Atheists, where does your desire, motivation, your urge to tell everyone about your belief there is no God?

Care to finish that thought? That's kind of an incomplete sentence.

Fist - mormons, muslims and JWs have a false god - now - Does God exist?

• Everything which has a beginning has a cause.

• The universe has a beginning.

• Therefore the universe has a cause.

The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning, as will be shown below. God, unlike the universe, had no beginning, so does not need a cause. In addition, Einstein's general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space at the beginning of the universe. Since God, by definition, is the creator of the whole universe, He is the creator of time. Therefore He is not limited by the time dimension He created, so He has no beginning in time.

Therefore He does not have, or need to have, a cause.

In contrast, there is good evidence that the universe had a beginning. This can be shown from the Laws of Thermodynamics, the most fundamental laws of the physical sciences.

1st Law: The total amount of mass-energy in the universe is constant.

2nd Law: The amount of energy in the universe available for work is running down, or entropy is increasing to a maximum.

If the total amount of mass-energy is limited, and the amount of usable energy is decreasing, then the universe cannot have existed forever, otherwise it would already have exhausted all usable energy and reached what is known as 'heat death'. For example, all radioactive atoms would have decayed, every part of the universe would be the same temperature, and no further work would be possible. So the best solution is that the universe must have been created with a lot of usable energy, and is now running down.

Now, what if the questioner accepts that the universe had a beginning, but not that it needs a cause? But it is self-evident that things that begin have a cause — no one really denies it in their heart. All science, history and law enforcement would collapse if this law of cause and effect were denied. Also, the universe cannot be self-caused — nothing can create itself, because it would need to exist before it came into existence, a logical absurdity.

Now all atheists here have no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:

“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.

You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “

Col 2:9 (NIV)

I find this to be an interesting question because many Christian groups make it their life's mission to tell everyone that there IS a God. How often I have opened my door to find someone standing there smiling and excitedly asking me if I have heard the "good news".

I once joked to a friend of mine that maybe atheists should do the same thing and go door to door and ask people if they have heard the "bad news".

However, I agree with you that no one ought to force their beliefs on anyone else. And there are what I call "born again" atheists who feel the need to stomp on everyone's beliefs.

Belief in God can often be physically and emotionally healthy, so even if a person IS an atheist, they ought to respect someone else's desire to believe. And if someone is religious, they ought to respect someone else's desire not to believe.

I wonder, percentage-wise, whether more atheists try to spread their beliefs or more believers try to spread THEIR beliefs?

My desire is to seek the ACTUAL truth, not simply believe something because of a lack of full knowledge on a subject. My motivation, is my desire to seek the ACTUAL truth. My urge to tell everyone my belief there is no God? When someone claims there is a "God" without providing physical evidence, I feel the urge to demand why? Why must I believe what you say, when you don't have a 100% sure way of knowing yourself.

Where does you desire, motivation and urge come from to generalize atheists when we are all different? I don't go boasting my religion but when you ask these questions, I get the feeling you do.

Not all of us are like that and for those that do, they have justified reasons for doing so as religion contributes (Not necessarily the cause) to the spread of ignorance, bigotry, wishful thinking, self-righteous, indoctrination and a suppression on creative thinking, personality and one's judgmental abilities without the need for having a 200 yrs old book tell us what is right and wrong

you are assuming a stereotype of a group of people having only listened to the loudest people shouting at you, while most only wait until ask, atheists aren't a people, we are people who are atheist, in the same way that if you took a red neck (not wishing to be offensive)

preaching catholic and put them in a room with a roman catholic vicar, they are utterly different.

everyone believes in gravity, but everybody is completely different, the same is for any other group of people, thus this question is based and better asked of, the loud people who wish to convert people from their faiths, while most atheists aren't entirely convinced and do not really care if a person is religious, i approve of religions as they can bring people great joy and happiness, but some just aren't convinced enough to join them.

I don't believe in God because I rather live a simple and carefree life. To me, money is God. He who holds the dollars is King.

Does that question really make grammatical sense?

But guessing you question, the answerer would be that we try to get people to realize that religion is baseless mythology due to the fact that religionists harm our way of life and our life itself by trying to get their "sky daddy's" wishes integrated into everyday living and law (eg.: 9/11, laws against minorities, laws against blasphemy or abortion laws)

Stupidity requires swift, deadly blows of logic. As long as evolution is regarded as a lie, I'll debate.