Dear Atheist in a world without God who would make the rules?

Question

Since Atheist believe that there is no God. Why do you follow the man made rules of today. Who has the right to make decisions for you and why.

Please no answer dancing, or plain dumb responses. I just takes up the room for the serious people.

Answer 1

I don't follow the man made rules of today, well some of them I do but not all because most of them are ridiculous. I don't live in the same dimension you do. In my dimension reality is what ever you believe it to be. I am my own master and a slave to none. It's called being self sufficient and independent. :)



Practicing Shaman.. quantum physics rocks.

Answer 2

We're already living in a world without God. Believers just don't realize it.



In any case, God doesn't make the rules. People do, and at least in a democracy, those rules are generally based on some concept of the common good.



As to why we'd obey those man-made rules, there are a number of reasons. Simple respect for others, for one. It's in the best interest of our society for another. Enlightened self-interest for yet another. And if none of those work for you, there's the fact that the government has the authority to put you in jail if you don't obey the rules.



Granted, the rules don't always make sense and aren't always fair (they're made by imperfect humans, after all), but in a democracy, there are ways to change or eliminate bad laws.



Contrary to what many Christians believe, the US was not founded on Christian principles. It is and always has been, in theory and intent if not always in practice, a secular nation. Our government is expressly forbidden by the First Amendment from either endorsing or suppressing any religious belief. Unfortunately, certain neoconservative elements in our society and our government seem bound and determined to change that.

Answer 3

There is no god, and humans make the rules.





Who makes the rules in societies that don't have access to the bible?



The answer is people. Most humans are natural followers. They always pick a leader, or a group of leaders. Usually it's the most charismatic of all the people. The people that are chosen have the power to make the rules.



I follow rules mostly because I agree with them, and partly because it's easier to follow the rule than it is to pay the consequence. Murder is wrong. Rape is wrong. Driving to fast gets people killed, and gets me fined. I understand that rules are there for the benefit of society as a whole, not because god says so.

Answer 4

You answered your own question.



You mentioned, "man made rules."



The rules are made by people.



Are people not the ones making the rules, enforcing them, deciding when they've been broken and what penalties, if any, that gets rule-breakers?



Most people follow rules not because they're worried about hell so much as they don't want to pay fines or go to jail or face ostracism from their society or culture.



Breaking the rules can get you some dire consequences in this very life, here and now.

Answer 5

The main reason I'm an atheist is I don't like a lot of the rules God made up. I don't think homophobia should be a blessing, and eternal punishment is only ok for eternal crimes, so nothing on earth can make you worthy of Hell. I just live by the golden rule, equality, and non violence.

Answer 6

Rules are set by a group. If the rules work, the groups continues to exist. If the rules don't work, either the group changes them, or the group disappears.



Some groups make up a god, and say that the rules come from God. That has been a very successful model.

Answer 7

The society in which you're living makes the rules. In a democracy, those rules are made with the tacit consent of the people, and those people are free to live elsewhere if they cannot conduct themselves according to those rules. Alternatively, they can go to prison or live as outlaws.



I follow those rules because I agree with most of them, and the one's I don't agree with I actively attempt to change through legal, legislative means.

Answer 8

Let me ask you the opposite - do you live your life by God's instructions? Does he make decisions for you?



No of course not, that would be ridiculous; People have the capacity to make their own honest, truly good decisions and rules. If everyone believed in this without turning to their God for advice the world would be a happier place.

Answer 9

The time I heard the government made the rules, as well we follow the golden rule.

Answer 10

Dancing?

You mean Drink, don't you?



"Who has the right to make decisions for you and why."



No one. I make my own decisions and I am left to deal with those decisions. There are laws set up by government, chosen by the people. I can choose to break those laws if I want to but I am expected to deal with whatever comes from breaking those laws.

Answer 11

Just because we dont believe in your 'god' doesnt mean that we are 'evil' people. We follow laws made by the government. We dont murder because we dont want to hurt anyone. We dont steal because we want to be fair. We arent crazy people who go off and kill people and break laws. Your 'god' didnt make up all of the laws that I follow. The government and the people did.

Answer 12

To not believe in something you first must recognize it's existence and then choose not to belive in it. However you do belive it exists you just ignore it. So you live in the dark. It's like someone who has never lived in civilization and then must adapt to survive to thier surroundings. They see how things work and they imitate or follow with and conform. Some break the mold and do it thier own way. Eventually you do things your way without direction or emplacement of rules by others.



The main rules of man are reflected upon our basic instincts whether religously based or not.



However atheism is a joke and I'm not a bible thumping jesus lover or anything like that I just find it illogical to not believe in something without first recognizing it exists and then choosing to simply ignore it. Thats really whta an atheist is; a person who simply ignores what is.

Answer 13

Why follow man-made rules?



1) Because humans exist



2) Because of the golden rule (I want others to obey the law)



3) cause they lock me up if I dont.

Answer 14

This athesis is in sink with the teaching of Jesus

-- give onto Ceaser what is his.



In both the cases of an athesist and a Christian, wordly isses are for man to resove. Spirtial issues biblicaly speking is between the person and their God. I can't help that a lot if Christians don't understand their own religion.

Answer 15

The 'rules' are in place for a democratic society which means rule by the people. Most people can retain at least a few of the concepts.

