are aetheists non trustworthy?
344755
There is still an inbuilt discrimination in society against atheists - in many countries it's rampant and institutionalised. Another poster on Answers was recently 'asking' why it is considered intolerant to be Christian but tolerant to be anti-Christian. Seems like a persecution complex to me. To start with, atheists do not follow the teachings of a book that explicitly says theists are evil...\n\nIn an interview, Reagan was once asked to comment on the fact that 90% of Americans believe in God (whatever the percentage was at the time). His response, unremarked upon at the time, was that he wished it was 100%.\n\nWhat an amazing sentence! Imagine if he said that in reference to the perentage of Americans who were white or heterosexual or able-bodied! There would be a (perfectly reasonable) outcry. But about theists? No problem. Business as usual.\n\nFor my part I believe that you could easily make a statement that atheists are more trustworthy as they rely solely on an internal set of morals and ethics (usually established as a reaction to what they see around them) to decide right from wrong, as opposed to theists, who often have a conflict between their personal morals and a set of codes established thousands of years ago in a country far away. Trying to apply different - and even contradictory - codes of behaviour can lead to confusion an anomie.
1093840
Amen.  People keep on saying that their religion is true without any evidence besides quoting the Bible.  Of course the Bible's going to say there is a God.  It's a religious book.  If someone can find evidence that a religion is true without using something obviously biased, I'll listen, but otherwise, nobody can say their religion is the truth and be justified.  I don't mind you liking your religion, but you have no right to tell me I'm wrong if your only evidence is coming from your Bible or ethnocentrism.
888121
Agree 100%. If they supposedly are happy then they definitely wouldn't be on here refuting it. They are not atheists but ANTI-THEISTS full of hate.
467268
I believe that no god could be true if he/she were swayed to and fro by the many winds of the doctrine of man.  The only God I'll follow is the one who is the same today, eternal past, and eternal future.  We are right to look to God for guidance in the art of morality.  As wrong as man is apt to be, God is the only one I'd consider even asking.
782828
No -- a "theist" is someone who *believes* in god.  If there were proof of god (and just showing up wouldn't do it, he'd have to demonstrate why he's "god" and provide proof that he created the universe), there would be no need for belief, it would be fact.
843219
An athiest does not believe that there are, wre, or ever will be any god or gods, deities, higher powers or anything like that.\n\nAn Agnostic accepts that there MIGHT be something beyone ourselves, but that it is not possible to know or understand anything about what the nature of that may be...
742688
You are right, you are confused about atheists, you also have a very funny idea about what belief entails... \n\nAtheists have belief in evidenced things with proof, however blind faith of the religious kind requires no proof or evidence that is why it is called faith, if there was evidence for God it wouldn't require faith to believe in God. \n\nOne of the problems with blind faith is that you can believe almost anything through it, God, The Celestial Teapot, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Vanilla Flavoured Fairies or anything that cannot be proved or disproved, this invalidates blind faith as a tool of knowledge.\n\nThe onus is always on the person or organisation making a claim to provide proof or evidence for it. When there is no way to test the truth of the claim because of a lack of proof or evidence it is called unfalsifiable.\n\nI have no beliefs about God I simply do not share the theists belief in the existence of God/Gods, I have no reason to think that a God exists and it is not hypocritical for me as an atheist to say so. Hope this explains it a bit better for you.
648313
I don't think enough religious people are suspicious of "science".  Modern science is constantly contradicting itself.\n\nAnd, I don't think the Bible contradicts itself.  Man's interpretations may contradict themselves; thus, the interpretations may be wrong.  Also, the Books of the Bible were written at different times, the subjects may have changed.  That is, if I wrote a Book three hundred years ago and said "there are no aircrafts in the sky" and someone else wrote a Book today, saying "there are aircrafts everywhere in the sky", it does not mean that the collective works (the two Books, plus) contradict themselves.  And, there is so much not understood between the alleged contradictions such that one could not say for certain that they contradict.  That is, one Book (written 700 years ago) might say  "There are no aircrafts in the sky"; then Books (written 300 years ago) might say "There are aircrafts on the sky everywhere".  The part in between the two alleged contradictions and not understood or misinterpreted [coded by those big names or terms we don't understand] (actually) means "The following is hogwash; I had to say it for my own and mankind's protection".  Thus, in actuality, the Books do not contradict themselves (it's just misunderstood).\n\nPossible.\n\nPeace.
582579
There are many Theists in this world, some are Atheist (Non Believers or those who Internalise their devine being)\nSome are Monotheists like Christians\nSome are Polytheists like Pagans, Druids, Witches, Rosicrucians, FreeMasons, Knights Templar etc\nand finally apart from these you have Agnostics, those who not yet have found which path they wish to tread.
249487
I am sorry to not be able to offer better company. If it is of any relief, I did meet one guy a long time ago who was a true atheist. His belief was that mankind would be better off the sooner they realized that a higher power was neither existant nor necessary. I was intrigued to find someone of such a like and opinion. Although I do not agree, I did respect his thoughts and beliefs. Unfortunately, the rest of the class overheard and went off on him. I had to apologize for it was not my intention when I first asked. So, no, you're not alone.
938616
Sounds like deist to me. You believe in a some type of god (a creator) so you're not an atheist and "agnostic" is just a modifier word.
306542
Gods and goddesses belong to an infinite class of ideas that are incapable of being proven or disproven.  It's just like primitive people believing that evil demons cause disease - We can show exactly how micro-organisms cause disease, we can produce treatments based on that knowledge which actually work, we can show that people who claim to treat disease in supernatural ways are actually frauds, but we can never *disprove* the idea that demons are involved.  All we can say is that there is no rational reason to believe it.  The same is true of gods - We can't prove they are just imaginary, but there's no rational reason to believe in them.
714843
Don't you worry about political correctness.\nIf they have something they believe they are,  "agnostic" "spiritualist" "non believer" whatever they will surely correct you.\nYou can't please everyone all the time.\nIf you say they are a non believer I think all of those you listed pretty much FIT that well, so there's nothing to worry about.
163487
I wouldn't say that I believe for certain that there's no god and no devil (I'm agnostic), but I most certainly have my doubts about the devil.  I certainly don't believe that there's some guy running around with horns, a tail and a pitchfork making people do bad things; nor do I believe there's some malevolent spirit who gets into people's heads and makes them do bad things.  People do bad things because they're vain and selfish, not because of some evil spirit.  Or at least that's my opinion.
444018
Aethiest does not believe in God. At all. Period.\n\nAgnostic litterally means doubt, so they think maybe there is a god but is not sure.
722449
No, I don't think so. That's not what Gods all about. That's just what the so called "Apostle" Paul was all about. Paul's dead. Let him and his ideas rest. Your ancestors? Those who believed in the spiritist-animist thing? Kind of like what I believe in NOW? Oh, they're walking the spirit world, content in their ignorance of Paul, and just as content in their relationship with Spirit. ;-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
753281
It would be more correct to say that atheists do not think God is real.