Atheist why does it mater if people believe in God? Or is it more like politics or is it past my bedtime?

Believe what you like.

Just stop pushing it on other people and trying to get your beliefs made law or taught as science.

That's not asking too much, surely?

I think that it's kind of unrealistic to tell people to vote with an absence of beliefs. Even atheists have their own beliefs/values that they apply in voting & hence, in law. I think that people's beliefs/values influence their worldview, which in turn, influences their politics. I also don't believe that just because something is religious in origin that that necessarily discounts it as having any value politically. Is it logical & tenable? I think that all too often, people nowadays will discount anything even remotely sounding religious in politics because it sends up red flags -- it's something to be distrusted -- like automatically it's biased in some way. The same can also be said of politics pushed forth of a nontheistic nature. It is in fact value-laden, albeit with values contrary to a believer's. From my point of view, it's not neutral in the least, nor is there a self-evident ethic in the absence of God. Even atheists have varying views on ethics...

I believe that man is fallen. Whether in a theistic framework or even a nontheistic one, man has over time committed atrocities. One will accuse religion for such actions, but to do so is to ignore atrocities committed in the absence of religion as well--even now. Neither one is faultless in that regard.

east coast with ya buddy, dont believe never have, and i hate all things associated with churches, religion etc. religions are just cults that spread around the world. what evidence is there that there is a "God" or anything as such? none. not one piece of solid evidence. however, look at the evidence on the side of evolution, and the big bang. there is actual evidence. look it up. the universe is expanding, FACT!! it was once much smaller, FACT. hell, the fact that our earth is a sphere eliminates the possibility of God. that and oh, everything else that if you actually thought about for more than 2 minutes as how it really came to be. im done.

If someone tries to tell my child that he deserves eternal torment and will go there forever if he doesn't believe in their god, we've got a problem. If a law is passed stating that no one can blaspheme against the Muslim god, we've got a problem. If I get fired from work for not believing in god, we've got a problem.

I could do this all day, but the truth is you really don't get it. Maybe if some Muslims started trying to make your child pray to Allah at school, you might get it then. Or if they made a law stating acceptable reasons for your Muslim son-in-law to beat your daughter, maybe then you would care. Or not....

East coast Atheist,

It doesn't matter that people believe in God. What matters is that a small portion believe they are infallible because of it and will kill because of it.

If we eliminated belief in God the same people would still find ways of believing they are infallible and kill because of it. So believe in God and worship how you want as long as you don't harm others Physically or Mentally.

>>Atheist why does it mater if people believe in God?

It wouldn't matter, if they could keep their beliefs to themselves. But some people can't, and want to use my tax dollars to turn my country into a theocracy. I won't stand for that.

I'm right here in the middle of the Midwest.

It's not the belief that's the problem - it's how the believers act on those beliefs. Like how they send soldiers to war because "god told them to", like how they kill gay people because their god "hates f*ags", like how they want to change the laws and constitution of the US government to reflect only THEIR beliefs, like how they want to restrict what books are in my child's public school library, like how they want to re-institute prayer to only THEIR god in my child's public school, like how they want to determine the fate of my pregnancy. The list goes on and on.

Again, their belief is not the problem. They can believe any doggone thing they want. It's how they act on those beliefs that is the problem.

I am in Tennessee, and I am an atheist...

It matters because people make laws based on their religious views.

Like here in Tennessee were atheists can not run for public office.

So religious bias that make it to laws do bother me, and rightfully so.

Religiosity promotes self righteousness, which often leads to intolerance, hatred, and justified violence/murders. Not to mention, yes, LOTS of religious based political movements that are so grossly unfair.

You can believe what you want but keep your beliefs for yourself. Then, we shall live and let live.

needless to say the source of morality ought to be something that the two Christians and atheists share (alongside with human beings of all different religions, because of the fact that morality is got here across around the board in equivalent measures.) What do all of us share different than our identity as human beings? So our morality ought to have come from despite made us human. in case you believe in evolution, as I do, then there is your answer. We progressed a feeling of morality, and you do not evolve a trait except it helps you reside to tell the story in some way. back whilst organic determination grew to become into nonetheless effecting our species, those human beings with morality - with a stable experience of community and a desire to look after one yet another - survived greater effective than people who had no morality. As for who's born waiting to believe what, i think of that we are all born atheists, and that we are taught to believe what our mom and dad believe. The "god field" in our recommendations, that section that provides into superstition and ascribes which potential to accident, is actual formed early on, and as with maximum of our discovered behaviors, it sticks with us for the time of existence except we actively artwork to alter it. quite than being born without an potential to believe, i think of that atheists are born with a much better potential to alter their very own brains. a more desirable experience of positive judgment. a much better reverence for that that's shown as a substitute of that that's in basic terms obtained by potential of meme. i think of it is obtrusive from the variety of atheists who have been as quickly as very religious that we are all born with the potential to believe - that, too, is a smart evolutionary trait (as defined in the God delusion). yet what share human beings are born with the potential to alter our minds in the internal maximum and maximum primal places? nicely, curiously around 10% human beings.