Answer 16

Many people who believe in God make up their own rules. They just *think* their rules are from God.

e.g. once it was "God's law" in most of europe to never question the Bible. if you do, "God says" it's heresy or blasphemy and you'd likely be executed by "God's servants" and that is "God's will".

Throughout history, deplorable, even cruel actions have been justified by religious people saying "it's not our law, it's God's law."



Man also makes a lot of good rules that aren't in the Bible (I assume you are a Christian).

Like no selling crack.

No public nudity.

No raping people. All secular laws.

Answer 17

People make the rules. Without rules there is chaos. There does not need to be a divine law giver, we're smart enough to figure out that killing and stealing isn't in our best interests.

Answer 18

I believe that people are inherently good and that only negative reinforcements in life can push them to hurt others or themselves. If we operate in a community that values cohesion without divisive religions, then we can retain a natural sense of morality. Society will establish and enforce the rules as it does now.



Let me remind you that religion does not own morality. It simply has a narrowed perspective of it.

Answer 19

Nature rules, time rules. Sometimes I'll cross on red when there is no traffic and the waiters give me funny looks and i'm not even a very good atheist.

Answer 20

We make the rules; we always have & we always will, looking at the world today though I think people have forgotten just how powerful they really are. If we want a better world its up to us to act & make it how we want it to be

Answer 21

it cant? nicely, its not what i beleive your appropriate its what i understand you won't be conscious of who makes the guidelines of the land yet, i'm, and so are lots individuals all of those are desperate upon by ability of soceity, regulation and those in cost and in authority, in our own cultures, our own international locations if so, you are the individuals who make Hitler's Regime, Saddam Hussein, George Washington (slavery) and so on., Gods ."you're saying they are the government (alias God) so as that they have the right to make judgements for each individual appropriate? is this quite what you're saying pondering each and every of the frightening governmental practices we've the two persevered or heard approximately." as for this statment no, duh hitler isn't soceity,he's ONE individualmember of scoeity, it incredibly is that if youd otn understand, made out of hundreds of indivudals and those in cost as i mentioned, get to choose for upon which rules, rules, and 'morals' are folowed hitler, became into not purely any member of soceity,like me or you, he became into one with a brilliant variety of skill and he used it, and abused it as they so in many circumstances do i didnt say i trust the shown fact that governments make each and every of the guidelines, i mentioned they do, it incredibly is the fact in spite of if i trust it or not, it is so im merely answeringthe query you asked

Answer 22

society



i follow the rules of soceity "man made rules" because thats the life we have in this soceity, they keep this soceity and our specie4s functioning and in order, so i have no desire to not follow those rules



soceity and law has the right, beacuse we answer to our peers, we lao have the right to choose for ourselves what our personal beleifs are and how we live our lives

Answer 23

Most humans live in societies and rules are required to maintain them.

Answer 24

Law makers have the authority to make laws. In this country they are answerable to us. We have the knowledge, reason and common sense to govern ourselves. Why would we need anything else?

Answer 25

the government makes the rules and we follow them because if we don't we go to jail

Answer 26

I will answer the question for them since many are not taking it seriously. It would be survival of the fittest.



There would be no law exceptt those made by who ever was the strongest.

Answer 27

don't be ridiculous...rules are created based on what's best for society to survive! we do things not because god said it, but because if we lived like savages, killing, stealing, raping, etc...then society would never grow and humanity would be an even more terrible thing than it already is. Why is it so hard for you to accept the fact that we, for the most part, know whats best for us? god has nothing to do with this! i know that if i were to be stabbed, it would hurt...therefore, I DONT DO IT TO OTHERS! i know if my things were stolen or my wife cheated on me with my neighbor, that i would feel terrible. Apparently you are too small-minded to even accept the fact that you, yourself, know what's best for you. Instead you insist that god has to tell you what to do. Well, if you insist on living your life like a child, go ahead...it perfectly explains your actions.

Answer 28

Society. I have a little video you should watch that may explain it too you. This is thuderf00t's video on atheists and how they obey rules. Mostly, it's by society. If you kill someone or some other awful thing it's bad for society.

Answer 29

Apparently, based on your second paragraph, you do.



Reason decides, which includes using the correct standards for each case of inquiry. Logic and language usage decide linguistic questions, while questions about the world are settled by critical empiricism.

Answer 30

The same people who make the rules now, lawmakers, governments and local constabularies.

Answer 31

We do. The golden rule works well. Killing is wrong, if you need a God to tell you that there is something wrong.

Answer 32

Parliament. Democracy. Officials elected by the masses.

Answer 33

Our government makes the "rules" based on public consensus and our constitution.

Answer 34

Oops, sorry. Not an atheist here, so maybe I shouldn't post an answer.

Answer 35

People make the rules, and codify them into laws, which people have to follow.



No gods required.

Answer 36

My parents rose me right. That's how I know right from wrong.



Also, there's laws to prevent me from doing wrong if I wanted to. Though I sidestep them sometimes if I think the law is wrong. :]

Answer 37

we make the rules so we can live with one another. you don't steal from me and i won't steal from you. deal? there, we have made a mutual agreement. that wasn't that hard now was it?

Answer 38

God was a man made rule...because MAN created the bible.

Answer 39

you and I. we need to take responsibility for ourselves

Answer 40

Err...the government.

Answer 41

My conscience.

Answer 42

Please wait till Monday to ask you kindergarten teacher.



















































I am implying you are in kindergarten.

Answer 43

I'd be pretty damn good at it.