20 Quotes by Atheists That Will Change How You Think..

[@Bspencebob]

"Any claim made without evidence should be dismissed, without evidence". - Hitchens

[@55Quirll]

Extraordinary Claims require Extraordinary Evidence

[@michaelmckinney7240]

@@55Quirll If you or Carl Sagan, (the originator of the quote you cite) haven't noticed the universe is an extraordinary result and so by your logic an extraordinary result "must" have an extraordinary cause, that is unless you believe the universe is not extraordinary.

[@Technoblade_never_dies_1]

But, do we have evidence to prove the non-existence of God?

[@michaelmckinney7240]

@Technoblade_never_dies_1 There is no compelling evidence for the nonexistence of God.

[@Bspencebob]

@Technoblade_never_dies_1 It's difficult to disprove a negative in the natural world. It's currently impossible to disprove a supernatural negative because there is no way to test a supernatural dimension. I can't disprove tooth fairies or leprocons. Atheism is and has never been the claim that gods can't exist. The burden of proof lies with the god claim.

[@Waitaminit-wo5er]

All of these are priceless gems of truth and should be read and digested by everyone! Religion: "It's all bullshit folks. It's bullshit and it's bad for ya." - George Carlin

[@jon__doe]

Those "gems" are cheap glass. These don't even enter the arena of serious dialogue; it's nothing but rhetoric appealing to emotion.

[@Waitaminit-wo5er]

@@jon__doe You're confusing reason with religion. It's religion that conforms to your last sentence.

[@jon__doe]

@@Waitaminit-wo5er What makes you think atheism is so different from religion?

[@Waitaminit-wo5er]

@@jon__doe There are no similarities at all. Atheism promotes nothing and makes no claims. Atheism is simply theism's failure to provide evidence to support its claims. Atheism is simply a stance that states a disbelief in god(s) because there is no evidence whatsoever supporting their existence.

[@jon__doe]

@@Waitaminit-wo5er That is not the definition of the word. Atheist means not god. Not only not god, but the very idea of god. Language allows these words to invert to say god not. It means the same thing and is a claim against the existence of God. Since atheism is logically untenable (it can never be logically proven), it can only be held as a matter of belief. God is a proposition. You can reply God (positive/theist), or not God (a (not) theist). Or you can shrug and say dunno. Agnostic taking no position. Why you take a position is irrelevant. ("disbelief" isn't the word they use. The phrase now is "lacking" belief. Disbelief is a positive unbelief, a mental rejection of a statement or assertion. Words mean things.)

[@somersetcace1]

"Atheism is not a philosophy; It is not even a view of the world. It's simply a refusal to deny the obvious." by Harris is probably my favorite in the list, at least in the moment. The incessant attempts by apologists to strawman atheism into some worldview for them to bash on is getting old.

[@Julio_Siqueira]

Harris is the genocidal maniac, right? And you hand in love with him. 🤦

[@kenzo4Ever]

@@somersetcace1 what obvious !?

[@brentahre9693]

@@somersetcace1 Then, atheism says nothing objective. It’s a statement about your feelings.

[@somersetcace1]

@@brentahre9693 Yep, pretty much. That's why it's not a world view. It's a reaction to a concept. I believe the reason for the confusion is because those who DO believe, see it as `far` more than just an unsubstantiated concept. To them it IS their worldview so the idea of someone not believing it is difficult to comprehend. It's `the` most important part of their lives, so it seems intuitive that it would be the most important thing in anyone's life, whether they ultimately believe it or not and that's just not reality.

[@brentahre9693]

@@somersetcace1 So, atheism says nothing about objective reality. It’s a subjective experience and existentialism. Got it.

[@quakers200]

Not a single atom of the child I was exists within me today. Even memories fade and are soon gone. Even the stars, the universe will end. So many forms yet to be born, to know what it is to be alive. The illusion of me will be born again and again.

[@brentahre9693]

@@quakers200 Presupposition, without evidence.☝️

[@royleon3525]

We should all know the vastness of the Universe by now. Earth is no more than a grain of sand in the Sahara in a nuclear explosion. After this, the great Creator decided to descend on a grain of sand, create Mountains and Seas, Flowers and Trees, Birds and Bees. Oh and Gigantic Lizards. Then some 60 million years later he became lonely and decided to make MAN in his own images who would worship him and adore him for eternity. Do we need more proof that this story is MAN MADE?

[@rudysimoens570]

Indeed, the doctrine is utter nonsense!

[@jon__doe]

Who told you that story? It's not representative of Christianity anyway. And I'm not referring to the 60M years.

[@brentahre9693]

Man made gods, aren’t god.

