That was an easy question, and
answered by an Atheist.
Not exact matches
If the
answer is no you are,
by definition, an
atheist...
But the deeper question (which was never
answered by Hitchens) is where the moral compulsion upon anyone —
atheist or believer — comes from in a godless universe.
According to the Pew Forum's Scott Clement, respondents who
answered «no» when asked «Do you believe in God or a universal spirit» got 18.7 questions right, well below the 20.9 questions
answered correctly
by self - identified
atheists and agnostics.
The point is that Christians need so many
answers, none of which is supported
by any evidence at all, whereas the
atheist only needs one
answer for all of them: There is no God.
You're just parroting the kind of standard eighth grade
atheist questions that are
answered by reading any number of excellent authors.
First,
atheists directly challenge their beliefs
by pointing out the flaws in their reasoning and
answers, and relentlessly pointing out there is no evidence to support any of their beliefs.
I began to
answer these questions in a post about the existence of God
by looking at the basic approach I use when
answering questions from
atheists (or anyone with whom I disagree about anything).
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answer these questions in my post yesterday
by looking at the basic approach I use when
answering questions from
atheists (or anyone with whom -LSB-...]
The only logical
answer to the question as to who could have mentioned all these scientific facts 1400 years ago before they were discovered, is exactly the same
answer initially given
by the
atheist or any person, to the question who will be the first person who will be able to tell the mechanism of the unknown object.
There is your
answer to what terrifies an
atheist... if any other non believer would like to add or change something i have said,
by all means... but i think i hit the nail on the head!
Atheists often argue that these questions can be equally
answered by reading poetry or studying philosophy.
There is no easy
answer and I've written (as best I could) a kind of response to a video made
by three
atheists arguing that evil makes God's reality extremely unlikely:
He addresses many of the questions agitated
by the «new
atheists», but with the twist that believers, too, don't have a neat and satisfying
answer to the intellectual problems that
atheists exploit.
If we are what we believe then the
answer is no and people of religous persuasion (depending on the specific beliefs) may
by and large be less morale than
atheists.
PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the
answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If
by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are
atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed
by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.
I want glory — I pray for it in my own
atheist way — but honestly not sure what the
answer is — we appear to be stuck between two stools — on one the one hand there is the well - run club, Corinthian ideals, attractive football, generally competing or being there or there abouts, being respected in the wider community etc and on the other hand wanting to join the new age idea of a football club and «f $ % k this for a game of soldiers and lets just deal with this
by spending mega-money and sod the consequences brigade».
A 2014 survey conducted
by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves
atheist or agnostic, 32 percent
answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»