Question:
So apparently there are "many atheists" here who have "serious doubts about their atheism" according to one honest but Anonymous poster?
Cheese Us
2018-05-22 23:08:02 UTC
Who on here now fits this description? What are your doubts? Feel free to go anonymous to save face.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20180522224729AA2OIvU
21 answers:
Corey
2018-05-23 04:48:52 UTC
Atheism is nothing more than the lack of a belief in a deity, anybody that is unsure if there is a god or not can be considered an atheist,
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2018-05-23 00:55:21 UTC
Serious doubts huh? I don't believe you fully grasp some concepts in life. The standard Christian way of thinking is to believe what you are told and to block out any and all doubts and when that fails just keep lying about your unwavering faith until you die. The average non believer isn't just hoping to be right and forcing all doubt from their minds. Most are willing to look at new information and facts and when presented with credible evidence will accept the new information. I do seriously doubt I know everything there is to know. Until new evidence becomes available, I remain godless.
Caesar
2018-05-23 00:15:35 UTC
Apparently, need to hide in shame hiding under anonymous because those fantasies are obvious. He or she needs to think to answer questions make these place some arena... Gee Zeus
ღAmayAღ (Pond)
2018-05-22 23:45:51 UTC
I think that poster has got an obvious agenda, and (s)he doesn't really care about honesty all that much... :S

Speaking as a former atheist who actually does, though? Just in case you want my input? :)



I never did have any "doubts", per se. Not in the sense of thinking: "oh, maybe God is actually real! I've arrived at a crisis of atheism now, ZOMG, n000es!!" :-P But in retrospect..? I have realized that I WAS indeed deeply yearning for something more! Although I did not, at the time, recognize that as being in any way a spiritual thing. And it was not at ALL at the level of conscious "doubt", or at the level of my intellect! All of the arguments still made sense, and did NOT add up in the favor of theism, as I had previously conceived of it. And then sh*t happened. Almost like a bomb going off, and my whole reality got ripped into pieces. And that very deeply changed everything inside of me, and all my concepts of.. well.. everything. Forever. And it was not at ALL a rational thing! It had no use for any arguments! It was all EXPERIENCE, and it was beyond words of any kind.. Still is, mostly. Although I've found a few. Because as you might have figured, I'm a very verbal person, and my brain was just sort of like: "WTF?!" for a few weeks there, from not having any words at all. :-P



..So no conscious doubts. But more like a deep inner seeking/yearning. Which actually, again, in retrospect..? I think has always been with me, in some form or another! It has basically defined me.. And me being such a vocal atheist, for many years..? Was also a part of that extended search for answers, and something deeper, actually! And when you have that mindset, to start with..? And then you add really powerful psychedelics, at high dosages, to that mix..? Of course something like that was going to happen! Which, again, in retrospect, (*les shrugs*), I now see that that was EXACTLY what I'd subconsciously hoped for, and wanted! Like: "f*ck this stupid, solid, predictable, meaningless, black-and-white reality! I'll take ANYTHING that's beyond it.." And I got more than what I realized I'd bargained for.



..I'm not going to say I've got NO agenda. Because really, I think we ALL do! But honesty, openness and transparency..? Is at the very least a HUGE part of mine! I don't want to deviously try to undermine you guys' viewpoint, or any such thing at ALL.. I'm just me! And this is just what I experienced! And I realize, I probably started out from a rather different place than a LOT of people! And probably, before any of the aforementioned experiences, or anything, my brain already worked rather differently from that of the average atheist on here! Which is why so many of you guys can be COMPLETELY satisfied with just the physical world, and feel no need for anything else... While I? I just simply wasn't wired that way. And decidedly am even less so, now. So.. that was just how the cookie crumbled, and things. :)
2018-05-22 23:42:05 UTC
No honest person hides their identity behind a mask. That's what criminals and liars do.



An anonymous post claiming that huge numbers of atheists have "serious doubts" is necessarily the "brain-child" of a dumb@$$ religiturd liar addicted to robo-spewing Christer stupidity and ignorance.



How do I know this?



Because only a lying dumb@$$ religiturd could be so brain dead stupid.