[@weareleeds987]

@@brentahre9693 So - of ALL the gods that have ever existed, they are NOT gods. Except for the one that YOU believe in. Aren't you lucky.

[@brentahre9693]

@ Man made gods cannot be god.

[@jayantasen2406]

The quote by Epicurs was the one that taught me as an young adult years ago to look at the idea of organized religion from a different perspective. He wasn't years or decades but centuries ahead of his contemporaries in this regard.

[@crashoppe]

i studied philosophy for a great many years and still do. its not Gods job to intervene, its our job to do the right thing. we will never do wrong when the police are watching. if God stays invisible we realize his judgement is accurate. perhaps God is not willing because we are capable. for a child must learn to walk on his own. if we choose evil, well,,, thats where evil comes from

[@jayantasen2406]

@crashoppe but if all evil stems from our choices, wouldn’t that mean all good have the same root as well? Then what would the role of God be in that scenario, a harsh judge?

[@XB10001]

Everything should study philosophy. It opens your mind to life.

[@crashoppe]

@@jayantasen2406 perhaps good and evil were created by God and the choice is mans. my parents were very harsh on me when i was messing up the program. it taught me very valuable lessons that helped carve out a very good life for myself. my cousin and a neighbor kid got to run wild never getting punished, always had excuses that justified their actions in their parents eyes and always put the blame on something/someone else. they are both carrier convicts. i like the idea of a harsh judge when i'm bad and a loving judge when i'm good. there are countries that cut fingers off when you steal. sooner or later you wont have any fingers to steal. it lets people understand stealing is not good for society and people dont steal. other countries are very harsh on drugs and other crimes and it keeps chaos at bay. one of my cars got stolen and they totally wreaked it. they didnt even do any jail time. my life got messed up, their life stayed exactly the same. is that harsh?

[@pathfinder1273]

@@jayantasen2406 Do you agree that the point of an education is to develop the intelligent capacity that we all possess? So if it is all about our intelligence, what would be the role of the teacher, simply someone who passes us or fails us? The fault of HUMANITY was to misunderstand that "sin" and "evil" were an arbitrary set of rules. In fact they are precisely whatever impedes us in our spiritual and societal development. Therefore, there is no need of punishment or hell. The cost of making the wrong choice is simply the loss of opportunity for growth and development.

[@gwwayner]

I like Bill Maher's quote 'Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position!'

[@brentahre9693]

Then, atheism is reduced to a statement about your feelings and not reality.

[@gwwayner]

@@brentahre9693 Your statement is just as nonsensical as religion.

[@milansvancara]

@@brentahre9693 Can you please clarify your genius thinking process of coming up to this from the original comment?:) Liking something isn't a statement about reality other than the reality of him liking something. I like both Gandalf character in LOTR, and I also like candies. Gandalf is a fiction and candies are reality. Facepalm

[@brentahre9693]

@@milansvancara Atheism, by definition, makes no claim about objective reality. It’s a statement about subjective feelings. Feelings are not testable objectively. That’s what “lack of belief” is.

[@jon__doe]

@@brentahre9693 I think you're on to something but disagree on the definition of atheism. It is a fact claim that God doesn't exist, but that definition does seem to hurt some feelings.

[@Krutchly]

Definition of faith: a strong belief that something is real even though there is no credible evidence to support it. Which, coincidently, is the same definition of delusion.

[@jon__doe]

You need a new dictionary. noun Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony. Similar: belief The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth. Please note "on probable evidence of any kind". Cherry picking definitions is nothing more than confirmation bias. It's weak.

[@brentahre9693]

@@Krutchly Atheist don’t know the definition of faith.☝️

[@Krutchly]

@@brentahre9693 Theist unfamiliar with a dictionary.

[@brentahre9693]

@@Krutchly I’m very familiar with the dictionary. Faith is based on the preponderance of the evidence, when the evidence doesn’t rise to 100% certainty. Everyone, including atheists, make faith decisions.

[@VisshanVis]

@@brentahre9693 Evidence deals in facts, facts don't care about your feelings.

[@ianmelville-m1y]

I would “if God created man in his own image, then man has certainly repaid the compliment” Jean Jacques Rousseau

[@ianmelville-m1y]

And also add “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” Dawkins I think.

[@steved5960]

It’s like a mix of logical fallacies and philosophical blunders. Love it 😅.

[@AustinKalbfleisch]

The Bible! Greatest book of fiction ever written.

[@SivaNesh218]

Read Mahabharata, Ramayana , puranas , moron.

[@mr.d.8121]

Worse book of all.

[@SivaNesh218]

I wonder which 💩 removed my comment! Western 💩 don't know anything about Hindusim 🐄💩

[@rajiv-1801]

Liked George Carlan most.

