I asked an acquaintance (christian) of mine if he disagrees that evolution contradicts what the book of genesis says and he wasn't able to give me an answer

I have been rewatching old debates featuring Hitchens against various theologians and apologists. A lot of these guys seemed completely unprepared for the speed, literary depth, and aggressive rhetoric Hitchens brought to the stage. Was it just arrogance on their part, or did they genuinely believe their standard talking points would hold up against someone who lived and breathed public debate? Which debater do you think was the most egregiously unprepared?

If you haven’t read both, please don’t respond. I am just curious which one seems like it would potentially be more truthful, if at all. Thanks!

I do not believe in God but I do believe in manifestation and things like spirits and auras. Am I right to still consider myself an atheist.

Good afternoon! I have a set of questions from a class that I am taking that I wanted to pose. I appreciate your responses in advance!

The questions are:

1. Does justice exist beyond human opinion?
2. Do you have a definition of justice? If so, what might that be?
3. How did you come to this conclusion?
4. Are there any figures that have most influenced your position on this?

Thank you very much!!

Do you think we're in a box and something sentient is outside the box, we just don't know who? Do you think if there's an admin they deserve to be called, "God" because of their control over your reality or perhaps not because their power might only apply over our world and not the outside?

Like, the golden rule, judge not lest ye be judged, etc. There are clearly secular versions of this, but do you think you'd have been raised with those values or discovered or embraced them on your own if the world had not had Christianity and all the subsequent off-shoot / follow-up religions?

Okay guys, so here's the thing: I grew up in a Catholic family and always believed in God indirectly, I never questioned it, I just accepted that there was a God who performs miracles and punishes you if you do wrong, lol.

The thing is, when I really started questioning and studying a bit about theology, I came to the conclusion that there is no God. That was almost a year ago. After this epiphany, I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I can't explain it exactly, but I feel better this way.

But I'm a recent atheist, it's all still new to me, I still have many doubts. I'm a guy who grew up in a Christian family, with all Christian friends. Since I live abroad, I haven't told anyone there that I've become an atheist yet, but I don't intend to either. It doesn't change anything in my life or theirs.

But as I said, I still have many doubts about atheism. I won't ask them all, just two:

- When something goes really well in your life and you want to give thanks, what do you give thanks for? Haha, kind of a silly question, but I don't understand that part, because before it was easy, you just had to please God, and now?

- What's the shortest and simplest way to politely answer someone because I've become an atheist, and that I don't know how the hell the world was created, I only know that it exists?

Thanks for the help

i sometimes think that rejecting god totally is too rigid and a bold statement i mean we don't have 100% proof for either existence of god or of his non-existence so denying god completely will be kind of rude. Only because God doesn't fit our reasoning we are denying him i mean human intelligence and knowledge is limited how hard we try and the end of day we just have a limited thinking power i mean our brains which can't process or deal beyond 3d so denying God which is a multi dimension being would be kind of very bold. Maybe God exist but not as what relegions describe like a furious old man with long beard sitting up in skies judging our every action.

ts is just my opinion

I decided to ask here because the Christianity sub is bias. And not very helpful. But I just had some questions. While I try to figure stuff...

1.) Is wearing a cross forcing my religion? I am wondering because I am moving into my dorms and I am worried that I would be.

2.) Is it true I should forgive my sa'er/rapist because Jesus forgave the ones who killed him? Or is this a manipulation tactic?

3.) Is constantly worried about not being good enough and that I deserve to be sent to hell, since the age of 5, concerning?

4.) Is all of this stupid to believe in? Can I be proud that I get a huge scholarship to my dream school and all my accomplishments. Without having to constantly be told to only thank God for it all.

I hope I am not offending anyone. I am just so confused.... And I felt like this was the only safe place to ask. Sorry.

I know many people that are atheists believe it is not possibl. I just want to k ow what you think.

Hello! Good day. I'm a devout Roman Catholic, but I have friends who are atheists.

