Added: May 9, 2007
From: FightingAtheist
Duration: 9:56
Some argue that religious life is the best way to live. They claim life without a god is sad and depressing. Statements like "I could not imagine my life without God", and "My life would be meaningless without God", are common defenses for a religious life. The following is a list of advantages atheists enjoy over a religious life. I invite the religious viewers to submit a response video with the advantages of a religious life. 1. Atheists can make moral decisions based on the specific context. Having absolutes like "Though Shall not Lie" stops people from thinking for themselves and making the right decision based on the situation at hand. In what situation would be okay to lie? Most religious people would say, never. Atheists would disagree. For example: If you were living in Germany hiding Jews in your attic during the holocaust, and Hitler's Nazis knocked on your door and asked if you were hiding Jews, would it be okay to lie to save the lives of the Jews in your attic? I believe trying to save their lives would the moral and proper choice. Atheists have the power to do what's right for all humanity, rather than the forced perspective of doing what is right for a god. 2. Atheists can experience healthy outrage at the outrageous without fear of questioning God's plan. We can be outraged when a friend dies of a horrible disease, or is killed in a car accident. It is okay to be upset at disasters and horrible events. It is not a part of any plan. It is just a horrible event. Atheists try to learn from them and not just chalk it up to God's Plan. We use science to understand catastrophic events like hurricanes, and tsunamis. This gives us the ability to save lives. If we think a magical plan is going to happen no matter what, then why try to stop the events or make things better. Atheists do not wonder if a god is punishing us. Yes, there is cause and effect, and our actions effect how we live, you should save for retirement, and if your diet is bad you'll end up fat, or sick, or both. But if an airplane part falls on your house, it is an accident. If you find a 5 dollar bill on the sidewalk, it is an accident. No magical intervention, no magical wrath, these are just accidents. Life has an element of chance. This may not seem comforting, but here is another way to look at it: Your loved one dies in a completely random car accident where nobody could possibly be blamed. Is it more comforting to know the accident happened because of bad luck or is better to think the accident could have been prevented by an omnipotent being that could have stepped in and saved them from an untimely death, but your god decided to just let them die? You don't have to be frustrated thinking "Was it because I didn't pray enough?" "Was God mad at me or them?" "Maybe I should have prayed more." Atheist take comfort in knowing there is no plan. 3. Atheist can be friends with everyone without having the thought in the back of their mind that this person's lifestyle may be evil. You have the power to accept people for what they are. Enabling you to enjoy their quirks rather than chastise them for being unique. Atheists can have relationships with people who have alternative lifestyles without feeling like they have to save them from some deity that is going to condemn them for being themselves. After all, if there was a creator, then he has made everyone the way they are. Atheists don't fear that a large part of the earth's population is going to hell for being true to themselves. 5. Atheists do not live with the fear of hell. This is one of the hardest things for religious people to shake and one of the best rewards. Religious people love the thought of heaven, but fear hell as a consequence. In order to lose the fear of hell, you have to let go of the false hope of heaven. Atheists have done both. 7. Atheists raise freethinking children; let them pick a religion, or none. What would you have picked? This is hard for parents. If a child wanted to be another religion, or even atheist, it would be devastating to most religious parents. Why not teach them about all religions and tell them why you believe the one you do, and then let them choose? Atheists do not force atheism on their children. We simple let them see the evidence for and against religion and let them make up there own mind. They may change there mind several times. This is okay. Atheists love their children no matter what belief they are drawn too. That is the beauty of free thinking. You can raise your children according to your values without feeling as though you have to defend Bible stories that even a child can see are fiction.
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DeadlyMACD Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - ...not jumping to conclusions about why it exists.
DbzmasterdbzNecross Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - akan- It is NOT well designed. A combination of random and non random (chaos theory, cause and effect, etc etc) events resulted in all this. Say the chances of our planet coming about are 1/100000000000000000. Does it matter? No, it does not. Why? Because it happened and that's what matters. One possible result was bound to happen, and it happened to be this one. It's like putting 200 blue marbles in a bag and one red one and you pick out the red one at random and someone says you cheated.