[@ianmelville-m1y]

I personally am agnostic. I don’t, and can’t pretend to, believe what other people seem so sure of.

[@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921]

This will help you: Please watch and share with others my five brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!

[@tkyap2524]

Convincing quotes but life without a religion isn't any better. Live and let live and there will be peace.

[@maskofsorrow]

Psalm 14:1 "The Fool has said in his heart, there is no God!"

[@waxworse]

We'll all find out when we die 🙂👍

[@namenlos2578]

wrong! Nobody will find out when they die, if there is no God and no soul: very simple!

[@anthonymorris5084]

"Man created God in his own image". Not sure where this quote comes from.

[@brentahre9693]

Man made gods aren’t god.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@brentahre9693 No kidding. They're all invented. Humans have a propensity to invent them. Characterizing and molding them in a way they see fit.

[@brentahre9693]

@@anthonymorris5084 You’re assuming god is created.

[@brentahre9693]

@ Only things with a beginning are created.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@brentahre9693 I'm not assuming anything. I'm blatantly stating that humans invent Gods.

[@StamfordBridge]

Not all those quotations are atheistic, btw.

[@TommySuffocation]

I love it THX. Atheists are normal humans.

[@anthonymorris5084]

One on my favorites and I'm paraphrasing - Faith is an excuse to validate irrationality.

[@jon__doe]

Without faith you cannot function. You must have faith in your being. You must have faith in your senses. At some point you will have faith in others. Faith is not belief, it is belief in action.

[@jon__doe]

@@anthonymorris5084 Faith means faith. It's naturalism vs dualism. The most fundamental ontological question which affects everything we believe about reality. You can only choose between the two on bias, which is belief. Faith is making decisions on that belief. Refute this with logic, not rhetoric. If you can.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@jon__doe Nope. Truth is not subjective. I can have faith that the sun is going to rise tomorrow because of historical and scientific evidence. I can have faith in my partner, because of their historical and present behavior. I cannot have faith in the existence of unicorns, or claim I have faith that monkeys live on the moon. Faith in God has no evidentiary plausibility.

[@jon__doe]

@@anthonymorris5084 None of that was a logical refutation. I agree truth is objective. I disagree on evidence. God has been faithful to me, that's evidence. God's existence is consistent with the world I see, that's evidence. God is a better explanation for life than random natural events, that's evidence. There is no argument against the plausibility of God. Don't conflate evidence with proof and don't confuse faith with belief. They are related but different.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@jon__doe So you can obviously see merit in someone's faith that unicorns exist. *"God has been faithful to me, that's evidence."* And you claim *my* argument had no logical refutation? There is no evidence that this God exists, so what evidence do you have that this God has been "faithful" to you, whatever that means? I don't think you understand what the term evidence means. You have abandoned critical thinking for wishful thinking. *"God's existence is consistent with the world I see, that's evidence."* In what manner is God and the world consistent? You understand your God is a mass murderer right? The world, and nature itself is incredibly dangerous. Nature will kill you at any given opportunity. Humans have made it more livable with each passing decade. The world is filled with an immense juxtaposition and contradiction from a beautiful flower to a nuclear explosion. It's filled with both loving and evil people. The animal kingdom which apparently your God created is the epitome of violence and suffering. Every animal whether prey or predator leads a life of abject suffering and dies a horrible death. *"God is a better explanation for life than random natural events, that's evidence."* The fact that you don't understand the science is not evidence that the science isn't correct. The concept of "Well it can't be this, so therefore God". Is not logical, rational or a demonstration of evidence. Throwing your hands in the air and claiming, "Gosh, it must be a God because what else" is not evidence.

[@atheistcomments]

All gods imaginable exist only as imaginary characters. - Atheist Comments

[@jon__doe]

Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. Cause and effect. There is much effect credited to God as the cause. If there is no cause, why so much effect? And my favorite: Lack of belief is belief in lack.

[@atheistcomments]

@jon__doe Christians don't like hearing that their god is only imaginary even though they reveal that their belief is really based in fantasy make-believe. Evidence? You are forgetting that Christians make demonstrable claims. I don't let you guys forget the claims already made.

[@Lechevalierdionisiaque]

Voltairw wasn't an atheist

[@lewiscoacher7781]

Camus anticipating his own disappointment at finding no God after death, presupposes non-existence as a contemplative condition. I'm sure he only meant that his non-existent self would "be" disappointed if he existed post-mortem, which he firmly believed he didn't do.

[@buffstraw2969]

Buddha was an atheist. 2,500 years ago, before it was trendy. Why no Buddha quotes?

