So theists, what about all those other gods, why don't you believe in them?

Question

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts

Answer 1

don't really know about others but i personally believe in gods, nature, and spirits. :)

Answer 2

Well Stephen Roberts is retarded. I know what he's saying, but really...when you look at what the words mean..he's wrong.

Christians and others are monotheists - not atheists, nor polythiests.

Anyway...I don't believe in them because when I researched the religion I didn't get any special feelings about anything. I didn't get interested in anything...I wasn't inspired by anything.

I feel that if the religion is true, I would be inspired...I wasn't...so I stopped studying it.

Well...I take that back, I still regularly study religion but I don't really...ummm....ugh! What's the word?

Whatever, you know what I mean....I hope.

Answer 3

You are not posing this question to the Pagans here, are you?  This is perhaps an over-sight on your part.  Your question presumes that we believe in one god but not in the others.

By the way, I just love the circular logic deployed by some:  Only one of the gods can exist because all the other ones are 'false'.  This is demonstrated by the fact that only one of the gods exists.  <sigh>  And <drink> for that matter.

Answer 4

You failed, because only one god could have started everything.

If there's no god at all like you say, nothing could exist.

If there's only one god as I say, everything can exist. We all exist, which proves there is one god. I reject other gods because they're false and not the true god. But you're not like me because you think everything happened by accident and have no answers to life, whereas I know god created everything and is the answer to everything.

EDIT: Oops, didn't mean to attack if I did. Sorry. Basically, it's obvious those other religions are wrong. So I won't believe in a wrong god. But there has to be one god out there who is true, because otherwise nothing would exist. God hates bieng associated with others, so that's why I know the other 'gods' are just made up, because god says he's only one.

Answer 5

" I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve."

Answer 6

Because no other "god" died for me.

Answer 7

I do believe in them.

Sort of.

But then again, I really don't "believe" in them.

Thus is the beauty of Archetypal Polytheism! Woohoo!

Answer 8

Well....I put the "poly" in "polytheist" ;).