do athesist belive in god and just hate orgainzid religions?or do they not belive in god?
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We don't believe in God. Therefore we also don't believe in heaven or hell.\n\nSome of us were brought up in non-religious households, some turned away from religion for whatever personal reason. There are many, many reasons why people are atheist - as many reasons as people are religous. I am atheist because the thought that there is a god who tests peoples faith and judges them on how well they worship him appalls me. I hope other athiests will tell you why they don't believe.\n\nI do, however, respect people's religious beliefs and believe that we each have the right to our own faith. I would not want to deny anyone the right to their beliefs.\n\nSome people think that atheists are ignorant, arrogant or just plain stubborn, that we have no morals - sometimes these are people who claim their religion preaches tolerance and respect. Atheists don't feel that we need God's guidance to tell us what is right or wrong - that comes down to common sense and a desire to protect and continue humanity.\n\nMost of us have reached our belief through a lot of thought, and that decision doesn't come lightly - it takes courage to stand up and say that you don't believe in God. \n\nI hope this has helped.
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This is in my own opinion...i kind believe in my own thing, not so much any certain religious I have just gathered info and made up my own opinion.  It goes like this...most of the time ppl who are deep into religion believe in it as a self starter or motivator, its like when they are down and need something to lean on they believe in God to lean on and give them that strength.  So to me God is really like a self confidence thing........i mean the numbers are staggering, look at most successful ppl who have great self confidence and they will more than likely say they believe in some kind of religion where as if you ask a "depressed" person they are typically atheists/non believers....God is that inner self telling them they can do it, they can achieve their goals if they put their minds to it.  They are usually very spiritual ppl......\n\nThats just what I have seen....
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hiiii, \nwell people who dnt believe in god is numerous. still people who do believe is also quite big. but cant those people who dnt believe in god just stop and ask them selfs then from where did we come and dnt tell me we were monkies coz even if we were monkies one day still who created those monkies.\nalso there is a friend who said that if there is a god then he wouldnt let us do this in earth, well may be there tooo many bad things put as well as god created bad things he created good things he created friendship and love with all it's kinds whether between man and women, a mother to her child, between brother and sisters, arent all those things r gifts. i think life is like a big test for every one of us to see if he is going to do good or bad and those who do this horrible things they r just doing bad in that test and not the meaning of their failure is that god doenst exist.\nwell :D 4give me, I got very excited.
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If there is a god, he is an atheist. He doesn't believe in a higher power.\n\nIf there is a god, he also loves atheists, since we use our brains (given by Him) to analyze His creation, use His rules of logic to test our ideas. We demand evidence for outlandish claims, and reject faith & dogma. \n\nI agree. If a god exists, it would have to favor atheists & humanists.
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I think God is just God.  Religions are PATHS to God.
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I recommend reading "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett.\n\n"It's a god-eat-god world."\n\n"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look."\n\nCuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.\n\nThe trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.\n\nMost gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.\n\n"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."\n\nWhen you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.\n\n"All the other prophets came back with commandments!" "Where they get them?" "I ... suppose they made them up." "You get them from the same place."
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And do they not have the same God as you? are they not entitiled to pray to God? Oh please...wake up! By the way I'm straight, but I respect all human beings! These very questions are the ones that keep me away from the "So called" places of God. God exist in my heart!
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God does not believe in a Supreme Being (relative to himself) or religion, by definition, God is an atheist.\n\nHumans invent Gods in their own images, so you might say he is within everyone.
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Christians will tell you that he is beyond description and muslims will tell you that nothing is like God and Jews will tell you that he doesn`t have sex so he doesn`t need genere.Athesist will make fun of you for askign a question about something that doesn`t exists, and other religions will name all the males and females they worship.\nGod is love, but he doesn`t have a genere..hmm.so platonic..I will tell you its one heck of a good question dude:)
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Are they atheists if their God is money?\nFood for thought!!
