Why are atheists so unhappy?

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I have a very good reason to be Atheist. God is not real and I think does more harm in the world than good.
Then by that rationale, atheistic societies should be humanist paradises. But experience proves otherwise. The atheistic regimes of the 20th century are responsible for more bloodshed than all the inquisitions and holy wars throughout history combined.
 
Hi reisender,

I was wondering if you believe that Jesus Christ and Muhammad were real people in history that actually existed and walked the earth just as we do today?

Curiously,
Mick
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I do not believe jesus was real. The city of Nazareth did not exist until 300 years after jesus was said to have been born. There are also several ‘jesus like’ characters in religious history this makes me think jesus was invented to fulfill the prophecy.
 
**Then by that rationale, atheistic societies should be humanist paradises. **
This makes no sense whatsoever.
The atheistic regimes of the 20th century are responsible for more bloodshed than all the inquisitions and holy wars throughout history combined.
This is just a complete and total lie. I wonder if you’re telling it or retelling it.
 
This is just a complete and total lie. I wonder if you’re telling it or retelling it.
Really? How many millions of people died in the gulags of the Soviet Union? In Hitler’s death camps (Nazism was for all intents and purpose practically atheist)? In the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Cambodia? Torquemada and Muhammad were pikers compared to them.
 
How would you feel if the Satanists down the street displayed a sacrificial lamb slaughtering on one of their holy days? Or if the Moonies ran naked through the streets on one of theirs.
When was the last time you heard of Satanists displaying a sacrificial lamb out on the street, or the ACLU taking them to court over such a thing? A while back there was a cult called Santeria that was in the news for practicing animal sacrifice, but most of the objections were from animal rights activists rather than on any ‘freedom from religion grounds.’ As for moonies running naked, I haven’t heard from them in a long time. As a matter of fact, the last time I heard about anyone running naked it was during the streaking fad of the 1970s.
In our town, we have a Hare Krishna community. Sometimes I see them on the street corners or on the ground on the college I attended, singing and dancing and doing their thing. Never heard any complaints about them or about them being sued for practicing their religion in the open. No, whenever there’s some litigation regarding religion, 99% of the time it is taking aim at some Judeo-Christian symbol (the Ten Commandments, manger scenes, etc).
 
Really? How many millions of people died in the gulags of the Soviet Union? In Hitler’s death camps (Nazism was for all intents and purpose practically atheist)? In the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Cambodia? Torquemada and Muhammad were pikers compared to them.
The Gulag existed across the Soviet Union from the early 1900’s to the 1950’s You can hardly say they were because the government was Atheist.
Hitler was christian.
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith; we need believing people.
  • Adolf Hitler"
 
Hitler was christian.
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith; we need believing people.
  • Adolf Hitler"
Hitler may have been baptized in the faith, but no way could he be considered a practicing Christian. If anything, he was a neo-pagan, and the official religion of Nazi Germany was Nazism. The following link is an excellent article on Hitler’s faith (or lack thereof):
straightdope.com/columns/read/1699/was-hitler-a-christian

And since it isn’t a Christian site it can’t be accused of being biased. 😃
 
How can you not know God exists? Think of it this way, if God didn’t exist how do you exist? If atheism is right, then how come there is a Bible? Sometimes I’m afraid for people like you will try to destroy our religion and start hatred.

You’re brainwashing your kids to grow up gay or something. You can’t grow up properly without the love from a man, Jesus.

If they shoot their school all I can say is told you so.

Ok… this is making me too angred. God bless you and your kids souls/…
 
How can you not know God exists? Think of it this way, if God didn’t exist how do you exist? If atheism is right, then how come there is a Bible? Sometimes I’m afraid for people like you will try to destroy our religion and start hatred.

You’re brainwashing your kids to grow up gay or something. You can’t grow up properly without the love from a man, Jesus.

If they shoot their school all I can say is told you so.

Ok… this is making me too angred. God bless you and your kids souls/…
Who am I to question why your god doesn’t want me to believe in him.
 
No I don’t think its like that sir.

I think the Holy One wants me to tell you about Him and change your wrongful thoughts.

If you don’t want to go to hell, and spend eternity in a lake of fire for your ignorance, you will listen.

God bless all the peoples.
 
No I don’t think its like that sir.

