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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Misogynist2014(m): 7:07am On Mar 19, 2015
ooman:


Just because you dont know doesn't mean no one does.
Teach me how big bang created the splendid female reproductive system, put its milk in the brèast and remembered puting the seed in males. Yesterday, I saw a beautiful 1 week old dog and wondered why there are people who don't believe in God.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by GeneralShepherd(m): 7:08am On Mar 19, 2015
Tallesty1:
Nairaland Atheists Be Like.





Thank God I am an Atheistgrin


Atheists do have faith really but it’s obvious that they do not have Christian faith. If they did, they’d be Christians.

Atheists Belief Without Certain Proof and that is a form of faith. They can't prove to me that God doesn't exist same I cannot do that to them yet we belief in our opinions, that is faith.

An atheist in a bus has no proof that he will reach his destination successfully yet he beliefs he will, that is faith.


The way you lot reason backwards is amazing! why should an atheist disprove what is yet to be proven?

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by GeneralShepherd(m): 7:11am On Mar 19, 2015
Emax:
Only a mentally derailed human will doubt the existance of the creator of universe we call home.

Who created this creator? How did he/she/it/they come about?

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by ooman(m): 7:12am On Mar 19, 2015
Misogynist2014:
Teach me how big bang created the splendid female reproductive system, put its milk in the brèast and remembered puting the seed in males. Yesterday, I saw a beautiful 1 week old dog and wondered why there are people who don't believe in God.

Big bang didn't do that. Its not a creator, its just a model.

If you want to learn new stuff, you have to realize you dont know first.

Believing in god makes you think you know, that god did it answers everything.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by uchennamani(m): 7:14am On Mar 19, 2015
michaelwestern:
On the surface it appears that atheists only believe in scientific facts, but when you dig deep you will realise that most of what they believe in requires blind faith.

Take for example the big bang theory, which most atheists believe in. How can a sensible human being believe that chaos created this wonderfully designed earth? how can randomness produce a very complex entity like a human being and other living things. This goes against a law in science that things go from orderliness to disorderliness and not vice versa.

Consequently, i believe that it requires more faith to be an atheist than to be a theist. God bless you all.
You just made a fool of yourself in a public platform like this. Do you know the rules of logic? Didn't they teach you that for one to have a good argument, the premises must support the conclusion? So your reasoning(premise) that 'most atheists' believe the big bang theory formed your conclusion that it requires more faith to be an atheist? And again, you used the adjective 'most' to generalize about all the atheists. Assuming, without conceding, that it requires faith to be an atheist, the statement will still be wrong if its validity is anchored on the premise that 'most' atheists believe the big bang theory alone.
Let me enlighten you on the articles of faith. Articles of faith are found in all religious ideologies in the world. It simply tell you to believe that God this, God did that without subjecting those claims to an empirical analysis. Our christian brothers and sisters believe that God created the world in 7 days. There is no scientific proof for this. The articles of faith simply tell you to believe the story. And that's all. Now you can't subject same 'belief' thing to the way an atheist thinks. He follows scientific reasoning in his everyday activities. Atheists don't believe the big bang theory. There is nothing to belief here because it is still a theory. But it is still a whole better than believing that God created this world in 7 days.
An atheist whole point is not that there is no God. It goes much further than this. Even if there is a God, what kind of God is he? A God that can punish innocent generations for the sins of their fathers and mothers. A God that hated Essau and Jacob for no reason. A God that put 'the forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden knowing that Adam and Eve will taste it. That God is certainly very very bad. We take solace on the fact that he doesn't exist.
Please come back when you have a valid argument.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by incrediblestev: 7:15am On Mar 19, 2015
MzNelly:
Atheists are simply confused set of people.

Only a fool will look into the heavens and say "There is no God."
You are a fool if you think your views of an existing supernatural deity brings it into existence. I don't believe in any deity, you don't have to share my views but respect it, fool.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by incrediblestev: 7:17am On Mar 19, 2015
Misogynist2014:
Teach me how big bang created the splendid female reproductive system, put its milk in the brèast and remembered puting the seed in males. Yesterday, I saw a beautiful 1 week old dog and wondered why there are people who don't believe in God.
can you stop whining..... Not everyone shares your religious wonderment and intellectual limitations.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Onyiibazz: 7:18am On Mar 19, 2015
Nipeks:
Atheists do not claim the Big Bang theory to be a fact. It's just a theory not yet a fact. But unlike the story of creation in most religions, this one is scientifically possible.

The question you people have not been asking yourselves:
If the universe is too complex to exist by chance and was created, then God who is greater than the whole universe must also have been created by something greater which must have been created by something greater. If we follow this theory, there cannot be a first creator.

PS: I am not an atheist. I have no established religion. I believe in only one thing. Myself.

