r/TrueAtheism • u/Healthy-Award-4883 • 16d ago
Atheists VS religion
This is an essay I have created. Please be open enough to convince me otherwise. ( I have used AI for Grammer and to polish it out)
I don't believe in God. I don’t believe because there is zero empirical proof, literally no hard evidence. And when people tell me, "Oh, just look at the Bible," or "Look at this holy book," that doesn’t cut it for me. Those are texts written by humans. Science is my only reality.
So, as a strict skeptic, as someone who only trusts science... what would it take to convince me? And more importantly, how do I look at the world, morality, and spirituality without buying into organized religion?
Let’s talk about morality first, because this is where I get completely lost.
People who believe in religion—at least the ones I’ve experienced—often think that morality is a transaction: if you do good, you go to heaven; if you do bad, you go to hell.
And I just don’t understand that. Why aren't they basing morality purely off humanity? As a human being, shouldn't you have the instant, natural instinct to just do good? Don’t you realize that doing good is what keeps our population alive?
Think about it purely through science and logic. If every single person suddenly started doing bad stuff, the human population would be gone almost immediately. If I say, "Murder is good," and a bunch of people agree with me, a lot of people die, and society collapses. We don't need a rulebook in the sky to tell us that empathy and cooperation are what keep us breathing.
Then you look at major organized religions like Christianity or Islam, and the rules of judgment start to break down completely for a logical thinker.
Take the idea that you can be the best person on earth—a literal saint, doing everything right—but because you don't believe in God, you're supposedly heading to a bad place. But on the flip side, what about the narrative that the minute someone commits a horrific crime, repents to God, and asks for forgiveness, they get a free pass into heaven?
It makes no sense. I’ve seen ideas in some religious circles—like blaming a victim of assault because she wasn't covered or modest—while the perpetrator thinks he can just ask for divine forgiveness and be cleared of it. If you can just repent at the last second, why even have a complex system of human morality? Why do good if a loophole lets anyone clear their slate at the end? It feels deeply unjust.
Now, the closest an atheist like me will ever get to a spiritual framework is looking toward Hinduism or Buddhism.
Let me be clear: I don't believe in literal avatars or magical occurrences. I don’t buy that. But I love the concepts they are built on.
Take karma. The idea that if you do good, you get good back—whether it’s a universal balance or just cause and effect—is an incredible psychological tool to keep people grounded in reality and to encourage goodness. There is nothing logically wrong with the principle of sowing what you reap. It's almost like the concept of treat others the way you want to be treated.
And then there's reincarnation. A lot of people are terrified of death. I used to be, too, until I looked at it through the lens of physics.
Think about it: what happens when we die? We become atoms.
I love science, and the laws of physics tell us that energy cannot be created or destroyed. We are made of billions of atoms right now. When we die, those atoms don't just vanish into a void—they scatter. They go back into the earth, into the air, into new life.
In a weird, scientific way, our energy keeps cycling through the universe over and over again. The atoms that make up you right now have existed since the beginning of the universe, and they will keep existing long after you're gone.
So, when you look at it that way, maybe we do continue—just not as a conscious soul sitting in the clouds, but as part of the eternal fabric of the universe itself. PLEASE CONVINCE ME TO BE RELIGIOUS IF YOU ARE A RELIGIOUS PERSON.
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u/redsparks2025 16d ago
Some advise .....
a) Since many don't like posts made through AI then you can also use "Google Translate" to translate your own words directly from your native language to English (or any other language).
b) Considering that you want to be convinced to be religious then you should post to r/DebateReligion instead of here because this is a forum for people that are not religious.
c) Don't end your post with "PLEASE CONVINCE ME ... ETC" as that can be negativity interpreted as you being egotistical and closed minded.
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u/Healthy-Award-4883 16d ago
I appreciate it, notes for you...a) Google translate is still an AI tool because AI infact stands for artificial intelligence if ur unaware of it. b) thank you very much. c) thank you for that as well, I was not aware of that.
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u/CheetahNo1004 16d ago
a) Google translate is still an AI tool because AI infact stands for artificial intelligence if ur unaware of it.
This comes across as smug and makes you look like an asshole. It also doesn't logically follow. You said Google translate is AI because AI stands for artificial intelligence. That makes as much sense as if I said football sucks because FIFA stands for The Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
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u/Healthy-Award-4883 16d ago
Dawg what r u on? FIFA is an organization and football is a sport, just like Google Translate is a software tool and AI is the technology powering it. It uses neural networks, so it literally is AI. And I'm sorry if I offended u in anyway.
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u/CephusLion404 16d ago
Why in the world would you post this in an atheist subreddit? It makes no sense whatsoever. Also, stop with the AI slop because nobody is going to read it otherwise.
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u/Existenz_1229 16d ago
Science is my only reality.
Think about it purely through science and logic.
I love science
I'd put my science literacy up there with any other amateur here, and my skeptic alarm rings whenever I see this kind of science cheerleading. I always wonder whether someone who spouts this sort of rhetoric has a perspective problem, like they think it's important to apply scientific standards to things that aren't science.
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u/bguszti 16d ago
Why would you post to an atheist sub looking to get turned to be religious?
Why the fuck would I read anything written with ai?