Rolls eyes
ANDRE L
2018-05-22 23:36:26 UTC
-That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.- Christopher Hitchens



I've been an atheist for 45 plus years and I have never been more secure about that than now.
SolusLutrinae
2018-05-22 23:17:27 UTC
Yawn.



It's the same as all the apologists who, against all odds met a Berkeley professor who also was the victim of massive head trauma that caused them to reject any rational reason for rejecting religion and mysteriously accepted in the place of that point some random idiocy that has nothing to do with either rational debate nor evidence.



Seriously.



This happens every time according to apologist books. It is almost as if they have no clue and are making stuff up.
2018-05-22 23:16:56 UTC
The poster obviously has serious problems with his real identity.
tentofield
2018-05-22 23:14:18 UTC
Atheism is the disbelief in gods. That's it. If you believe in gods you are not an atheist, if you don't you are. Where is there room for doubt? You either believe or you don't believe, you are either an atheist or you are not. There are no shades of grey, no fences to sit on, it is one or the other.



Agnosticism is not somewhere between atheism and theism, it is completely separate. Agnostics say that it is impossible to know if gods exist therefore whether they do or not is a matter of belief. Agnosticism is about knowledge, atheism is about belief.



No atheist has "serious doubts about their atheism". If they think there might be gods they are not atheists.
2018-05-22 23:10:45 UTC
you don't "doubt" atheism. that's like saying getting a hobby is "considering giving up 'ahobbyism'"
military supporter
2018-05-23 16:56:38 UTC
The ONLY doubt I have about my atheism is how so many people can be stupid enough to fall for an ergot induced hallucination.
?
2018-05-23 09:29:33 UTC
Oh come on stop desperately clutching at straws when the reality is it is Christians that are leaving in their numbers!!!!!!!!!!!



The only way primitive religion exists today is through the child abuse of forcing it into very, very young children but thanks to better education and growing intellects so many teens are able to discover the truth, throw off the indoctrination and step into the real world!



So atheism is not a conscious decision or a belief but a realisation!



Pew News reports Christianity is shrinking with a corresponding rise in atheism!



Five times as many Americans in 2014 said they never prayed compared to those asked the same question in the 1980s
Archer
2018-05-23 07:44:07 UTC
News Flash, one is not 'many'.
Chances68
2018-05-23 03:02:27 UTC
LOL...complete and utter nonsense.



The claim of some anonymous crank is meaningless.
2018-05-22 23:41:12 UTC
Ppl who haven't made up their minds are generally referred to as agnostics, as they don't believe an answer can be positively known either way. not atheists, despite what their self claimed lable is.



Any legit atheist doesn't wonder if gods exist, we simply refuse to believe since u fail to present supporting evidence of them.



For all we know, u were this poster. U say it was anonymous, meaning it could be a christtard.
2018-05-22 23:40:27 UTC
The last of my doubts about the whole thing past when I was like, 17 years old.
Cheese Us
2018-05-22 23:27:22 UTC
I'm answering my own question. I am also an atheist who has no doubts and has never engaged in private conversations with any Christians here about my doubts.
2018-05-22 23:24:41 UTC
There may be atheists that have doubts - if Anonymous thinks its "many" they need to provide evidence.
skeptik
2018-05-22 23:17:45 UTC
Apparently, we have different definitions of "honest."
2018-05-22 23:17:07 UTC
No, dear. I have no doubts. I don't, personally, know any atheists who do. Those I know are like me -- mature and well-educated people who've been atheists for many years, who became atheists after much thought and study.



I recently faced the possibility of a cancer diagnosis. The cancer in question is quite serious and has a poor prognosis. Before my surgery and while I was waiting for the path report, I did not once pray or in any other way ask a god to spare me. I didn't suddenly experience any doubts about my position on the existence of a god. I didn't start thinking that there might be an afterlife. My convictions remained as firm as they ever have been; they were not at all shaken by the threat of an early death.



On the other hand, I've known dying religious people who really were not coping, when you would have imagined they'd be calm and peaceful in a rock-solid expectation of an afterlife and their heavenly reunion with their loved ones. I've found that quite interesting.
2018-05-22 23:12:23 UTC
How does one poster know how many atheists feel? I wonder if the anonymous poster was secretly a religious person? 🤔


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