POLL: Athiests GOD is nothing? Correct?

Since "God" doesn't exist, how then can we consider him "nothing" To do so would imply that there was something there in the first place.

Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods. It's simple enough to understand if you look at other words: apath, without feeling.

The 'a' before 'theism' denotes the lacking.

There are atheists who do hold a belief that a god or gods do not exist, though. But there are also atheists who believe in afterlives or are members of religions, like Confucianism.

This is why it is not a good idea to attempt to make blanket statements about atheists... because it's impossible. There are religious atheists, conservative atheists, etc. The only thing that atheists absolutely do have in common is that they lack a belief in a god or gods.

To say that 'God' is replaced by 'nothing' in some sort of... atheist dogma is a fallacious argument.

Nihilists, though... well... you'd have to take it up with them.

Atheists conclude that there are no gods, based on the evidence. Gods are not nothing; they simply don't exist.

Atheism is thus a conclusion. There is no atheist fundamentalism. It's a straw man.

There's no reliable evidence for Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Thor, or any of the thousands of other gods that people have worshipped. There's also extensive evidence that they are all just myths. Science has shown that there's no need for gods to explain the traditional reasons for a god -- origin of the universe, origin of life, origin of species, origin of humans, origin of morality. Science also shows us the psychological reasons that people believe in god(s).

If a god like Yahweh or Allah existed there would be explicit evidence. No such evidence exists, therefore these gods do not exist.

No...that's not it...

The Truth is...

None of us even knows or ever have or ever will know the exact details of life's origins. The entire surface of this planet has essentially been wiped out several times over billions of years, and it might as well be a new planet every billion years or so...

Religion (God, etc) is a wild guess, and it's a pretty far-fetched one in this Modern Scientific Age of Reason and high technology.

With our Modern Day flying technology, "we" would've been considered God(s) by our Bronze Age Religious-oriented Middle Eastern Brethren, who hadn't a clue about the planet they lived on.

Everything probably seemed pretty "spooky & spiritual" to them, so God seemed like a reasonable explanation, but...

We know better than that now days.

It's not gods or spirits or any invisible being at all...

It's called...

"Natural Planetary Phenomena..."

And we discovered the "secret of life," and it's a complex clever little molecule called "DNA," and...

We believe what we've found out about the reality of existence, that invisible beings are mythological and fable-istic supersititious fictions, not actual beings, and...

Incorrect, and a pathetic attempt at logic. In WHAT "end" is there nothing? Atheists do not believe IN nothing, they just do NOT believe in "God". By not existing, "God" is not a subject for belief.

>Athiests GOD is nothing? Correct?

That's misleading at best, and outright wrong at worst. Atheism does not assign attributes to God; it is merely the rejection that God actually exists in reality.

>Is that belief in "nothing" a form of "God" for a logical Atheist?

Absolutely not.

Why is it SO hard for you folks to understand that atheism HAS NO BELIEFS OF ANY KIND?

Really, it's not that difficult a concept. Seriously, try thinking about it for just a moment, ok?

Atheists have no belief in gods.

Does that mean they believe in evolution? No.

Does that mean they believe there is no god? No.

Does that mean they believe in the end there is nothing? No.

Does that mean they believe in the FSM? No.

Does that mean they believe in "nothing?" No.

It means they have no belief in gods. It doesn't mean anything else.

Here, one more time: atheists have no belief in gods. That does not mean they believe god is nothing, it doesn't mean they believe in the end there is nothing, it doesn't mean the nothing they don't believe in is a form of a "god." There is NO BELIEF IN ATHEISM.

Got it? Good.

Rant off.

Peace.

God is nothing? Nothing in the sense he doesn't exist yes. Nothing in the sense that god is made from nothing No, Atheists don't HAVE a god, nor do we believe in one, worship one etc etc. Saying he is made from nothing still implies he exists, A christian could believe that God is nothing - they aren't an atheist are they? that would be their own opinion on what they think God is like.

So Incorrect

God doesn't exist, it's a foolish concept.

As to god being nothing, well by the fact that we're discussing the idea of god then that makes it something, like the unicorn or spiderman.

It's an idea which is something, but only an idea; not an omnipotent being.

Are you trying to say that atheism reflects religion in that believing that there is no afterlife, one reaches the same sort of faith by claiming that (God or nothing) comes after death? It doesn't quite work that way, since there isn't any evidence to support life after death, while there is evidence to support that consciousness ends with brain death.

God functions well as an abstract concept.