Atheists: Do you have issues with this... Love, Actions, Beliefs?

I like those thoughts. We don't hear many similar statements on this forum. We hear everything from you're going to hell if you don't believe, to an attitude of gloating that we won't be in Heaven.

"Actions done without love are done for the wrong reason"

I disagree with this point. Unless we are going to abstract 'love' to an absurd degree, then love is not the only right motivator for an action. Other right motivators might be justice, duty, honor, desire, etc. Of course, one could make the argument, "then take those actions out of love of justice" (or other motivator) but then love becomes meaningless and irrelevant because you've made it the basis of everything -- and anything which is the basis of everything is worthless since it is no longer distinguishable.

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A big ditto to what "ask a mexican" said.

Yeaaah man... I was raised catholic... I'll admit that religion did shape who I am... But I also feel like it is unnecessary at the same time. I've now realized that I don't need a religion, or indeed a god, to be a happy, moral, person...

There is nothing wrong with having beliefs... I just don't think its necessary to worship a belief...

of course our beleifs and thought sinfluence our actions, and our lives

i beleive in a spiritual side to life

i find that whatever the bible or catholic church claims, they never follow through by actions, so its irrelveant

i dont agree with religious 'teachings, i agree with philosiphy, but organise that philosiphy, and you get religon, which ruins the very idea of what philosiphy is, ideas and thoughts, not facts and answers

I have an issue with you stating that thought = faith. I agree that THOUGHT is necessary, if you're wording it like that, but I don't think FAITH is necessary.

If you change it to "we should have all 3, thought, love and actions" then I can agree with that. But to me, faith is not necessary to express the other two.

Congratulations, you just used about 250 words to say nothing substantive whatsoever.

We have thoughts, yes.

We take actions, yes.

We have emotions, yes.

There are frequently interactions between these three things.

None of this says anything about whether or not a god exists, which is the only position of an atheist that is significant.

So, believing in God can make people do good things and feel happy?

Indeed.

Doesn't make it true, though. And that people like you need to believe in a fairytale in order to feel motivated to do nice things is sad in the extreme.

there is no difference between "thought" and "spiritual thought"--spiritual thought is simply the way some people reconcile what they don't understand with the reality of their world.

Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaahhh Man!. ..................................

no im saved...JESUS LOVE S US ALL.