What kind of atheist are you

[Fifty]

I've read several posts among people squabbling over what an atheist is, etc.

Seems like there are a couple kinds:

what are you?

 

[Perfection]

I'm the happy kind.

Edit: Oh and the second

 

[Blasphemous]

I chose the second options as the closest approximation of my beliefs.
Basically, I say there's no reason to even momentarily entertain the notion of a higher power because, well, there's no good reason to entertain such a notion. My philosophy runs deeper than that, but that's the basis of the atheistic part.
I also feel I don't really need a god and as an atheist I'm free to appreciate the universe for how spontaneously awesome-beyond-all-belief it is. Why waste the stupendous awe on imaginary anthropomorphic characters when you can cut the middleman and direct it at the raw material universe?

 

[CurtSibling]

I am a hardcore atheist in the true way.

My views:
I have no need for an invisible man to pray to.
No guilt or shame that has been indoctrinated into me.
There is no proof of a god, or any chance of proving it.
Faith exists to keep people on chains and to stratify society.

When I look at the sky is see infinite space, not some god that was invented to keep
people afraid to ask questions of those who rule above them. Why people cannot see
the sham is beyond me. People need discipline, but why do we need religious third
parties to tell grown adults how to live?...I call it moral laziness and mental weakness.

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[Fifty]

I am a hardcore atheist in the true way.

My views:
I have no need for an invisible man to pray to.
No guilt or shame that has been indoctrinated into me.
There is no proof of a god, or any chance of proving it.
Faith exists to keep people on chains and to stratify society.

When I look at the sky is see infinite space, not some god that was invented to keep
people afraid to ask questions of those who rule above them. Why people cannot see
the sham is beyond me. People need discipline, but why do we need religious third
parties to tell grown adults how to live?...I call it moral laziness and mental weakness.

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so you have faith that there is no god?

 

[funxus]

I voted other, because I believe that whether there is a god or not it wouldn't really change my life. In general I would vote option 2 though.

 

[Blasphemous]

I voted other, because I believe that whether there is a god or not it wouldn't really change my life. In general I would vote option 2 though.

Oh, yes, I quite agree with that as well. I don't think it's likely any supreme being would be bothered with life on earth, even if such a being were to exist - highly unlikely in itself. Due to lack of evidence the probability of both being true cannot reach 0, but it sure does get close.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

so you have faith that there is no god?

Sounds to me like he hats Religion for no real reason.

Not Atheist, btw, and unlike some people, I can tolerate Atheists in other Religions.

 

[CurtSibling]

so you have faith that there is no god?

Faith is for those who cannot find an explanation for their need to follow a god.

Having no psychologically unstable desire to believe in the unseen, I thus need no 'faith'.

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[Dominus Romae]

God definetely does not exist.

 

[Blasphemous]

@Fox:
Riiiight, religion was never a tool of control, warmongering, or intolerance. There's no good reason to distrust it. All atheists hate it and want to destroy it. Right?
Not. I dislike and distrust organized religion for a pretty simple reason: it indoctrinates and dumbs people down. I have spoken with countless religionists who were surprised I'd even ask if they've ever truly doubted their faith and beliefs. When something is given a status of beyond all doubt (not to be confused with 'beyond all reasonable doubt'), you have a problem. If a religious person questions everything they held to be true and concludes that they were on the right path, good for them. The important thing is that you make the decision for yourself and that you don't force it upon others, as they should have their own opinion just as you should. I have doubted and continue to doubt every single thing I ever realized I thought was true, and I am a better, stronger person for it. I have reached important conclusions, although often the doubt has been almost too much to bear and lasted too long for comfort. If you can make it through all that, you know you aren't going to face many new major challenges in your life. To be comparable to that kind of mental trauma a challenge would have to be similar, and if it's similar you already kinda know how to deal with it.

 

[newfangle]

I voted the second. But lately I've begun to re-examine whether or not the concept of an omnipotent being is philosophically feasible. I'm inclined to say no at this point.

 

[Blasphemous]

Philosophically feasible? Maybe.
Physically feasible? Most probably not.

 

[GenMarshall]

Not an athiest. I am a Christian here .

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Faith is for those who cannot find an explanation for their need to follow a god.

Having no psychologically unstable desire to believe in the unseen, I thus need no 'faith'.

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Your saying you beleive in no God. Since you don't know for sure whether God exists or not, all people have to have faith, if they care either way. You don't believe in God, and that's faith to not believe in something, so therefore you do need faith.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

There is no evidence of god, so I wont believe until there is. I don't buy into the concept "faith" alone.

 

[CurtSibling]

Your saying you beleive in no God. Since you don't know for sure whether God exists or not, all people have to have faith, if they care either way. You don't believe in God, and that's faith to not believe in something, so therefore you do need faith.

Poor Fox seems to be confusing himself here.

You also do not know if there is an answer to the cosmos, hence why you have
allowed a human-made theology to control your life. All people do not have to
have faith, since some people have the strength of mind to seek out answers
for themselves and not settle for fairy tales and myths handed to them from
greedy organisations built upon half-truths and fear of the unknown.

I don't need faith to not believe in your invisible man, I merely have the fact
at hand that the 'god' concept is an evolved version of the same spirit-myth man
has used to explain death since he hid in caves from sabre-toothed tigers.

All this may be too much for you to take in, so read carefully.

 

[Bluemofia]

I believe that there is definitely no god. The reason is that people use the Bible/expierences as proof to try to win me over.

Doesn't work, because there are fictional books in existance, and different religions contradict each other, and every single major one has their own basis.

My mom's Bhuddist, so I know a lot of her expierences that made her Bhuddist. And one of my friends who is really religious has lots of expierences involving the Christian god, so I've come to the conclusion that God only exists in the mind of the believer. Nothing more.

 

[Own]

Jesus was way cool, don't know about god.

He had people drink his blood, and eat his body. That's totally hard core. He could have baked the most delicious cake, played guitar better than Hendrix, score more goals than Wayne Gretzkey.

 

[Blasphemous]

God only exists in the mind of the believer. Nothing more.

But then, we cannot prove that anything but our own selves exists outside our minds.