How come aitheists don't study human history?
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They are blinded by their own sin and worldliness, as were cains' people on the plain. They need to believe there is no greater power to whom we must answer to some day in order to justify continuing with their behaviors and actions.\n\nThey are hoping and betting they are right, for if not there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (I guess they are starting that in this life huh?)
805890
answering the who believes part:  only people who can't read or who so mistrust science that they refuse to believe anything but the bible (and biblical scholars, paradoxically).\n\nAs to where they get that nonsense, well, that'd be those bible scholars.  Strangely I suspect those same scholars may in many cases be more open to other theories (evolution!) than they're given credit for.  After all, it's one thing to read the bible and infer from all the details there that genesis must have described a date 4600 years ago; it's quite another to believe that is a true account of the time since creation.
879982
Ok, learn this: people are stupid. For some reason they choose to believe certain idiocracy (good lord, I can't spell >_<) as opposed to others. Trust me, this question isn't going to make chirstians "question their faith" (although most are in desperate need to) even though it is logical, but then again, since when have religons used logic?
407480
Funny how religions cling to their books screaming it is historical until something is found to disprove it.  Then they say history is crap.  \n\nYou just can't win against the brainwashed.
1123323
I think that you are trying to describe the difference between an Atheist and a Humanist.\nA Humanist is so-called because they remove themselves from the whole religious debate - not out of lack of interest but because it doesn't feature as part of their philosophy. A Humanist doesn't define him/herself in terms of theism.
183226
Mainly it's because people listen to other people instead of studying for themselves. God is the same God now that He was 2000 years ago. He didn't change. Not really a good answer but it's the best I can do for now.
804198
Because religion is a corrupt empire. Are we entirely sure that they werent changed by others as they years went by? History tends to be painted in a somewhat favorable light in order to keep weak minds controlled.
817260
I think it all stems to the origins of religion and the mentality of primitive people. Before the advancement of science it was easier to believe in a Sun God and now people face Centuries of refinement of old superstitions they are taught from birth. Plus, people are by their very nature gullible.\nAlso, it takes more effort to against tradition - i takes a person willing to question things that make no logical sense. It's much easier to just toe-the-line and believe.
809124
Well done for starting to think like a human.\n\nIt is pretty obvious that the bible is not true. It is a packaged product designed to create a religious truth with which to bind (and blind) people. \n\nBind in that you believe in 'God' and you have to take the bible wholesale (imperfections, contradications and everything). Blind int hat you have to ignore the real evidence of history in order to 'believe' and be saved.\n\nArcheologists do not tend to use the bible as source material because so much of it is false. There is no historical reference to Jesus outside of a few books in the bible. \n\nIn the ancient world myths were not seen as untrue in quite the way we see them today. Myths were a way of spreading a spritual idea or 'truth' through the telling of an allegorical tale that could work on many levels. \n\nThe Egyptians, for example, were prodigious record keepers. We have found written accounts for the tiniest minutea of their daily lives, and records for nobles and royal families stretching back many thousands of years. We even know the names of those kings that that they tried to have 'erased' from history. \nYet nowhere in any of these records is a high nobleman called 'Moses' recorded. And there is no mention anywhere of the Jews being held captive in Egypt, or of thousands of Jewish 'slaves' suddenly up and leaving via the red sea. \n\nRead the bible, by all means. But do not take it literally!
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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
845527
Must be one of the most stupid questions ever.  Why don't you read a little history concerning the suppression of religion?
349973
It is generally believed by historians that the earliest religion(s) were animistic, which developed into increasingly complex polytheistic systems.  \n\nEven the Bible tends to support this idea --- Abraham was said to abandon his "idols" (e.g. polytheism) in order to establish worship of the One God.\n\nReligion probably originates in the attempt to understand and explain the inexplicable in the world.
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Most atheist are like a lot of evolutionist. Their mind is made up before they investigate. They refuse to look at any contrary factual evidence against their belief. They will only engage in debate with people who don't know what they are talking about. Its almost as though they are saying: 'don't confuse me with the facts-my mind is already made up'.
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No one can know the mind of God, because I don’t think anything written in ANY religious book is from a divine source, it’s from people who were trying to control the status quo in whatever time it was written.  It had more to do with politics than it did worship.
1174460
If they are more intelligent than us,then why would they believe in something they have NEVER seen.Why would they believe something that as been written by human beings.Why does anybody believe in something that can't be proven.They would think that religious people,who believe in this Great God that is supposed to be so powerful he can do anything,are completely bonkers because,If this God is so powerful why does he let so many  people on this Earth suffer in so many ways ????
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There is a difference between belief and the practice of verifying things by observation. I'm not one to say that science can address every aspect of what it is to be human. We need art, and storytelling, and music, and things that don't lend themselves well to scientific explanations. I could describe for you the mathmatical relationships between notes in a symphony, but that would be somewhat missing the point.\n\nEvery society has stories that have been told through the ages about how the world came into existence. Humankind has had a need for mythology to explain things about the human experience that are beyond our understanding. Teach all of it. It's a part of being human. But recognize the difference between mythology, philosophy, religion, and science. We have for the most part given up using primitive belief systems as the basis for, say, medical treatments. In most cases there is an understanding that science does a better job of predicatably explaining what will happen with, say, food poisoning or small pox than any of the other systems of thought that I mentioned. Schizophrenia is a more enlightened explanation than demonic possession, and has more explanatory power.\n\nSo teach the belief systems, but don't teach them as science. Evolution is not a theory, it is the basis of modern biology. For decades, modern advances do nothing but support what was already known. There is no reason to revert to mythology to explain things that can be verified with evidence. Keep your faith, keep your beliefs, whatever they may be, but accept the world we live in and the understanding we have of how it works.
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They don't believe in God. They believe in Allah and Muhammad. However, historians have correlated Allah and Muhammad with God and Jesus.