Worst thing about being an atheist?

[flobadob]

I think it's that you'll never know if you were right, you'll only know if you were wrong.

[Postdog]

Play safe - be agnostic

[daisya]

Nothing like religion to be devisive, only problem is, who can prove either way, there is a god there isn't a god...there is..there isn't....ugh. Who really cares anyway, it can be a cr*p life for some and good for others...que sera sera with or without a deity.

[Pinkypie]

Spreading - I'm not sure what you mean. But all I know is that when the 'proverbial' hits the fan, some people have faith in religion and feel better. It seems to work for them.

I guess my faith comes in my family who I love and know I have their love to help me through things!

[rowanwitch]

post dog...sitting on the fence gives you splinters in your bum...
but you might have a wider viewpoint..

[Zeuhl]

... is always being second best to diamonds.

Oh no sorry ... that's amethyst

[douglas9401]

cupid04: It's quite hot you know, where all the atheists are going!
17:24 Wed 24th Aug 2011


Tenerife? :)

[keyplus90]

Answering your question is very simple. And I remember answering it once before. How would you ever find if you were wrong? I believe more important is that WHEN would you find if you were wrong. In an atheist case it would be after he/she dies. But then it would be too late. Someone did say that it is better to believe and then being wrong and find that nothing (Heaven or Hell existed) than not believing and then ending up there when it had already been too late.

Simplest way of dealing with that is that first of all you accept that you MIGHT be wrong and it should be very easy for atheists as according to them they would believe if proof was given. And then do one thing. Sometime in isolation only for your own sake say,

“Oh God, I am not sure if you exist or you don’t. However if you do exist then please guide me to the right path”.

Now if you consider then after saying these few words in reality you have not lost anything. You have put onus on God that if he does exist then he should show you the right path. I am not saying that he should make you Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Jew or any other religion. I mentioned right path. And then keep you mind open to the possibilities in the future and I am sure God will show you the right path. And more importantly, before it is too late.

[daisya]

“Oh God, I am not sure if you exist or you don’t. However if you do exist then please guide me to the right path”.


I wonder how many murderers have uttered this and taken the wrong path?

[Zeuhl]

keynote

i just think your 'prayer' is slightly skewed: I have no issue with;

“Oh God, I don't know if you exist or you don’t. However if you do exist then please guide me to the right path”

However, I think if there were a god it is egotistical and self-absorbed (as religion fundamentally is) to imagine that you saying anything actually makes any difference in the greater scheme of things.

[Pinkypie]

Surely it's not good enough saying it 'just in case' you should have to believe it though??

[notasyoungasiwas]

I am Postdog !

[KARL]

I wonder if the answer is not that, like the religious, the atheist utterly rejects the possibility that he/she might be wrong and thus is resolutely blinkered - this about something that cannot be proven either way (unless/until you are dead, if you think the answer might reveal itself at that point). If I may join in the discussion about Spreading, I find the American style Christian pontification thoroughly boring, but he/she has the infinite right to continue dishing it out, as much as I have the right to ignore it as humbug.

[daisya]

Well said Karl. Ignoring is an art form and I would love to have a degree in it.

[joko]

Thing is i treckon most atheists would happily believe in god, if there were some irrefutable proof or evidence...(like if he turned up on news at 10)

atheism is not an irrational brainwashed belief

it is the believer whose mind is not their own and they are the ones that, if suddenly there was some undeniable proof that god did not exist...they would still believe and find some convoluted excuse for the proof being fake...as they have been doing for centuries.

[daisya]

Joko I think you could be right about the proof, has to be beyond reasonable doubt, I mean who could deny it then....so why can't religionists show us the proof?

[KARL]

Joko, not wanting to get into a Yes it is, No it isn't situation, I would nevertheless suggest that while you are probably correct that a lot/most religious folk would be inclined to reject practically all proof of there being no god, it is (I suspect) pretty much equally likely that atheists would reject proof that such an entity (in some form, then almost certainly bearing no resemblance to any scripture's allusion) does indeed exist. That is the problem with anointing oneself as the vessel of ultimate truth - pro or against, so to speak, and in the absence of any proof either way.

[daisya]

Proof is what's needed, proof we don't get - unfortunately. Mind you, spreading might have an answer to this like he/she has to everything else....

[Zeuhl]

He'll have to find it first - on whatever sites he's copying all his guff from lol

[Ankou]

the worst thing about being an atheist is the constant worrying of religious people as to what might happen to me when i die.

in my mind. nothing happens. get over it.

[sallybb]

Worst thing is, that when all those believers out there start trying to bully you into their way of thinking when they cotton on to you being an atheist. I usually tell them that its best to care about your enviroment and to look out for others that need some care or help. Which you don't have to be religious to do. Thats a better attitude than being a bullying believer.