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?

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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?

newjaninev2

and there's no compelling necessity to even postulate its existence in the first place.

TinyRick05

But... But... Feelings... And.... MIRACLES!

TooInnocent333

When my leg grows back, then we can talk about miracles.

Darktooth41 · 26-30, M

Everyone needs something to cling onto. Whether it's themselves or something else is entirely up to the person. Humans will always search for an origin to everything and everyone. Humans will always look for answers. The compelling necessity to know is what drives someone like me to postulate its existence. Knowing everything would be boring, that's true. But never knowing would just be one huge and sick joke that doesn't end with a bang. But with us begging for mercy.

newjaninev2

That's not a compelling necessity to know... that's a willingness to pretend to know.

There's no compelling necessity to deceive others (and, even worse, to deceive ourselves). If there were, we would not have developed the scientific method.

There's no merit in pretence and deceit, nor is there virtue in suppressing one of the most distinctive characteristics of humans... curiosity.

(Incidentally, to whom would we be begging for mercy?)

Q6tickle

Runtom it sounds like your saying even if they tested for proof and found it you wouldnt believe? I might be interpreting that wrong but that sounds stupid to not believe even with proof. Im an atheist as well but if you give me proof and facts ill believe

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.