A question for atheists, agnostic people, and those who do not practice any religion.?

1- What is YOUR religion? Since I don't know if you are also and Eclectic Pagan.
2- Who the F*CK is CHRIS?
3- 'This is a question to me, Who do you have to help you?' Uh.... Well, if you tell me your religion I may be able to identify your prophet!
4- On the corner of Broadway and Evergreen, if you step off it you are out of the area to know if there is a 'God'.
5- I perceive all the universes and everyone and everything in it to be 'God', ergo, 'God' is not some big powerful guy they made everything, it IS everything!
6- I practice religion, I'm an Eclectic, mine includes Asatru, Vedanta, the ancient mystic religions, Ceremonial Magics (mostly Crowley), I'm open to Shamanism, but don't see it as necessary, and more. Basically I leave out Wicca, middle/south African and east Asian. (FYI, Pagans and Satanists among others CAN be atheists.)

The Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is the one true god after all.

"Could you give me an example to prove that there is no God?"

The burden of proof is not on us. We wouldn't ask you to prove Harry potter isn't real.

I was religious from childhood, and have always been interested in religions, mythology and science; I was a devout, practising Catholic; I read the Bible, both Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, several times; and was taught about it in school.

After studying and thinking deeply about faith, I realised in mid-teenage that faith was based upon nothing but itself, that science explained nature satisfactorily without needing supernatural beings, and that religious beliefs were no different to those of ancient beliefs in gods and goddesses.

When I first had doubts about my faith I thought that maybe this was a test of it, which was an idea planted in my mind by those teaching us about our faith. So I made the effort to accept it even more so. But the doubts came again, and I wondered what would happen if we took faith out of the equation; the world and nature still made sense, so I saw no reason to get back into it. And my understanding is that there's no theoretical or mathematical need for a god or gods, and there's no valid evidence of it or them; so there's no reason to believe. At the time this was difficult intellectually and emotionally (I was a teenager, after all).

That was over 45 years ago, and my escape from faith has freed me to embrace what science has to offer, which I consider far more plausible than belief in the supernatural, and is the nearest we can get to the truth about how nature and the universe work. I've felt a sense of freedom ever since, and am happy and at peace with this. And I've found the humility to admit that I don't know everything, rather than masking this by invoking a deity.

I still have an interest in religions, mythology, folklore and related matters, and am fascinated that people still believe in things that to me are clearly just not true.

Life's an emergent property of the way natural components have interacted and come together. I don't think it's anything separate, and it doesn't carry on after death. Personality doesn't survive death; it is a function of the body; the mythical concept of the soul seems to have come from ancient Greek religion. In fact, personality doesn't even always last while the body lives. We will return to the way we were before we were conceived. And the molecules that made up our bodies will be recycled by nature. If we have children, then our genes persist in later generations. People we leave behind will be left with memories, emphasising the happy ones hopefully, once they have come through the grieving process. I've accepted that things are the way they are, and have come to terms with the reality of this quite some time ago. And I'm happy and at peace with that. Heaven and Hell, and other lands of the dead, are mythical places. So we can take comfort from knowing that we don't risk eternal torment.

Most, if not all, of us have the resources within our brains to cope with problems, and hope is the behaviour that drives us to work towards a good result, though not of course a guarantee; we evolved that way, and that's where encouragement, confidence, happiness and hope come from. And this applies to the grieving process, as well as the mutual support and sympathy of relatives and friends. Some project these resources onto a mythical deity or spirit; but it's us that are doing the coping really, not any outside agency.

There's zero evidence that ANY God exists. And your argument is basically just Pascal's Wager (ie it's better to believe so you can be saved!)

At least speak in coherent sentences. What are you waiting for?

I have a question for you in my answer to your question. You obviously have been trained to believe in Jesus and taught that the god of the Judeans I s the father of Jesus. So you were told to believe this and that is how and why you now believe in a god in the sky. So, let me see, your evidence of that god is nothing more than what you have been trained to believe and all that you have for proof of that god is a book that was written by some of the biggest crooks man has ever encountered. Simple research proves that Jesus was not real but just a man invented composite character for which to make fools out of persons who are weak enough in mind to chose to live in ignorance allowing their lives to be guided by nothing more than a fictional story about an invented character. Well somebody did a major number on your brain.

The burden of proof is on the theists and not the atheists because anybody who is making an extraordinary claim must provide evidence of this claim. Therefore it is logical to conclude that since there is absolutely no proof to the existence of a deity then he must not exist. For me lack of evidence=lack of belief.

Let me turn the question around to you - why don't you belief in Apollo or Zeus or Scientology?

For the same reason, I suspect, that I don't believe in Christianity. I do not think that Christians (or any theist) has made a rational and reasonable case that their god exists. That doesn't mean that there is no god. It just means that there is no reason to believe in Apollo, Zeus or the god of the bible.

Academia states that in the absence of any sort of evidence of the existence of something it must be deemed not to exist until verifiable evidence is found - thus god is held not to exist pending some sort of verifiable evidence.

The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!

Ain't happened yet and it never will!

Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!

Josephus AD 37 – AD 100
Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120
Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD
Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD
Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD
Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.
Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD
Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD
Photius AD 877 – 886 AD

Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.

Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!

Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.