I think the Holy One wants me to tell you about Him and change your wrongful thoughts.

If you don’t want to go to hell, and spend eternity in a lake of fire for your ignorance, you will listen.

God bless all the peoples.
Do you honestly believe there is anything you can say that will convert me back to catholicism?
 
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Hi reisender,

I was wondering if you believe that Jesus Christ and Muhammad were real people in history that actually existed and walked the earth just as we do today?

Curiously,
Mick
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I do not believe jesus was real. The city of Nazareth did not exist until 300 years after jesus was said to have been born. There are also several ‘jesus like’ characters in religious history this makes me think jesus was invented to fulfill the prophecy.
I understand. But do you believe Muhammad was a real person?

Cordially,
Mick
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Do you honestly believe there is anything you can say that will convert me back to catholicism?
Nope! 😃 Only an open mind and God’s grace can do that. Would you want to recognize His voice if you thought you heard Him calling you?

Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

The problem is not with God. 😉
 
I do not believe jesus was real. The city of Nazareth did not exist until 300 years after jesus was said to have been born. There are also several ‘jesus like’ characters in religious history this makes me think jesus was invented to fulfill the prophecy.
Says who? Why do you believe them?
 
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
Your contention is wrong.

There can be only one real true God because if there were more than one God, then there would be chaos since they would not be in perfect union/unity as to “purpose.” For examples of this, think of the supposed pagan “gods” and all the chaos they supposedly caused by cross purposes and their supposed jealousy towards each other. (This is a characteristic of demons and evil men and is not “godly” at all.) Good existed first. (Genesis 1:31) Evil men and evil spirits corrupt good for their own evil purposes.

God must exist or we would not. We did not create ourselves, nor the world/earth, nor the heavens. Someone did, whether by direct “creation” out of “nothing” by divine decree and power, in just seven 24 hour days’ time, as some are wont to believe; or by creating the laws of science which will govern “creation” after its initial “substance,” “energy,” and “design” (which will all culminate in the "time allotted) are wrought by divine decree and power.

It really makes no difference since God is the initiator, regardless of the type of form taken (direct or indirect cause) or the amount of time expended (seven 24 hour days or millions of years) in order to accomplish what we all can see today with our own miraculous eyes.

Personally, if “eternity” were my realm, I’d want my “creation” to happen slowly over millions of years in order to further/prolong my enjoyment of my handiwork. 😉
 
I do not think the existence of god will ever be or can be disproved. I don’t believe you can prove something does not exist. I do think the ‘probability’ of god will drop to a sufficient level that only the hard core fundies will still believe. As far as science having limitations. It’s only limited by the ignorance of people like George Bush.
But you only believe that he doesn’t exist, i.e., you have no real way of knowing that he doesn’t. Furthermore, if you believe science has no limitations and can answer all questions you are exhibiting a faith in science that is unrealistic, simply because science is incapable of answering questions outside it’s realm of understanding (and there is much that it cannot explain). How, for example, did we acquire consciousness through brute matter (chemicals cannot think)?

p.s. You are not the first to believe that God will eventually fade off into the sunset of science and reason. And I can tell you it will not happen as God is not just a belief but an experience.
 
Ug not the stupid thing about Nazareth didn’t exist. It was a very small town GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD aaaaaaa I am sick of this argument!!!😉

it was a very small and unimportant village; almost a bump in the road, that does not prove that it didn’t exist. Nazareth was a tiny bump on the road. It was only four miles form a major city (Sarapis) but it was so small only about 35 families lived there and shared a single family farm, a dray farm, subsisting on only rain water. It was a tiny insignificant place so there is no reason why it should be mentioned.
 
You got any stats on that?

I know lots of atheists and they don’t seem more or less miserable than anybody else but, of course, I live in society where the ‘totally indifferent’ are in a huge majority.

Most Christians I know seem pretty miserable - maybe they are living in self-deception 😃

I think it depends on what kind of person one is: some Christians are revolting, some are very kind. Ditto for atheists. Or for any other group. It’s crazy to generalise from the sort of people that people are to the triuth or truthlessness of their world-view. Whether a Christian or atheist is a decent human being has nothing to do with their religion or irreligion, AFAICS. Religion is what one makes of it, IMO; God is as credible as one allows him or her or it or them to be.
 
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