[@riesjart1000]

Buddhists believe in reincarnation and that you will be punished in your next life for the things you did wrong in this life. In that sense, Buddhists believe in hell and heaven.

[@Wilson-Jr]

Albert Camus' quote is superb!

[@Eric69587]

As long as you believe in chemical evolution, you don't need all these quotes.

[@jon__doe]

The question is why should you believe chemical evolution? There is no science that makes it plausible. At least you recognize it's a belief.

[@mr.d.8121]

​@@jon__doeevolution is a fact.

[@vladtheemailer3223]

​@jon__doe Ignorance is not equal to science. If it happened, then it is reality. You religious beliefs mean nothing.

[@vladtheemailer3223]

Either God is real or he is not. Beliefs are meaningless.

[@shilasarkar6003]

Yup ​@@jon__doe That's why this theory has remained unbeaten for over a century 😂

[@SeanDavis-l2d]

Finally my feed isn’t religious folks believing in BS.

[@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921]

Please watch and share with others my five brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!

[@SeanDavis-l2d]

@ no thanks. Go away troll

[@namenlos2578]

@@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 like the World having been created in 7 days, the Earth before the Sun, the light before the sun, etc etc! Real Science indeed!

[@mexicanopolis9390]

"Thanks to God I am an atheist" Luis Buñuel

[@XB10001]

Many confuse theism with religion.

[@crashoppe]

it seems to me they share the same definition in ways

[@vladtheemailer3223]

Can you demonstrate that a God exists?

[@XB10001]

@@crashoppe No. Speaking against religion is different from speaking against the existence of God. See Carl Sagan's comment, for example. Contrast that with the comment about the Bible.

[@XB10001]

@@vladtheemailer3223 Of course not. That's not my point, though.

[@crashoppe]

@@XB10001 religion noun 1. the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods

[@riesjart1000]

Something that isn't there, doesn't exist.

[@שאולנקר]

GREAT QUOTES! THANKS

[@alanrobeson]

All of these quotes seem to an attack on organized religion more than ‘god.’

[@AustinKalbfleisch]

Question? What did the lions and tigers eat for 40 days and 40 nights on the ark?

[@weareleeds987]

In their natural habitat, lions will eat what they want and what they can kill. Always have and always will - as that is the way they have survived, flourished and evolved for millenia. A lot of people have been told they were designed and built by a very nice man who lives in the sky - yet MOST animals on this planet can not survive UNLESS they kill other animals. So the man is either a sadistic monster or a figment of peoples immagination - you choose.

[@Bspencebob]

What did T-rex eat?

[@anthonymorris5084]

In an episode of the show "Big Bang" this question was answered like this - they were fed the bodies of floating sinners. LOL. (Paraphrasing)

[@namenlos2578]

@@Bspencebob The T-rex was not hosted in the ark. Why? Simple: those who inveted the story of the ark did not even know T-rex had existed.

[@brentahre9693]

All vegetarian before the flood. Do some homework.

[@jenniferwells9032]

Good one👍

[@Atheismwithshayari]

Thanks ✌️

[@jackfarrell4727]

It will take an open mind to navigate the next path.

[@brentahre9693]

@@jackfarrell4727 Even science is an appeal to god.

[@kennethschaidle5995]

What is the worst thing about being an atheist? I am never going to know for sure that I am correct!

[@Atheismwithshayari]

Same goes for theists

[@jon__doe]

@@Atheismwithshayari The worst thing for a theist is picking the wrong god. The god of this world is the enemy. 😳

[@kennethschaidle5995]

@@Atheismwithshayari [f theists are right they will know. if they are wrong then they won't know

[@pwalk4160]

I always find Nietzsche's mustache to be quite disturbing. Never mind his philosophy 😂

[@kevinholling9645]

We have heard it all before, nothing new.

[@philipbuckley759]

it should be interesting, in the next world, to see what really motivated most atheists....

[@hammalammadingdong6244]

What "next world" would that be, then?

[@sheole5165]

This battle between atheists and believers will not end for the foreseeable future. Each side is flashed by the arguments of its own side and bored by the arguments of the other side. This is not to say that atheism and faith are on the same cognitive level, which Harris, in particular, does a great job of highlighting. It's just that being on the side of the knowledgeable is of no use beyond self-assurance. Apart from all this, both atheism and faith exceed the limits of what can be known according to current data. Atheism, however, only does so if it is prepared to say that a god or deities do not exist. It cannot know this, it can only make it plausible. The rest is up to the maturity of the individual, whether they are satisfied with plausibility or not. If atheists want to know about the (non-)existence of deities, they are no further along than believers.