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H) None of the above....Atheism is a lack of a belief in god, gods or the supernatural.\n\nYou are an atheist.  Here, I can prove it.\n\nDo you believe in Zeus?  Do you believe in Thor?  Do you believe in fairies?  Do you believe in leprechauns?  Do you believe in Wizards?\n\nIf you answered “no” to any of those questions then you lack belief in that gods or that supernatural being.\n\nSo practically everyone is an atheist, because everyone doesn’t believe in some god.  In fact humans have created thousands of gods over the course of their history and I bet you don’t believe in MOST of them.  That makes someone who only believes in one god, 99.999% atheist!\n\nThose who call themselves “Atheists,” however, believe in no gods at all.  That’s only one less god than a Christian believes in.  To an atheist the idea of a Christian God is nor more plausible or believable than Thor, Zeus or leprechauns.  The fact that so many people believe it does not prove anything, but instead says more about human’s herd mentality and human’s unwillingness to think for themselves.  Remember everyone also used to think the earth was flat too, that so many people believed it didn’t make it true.\n\nAtheism isn’t a morality stance.  Believing or not believing in god does not have anything to do with whether that person is a bad person or not.  It just means they don’t have a god to dictate their morality to them.  There are plenty of viable moral codes on the earth that are without gods, such as most of the eastern religions and humanism for example.  Human values are inherent to being human.  God does not “give” them to us.  \n\nYes, there are bad atheists, but there are bad believers too.  There is no statistical proof that atheists are any worse off as far as morality choices go than any another group out there.  In fact, statistics show that atheists are more educated, more affluent and have the lowest divorce rates out of any other religious group on America.  The interesting thing is that those statistics come from a Christian polling firm trying to prove just the opposite! They couldn’t do it!\n\nTypically most atheists in the country are well educated, in good jobs and have families just like every one else.  They are upstanding citizens and decent people.
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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...
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No, but I did want to take the opportunity to correct Schneb! \n\npolytheism=worship of many gods (paganism just happens to be a polytheistic religion)!\n\nSo by definition atheists don't believe in a god at all, a pagan does. However I think you want to call an atheist a pagan, that may be what you're asking. In which you can, it is technically a name for a non-Christian in general: \nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pagan\n\nHowever, I think the better term would be heathen, mainly because I just like that word, and partly because paganism is an actual religion, and calling all non-belivers a pagan is confusing.\n\nSo- recap: an atheist is (or can be called) a pagan, BUT a pagan is NOT an atheist.
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I believe in God just not the bible, how dare anyone claim to know what God thinks, I have more respect for God, there are hundreds of archaeological finds proving that the bible that exists was put into place by church hierarchy that had ulterior motives for including and not including what THEY wanted in the bible, only someone who had ALL the original texts and could read them in the original language that they were written in would have a good understanding of what the ancient religious leaders had in mind, and who's to say they were God inspired, insane asylums are full of people who hear God
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In believing in nothing higher than themselves, doesn't that make the statement that they are the highest authority?  \n\nI think it's because in all their passion to reject God or anything greater, they seek to convince the world they are right so as to convince themselves they are right.  Since they have set themselve up to be the highest authority, believing in nothing higher, they must have the support of people.  Unless of cousre they view themselves above other people as well, which would make them simply insanely egotistical.\n\nOr it could simply be that God shaped void calling from within them in spite of their logical conclusion that God IS void.
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Well, I don't believe in any gods, but I'll go along with all but 1 and 3 as you state them here. 7 is up to the couple, I think - as long as they agree on it one way or another. 5 & 8 are other case-by-case ones, excusable in certain hardships, but following them should be the default.\n\nTo answer your question, though, some do believe in god but not as described in the bible. There are followers of other teachings around the world, and also those who develop their own personal view & path.
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This question is easy\n\nAthiest belive to be like God or either are God according to antone lavey book of satan he teaches them to be like God so anyone who wants to be like God is a devil worshiper.\n\nJews dont except christ as there lord and savior and God said no one can go through me unless they go through my son.\n\n\nAlls we have now is muslims and mormons?\nMormons are not bad people but they dont\nworship Jesus they worship there church fact.\n\nMuslims are good people as well but they dont follow jesus\nthey follow allah remember the saying about Jesus\nand God are one please come again lol.