What motivates you atheists?

Family, husband, friends, love, happiness, hope, my dog, my future, etc.

Why do you religious people assume that atheists are all selfish people who live only for themselves?

I am motivated by my family, my love for life itself, the very act of breathing and hearing my own heart beat. I'm motivated by the love I feel for my son, my own flesh and blood. I'm motivated by the fact that others on this earth might need me and may miss me if I'm gone.

I'm not selfish enough to think that if I'm in pain, I might as well die. I'm sorry that you feel that way about your own life. How sad you must be.

The beauty of a sunset on a fall afternoon.

The stars on a clear winter night.

The sounds of a Bach fugue.

The smell of honeysuckle or chocolate fudge.

The feel of corduroy.

My dog's wagging tail.

My cat's purr.

And the realization that I am doing no more than every other living human being, for all life includes challenges. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

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it is the non-athiest brain injured ppl who motivated the atheists

its humanity and the ones who put a threat to it which will always be a motivation to them

I want to live, and I want to understand anything and everything. I can do that in agony and without pleasure...I can not however, do that if I am dead.

That would depends .... Some family, some friends, some other reasons, sometime is the strength.

The hope that science would come up with a cure, and the fact that my fiance and family would need me.

the hardships themselves would motivate me...i don't want to be a coward and commit suicide or anything because i know i have the courage to go through anything ,and also that,that courage is WITHIN me and i would feel proud of myself at the end of the day for battling my troubles :)

The beauty of the world and helping others descover it

family