I'm an atheist. And I just want to hear other atheist views on it. Because I just recently became one and I'm just curious.

I'm an atheist. I think it's no more useful or useless than any other doubt.

Was this right after your "why did god create humans" thread? If so, you're not as much of a dumb shithead as I first thought. However, I suppose you are a nazi, so that makes you a fucking idiot.

quote:Originally posted by unchewed_meat:

Was this right after your "why did god create humans" thread? If so, you're not as much of a dumb shithead as I first thought. However, I suppose you are a nazi, so that makes you a fucking idiot.

I never declared myself a Nazi. It's just my name because I wanted to see how many people judged me before actually knowing my point of view.

I don't think they are any less indoctrinated than the christians they oppose.

I consider myself an agnostic. Atheism can be as dogmatic as a religion but at least stands on more solid ground. The lack of God is not equal to the lack of spirituality though, so you cannot really hold atheists at fault of any related implications. However, I think that we lack a satisfactory definition for God and that's why I feel that atheists are premature to discard the notion. I admit though that the definition of the majority is such that the atheists are excused. I think we are at a crucial time of human history where we need to place trust in ourselves rather than God. Not because He does not exist but because trust in anything other than ourselves will be largely exploited.

quote:Originally posted by aTribeCalledSean:

I don't think they are any less indoctrinated than the christians they oppose.

Oh, so you think atheists and Christians are indoctrinated? And since when did atheists oppose Christianity as a default setting? Atheism opposes nothing...it's a lack of belief in god(s), nothing more or less...from there, it takes a bigotrous mind to conclude that atheism = anti-Christianity.

I've been atheist for 8 years now, and when I was a christian, i was just never really into it, I always felt like a hypocrite.

quote:Originally posted by Nazi:

I never declared myself a Nazi. It's just my name because I wanted to see how many people judged me before actually knowing my point of view.

Well, with a name like Nazi, it would be hard to NOT think of you as one. Insults withdrawn.

I'm an athiest.

It's the default position.

I don't believe that invisible, undetectable pink dragons who live in garrages just might exist because no one has proven they don't.

That sums it up.

Lack of belief in gods.

quote:Originally posted by Mr.maniacal:

I've been atheist for 8 years now, and when I was a christian, i was just never really into it, I always felt like a hypocrite.

Then you were on the right track.

The minute a Christians stops considering themselves a hypocrite, they cease to have a need for God in their lives, and they begin to fail in following the tenets of the faith.

I am sorry to hear that you fell away...but if you were truly saved, as outline in the Bible, you can never become "unsaved".

The only way to lose your salvation is to say that there is no God.

Do you truly believe that ?

If so, how could you have ever felt like a hypocrite ?

What, now you need a god to feel hypocritical?

I'm genrrally an atheist, but sometimes I slip into agnosticism. When I do, I'm sure no religion has it right, and there is no real way of learning the "correct" religion. And to be sure, anti-christianity is my default setting, as I was raised christian. Don't hold this against other atheists.

As for atheism, christian religion exists as a paradox for me. I cannot give credence to a religion without undisputable proof. But with that proof, faith vanishes and assurance takes its place.

Christianity REQUIRES faith from its believers, so miracles and other proof of god destroys the christian belief structure.

Budddhism makes a lot of sense in it's "middle way" tenet, but I'd never join the ranks of buddhism. Too much mumbo jumbo, like most religions.

Judaism and Islam, brothers locked in mortal combat. Sad, really.

Catholicism, violating their own core tenet by worshiping the Virgin Mary, a false idol....

Too much mysticism and superstition to slog through to ever bother getting religious, no matter the denomination.

I'm also an atheist. I don't hate god or religion, i just don't believe in any of it.

I'm more of an Agnostic, or a negative Atheist, whatever you want to call it.

atheism is a religion. no i'm not atheist monkey-worshiper.

quote:Originally posted by Nazi:

I never declared myself a Nazi. It's just my name because I wanted to see how many people judged me before actually knowing my point of view.

Yep, thats the point of my name. I was wondering if people would pay attention to the fact that Im a spic before reading my posts, yep people notice.

That's kind of sad, picking a name just to get a reaction out of people. Can't you think of any other ways to be interesting?

I used to consider myself an atheist, but since stumbling upon parapsychology I'm more agnostic. My most fundamental belief is that there is an explanation for everything.

Everything that is exists.

Everything that exists has certain properties.

Everything that has properties can be defined by those properties.

Everything that can be defined by its properties has an explanation.

Of course, we don't have an explanation for everything. That's why I'm still searching. I find science the most reliable field in which to discover these explanations. Religion and philosophy must be approached more cautiously as they contain both truth and deception, and which is which can be hard to tell.