Why I Don't Believe In God

Reasons Why I Don't Believe In gods

The whole idea of revolving your life around faith bothers me. A being you can't prove that exists or not dictates rules from their magical chair in the sky so you can live life their way. If you do not follow their rules, you are punished in some fashion. The only way to redemption is a spiel about some sort of second chance. This sounds pretty absurd to me.

For one, any being who truly loves you will not care how you live your life as long as it is an overall good life. Do your parents love you any less because you don't always listen to them? How about your friends? How about your significant other? The answer is most likely no. (Keep in mind these beings are usually given "human like" traits by the stories and texts that are written about them in the first place, so it is safe to compare love. Think otherwise? Prove it.)

Secondly, why would you want to associate yourself with some yet unseen being who forces you into a self-loathing state because you don't follow their ways? This is one issue that really bothers me. You see it more in Christians than any other religious group. Everything good in their life is attributed to God, while anything else makes them feel like they aren't good enough for her/him/it. I understand modesty, perhaps not wanting to take credit for good deeds because you don't necessarily see it as a good deed, but as "usual business". There is a certain line, however, that you can admit that you have accomplished something. Likewise, it's natural to feel upset for some misdeed or mistake, but to get into a crying fit how you aren't worthy enough shows a low self-esteem.

Why spend your entire life apologizing to something that you can't see, to something that you don't even know if it hears you or not? As far as we know, we have one chance. Being human, we do make mistakes. It's not an excuse for the mistakes we make, but they are a reality. Learning to live with the mistakes you make and evolve from them is what makes life so interesting. Plus there's no guarantee that you'll get a second chance. Make the most of life you have with your first chance.

Next each religion talks about how it's the only path (some religions excluded). If all of these religions exist, and they each state they are the only path, how is a person to know which one to choose? It's the paradox that has troubled many minds. Can you even begin to know which one is correct? If you can, how? You can blabber on about faith, but in the end you've proven nothing to the person who is either undecided, or refuses to use religion as their crutch in life.

The "correct" path issue is so diverse. We must also look at the fact that there are many different sects to each religion, that have their own separate rules with the major rules overlaying them. Some popular orthodox religions state that alcohol and pork is okay, that it's not a sin to consume those things. Others state that it's okay as long as it's not in excess, and others state none of that is ok. Your pantheistic religions state that everything is some sort of god or goddess, which each their own name and attributes (not all of them have an "afterlife", unless you consider recycling yourself into the soil as one, but there are some that do believe in reincarnation, however). Some religions want to believe in free will with omnisicient beings. That too is quite paradoxal, but is best saved for a later time. Others don't believe in the omniscient aspect of their deity, but will follow the rest of the rules to the letter. So if people are free to make the rules as we go, how should I, or anyone else for that matter, know which version of their favorite deity is the right one, or even the right religion? (Take that Pascal's Wager!)

Some religions out there breed ignorance with the ideology that their way is the true path. If their religion states that if Bob, the Almighty Tuna Fish created our super computers, then no matter how much science you show them will prove otherwise in their mind. The late Bill Hicks stated these people look "unevolved". Well, they are "unevolved", not in the aesthetic sense, but in the intellectual sense. Their inabilities to understand science and the world around them are profound. There is one simple concept they always overlook. Faith equals subjectivity. You can not accurately test subjectivity. Real world physics equals objectivity. You can accurately test and evaluate it.

Another topic I'd like to touch upon are marriage ceremonies. I've only ever witnessed Christian wedding ceremonies. These so called "ceremonies" are the most artificial thing I have ever had the displeasure of seeing. Throughout most of the ceremony, the pastor preaches of God's love. How its God's love that this is possible, and through him you only know love, and through him only two people can love, and how he'll lead to salvation, and how Jesus died for our sins because of love. (This is usually the point in the ceremony where my brain feels like it's been butt-fucked.) The only time the wedding is about the two people is when it comes to the repetition of the vows. A ceremony as meaningful as a wedding should be about the two people who profess their love for each other, not another contrived event about God. It takes away the focus on the two people and needlessly places it elsewhere. Where is the incentive to have the ceremony if it isn't about you and your spouse?

Do these people really believe that their god is so selfish that on this very special occasion, it needs to be about him? This sounds fairly vain to me. Vanity is a foible, and I thought their god was without flaw.

The biggest reason I have to not believe in any deities is because not one single person can show me conclusively that one exists. I can try calling for their presence, but none arrive. I ask people for directions to find one, hoping that I could be proven wrong, and all I get is some spiel about having faith. I ask for examples of things that show that they exist and I get circular arguments about the sun and the moon. If the idea of a "complex design" is what gets you hot, so be it. For this person, it's all about the facts.