I Am An Atheist

Whether we like to believe it or not, God is an idea as far as we know. And like all ideas, we can all have our own interpretations and ways of imagining it. For example, I don't believe in God in the way the bible describes it. Instead, I believe God would be an incomprehensible force of madness that is the entirety of creation focused into a single point. I believe God was the singularity that causes the Big Bang. God was everything and that everything became everything; that everything became us. Is that a fair enough point?

Top | Newest First | Oldest First

runtom

An excellent point. However the fact that there is absolutely no proof or even a testable hypothesis to support the existence of a God would sway me to disbelieve in a God. Is that a fair enough point?

View 6 more replies »

runtom

I'm saying prove it and I'll believe, present a good hypothesis and I'll look at it seriously.

Darktooth41 · 26-30, M

The point I would like to make now is that there is no way to prove it does or does not exist. Would you be happy knowing that the entirety of your existence, life, and everything you are is just the result of mere luck? Would you be okay accepting that you are the dust settling from the universe's biggest explosion, the Big Bang? And that at the end of things, that's all you will ever be? Dust? You're free to do what you want, but most people would feel that clinging onto something bigger than themselves helps cope with these realities. Me for example, I enjoy knowing that I am the result of "God" dying. I feel a lot more viable knowing I can be something more than dust in the clockwork. Is this okay with you?

runtom

I am happy knowing that I am hear as a result of chance, and the fact that stars died to make the element that I'm made of.
I live my life knowing that when I die I will just decompose.
I am neither just dust or clockwork.
If the existence of a God making me happy is proof of God, then it is the same proof of the existence of Santa.

Jimmy805

If a god is incomprehensible as you state, then what allows you to make any of your statements that follow? If god were incomprehensible, you would have nothing at all to say that wasn't just fabrication from your mind.
--
And of what utility is a a belief in something incomprehensible, especially if that belief is used as a guide and motivation for life?

Darktooth41 · 26-30, M

It's easy to say and talk about infinity than it is to project it into physical forms. I am able to state God as incomprehensible because God is an idea. And ideas can be impossible. Things like infinity don't exist and never will, it is impossible. But we can still talk about the idea. We can just never prove it. It's impossible, after all.

Jimmy805

OK, infinity exists only as a concept. God exists only as a concept. Many people are more certain of the existence of a god than of infinity.
--
People don't live and die for the idea of infinity. The same cannot be said about the idea of a god.
--
Many people posit the existence of a god, not just the idea, with absolute certainty, even though as we agree, its existence cannot be proven. This seems odd to me.
--
Even gravity is not expressed by people with such certainty. It is provable, but accepted only as long as its effects are demonstrated and it cannot be falsified.

quiote10

Everyone needs their own fantasy to get trough life if they are timid and afraid of reality.

whiterabbit559

They can find one that does no harm

whiterabbit559

But when it separates us holds back progress gives people a reason to kill for then it is far from ok

Add a comment...