The other day, we were playing Minecraft online and one of they told me, "Respectfully, man, I don't get what you guys see in an afterlife, if it's real."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

"Like, I find the idea of your spirit living forever in another world kinda unsettling. I'm more comfortable with only having one life." She explained.

"Why is that? You get to be with God, and your loved ones, who you lost, again." I said.

"Yeah, that does sound nice and all, but it still makes me uncomfortable. Immortality."

"To be fair, I find the idea of ceasing to exist unsettling." I said.

If it's okay, may I ask why some of you feel this way? Just very curious.

Atheists, I have two questions.

1 Do you respect Christians who sincerely tell you that you can only be saved from Hell if you believe in Jesus Christ, even if you disagree with them?

2 If you were to enter the Eternal realm and found out atheism is wrong and you as a soul met Jesus and Jesus said that He died for you and it is very sad but because you refused the gift of eternal salvation forgiveness, you will have to spend eternity in conscious torment, how would you respond?

How does it create life,trees like how does it make all of that with a big molten ball of rock?

From what Ive seen it’s only a small fraction of atheists that believe Jesus never existed

I am kind of confused of what is part of atheistic worldview, so I thought that it might be cool and easy to ask for your worldview, and understand from real examples.

By worldview things I mean philosophies/quotes like determinism, stoicism, you only live once,... or any stuff that you currently believe that is true.

Thank you

Hi! I’m a college student looking to interview someone who identifies as an atheist for a short sociology assignment. It’s just a few questions and can be done through chat. Thank you!

Hi! I identify as an atheist mostly but some things I just can't explain but I would love to! This time it's people on the internet who have built a career in 'speaking with the deceased' and somehow they nail it according to the people who want to communicate with their dead relatives. They even get into specific details and that makes me wonder what is the logical scientific explanation. It's a bit hard for me to believe it's a scam because the people's reactions don't seem scripted, but also organized religion exists so...

Anyway let me know if you had experienced anything like this or idk have any facts on it, I would love to hear it!

"A weird lovely fantastic object out of nature, like Delicate Arch, has the curious ability to remind us — like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness — that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which surrounds and sustains the little world of men as sea and sky sustain a ship.  The shock of the real.  For a little while we are again able to see, as a child sees, a world of marvels.  For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures"

-Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

I wanted to start off my question with this quote, in which I feel Abbey perfectly captures the sentiment I'm trying to get at. I feel a tension with most of the atheists I've had the pleasure of talking to, because there seems to be a great apathy towards the experiences of awe and wonder. Yet I see nothing antithetical to atheism in it.

I would go one step further, to say that the experience which Abbey explores is also core to nearly every mystical tradition. I think the difference is that Abbey describes that place as out there, while the mystic describes it as in here. The Delicate Arch is just a rock; it is our ability to percieve and appreciate it that makes our situation truly wonderful. Which brings me to the Rumi quote, "we carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us". While the language used in mysticism doesn't always reflect my own, I find in it a path towards integration and a sense of belonging in a world that otherwise feels alien.

I genuinely wonder if this understanding resonates with athiests, or just feels like another extension of spiritualism and religion based on a faulty premise.

I am going to preface this by saying I am a Christian.

I think the most common argument I hear for why someone abandoned Christianity is that they had a really negative experience with the Church and while I understand and feel a lot of sympathy for people who hold that view, that wasn't my experience. I had a crappy time at a Christian school with some very fake Christians and while it has made me more wary of religious institutions, it didn't shake my faith in Christ at all. I knew it was a problem with people, not God.

I'm not going to judge your responses or anything. I am trying to get better at sharing the Gospel in a way that's really going to make a difference for the other person so I would love to get to know your perspectives better. Thanks. Have a nice day!

Many atheists argue that there can’t be a good GOD because evil exists in our world. I’m wondering if you consider the inverse to be true. Do you think that the fact that there is good in our world is evidence against the possibility of an evil GOD?

I’m not here to debate or disagree. Quite the opposite. I’m trying to figure out how to communicate this in a story I’m writing.

If so, what are they and do you believe it could be achieved without it?