What's the worst thing about being an atheist?

[nublikescake]

They have no holidays!

How would you answer the question?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

The fact that the vast majority of people aren't reasonable enough to realize they're imagining their god, but instead believe they are actually in communication with it, and that the things they think it tells them are infallible.

 

[Wyndru]

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

We have holidays, and instead of going to chruch on them we just do a lot of hookers and blow.

 

[child of wonder]

That my children will eventually be "found out" and ostracized by other kids for their lack of religious belief.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

It's interesting that it's only by a modifier in the way we define the word 'delusion' medically that the religious are not considered delusional.

 

[Kirby]

You're going to burn in hell for eternity?

/fire
/brimstone

 

[GagHalfrunt]

We have holidays, and instead of going to chruch on them we just do a lot of hookers and blow.

Every day is hookers and blow day.

 

[Farang]

No fear of God

 

[ahenkel]

Don't get to eat the little crackers or drink the wine and pretend I'm a cannibal vampire

 

[nublikescake]

No fear of God

I don't know how to interpret that as I don't know whether you're an atheist or not. Are you saying that having "no fear of God" leads atheists to do bad things? I'd think that as an atheist, however, that'd be the best thing for an atheist.

 

[Farang]

I don't know how to interpret that as I don't know whether you're an atheist or not. Are you saying that having "no fear of God" leads atheists to do bad things? I'd think that as an atheist, however, that'd be the best thing for an atheist.

I think a fear of God is a good thing for when you're growing up. Even though I'm not religious, I'd probably fake being religious if I had kids just to put a fear of God into them. I tend to think that's what religion is really for anyway, raising kids. I think most people when they are 45 years old or whatever don't actually believe they are drinking the blood of Christ every Sunday.

 

[nublikescake]

I think a fear of God is a good thing for when you're growing up. Even though I'm not religious, I'd probably fake being religious if I had kids just to put a fear of God into them. I tend to think that's what religion is really for anyway, raising kids. I think most people when they are 45 years old or whatever don't actually believe they are drinking the blood of Christ every Sunday.

What about religions that don't have such outlandish things as crackers and wine?

 

[Away]

Thinking in absolutes, just like the Christians they hate.

 

[slayer202]

I think a fear of God is a good thing for when you're growing up. Even though I'm not religious, I'd probably fake being religious if I had kids just to put a fear of God into them. I tend to think that's what religion is really for anyway, raising kids. I think most people when they are 45 years old or whatever don't actually believe they are drinking the blood of Christ every Sunday.

:|

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Lack of faith. Lack of hope. Lack of redemption.

 

[Dumac]

Thinking in absolutes, just like the Christians they hate.

Sounds like you are thinking in absolutes

 

[Lifted]

I think most people when they are 45 years old or whatever don't actually believe they are drinking the blood of Christ every Sunday.

Next thing your going to try telling us that the tooth fairy didn't leave those dollars under our pillows.

 

[QueBert]

That my children will eventually be "found out" and ostracized by other kids for their lack of religious belief.

I was raised by an Atheist, yet I still found religion at a fairly young age.

 

[Dumac]

Lack of faith. Lack of hope. Lack of redemption.

I'll give you the first, but those second two can be found regardless of religious beliefs

 

[Away]

Sounds like you are thinking in absolutes

Good catch.

 

[nublikescake]

I was raised by an Atheist, yet I still found religion at a fairly young age.

You'd be in the minority. I'm interested in how that can work though.

 

[TridenT]

The fact that the vast majority of people aren't reasonable enough to realize they're imagining their god, but instead believe they are actually in communication with it, and that the things they think it tells them are infallible.

This I guess.

Donut bee leaf. Do not believe. Real stretch up there...

Anyway. The worst thing is probably that you're not very common. And being an atheist is not enough IMO. You need to be educated and well informed on many topics related to such. I am finding more and more people who are softcore atheists or agnostics.

 

[MovingTarget]

I think a fear of God is a good thing for when you're growing up. Even though I'm not religious, I'd probably fake being religious if I had kids just to put a fear of God into them. I tend to think that's what religion is really for anyway, raising kids. I think most people when they are 45 years old or whatever don't actually believe they are drinking the blood of Christ every Sunday.

Not quite. The sad part is that most people's understanding of religion and of God atrophies when they are young - maybe about 7th grade or so. You can't run a business with a 7th grader's knowledge of accounting, have a successful marriage with a 7th grader's knowledge of sex, or have theological discussions with others with a 7th grader's understanding of religion. Taking proper theology courses in college really does deepen your understanding of faith and its development over the past few millenia. But more to the point, although having/raising children is a big part of a life of faith (although not required), there is much more to it than that.


...and yes, transubstantiation is a belief that most don't grow out of. New understandings of the Eucharist do develop, but for those denomimations that believe in transubstantiation, it isn't something that goes away.

 

[MovingTarget]

You're going to burn in hell for eternity?

/fire
/brimstone

Aww, c'mon. You are from Alabama like me. If you are going to post a picture like that, choose the obvious one.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01486/church-sign_1486461i.jpg