[@jon__doe]

You are under the delusion that there is no faith required for atheism. Atheism is a fact claim. You rightly pointed out that such a fact cannot be known, so why make it? It's fundamentally a belief in ontological naturalism. The metaphysical philosophy that all reality is energy and matter. Particularly as we understand them. That's not science, it's faith.

[@StamfordBridge]

I’m no expert on atheism, but I’ve heard prominent atheists assert many times that atheism does not insist there is no God; rather it is the refusal to believe in God given the lack of evidence.

[@jon__doe]

@StamfordBridge yet that's not what the word means. There is no distinction between not believe and believe not.

[@StamfordBridge]

@@jon__doe Many words represent movements or belief systems with meanings beyond literal linguistic denotations. In many cases, I’ve seen people refuse to even consider meaning beyond what they imagine the word itself conveys (like anti-feminists insisting “feminism” is about women being superior, “cause, you know, it’s in the word and everything” - an inane straw-man attempt to knock down something one refuses to understand). All that said, when I’ve heard atheists define the term “atheism” in the vein I’ve reported, for me it sometimes blurs the line between atheism and agnosticism.

[@sheole5165]

@@StamfordBridge This is the content of "Atheism, however, only does so if it is prepared to say that a god or deities do not exist."

[@davidjenkins5962]

Your value as an existing being is in no way provable. When you protest the mistreatment of yourself or others you are protesting the mistreatment of something with zero provable value, which means you are protesting based on faith.

[@jon__doe]

True.

[@DarkAdonisVyers]

My survival instinct is value enough. Some even include their conscience. Sure, both are subjective. Why is subjectivity bad? Heck, democracy is literally society born of a popularity contest.

[@jon__doe]

@@DarkAdonisVyers That's why the US is a constitutional republic.

[@DarkAdonisVyers]

@ The US is also _not_ a Christian nation, according to John Adams. Thomas Jefferson even wrote his version of the Bible to troll Christians.

[@ronpintx]

The NDE reports demand we either *call all NDE's a scam -- or there is definitely an afterlife* Your choice. Life-Trauma is built-in. That is where you find-out if your alone or not..

[@michaelmckinney7240]

In defense of the valid theistic assertion of God's existence I offer the following evidence; first, the argument of "First cause" which in essence is the riddle of why there is "something rather than nothing". this question sounds simple but is impossible for modern science to answer. A basic tenet of science is "cause and effect" and the empirically observed reality of all things being a result of their antecedent conditions. There is no exception to this basic principle. We have a near complete picture of how our universe began tracing events back to the existence of the original singularity that became the Big Bang explosion and brought the cosmos into existence. It's repeatedly said by astrophysicists like Lawrence Krauss (a critic of theism) that prior to the Big Bang nothing existed, including time and the laws of physics, but if this is true, what was it that "acted on" or exerted a controlling force over the original singularity? Something did, because it became so hot and dense that it became violently unstable. In other words it exceeded the limits of viability and remaining in a condition of stasis became impossible. What was it that strictly regulated the original singularity, If it wasn't the laws of physics, what was it? If time hadn't come into existence yet, does this suggest that whatever did exert control over it was and is beyond time? Anything that can exist beyond the boundaries of time can only be described as eternal. The question of what brought the singularity into existence is a question that may never be resolved and in and of itself is not "proof" of Gods existence but it's a piece of evidence that atheism has yet to convincingly refute. Secondly; our universe, from its creation to all of its functioning aspects appears formulaic in its balance, precision and equilibrium. Values such as the amount of matter and antimatter generated in the BB are so finely calibrated that computer models show any variation in the their original match would not produce the current universe we inhabit. How finely calibrated were those values? Again our friend Lawrence Krauss made the statement that a billion atoms of antimatter were matched to a billion and one atoms of normal matter, and the single atom surviving as they cancelled each other produced our cosmos. These numbers are accepted by nearly all theoretical physicists. Consider if the number of surviving atoms was two instead of one. This would mean our universe would be twice as heavy and the outward blast wave expansion from the BB would've stalled resulting in a universe to short lived to allow evolution to foster complexity. The fixed and constant value of gravity is another universal "constant" that appears designed to insure a stable balance between matter and energy. There are twenty or more of these "constants" that guarantee a stable, and life friendly universe and any of them being absent would make life impossible. Water is one of these constants. This emergent property of two gases somehow combining to form a liquid is a mystery that science cannot explain. This is the "Fine Tuned Universe" argument and Christopher Hitchens said of it "it's not a trivial argument" admitting he couldn't explain it. Third; the universal phenomenon of evolved emergent complexity is ubiquitous throughout the cosmos. Something rational and very powerful is driving the universe to become more complex. From a cosmos of mostly hydrogen atoms (the simplest atom) to a universe of stars galaxies, planets and eventually sentient life, ever evolving complexity is the rule and something must be driving this process. If you bought your daughter a picture puzzle and dumped the parts on the living room floor and then started seeing the puzzle assemble itself without human input, you would be amazed. This is exactly how our universe behaves. To say this happens completely by random chance is simply not credible. Fourth; the origin of "consciousness" is more evidence that an omniscient mind is the architect of all reality. Stuart Hammeroff uses the example of the lowly parmecium, a one celled animal that when repeatedly threatened in a controlled experiment responds more efficiently as it "learns" how to escape from the threat. What is it that's "learning" in this creature? It has no brain or nervous system. What is it that causes two heart cells beating on a microscope slide (yes, they do beat) to coordinate their beats once the touch each other? The answer is "consciousness" and it's a fundamental property of the universe. This is what's driving the evolved emergent complexity of the universe. This is what's causing the "collapse of the wave front" in quantum mechanics. Universal consciousness can only have one source, and that source must be transcendent to embed itself into the fabric of reality at both the microscopic and macroscopic level. To counter these points, atheists posit the idea of a "multiverse" which is an imaginary reality of any number of universes that exist, maybe millions of them, kind of like a sandwich shop in an international airport, any way you like it, it's yours. atheist would have you believe that many of these universes are half formed or completely failed, or almost became stable. So the logic of this pedantic nonsense is to say this "fine tuned" universe is not so special because so many others flopped. This is nothing more than moronic twaddle espoused by scientists who should know better. Theism is not religious. Theism bases it conclusions on an evolved theology where science is primary. Religion is something very different. If God is a true reality then science will and does persuasively support this contention. Traditional religion and especially the bible is poison to the human mind and have next to nothing to do with God. God never was an old testament figure who hurls thunderbolts and remembers our sins. God has always been (something more like) an all powerful form of lucid energy whose dominant attribute is love.

