Why would Atheism be a sad, lonely life?
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It's not, that is just crap spouted by religious people who want to make you think you are missing out on something.\n\nBeing an atheist is as sad and lonely as not believing in Santa or the tooth fairy.
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So that we know about Gods existence and the beautiful things that He has made.\nWhat would God do in a lonely world.. so He simply blew life in it.
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People get comfort from believing there is a reason for existence, that it's not all accidental or the product of a statistical probability. \n\nLook at it this way: if you are a believer and you die and there is no God, what difference does it make.  If you are not a believer and you die and there is a God, BIG SURPRISE!
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This is Religion and Spirituality.  If you have no religion you have no business being here.  That means no atheists unless you are finally willing to declare Athiesm a religion!
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My best friend is an atheist. He doesn't claim to be spiritual. Actually, I have never met an atheiist who claimed to be spiritual.
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Atheists are under represented in prison (i.e. they go to prison less), they divorce less, tend to be more educated.  Religion isn't the great thing believers make it out to be.
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Some people are unable to handle a reality in which the only thing controlling their lives, their destiny, is themself and their fellow human beings. It's a pretty big responsibility. They need to feel like there is something out there, more powerful than any of us, that is in control. People are so afraid of losing that, of having to take full responsibility for their own destiny, of the cold, unfeeling "chaos" that governs literally everything, it is no wonder they become so upset when their religious views are challenged.\n\nOf course, it's still possible that one religion, or even bits and pieces of each of them, is the truth. Real or not, religion basically serves as a crutch for those who have trouble handling life.
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Maybe he was lonely... Aww... poor God...
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People have always used 'God' as a reason to be cruel.  It's just a way of making others small so you can feel big.  You have to make someone else so wrong in order to feel that you actually exist, or at least so you don't feel totally insignificant.  I don't know if you can give an answer to why.  It just is that way, people are hurt and angry and who knows what experiences they have had with so called 'religion'.  Why take it personally?  It's not about you.
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I know how you feel. I am an atheist with family who are superchristians. I have faded away from them. It is sad in a way but you cannot be happy being around people who think that they are better than you and are cooly polite. I don't need this kind of family. Life is too short to spend any part of it being unhappy when you don't have to.
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i more than agree. the separation of teaching religions from public school caused to have an atheist generation. they don't believe in any thing but their insect desires. they become gradually like animals. I blame governments and parents for this decline. God is exist. he gives lots of things like health, family and love. and he gives illness and poverty because of our faults and mistakes, or to test our faith. I hope he be merciful with us at the day of judgement.
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I pretty much agree with you. An atheist is sure that God does not exist, and an agnostic isn't willing to commit either way. (Sort of like the dyslexic agnostic who developed insomnia. He kept lying awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog...).
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It's a sad life if you can't even make fun of your own beliefs. It's one thing to poke fun and it's another thing to discriminate. I'd hate to have a religion where you're not allowed to laugh or draw pictures of your religious hero.
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You are absolutely right. Religion is only a construct created to give people comfort and to explain mysterious occurences, and to control the masses.\n\nExplaining strange phenomenon has already been taken care of. If you want to defeat religion and free humanity, you also need to tackle the philosophical implications. There has been insufficient popularization of atheistic ethics for most people to see us as anything other than simple and destructive hedonists. Also, make sure everyone understands that there is just as much beauty and joy in a world without God.\n\nPeace out from your fellow atheist!
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I don't know. \nI am personally worried about atheists. It shouldn't be happened.\nBut what I can say is - even if the atheist be buried or cremated or thrown away to the jungle, there may be at least one religious person in his immediate family. He will pray or do something according to his own religion. I mean, at least someone from the neighbourhood will pray for his soul.
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Personally I don't have any sort of spirituality.  There is such a thing as nontheistic religious humanism (see first source link), but if anything, I'd wager that atheists are normally Secular Humanists (see second source link).\n\nBasically to be an atheist, one must be without belief in deities.  There are different kinds of atheism, though: strong atheism, weak atheism, implicit atheism, explicit atheism, ignosticism and apatheism.\n\nStrong atheism: the belief that no deity exists. It is a form of explicit atheism, meaning that it consciously rejects theism.\n\nWeak atheism: the absence of belief in the existence of deities, without the belief in the non-existence of deities.\n\nExplicit atheism: refection of a belief in a god. This deliberate rejection of theism presupposes familiarity with theistic belief.\n\nImplicit atheism: absence of a belief in god without explicitly rejecting or denying theism. This form does not require familiarity with the idea of a god.\n\nIgnosticism: the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored. It is often considered synonymous with theological noncognitivism (the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "god", are not cognitively meaningful).\n\nAn apatheist is someone who has little or no interest in deities to point that he or she does not care whether deities exist and, typically, is not interested in deciding whether he or she believes in deities. In other words, an apatheist is someone who lacks belief in gods and lacks interest in gods to the point that he or she doesn't bother to determine whether he or she actually disbelieves in gods.
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people seem to think they don't need God in their lives anymore. So sad...