down from me, who go to sleep hungry, and who San ta may or may not visit this year? I don't even make much money, but the $250 or more a month that their parents tithe, or that I would be giving ...
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Becky, 50
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... had doubts and questions. Preachers and Sunday school teachers hated my questions and their answer was always the same "You must have faith". Well, I tried to have faith in San ta, the tooth fairy and my ...
... fortunate things in my life. To me this is giving up on the puzzle, when there are thousan ds of pieces left in the box. We have come so far – Isn’t it reasonable to have faith that the other pieces are ...
... Quetzlcoatl, Ra, Baron Samedi, and thousan ds more, all of Whom, in the ages of their strength, compelled belief by threats of Hell in the Hereafter or of Death right now at the hands of the Faithful (big ...
... I realize that there was something very wrong about religious people. The priest and his wife themselves were unpleasan t, unforgiving, spiteful people, as their actions and their preaching showed. It wasn't ...
I do NOT believe in God because I see plenty of evidence that the world is random and chaotic and full of natural and human-caused evil, and the only beings who are actually fighting against the evil are ...
... it isn't: San ta Claus was a lie. Your parents lied to you about San ta; they said he was real, but it's really just them, faking it while you're asleep. What a rip-off. So... if San ta isn't real, then ...
... everyone seemed to believe that humans were quite unrelated from animals, I was starting to think God was a made-up tale like San ta Claus. I actually learned much about what exactly religion was around ...
I don't believe in gods for the same reason I don't believe in San ta Claus - it doesn't make any sense. Although my parents come from religious backgrounds in England, and sent me to Sunday school (I ...
