When An Atheist Says #god Isn’t Real!

[AngryScorpionberiln]

Nobody can prove that Gods real or if he's not real because someone can say "what was before the big bang" and I could say "where did God come from

[carrot_slayer_of_patatos]

Why are atheists friendly to ppl who believe but ppl who believe don’t like other kinds of believe/atheist 😑

[Ruby_dragons]

As an atheist I don't care what someone believes in as long as it makes them happy ❤

[HamoodHabibi-wf]

“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mark 10:45

[Shrmy_]

I have a question on this. How do we know, the events of the Bible actually happened and were not some oddly large story? Or a Schizophrenic episode or some wild ass dream?

[shailenessachinan]

I dont believe that a god exists but i dont know why it bothers People so much that they have to take someone down and act disgustingly towards them

[Smileagle-vi]

I don’t believe in God myself, but I totally respect others who do. Belief is a personal thing, and everyone should be free to follow their own path. My best friend also believes in god❤

[Lawliet_Fedorov]

I didn't grow up Christian, but i've always been curious, and I've always been analytical. For most of my life, I was happy to occupy both fronts through science. Fatefully, I had always been an awid reader, and oner the pandemic I became particularly interested in moral psychology.
I read about the evolution of morality as a trait that helped groups out -compete other groups. I read about how a lot of our so-called "kindness" comes from our need to convince ourselves that we are trustworthy people, all the better to convince others of the same. While this made a lot of sense, I could feel that something was missing. Humans are too self-aware to exist as dopamine, survival, and fecundity-driven animals. Seeing our morality as a trait evolved just for these ends left me in a state of confusion, cynicism, and isolation. If's hard to be happy about beauty, goodness, and truth if you think of virtues as only a means to further your own selfishness. It's hard to foster genuine relationships if you think of them only as a means to further your status and security.
That's how I noticed a gap in this story. While science offered an explanation for the nature and origin of morality, there was nothing to tell us how we ought to act in light of these truths. In other words, I discovered a fundamental chasm between *is" and "ought", where science is capable of describing only what "is", and how we "ought" to behave or live is left entirely to us.
This is a hard truth to face for scientists, as it leaves an entire domain of human behavior incapable of quantitative description and optimization. And yet, this aspect of ourselves is as true as any theorem, law, or principle.
These realizations led me down a deeper rabbit hole of reading, in an attempt to actually understand human nature with increased dimensionality. I started with the violence of 20th century history and sought out authors who could explain our immense capacity for cruelty. And so I found a few thinkers, who I felt had gotten something right about humanity, who understood human nature at least as well as the best scientists and historians of today. These authors, with Dostoyevsky as an example, converged on the same conclusion about the earthliness, animalistic, and fallen nature of mankind. Yet they held up a higher standard for humanity, a call to something better, a call to the existence of a higher ideal that supersedes our biological wiring.
These authors recognized the existence of that higher-order self-awareness we have that animals don't, that allows us to pontificate over our actions and morals as I'm doing now, in a way that would never let us be satisfied by the simple motivations of survival and reproduction. In fact, if science was able to give us all a succinct prescription of the most optimized way to live (in the form of some kind of idealized human life cycle), rather than follow it towards biological success, human nature would be to do exactly the opposite, just to prove the existence of our individuality and awareness.
Holding onto this, I began to read Christian books, starting with Mere Christianity, and eventually reading the Bible. I was vaguely aware of Jesus before, but finally, I reached a deep internal resonance with the Gospel. It is ultimately a story of that sinful, broken human race I had read about, born of a survival-of-the-fittest world, blessed with a whisper of goodness inside of us and the freedom to choose to live by it, yet doomed to fall short. The salvation of this undeserving species by the epitome of that goodness, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ - even after everything I've read, there is no truer depiction of man, or of love, and no greater call to how we ought to live.
I'm so lucky to have had good Christian friends who encouraged and supported me throughout this journey, and to be surrounded by a great community and fantastic mentors here at Park Street. Without them as a catalyst, my headier route towards Christianity would have been much more arduous (higher activation energy).

[Jisatsu-hōka-han]

"I am the Alpha & The Omega, The First & The Last, The Beginning & The End, I am coming soon"

[adr_]

Take this: If God exists, who created him? 🤔
If God does not exist, who created everything from the universe, planets to everything that exists on earth and has life? 🤔

[Sadiemakes_sillydoodles]

Well, we don't have to prove anything, only you guys do, as your saying a positive, or that something is real, which can be proven, and we are saying either a negative, or that it doesn't exist, and you can't prove dragons to not exist, we just know they don't, but no mater how much you say they aren't real, the opposing person could just say "well, its out there, you just haven't seen them!" or that we don't think he's real bc you haven't given us decent proof, so give us proof, and then we can believe in god, you can believe in god, but once someone starts questioning us, this is what id say

[Chase-in]

Jesus died for you on the cross. He rose again 3 days later. He loves you and wants a relationship with you. please repent of your sins and turn to Jesus Christ. Jesus is god, and he is lord.

[paxton_]

If magical God is so real. Why did he never give time to go to church.

[Kevin_the_Ghost]

An atheist wouldn't say he doesn't exist an atheist would rather say show me the evidence he exists

[TrollegeEmpire]

I don't know god is real or not
But I'm religious

[ElizabethC_]

I’m personally not religious it just doesn’t make sense to me as god is said to be able to do anything and there is nothing he can’t do but it just is logically impossible because if he tries to create something he can’t lift then he can’t lift it which is something he can’t do but if he can’t make it that’s also something he can’t do and people normally just say that’s how he is in the bible not real life i still don’t believe in him and the bible (which in my opinion is racist sexist and homophobic) however i do have respect for anyone of any religion ❤

[the_real_newz]

if there is no god than how we die than we are we not able to invented something to be forever

[catcake-slr]

I don’t understand atheists clearly y’all aren’t just walking around this by some random person who made you it WAS GOD BRO I sometimes feel like y’all wanna be apart of something just to be apart of it like y’all clearly don’t know how god made Adam and Eve 😐

[Darian--un]

I'm just going to report their comment

[the_real_newz]

it is not a joke to create a universe by some laws if science to make universe it needs planning