End of discussion! I also asked my room mate the question, and he has not been able to answer me, and until he does, am not believing his christian god

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Youngzedd(m): 7:18am On Mar 19, 2015
GodMode:


Just because someone is not of the same ideology as you does not mean you should call them "fools".


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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Alphonsocapone(m): 7:19am On Mar 19, 2015
little knowledge of science makes one an atheist, vast amount of knowledge makes one conclude theres GOD.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Misogynist2014(m): 7:27am On Mar 19, 2015
ooman:


Big bang didn't do that. Its not a creator, its just a model.

If you want to learn new stuff, you have to realize you dont know first.

Believing in god makes you think you know, that god did it answers everything.
What do you as an intelligent being want to 'learn' from a non-intelligent process?

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by ipunchbitches(m): 7:27am On Mar 19, 2015
uchennamani:
You just made a fool of yourself in a public platform like this. Do you know the rules of logic? Didn't they teach you that for one to have a good argument, the premises must support the conclusion? So your reasoning(premise) that 'most atheists' believe the big bang theory formed your conclusion that it requires more faith to be an atheist? And again, you used the adjective 'most' to generalize about all the atheists. Assuming, without conceding, that it requires faith to be an atheist, the statement will still be wrong if its validity is anchored on the premise that 'most' atheists believe the big bang theory alone.
Let me enlighten you on the articles of faith. Articles of faith are found in all religious ideologies in the world. It simply tell you to believe that God this, God did that without subjecting those claims to an empirical analysis. Our christian brothers and sisters believe that God created the world in 7 days. There is no scientific proof for this. The articles of faith simply tell you to believe the story. And that's all. Now you can't subject same 'belief' thing to the way an atheist thinks. He follows scientific reasoning in his everyday activities. Atheists don't believe the big bang theory. There is nothing to belief here because it is fact. Whether or not you believe a fact it won't change anything. It will still be a fact.
An atheist whole point is not that there is no God. It goes much further than this. Even if there is a God, what kind of God is he? A God that can punish innocent generations for the sins of their fathers and mothers. A God that hated Essau and Jacob for no reason. A God that put 'the forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden knowing that Adam and Eve will taste it. That God is certainly very very bad. We take solace on the fact that he doesn't exist.
Please come back when you have a valid argument.

AS IN SERIOUSLY SO MANY ILLOGICAL ARGUMENTS NAWA FOR THE WAY SOMEPPL THINK

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by michaelwestern(m): 7:29am On Mar 19, 2015
GodMode:


Atheists believe in themselves...

If you're finding it difficult to believe in yourself then you have problem.

Atheism and science are not related..

So how did the earth come into existence? and how were human beings and other living things created?
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by michaelwestern(m): 7:30am On Mar 19, 2015
Chrisbenogor:

Dear Oga,
If you need to know, ask Google. If you still cannot understand then all the science teachers you have had in your life should pay your family back all they spent on your education plus damages.
Way before the big bang theory atheists filled the earth.
So how did the earth come into existence? and how were human beings and other living things created?
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by michaelwestern(m): 7:30am On Mar 19, 2015
Chrisbenogor:

Dear Oga,
If you need to know, ask Google. If you still cannot understand then all the science teachers you have had in your life should pay your family back all they spent on your education plus damages.
Way before the big bang theory atheists filled the earth.

So how did the earth come into existence? and how were human beings and other living things created?
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Misogynist2014(m): 7:32am On Mar 19, 2015
incrediblestev:
can you stop whining..... Not everyone shares your religious wonderment and intellectual limitations.
It is you that's limiting yourself, with not trying to exploit the spiritual world, even when the physical has refused and cannot answer a lot. Let me test your POWER, quickly create something, no matter how tiny or useless from nothing.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by swisschris(m): 7:38am On Mar 19, 2015
Atheist a religion solemnly organized to prove there is no creator ,worst than Satanism, neither hot nor cold u be pit out of the mouth

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Masterclass32: 7:38am On Mar 19, 2015
allanphash7:
So your own jesus is God?




Chai! U re wrong


Jesus was never a God

Abi?

Jesus Christ is not "a God". He is God. The only One there is.

You will do well to accept Him in your life.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by uchennamani(m): 7:41am On Mar 19, 2015
DOD1:
An atheist in a bus has no proof that he will reach
his destination successfully yet he beliefs he will,
that is faith.

wrong
you just committed a fallacy. It is called false analogy. The analogy you gave isn't valid. If I say that I believe Buhari will make a better President, I'm only suggesting that he may be better than Jonathan. If you ask me further, I will say that something tells me that he will be better than the current president. Same thing goes for when I say I belief my girl friend loves me. This type of belief is always anchored on the point that there are things we just have hope it is the way we want it to be. Things like boarding a bus and hope that we get to our destination.
But will due respect, this type of 'belief' or 'faith' is different from a Religious belief. Adherents of a particular religion simply adhere to such religious doctrines because they are simply told to do so. And they accept without questioning. This is the type of belief system atheists disagree. And using the atheist-on-a-bus analogy is not a sound premises for your conclusion.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by musicwriter(m): 7:43am On Mar 19, 2015
@all.

