What do atheists believe in?

Answer 1

The core belief is that there is no God, That is the Basis for all Atheism. Now this view changes based on the individual. Some believe that the thought of a God or higher power is a form of ignorance and as such should be actively "disproved". On the other hand there is the atheist that does not believe in a higher power, and that is the extent of their belief.

Some atheists might be upset at this definition because it might not reflect exactly what they themselves believe. What is a given is that They do not believe in a higher power. If they have a belief other than this, it is not atheism, perhaps they are agnostic

Answer 2

Answer 1

I'm a atheist so I will tell you

We basically do not believe in god...

We are not satanist...many people believe that is what it means

Answer 2

Atheists have no formalized set of positions except that they have no belief in the existence of god(s). Even this is applied by external parties. To ask what their beliefs are is similar to asking "What are the rules of not playing Baseball"

Subdividing atheists into strong, weak or other is generally done by theists who seem to have a need to explain the whys of someone who does not follow their world view. Among atheists discussions of religion are infrequent much like discussions among rational adults about what the monster under the bed is really like or what snacks Santa likes best.

While there is no atheist "bible" of beliefs there are several common threads in most atheists' worldviews:

• there is no deity, heaven, hell, devil, salvation etc.
• science works and gives us the best available understanding of the Universe
• people are moral without the threat of displeasing a deity
• life is a wonderful thing, partly because it is so fleeting
• altruism is a good thing, everybody wins
• there are no miracles, just probability
• they don't want you to try and "save" them
• people should be able to live in peace with each other
• people should know right from wrong without following the rules of ancient books that were written by less advanced humans
• when you're dead, you're dead

Answer 3

Atheism is simply a lack of belief in gods. A theist believes in gods. An atheist does not.

Answer 4 - Religious View

Atheism is simply failing to recognize the existence the Almighty God.According to Atheists ,everything came into existence by chance.They have a lack of understanding and need to learn the truth.

Answer 5

Atheism is simply the rejection of the proposition that a God or gods exist. Imagine a court trial with three jurors. The proposition at hand is "Mike stole money from the liquor store". The prosecutor argues and the defense argues. The first juror believes that the prosecutor is correct and that Mike certainly stole money from the liquor store, because Mike's account registered a deposit with the same amount of money as was stolen, so he says "Guilty". The second juror believes that the defense is correct and Mike certainly did not steal money from the liquor store since he was at work at the time in question, so he says "Not Guilty". The third juror does not find either the prosecutor or the defense arguments necessarily compelling and holds that the proposition has not been proved to be true. This does not mean that it is false, but it does mean that he must vote "Not Guilty" even though he would equally vote "Not Innocent".

If we return to the proposition "A God or gods exist", both of the "Not Guilty" voters would be Atheists. There may be some Atheists like the second juror who hold with certainty or beyond a reasonable doubt that the proposition is false and these are called Hard Atheists or Strong Atheists. Most, however, are like the third juror and simply hold that the case has not been made well enough to hold that a God or gods exist.

Answer 3

The word believe is often used by theists to try to show that atheists do believe in something without any proof. There is nothing else than NOT believing (in the sesse of "have concluded that") in a god that "unifies" atheists into the group atheists. Therefore you can't know anything about what each individual believes in when you only know that they define themselves as atheists (that they DON'T believe in a god). Atheists may believe in any conspiracy theory they want to, that vitamin C controls cancer or the Nickel Back is a good band. Many may also believe that science will ultimately provide answers to any resolvable question.

Answer 4

Answer:

Atheists generally believe in provable facts. Howevert as atheists are not a group, except for the common position regarding the nonexistence of deities, individual atheists are free to be on either side of any question they want - the Zamboni "liberation" treatment for MS, global warming, UFOs. word wide conspiracy theories, Nazi moon bases etc.

Answer 5

Just about anything other than God(s). That's it. Some are nihilists and many don't even know what they are. They just know God(s) is/are full of it.

The definition of 'believe' is "to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so". Atheists take the stance that the truth can ultimately be proven and prefer to accept only truths that are either proven or have overwhelming evidence in their favour. Belief is more the domain of theists.

Answer 6

An atheists can have many beliefs or resonable expectations, as atheists are individuals. The only main factor to atheism, is a rejection of all god claims, and faith based beliefs.

Faith is the acceptance of a conclusion without proof or evidence. Sometimes, in spite of contrary evidence. Belief is the assertation of a claim derived by many factors, and is not exclusive of religious claims. Such as, "I believe I left the light on downstairs"...

Answer 7

We do not believe God or any other supernatural stuff exists.
They have no "beliefs" about gods. They know that there is a Scientific way of how the universe was created.

That he doesn't exist. They believe the same for every religion, but only a few extreme athiests express their position on religion.

Answer 8

A theism means without god. It means they do not believe in any god or God at all.

Answer 9

They do not believe in God at all. They believe there is no God.

Answer 10

Atheists do not believe in gods. Theists believe in gods. It's as simple as that.