Is Atheism a question about religion?

Question

Paint. how is is not a question? It has a ? on it, you domlow.

I am not being rude at all about faith, but why is it acceptable for other regions not be nice about faith?

Answer 1

That is a good question, please consider the following The Creator Can Add Meaning to Your Life

“HAVE you not come to know?” That may sound like just a leading question, moving many to respond, ‘Come to know what?’ But it is a serious question. And we can best appreciate the answer by noting its setting—the 40th chapter of the Bible book of Isaiah. An ancient Hebrew, Isaiah, wrote it, so the question is an old one. Yet, it is also very modern, relating to the core meaning of your life.

Being that important, the question at Isaiah 40:28 merits our serious attention: “Have you not come to know or have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the extremities of the earth, is a God to time indefinite.” So the ‘coming to know’ involved earth’s Creator, and the context shows that more than the earth is included. Two verses earlier Isaiah wrote about the stars: “Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number . . . Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing.”

Schools turn out many skeptics who feel that science has (or will find) answers to questions about the origin of the universe and life. In The Origin of Life (original French title: Aux Origines de la Vie) authors Hagene and Lenay note: “The origin of life is still debated at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This problem, so difficult to resolve, requires investigations in all fields, from the immensity of space to the infinite smallness of matter.” Still, the last chapter, “The Question Remains Alive,” admits: “We have explored some scientific answers to the question, How did life on earth appear? But why did life appear? Does life have a goal? These questions science cannot answer. It merely searches for the ‘how’ of things. ‘How’ and ‘why’ are two completely different questions. . . . As to the question of ‘why,’ philosophy, religion, and—above all—each one of us must find the answer.”

Finding Answers and Meaning

Yes, we want to understand why life exists—and especially why we are here.. Billions have grown up in the Orient or in other places where most people do not think of a personal God, a real being with an appealing personality. To them the word “god” may evoke an impression of a vague force or an abstract cause. They have not ‘come to know the Creator’ or his ways. If they, or millions with similar views, could become convinced that the Creator exists, what benefits they could receive, including everlasting prospects! They could also gain something that is rare indeed—real meaning, real purpose and peace of mind, in life.

To illustrate: In 1891, French artist Paul Gauguin went to find a fulfilling life in French Polynesia, in a virtual paradise. But his dissolute past soon brought disease to himself and others. As he felt death approaching, he painted a large canvas in which he seemed to ‘interpret life as a great mystery.’ Do you know what Gauguin named that painting? “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” You may have heard others ask similar questions. Many do. But when they find no satisfying answers—no real meaning in life—where can they go? They may conclude that their life differs little from that of the animals.—2 Peter 2:12.

You can thus understand why someone like professor of physics Freeman Dyson could write: “I stand in good company when I ask again the questions Job asked. Why do we suffer? Why is the world so unjust? What is the purpose of pain and tragedy?” (Job 3:20, 21; 10:2, 18; 21:7) As mentioned, many people turn to science for answers instead of to God. Biologists, oceanographers, and others are adding to the knowledge about our globe and life on it. Searching in another direction, astronomers and physicists are learning ever more about our solar system, the stars, even distant galaxies. (Compare Genesis 11:6.) To what reasonable conclusions can such facts point?

Some scientists speak of the “mind” of God or the “handwriting” revealed in the universe. But might that miss the key point? Science magazine observed: “When researchers say cosmology reveals the ‘mind’ or ‘handwriting’ of God, they are ascribing to the divine what ultimately may be the lesser aspect of the universe—its physical structure.” In fact, Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg wrote: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”

Still, you may be among the millions who have seriously studied the matter and who grasp that real meaning in life relates to knowing the Creator. Recall what the apostle Paul wrote: “Men cannot say they do not know about God. From the beginning of the world, men could see what God is like through the things He has made. This shows His power that lasts forever. It shows that He is God.” (Romans 1:20, Holy Bible, New Life Version) Yes, there are facts about our world and about us that can help people to recognize the Creat

Answer 2

I didn't know that Atheism was a question.

Answer 3

Atheism is the position occupied by people who have no belief in God.  "Atheism" is not a question, but it's certainly a challenge to religion.

Answer 4

Yes it is, *** hole , now answer it.

Answer 5

Atheism is the shedding off a totalitarianism.

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Answer 6

It's not a question but a realisation there are NO gods. We are alone on this planet with backward thinking religions attempting to dictate how we all should live.