Stop making the mistake of attributing atheism to science. Science was invented by people who believed in God.

Galilea Galilea
Isaac Newton
Dmitri Mendeleev
Descartes.
Kepler.
Copernicus.
e.t.c, all of them believed in God.

Even Albert Einstein was pantheist. He agreed intelligence is involved in programing nature.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by ooman(m): 7:46am On Mar 19, 2015
Misogynist2014:
What do you as an intelligent being want to 'learn' from a non-intelligent process?

This is why you can never learn anything.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by JustCalMeDBoss(m): 7:47am On Mar 19, 2015
But if faith is an in questionable believe in GOD( a higher power) how do atheist have faith.

I belive in God but not the way most do. I do not belive jesus died for our sins but of our sins I.e he died because humans we're very wicked. I belive man leaves paradise to get xperience and the earth is just one of those places he does. Life is like a school if man passes he moves on to the spiritual if not he reincarnates back. It brings us to the LAW OF HOMOGENOUS SPECIES(birds of a feather) which means humans are perculia, e.g an ijebu man, igbo man. Wheather u call it God or the SYSTEM classifies you and u grouped respectively. So statement like nigerians are... Dis or dat holds true. I also belive science only tries to discover the existing laws of creation.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by wordcat(m): 7:47am On Mar 19, 2015
MzNelly:

Only a fool will look into the heavens and say "There is no God."

Truly I say to u that Only a Deranged Fellow will look into the sky and say, "There is a god".

How can a normal human believes that he has a Father who lives in the sky?

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by slogozer(m): 7:49am On Mar 19, 2015
MightyMuna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo

My belief is that there is a supreme entity or being, something that governs the universe. However, I don't believe that supreme being is the supreme being of religions.

Because it's abundantly clear that the characteristics and attributes of God in these religious books are false, contradictory. Embodiment of paradox.

They say God is all-knowing, all-merciful, etc yet he will torture you for eternity. I repeat eternity.
How can he say his love for you is unfathomable and his mercy knows no bound but in the same breath say he will PUNISH YOU FOR ETERNITY.

1 billion years and he's still punishing you. Eternal damnation. When does the mercy come into play?


Hebrews 9:27-28 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

If you reject Him and the mercies provided for ALL of your days on earth, nothing should surprise you if you spend ALL of your days in hell. Justice demands that God does exactly what has been proscribed for SIN. For the wages of SIN still remains DEATH.

If you are afraid of billions of years without being removed from HELL FIRE, RUN to JESUS: Here it is WHOSOEVER believeth. John 3:16.

His LOVE is here. There He would have translated from Saviour to JUDGE. Choose Him as Saviour Here or have Him as your JUDGE THERE!!

The Choice is yours. INDECISION or ATHEISM is a DECISION.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Nobody: 7:50am On Mar 19, 2015
sonOfLucifer:
It takes even more faith to believe a dead Jew took the blame for evil I didn't commit. Who send am?
Glory to Lucifer.
u will die horrible death before this month end, if it didn't happen know I'm not a man of God
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by GodMode: 7:53am On Mar 19, 2015
michaelwestern:


So how did the earth come into existence? and how were human beings and other living things created?

Your question will be answered after death...
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Misogynist2014(m): 7:56am On Mar 19, 2015
ooman:


This is why you can never learn anything.
Even your name grin..... professing to be wise, they became foöls.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Nobody: 7:56am On Mar 19, 2015
MzNelly:
Atheists are simply confused set of people.

Only a fool will look into the heavens and say "There is no God."
And only the wise who stay on earth would say there is somebody they haven't seen up in the sky,let the Intelligent viewers of this thread,put the fool and wise where they ought to be.
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by ooman(m): 7:57am On Mar 19, 2015
frankmishael1:
u will die horrible death before this month end, if it didn't happen know I'm not a man of God

Wow. What a way to preach a god of love.

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Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by ooman(m): 7:58am On Mar 19, 2015
Misogynist2014:
Even your name grin..... professing to be wise, they became foöls.

And now to abuse. Sounds like what illiterates do.
Re: I Dont Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by akay48(m): 8:00am On Mar 19, 2015
kayceerilyn:
if a house can not come.by chance,a stack of rocks cannot be attributed to chance,there is no way our perfect earth will come by chance. It is the work of someone perfect as well.
Did you say "Perfect Earth"?

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