[@PaulHosey-u3l]

All which say the same. I'm not a theist but popular atheist quotes are all the same thing lol

[@janarends6545]

If atheist have nothing with believe, why do they talk so much about it?

[@Atheismwithshayari]

We believe in rational things

[@janarends6545]

@@Atheismwithshayari But you don't talk about it, you want to talk about belief, because you know that's the truth.

[@clarino2]

I don’t believe atheist talk about atheism much at all because it’s a non-thing. Atheism is “not believing” or “having no belief”rather than “believing in nothing.” And this isn’t a mere technicality either. All religious people have beliefs, which are conclusions drawn without evidence. Atheist don’t have beliefs; they have knowledge or conclusions based on evidence. What atheists do talk about is the problem of religion and the harm religion causes .

[@frozentspark2105]

Because religion forces it down everything

[@louiskriel7025]

To try and help gullible brainwashed fools with bible brains. To embrace truth reason and logic.

[@user-wt1jd4rc9n]

All these reflections are very good but... They do not take into account That without belief in God the average human being is left to his own devices because in the world a very high percentage of human beings live mired in misery and illness.and their only support is belief in God.. That is why democratic governments around the world support churches of different religions. Another thing you are not taking into account is that miracles exist and in some way they happen. I was born Catholic but I am no longer Catholic. I do not believe in an all-powerful God who is all-loving and all-understanding.That he created us imperfect and that he will punish us with hell when we die if we have not been perfect. That is a great absurdity. And yet miracles exist and are inexplicable, I testify to this because I have experienced the inexplicable miracles that changed my life completely when I was about to give up on it. Finally, I would like to recall the famous phrase from the Star Wars movies: "MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU." There must be forces in the universe that perform miracles under certain circumstances.And people in general say that God does those miracles. It is obvious that something causes these Miracles but we do not know what it is.But those miracles are definitely not performed by an omnipotent, loving and punishing God. But humans still don't know what causes those miracles. I repeat again that governments support religions in general in order to control the 8 billion human beings who inhabit the earth. There is a very famous book called VARIETY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES by William James. It is an amazing study of modern miracles.

[@johannaclarke7222]

All religions are humanity’s search for answers. They are man made and therefore inherently flawed. God is a separate issue.

[@anthonymorris5084]

All religions are designed to control. It's about power.

[@brentahre9693]

If there is no god, everything is permitted. Dostoyevsky

[@milansvancara]

Hm, why are christians usually addicted to quoting "authorities"? I guess it's in line with their way of thinking... Blind worship without thinking for themselves. Btw what do you think the quote implies? That you should believe in stuff just because you like how it sounds?:D

[@brentahre9693]

@ Thinks Dostoyevsky is an “authority”.☝️

[@jean-danieljemora7145]

Actually Camus said exactly the opposite!

