Five Questions for Atheist

Five Simple Questions for the Atheist Community.

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[twohats829]

4: If schools did that, it would take time out of a kid's day to learn it. My problem is that if anything is sacrificed for the teaching of a myth, that sacrifice is unjustified.

[twohats829]

3: Not that I can think of. If someone points something out to me that I believe on faith, however, I will stop believing it until I find evidence for it.

[twohats829]

2: I don't think so. When I first lost faith in God I actually tried to get it back. Didn't work.

[twohats829]

1: The deist god is impossible to disprove, so no.

[FosterZygote]

5. No, I don't think that my life is generically any more fulfilling than the lives of Christians. Nor do I think that it is generically any less fulfilling than a Christian life. Having once been an evangelical Christian I can say confidently that my life is no more or less "fulfilling" as an atheist. I am delighted with my life as are, I'm sure, many Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Pagans, atheists, etcetera.

[FosterZygote]

4. Would you have a problem with an elective course that taught Islamic faith, not as a comparative study, but as religious training, if the course was entirely elective and the teacher was not paid?

Look, if someone wants to reserve a room at a school during off-school hours and teach a creation class to anyone who wants to sign up, without spending any public funds to do so, that's fine with me. But any sort of religious training as part of any public school curriculum is unconstitutional.

[FosterZygote]

3. I define "faith" and "hope" differently. "Faith" I define as belief without evidence. "Hope" I define as a provision for the probability of a future desirable event. I have hope in a great many things for which the future outcome is uncertain. But I have come to regard belief in something without any supporting evidence counterproductive and nothing more than an expression of my own desire to impose my will on the universe.

[FosterZygote]

2. Yes, I believe that in the majority of individual cases, people choose to believe or not believe things for which there is no evidence. Indoctrination certainly plays a large part, but when confronted with a claim for which there is no supporting evidence, one can choose to believe without proof, disbelieve without proof, or, (the preferable option in my view) suspend judgement and simply lack belief until such time, if ever, that further evidence is forthcoming.

[FosterZygote]

1. No, I can't prove that gods don't exist. I would need the capacity to search the entire universe to state with certainty that gods were not present anywhere. The same is true of all the gods in which you lack belief. I can't prove that there isn't a '63 Dodge Dart orbiting a star in the Andromeda galaxy, but that isn't a sound reason to conclude that it is there. Not being able to prove the nonexistence of supernatural beings is no reason to argue that they exist. This applies to ALL gods.

[ChaoticRupture]

1.- You want people to believe? then It is your job to prove that hes real, it's not our problem.

2.- Yes, If it wasn't a choice an individual could make..then we would all believe the same retarded thing.

3.- No, almost all atheists dont believe in something they cant see or feel.

4.- I think both theories should be rejected or accepted, If you teach one of them then you should give students another choice.

5.- I wouldnt apreciate life the way I do. If I knew I had another eternal life anyways