Top 0x10 Theists Myths About Atheists and Atheism (1 of 3 )

After years of watching and participating in religious debate, I've found 16 common misperceptions that believers have about atheism and atheists.

I can't speak for all atheists, nor do I believe that all Christians hold these myths, but I do my best to explain and debunk them from my own experience.

16 - We really want to know Jesus and believe in God

15 - We don't ever experience feelings of awe and wonder from looking at the physical world

14 - We see our criticisms of the Bible as criticisms of God

13 - Our objection to religious proselytizing comes from a fear that you will corrupt our beliefs or make us face our doubts

12 - We reject each and every moral teaching in the Bible

11 - We argue in order to get you to agree with us or to jusify our beliefs

10 - Our beliefs are inherently pragmatic or emotional, and that telling us about the practical or emotional benefits of belief will change our minds

9 - What you call logic is the same thing we refer to as logic

8 - We are monolithic in our philsophical and political beliefs

7 - We view our beliefs the same way your view your beliefs

6 - We are miserable, afraid, and unhappy

5 - We have the same spiritual experiences you have, but deny or suppress them

4 - We became atheists because of some traumatic experience that turned us away from God

3 - We hate God and fear his judgement

2 - We believe that human, animal, and plant life as we know it today came about through random chance

1 - We hate Christians

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[kylebossify]

*continued* itself. when even the most materialistic of us find something reasonable, it is made upon the assumption of causality, which cannot be empirically proven, and upon induction. At some point in the line, any explaination for an external event requires a certain leap of faith. I think man will always strive to know what reality truly is, but as of yet I think it is an unnatainable goal. Most importantly though, we lose sight of what it means to be a decent being, atheist or theist.

[kylebossify]

It's wonderful to see somebody calmly addressing this argument. As a philosophical skeptic I'd like to put my two cents in; Theists are clearly illogical in blind faith, but I feel atheists (at least the ones that vehemently deny the existence of a god) are almost equally irrational. What we profess to know can never truly be known about our objective reality, becaus when we buy into a theory, or belief it is done on the basis of reasonability, which has no logical objective basis.

[DerpdaDerp1]

Umm quantum physics do not point to a conscious universe. And the fact that we are conscious, doesn't mean that we are essential and the universe has a big plan or an awareness of us. If you have proof, please show me, because being an atheist, evidence can sway me if it is substantial. Speculation and opinion do not count as evidence.

[moonlightbateman]

@Megaritz You are welcome. Also, we know that the universe is conscious because we are part of the universe (multiverse) and we are conscious. There is a growing movement toward the primacy of consciousness especially in fields such as quantum physics. Using the primacy of consciousness, many of the paradoxes (such as your "who designed God?" paradox disappear. Thus, God (when viewed as the primary consciousness) is not only possible but probable. Thank you for keeping an open mind!.

[Megaritz]

@moonlightbateman Thank you for giving me something to research. I don't labor under the delusion that scientists will ever know close to everything about the universe, although at the end of the day I expect this will only prove the physical laws of the universe are stranger and more complex than previously thought--not that something *beyond* physical laws are needed, and not that any *entity* exists to pull the strings behind it all.

[moonlightbateman]

@Megaritz So you would accept scientific evidence that disproves materialistic atheism, if such evidence existed-correct? Because it does. Starting with Aspire in 1982, we have known that materialism does not and cannot account for all of the behaviors of photons and electrons. Thus materialism, the basis of materialistic atheism has been disproven. What is left is the reality that something more than the material universe exists. This is what we know, feel free to look it up. .

[Megaritz]

...but even then, we don't know enough to say the universe couldn't have ultimately formed in a way that may have supported life in some other way. Life is an example of emergence, a phenomenon by which instances of order come out of the larger ever-increasting disorder of the universe, and some form of emergence would appear to be an inevitable result of just about any kind of complex system. Additionally, God's existence raises the question of why natural evil (earthquakes, etc) happen, etc.

[Megaritz]

@moonlightbateman I'd certainly credit the creator if I believed there was one. If the universe has a creator, I'd like to know about it. However, I've yet to see a persuasive argument that it has one. The cosmological argument provides no basis to anthropomorphize the first cause, and the argument from design raises the question "Who designed God?" Only the argument from the necessity of specific scientific constants needed to support life is compelling--but even then, we don't know (cont.)

[moonlightbateman]

@Megaritz On the contrary, I find art far more interesting when you know something about the artist. Atheism is alot like saying you found "Cosmos" a beautiful piece of art, but denying that Carl Sagan existed or created it in the first place. Without acknowleging Sagan all you have is a boring, one dimensional PBS series devoid of creativity, humanity, interest or love of science. Creation requires a creator, Art requires an artist. Why not credit that artist?