[@peterrear2864]

I dont believe there ever has been or will be a god

[@Atheismwithshayari]

True 👍

[@jon__doe]

Ain't free will great? You get to choose what to believe. I believe God planned it that way.

[@brentahre9693]

@@peterrear2864 Evidence required.

[@thomasdearment3214]

the best advice I gave my dear wife she was an atheist I am an agnostic don't be an atheist, be an agonistic, at least if you arrive at the pearly gates, you can say damn I knew it. it's true ok my bad you exist sorry, as an atheist your screwed,

[@jon__doe]

That's a new twist on Pasqual's wager

[@weareleeds987]

Bad example - an Athiest does not believe, an Agnostic does not know. So if you say "Damn I knew it" you would be lying - unless you were the opposite of agnostic - which is gnostic.

[@thomasdearment3214]

@@weareleeds987 you have no sense of humor go sit in the corner, if you read the bible the way to heaven is for everyone especially sinners its repentance of your sins sorry your so blinded

[@albertdepeal9658]

All those arguments referring to God allowing evil are without any rationality. Do those people want to be totally controlled robots? Rational people know that for one's love to be true, one must be free to not love.

[@MirlitronOne]

And free not to have faith.

[@cutoverpark5744]

And your comment referring to one of the 4,000 plus god characters is without any rationality….

[@davidmjackson7784]

Don't recall Adam and Eve creating the subtle snake who tempted them and got them kicked out of Eden and the rest of us suffering THEIR original Sin. That's down to God.

[@vladtheemailer3223]

The problem of evil remains unanswered.

[@RodrigoFernandez-k2i]

Nope. Philosophy has clearly shown there is no such thing as free will. For love to be valuable it only needs to be a genuine feeling. Something your very nature makes you incapable of not feeling. You should look at the Closer To Truth series on Free will. As Einstein and many other rational ppl (including about 88% - 89% of PhDs in Philosophy and many neuroscientists) have pointed out Free will is an irrational idea itself. It requires two mutually exclusive situations to be in operation at once. Sorry, but you're wrong. Also, have a look at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Free will.

[@tjsartain1806]

Some were outright lying. Some, just fools. Arrogance and sadness all rolled up together.

[@StamfordBridge]

Propagators of religion?

[@ebinmaine]

What is it that gives you the right to assume that?

[@jensswales]

didnt change my thinking..

[@louiskriel7025]

Logic is not for fearful insecure gullible bible brains.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Thinking? What thinking? You've traded in critical thinking for wishful thinking.

[@jensswales]

@anthonymorris5084 do you think that by autonomious/free will?

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@jensswales Your question doesn't make any grammatical sense. What are you asking me?

[@jensswales]

@@anthonymorris5084 yes, translation error, can you choose what to think about?

[@peterpankhurst6925]

Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here An' the book says: He made us all to be just like him, " So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (an' maybe even a little ugly on the side) Frank Zappa

[@Youareimportant-v6j]

Bro God is not dumb he gave us free will. We are the ones who are misusing it, for the manufacturer of a car won't get the blame if the car got into an accident.

[@nothinghere1996]

Buddhism leads to Nirvana. Nirvana is both a state of mind and a place. There is no requirement for God, which is a system ONLY for the 12 tribes of Israel. The 'bread' eaters. The pathway to Enlightenment and Insight requires two separate tools. Awareness and concentration meditation used together. Which one of you then, is going to step up and explain where this state of mind comes from. It cannot be from evolution, as the individual must spend years developing the mind tools to master them. In the last 10,000 years there have been 7 individuals that have reached this state by different pathways. What is the underlying mechanisms to allow the individual access to this if not evolution?

[@thundergamingyt1190]

Yes it's true that religions are lies and man made but refusing the existence of God is same as refusing to accept that you exist.

[@Atheismwithshayari]

To be honest, Believing in God makes me weak and atheism give me confidence that i have to do everything on my own . No one is there to help me That makes me stronger

[@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921]

@@Atheismwithshayari Please watch and share with others my five brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!

[@PatrickMcAsey]

"Its", not "it's".

[@mysongsmitch8528]

They’re all foolish and meaningless, just not sure which one is worse

[@brentahre9693]

Atheist opinions.☝️ Lol

[@yngve1925]

Thank you very much! After this I absolutely belive in God🙏

[@michaelmckinney7240]

These trite, shallow one line comments direct their skepticism at religion which has very little to do with the core intellectual belief in God. I could easily take them apart one by one but it wouldn't change the position of a stalwart atheist because they are incapable of considering an "evolved" conception of God. It's easy to laugh at the childish fables found in the bible, and I excoriate them as readily as any skeptic, but the findings of modern cosmology and neuroscience make these twenty comments found here sound very uninformed. There is no thinking or reasoned analysis to these hit and run remarks because under scrutiny they're flawed logic becomes apparent. I challenge any atheist to debate this question provided science and only science is admissible, as evidence.

