i know nobody can change your mind about what you believe but i just want you to know that you're brainwashed or something... i dunno whats goin on in your head but i feel for you and i will pray for you and i will especially pray for your children. Im not saying youre a bad person, i dont know you- but the things you say and the way you think about the world disgusts me. i dont know if you're a happy person or what but i promise you if you could let this atheist shit go and experience emotion and know that we do have souls and there is a God you could be so much happier and live a more fullfilling life. if you're saying we all started out as some bacteria, or something? well, THAT WAS SOME DAMN GOOD BACTERIA. you dont think it's amazing that two people can make a life and women can give birth? or even something as simple as looking at a sunset. those arent just things that happened because of some "big bang" or bacteria or something. you're all wrong and i can only pray for you. your thoughts and beliefs are so negative, i cannot even comprehend what goes on in your head. i just dont understand how anyone could shut out so much good in their life? somewhere on your site you made a comment that well educated people shouldnt believe in such "bullshit" when actually, you're the ignorant one. God Bless you and I will pray for you and other atheists. this is what life is all about. think about this: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 14: 4-8) God loves you unconditionally no matter what and your life is merely based on God not even existing. you should be ashamed. HOLLER

"Concerned"

Why do you assume that believing in something that isn't true is a good thing?

Martin Willett

http://mwillett.org/

o that is just so sad. i know there is a God and hopefully one day you will too and i just hope it's before you die.

Why? Because the creator of the universe, builder of billions of galaxies wants me to believe he exists and if I don't he gets a bit miffed?

Sorry. I don't do primitive superstition.

Martin Willett

http://mwillett.org/

ok whatever you're entitled to your own opinion and so am i but you and people like you absolutely disgust me. you dont think the world and everyhting in it is jsut amazing? you dont feel lucky to be here? o right, we formed from a peice of bacteria, i forgot- a peice of bacteria evolved into such amazing things -there's no higher being it's just science right? i feel so sorry for you. you're just living to die and that's sad. o and FYI: believing in God and having faith has absolutely nothing to do with superstition. i think you're so caught up in yourself and your beliefs that you cant see whats really out there. im sorry you think the way you do.

Why should we assume there's “a higher being”? It is not obvious. Not at all.

http://mwillett.org/atheism/wonder1.htm

Why does believing in one particular hypothesis make a person a better person? That is very far from obvious to me.

Why would not believing in an unobvious being make that being sore, or to be even more absurd, jealous? What has an Alpha and Omega god got to be jealous of? And where did that god get his human personality from? Our human personality can be explained by evolution. Evolution explains our sense of morality and our thirst for justice. How can a god that pre-existed the universe have desires, morals, plans, an ego and wisdom? Your religion doesn't answer any questions, it raises more than it answers and then denies the possibility of them ever being answered until you are dead!

Science answers questions, it raises more, it sometimes fails to answer those you most need answering but there is no suggestion that you will never get the answers because you are simply not important enough in the general scheme of things to be allowed to know the answers until you are dead, if then.

I don't believe in gods. Not out of spite or to be big or clever, to annoy my parents or to justify my lifestyle. I simply do not believe in gods. To pretend I did would be a lie, and lying is wrong. Right and wrong have come from a morality that has evolved in an evolving community of intelligent social beings. That is understandable. How a god on a mythical cloud could create morality from nothing is not understandable.

If your faith makes you happy I'm happy for you. But I have no desire to lie myself into any false happiness trap. It isn't me that is living to die. I am living to live. And learn. And understand. I am not living in mystery to die in rapture.

Martin Willett

http://mwillett.org/

my beliefs are not false. that offends me that you would say that. thanks for being happy for me though. there is nothing i can say to you anymore. you are just one of those people I, along with a lot of other people, cannot and will not be able to ever understand. i'm sorry you think the way you do. you just dont get it. that sucks.

“I believe my beliefs are false” is an absurdity. Of course you believe what you believe is not false belief. But do you really know that they are not false beliefs or is it just that you have trained yourself that particular doubts are sinful, that certain things should be simply certain things?

I did not say your beliefs were false. I said it would be lying for me to try to hold such beliefs because I don't believe those things. I don't do belief as an act of will. For me beliefs develop naturally, I do not force them. Ever. Forcing beliefs is wrong. It is a sin against yourself. That's what I believe. It's not what I have been told to believe or what I have chosen to believe. I don't believe things in either of those two ways.

I have no memory of anybody ever telling me that trying to believe something against the evidence of my own mind was wrong. I worked it out all by myself. It is my highest ideal, my personal ethic and philosophy, I have been true to it since I was a boy.

I am sorry that you and so many others are too dense or brainwashed to understand why I don't believe the things you have chosen to believe. That really does suck.

Is your stupidity and failure to understand as willful as your belief?