Answer 7

Well, without invisible sky critter worshiping people people believing in invisible sky critters we wouldn't have any invisible sky critters to NOT believe in, now would we?

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Answer 8

Atheism isn't actually a question, it's a belief.

Answer 9

Stupid questions get what?

What?...

Answer 10

Lack of proof in gods/goddess existence makes people atheists.

why should we believe in man made stories about gods/goddess?

I totally agree with the views of Indian_c...

Answer 11

wow your smart atheism is the lack of belief in a god

Answer 12

Not sure what your saying... do you mean Atheism is questioning religion. A challenge.

Are you defending Atheism or are you defending Christianity against Athieist criticism.

Maybe it's human hope, non something non-Christians would be comfortable with.

Answer 13

Christianity is the ONLY answer to any question.

Answer 14

Atheist don't believe in anything, so, I could tell you, but you will not believe it!  Hummmm go figure

Answer 15

What are you talking about 'why is it acceptable for other regions not be nice about faith?'

you need to make your question clearer.

You proberly mean is Atheism a Religion?

Answer 16

Are you joking?

Answer 17

See my question here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 18

If Atheism were a question, it would probably be "Where's your proof?"

Answer 19

Close enough.

Answer 20

No, it's a lack of belief in god(s).

Answer 21

Atheism is a belief of disbelief!

Answer 22

"Karma and Reincarnation

Some are born happy, enjoy perfect health, with beautiful body, mental vigor and all wants supplied. Others are born miserable, some are without hands or feet, others again are idiots and only drag on a wretched existence. If they are all created, why does a just and merciful God create one happy and another unhappy, why is He so partial? Nor would it mend matters in the least to hold that those who are miserable in this life will be happy in a future one. Why should a person be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?

In the second place, the idea of a creator God does not explain the anomaly, but simply expresses the cruel fiat of an all-powerful being. There must have been causes, then, before our birth, to make us miserable or happy and those were our past actions.

Are not all the tendencies of the mind and the body accounted for by inherited aptitude? Here are two parallel lines of existence--one of the mind ["subtle" matter], the other of [gross] matter. If [gross] matter and its transformations answer for all that we have, there is no necessity for supposing the existence of a [mind and a] soul. But it cannot be proved that thought has evolved out of matter, and if a philosophical monism is inevitable, spiritual monism is certainly logical and no less desirable than a materialistic monism; but neither of these is necessary here.

We cannot deny that bodies acquire certain tendencies from heredity, but those tendencies only mean the physical configuration through which a peculiar mind alone can act in a peculiar way. There are other tendencies peculiar to a mind caused by the person’s past actions. And a soul with a certain mental tendency would by the laws of affinity take birth in a body which is the fittest instrument for the display of that tendency. This is in accord with science, for science wants to explain everything by habit, and habit is got through repetitions. So repetitions are necessary to explain the natural habits of a new-born soul. And since they were not obtained in this present life, they must have come down from past lives.

There is another suggestion. Taking all these for granted, how is it that I do not remember anything of my past life? This can be easily explained. I am now speaking English. It is not my mother tongue, in fact no words of my mother tongue are now present in my consciousness; but let me try to bring them up, and they rush in. That shows that consciousness is only the surface of the mental ocean, and within its depths are stored up all our experiences. Try and struggle, they would come up and you would be conscious even of your past life.

This is direct and demonstrative evidence. Verification is the perfect proof of a theory, and here is the challenge thrown to the world by the Rishis. We have discovered the secret by which the very depths of the ocean of memory can be stirred up--try it and you would get a complete reminiscence of your past life." - Swami Vivekananda.

Answer 23

I'm not sure exactly what you mean -- atheism isn't a "question" about anything; it's a lack of belief in a god. However, I can say that questioning my previous religion (Christianity) led me to atheism.

Answer 24

I think it is, yes, because even though atheism is where you believe there is no god, it's still a belief and so it fits into the religion/spirituality section.

Answer 25

If religion is faith, all people have faith in something.  Atheism is the same as HUMANISM which is the religion of man.  Atheists have faith in man's ability but man cannot save himself, no matter what delusions of granduer, so it is a FALSE religion.

Answer 26

Human consciousness is a series of questions.

Answer 27

My teacher says atheists probably have thought about God more than most of us.

If they choose not to see the sun it does not mean that the sun is not there.

So atheism is indicative of questions about religion/God

Answer 28

That doesn't even make sense.  

Answer 29

Saying 'there is no God' is a religious opinion.  So, yes.

Answer 30

no

Answer 31

nope