[@pathfinder1273]

Forget it. I have tried for years to engage them in such discussion, but they just repeat the inevitable and then fade into the mist. Most significantly, I have provided more than 50 "atheists" on these comment pages with an article entitled A Scientific Proof of the Existence of God, and not one of them has ever responded in any way. They just disappear. "Atheists" only use the "extraordinary proof" and "burden of proof" mantras because they are quite confident that none exists. They have zero interest in the possibility that it does. Their absolutism is truly fundamentalist.

[@weareleeds987]

ALL religions have a belief in a god at their very core. What do you mean by an "Evolved conception of god?" and a "Stalwart atheist" and what new developments in cosmology and neuroscience de-bunk ANY of the comments made in this video? Finaly, you want to debate atheists using ONLY scientific evidence, yet NO RELIGION can provide ANY scientific evidence for their beliefs. All their evidence points towards eyewitness testimony, assumptions, strawman arguments and arguments from personal incredulity.

[@vladtheemailer3223]

You've got nothing. Nice try.

[@redreuben5260]

You kid yourself if you think believing in a “God” is in any way intellectual.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@pathfinder1273 "Scientific Proof of the Existence of God". Where's their Nobel prize? How absurd. Can you please demonstrate the existence of unicorns?. Just use the word "unicorn" in place of "God" in your ridiculous post. Calling atheists "fundamentalists" is the epitome of pot calling kettle black.

[@TroelsNybo1st]

Shrug.

[@KingBooks26]

Let's just live without religion. Us, only us, without beliefs. People ransacking, killing, raping, stealing, disregard for human life and any sense of community, and so on.

[@hammalammadingdong6244]

I'm unclear on your point. Are you saying that people without religion will do all those terrible things?

[@KingBooks26]

@hammalammadingdong6244 if there's no good or evil, let's live in full. There's no regard for the fellow human being or that horrible thing called compassion. Don't worry, science will explain everything.

[@hammalammadingdong6244]

@@KingBooks26 you know, I know tons of people who don’t believe in God and I don’t know anybody who does the things that you’re describing.

[@KingBooks26]

@@hammalammadingdong6244 so, the world is perfect.

[@hammalammadingdong6244]

@@KingBooks26 I certainly didn’t say that did I?

[@Reggie2000]

Wow! What a big dose of ego, narcissism, ignorance, stupidity, and even utter nonsense. 😂 Christians should show this in schools to earn converts. Because if this is your top 20, you should seriously rethink your position on religion.

[@VisshanVis]

When you can show that your imaginary friend is real, then I will no longer be an atheist till such time I am totally convinced that no gods, goddesses or deities have ever existed.

[@Reggie2000]

@VisshanVis Nice try. Why would the proof be on me to prove God? Not that you would accept any proof with that mindset. But I'll throw you one. Duck Mallards exist. They have private parts that defy evolution. Their privates are literally anti evolution. Designed to make breeding as maximum difficult as possible. Why would a species evolve like this? Because it 100% wouldn't. Evolution wouldn't work that way. And there is of course zero evidence of them even evolving from anything else. Naturally. As we should have millions of sub species fossils found by now to show evolution. Which we totally don't. Definitely the original species it came from, which, despite having superior breeding, died completely out for no apparent reason, it being completely surplanted by vastly inferior ducks, breeding wise. Yet duck mallards exist? Explain it without God? Because I can't. 🤔

[@VisshanVis]

@@Reggie2000 Why would the proof be on me to prove God? Because your the one claiming that a god exists the burden of proof now falls to you to prove your claim to be true. If you want explanations, why not ask somebody who has studied this, zoologists and biologists, I like you are nothing more than a keyboard warrior, and I haven't studied them or gone to university. If you don't want to wait for an answer, try using a search engine, the information is all there and freely available to you should you wish to find out for yourself instead of expecting other to do all the leg work for you to probably just dismiss it anyway.

[@weareleeds987]

I think you are using words you do not understand - these are actual quotes from famous people - famous thinking people. Please show the ego, narcisisn, ignorance, stupidity or utter nonsense in ANY of them.

[@Reggie2000]

@weareleeds987 Spoken like a true Elitist. So concerned with "Who they are." 🤭

[@johnhatchel9681]

God is real so succccccccc onit!