Is there GOD?

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1) What is an atheist?

An atheist is someone who does not think there is a god.
Atheism has no set of common beliefs. But prominent secular thinkers generally agree on pursuing the common good on the basis of compassion, and the advancement of science to increase our knowledge about the world.


2) Why do atheists not believe in God?

Because there is no evidence for God. The best that can be said for the proposed evidence is that God is one possible answer among other possibilities. But mostly, the proposed evidence is speculative, insufficient, and self-contradictory.

3) Are we not supposed to have faith?

The problem with faith is one can have faith in anything. If we don't use evidence as the criteria by which we choose what to believe, then reality becomes a preference. Obviously, reality is not always what we want it to be, so faith is an invalid basis for belief.

4) How can you know there is no God?

We can't. But we can't really KNOW fairies don't exist either. That's not a reason to believe in them, is it? It's all about considering the evidence, evaluating the claims, and making the reasonable judgment.

5) Then where did the world come from?

We don't know that it came from something. And if it did, we don't know that this thing is a god or an intelligent being.

6) How could such a sophisticated world not be the result of an intelligent creator?

If a sophisticated thing requires a creator, then who or what created the sophisticated creator? If we don't need a creator for the creator, then we don't need a creator for the world. Logically, we can't have it both ways.

7) Is atheism dogmatic?

Like all people, some atheists may be dogmatic, and some are open-minded people who simply have an opinion that could be right or wrong.

8) If atheists are wrong, won't they go to hell?

And if Muslims are right, Christians go to hell. If Catholics are right, evangelicals go to hell. The idea that life is a religious test, or that someone deserves eternal punishment for believing the "wrong" things or having the "wrong" opinion, may indicate that God and hell were invented to instill fear and control people.

9) What about the Bible?

The Bible contains stories about a talking snake, a magic staff splitting the sea, and people getting out of their graves and walking around. There is no evidence for any of those mythical-sounding stories, and no reason anyone should take them seriously. Many ancient texts have similar stories, so the Bible is not unique in that respect. The Quran is worse.

10) Don't people need God to be good?

Being good out of fear of God or hell is not moral but rather cowardly and immature. One would hope that people don't need a "commandment" from a god to refrain from killing and stealing. Historically, both believers and non-believers committed atrocities, and today, some European countries with predominantly atheistic populations have lower teen pregnancies and homicide rates than the United States, which has the largest religious population in the West.""

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