ItachiRaikiri Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - So you are saying that Godless nations behave more animalistic... Well my friend that is an Offence to all us Europeans.. And since when are we Godless? Most of the countries here have a state religion...
Ozzyman200 Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - No, this is nature, not creationism. You assume everything is well designed. What is your evidence for this assertion? What about all the design flaws? Everything you mention can be explained by nature. Does anyone have any evidence for creationism? Anyone?
ItachiRaikiri Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Support with humanistic values and education of course...
IIXboxSucksII Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - You know that wars are the fall of man not God!
IIXboxSucksII Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - the most suicidal people are atheists.
IIXboxSucksII Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Hitler referred to God a few times in Mein Kampf. Most atheists will go "He said God! That means he is a Christian!!!". In truth, Hitler never said anything about using the Bible or even reading it. He was not a Christian in any sense of the word, he just believed in a god, probably an impersonal one and certainly not the loving, moral God that I worship.
IIXboxSucksII Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Adolph Hitler and other atheist tyrants would be more than happy to accept if they could from their graves that they collectively murdered more than 100 million people. Whatever the motives for atheist bloodthirstiness, the indisputable fact is that not all the religions of the world put together have in 2,000 years managed to kill as many people as have been killed in the name of ATHEISM in the past few decades.
1ProudFemaleAtheist Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Whatever the motives for atheist bloodthirstiness LOL! "Atheist bloodthirstiness" yeah, sure.... People don't kill in the NAME OF ATHEISM. People DO KILL in the NAME OF GOD.
1ProudFemaleAtheist Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - the most suicidal people are atheists. Can you please list your source on this?
zenniz1992 Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Why do dinosaurce exsisted if god made the world in 6 days????
Poopmuffin717 Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - XboxSucks I know you're crazy because the Xbox is awesome also you believe in fairytales aka religion.
gmcjetpilot Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - A world ruled by atheist, each country w/ an atheist leader, there would be Wars over who had the best atheism. ATHEISM! HAIL ATHEISM! MY ATHEISM IS BETTER THAN YOURS! Atheism is useless, standing in the corner whining, while standing for nothing but being against peoples beliefs, in other words pointless. Ahteist: "Meeting call to order, past & current business, we don't beleive in God, I 2nd that, meeting adjourned". Stop shoving your anti God agenda down our throats! LOL
1ProudFemaleAtheist Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Were you being sarcastic???? I hope so....that would be the only way that comment would even make sense!
sonykroket Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Hiya, 1PFA, looks like Utube was offline for a while.
1ProudFemaleAtheist Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Then it went down again as I wrote a reply to you....LOL... How's things?
sonykroket Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Just dandy. How are things in the US? Creationists getting their butts kicked?
1ProudFemaleAtheist Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - As much as we can kick them...doesn't matter though they get right back up and spout the same crap over and over again.... I'm going to see Metallica next Friday.
joopq Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - "the most suicidal people are atheists. Can you please list your source on this?" i didnt bring this up but i did read this in my psych class. look at japan. atheism and religion, why does someone who doesnt like religion talk so much about it? im talkin to all the laothing athiests here. i mean i dont like brocoli, you dont see my sneering and complaining about it do you? talkn about the new farm by my house and all its friggin brocoli! lol RELAX. get a hobby or something lol
1ProudFemaleAtheist Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - Taking the time to write a comment telling other people what they should and should not be talking about? Gee, kind of says a lot about how "busy" you are with other things, doesn't it?
joopq Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - my point was, why not talk about atheism....why talk about things you hate? on christian sites they dont talk about how they hate atheists lol. they talk about how thy love and want to learn more about their thing. why dont atheists talk about how they love atheism, instead of how much they hate religions (that they do NOT have anything to do with) lol i mean wtf? and why are so many of you so mad? if i said i was religious, youd hate me, just for that! insane
sonykroket Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - Who cares.
joopq Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - you dont care about being insane i see, thats why you fail.
akan65 Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Every piece of matter. The oxygen you breath. The water you drink. The Earth is as far as we know the only place in the universe that even supports life and we know the universe is very big. Love, hate, morals. The fact that everything is so well designed. Now to an atheist the only reasonable excuse they can offer is? Give yours please...