Why they become Atheist?
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Because they have stopped having faith in the Word of Allah, or the most recent prophet. Ones who see that their religion is choosing to do something that they don't agree on.\nThen they become like an island, with no god, no truth to follow, and all other religions seems just as corrupt to them. As they all have proved to be in the past. If they then do not find the teaching to find God within themselves, then they are left floating on a very turbulant ocean of life.
618559
No thanks. Would you like to become an atheist?
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I am an atheist and I married another atheist in a Catholic church.  She had been baptized Catholic when she was a child.  We simply lied to the priest and had our wedding.\n\nThe only reason they have such rules is to help their religion get bigger and make more money.
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it attracts a certain amount of stupidity.\nsome people want to be atheist just to piss off the monotheists, or because they think its the easy way out.\ni hate being lumped in with them.\natheism is difficult in that i don't have the second chance of heaven if i mess up my life here. there's also no one watching over me, no one who's my built in invisible friend. \nif i have a moral dilemma i can't just go ask my priest for guidance, or look into the bible for answers, i have to reason them out myself. \nmany people for those reasons choose a monotheistic religion (it doesn't matter which one). \nbut i like mine. even though its hard, i'm not up in the middle of the night worrying about satan. i don't have to listen to someone who i know in my heart isn't honest and doesn't want the best for me. i don't have to conform. i can make my own personal morality.
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An Atheist is a believer.  However, they do not believe in the correct religion.
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Atheist.  Converting to the others would be like going from the frying pan into the fire.
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If showing them that it is impossible for us to be alive without God, and that God's creation obviously points to a Creator doesn't work, then all you can really do is pray for God to open their eyes. Keep working on them until they either completely refuse to listen, or until they finally realize there is a God. Just keep praying! \n\nAlso keep reading God's Word. Sometimes when you are reading the Bible, God will show something to you that you never noticed before. If you pray about it, He may show you a new way to prove that He exists to that atheist. Just do right, read your Bible, and pray!\n\nI hope God opens the door to lead that atheist to Him. When he finally realizes that God exists, then you should be able to lead him to Christ. God bless!
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Speaking as a former Atheist, there is a great deal of bitterness engendered by the treatment they receive from christian churches.  My parents became atheists because of the rampant hypocrisy in the churches in which they were raised, and I, having realized the hypocrisy and chosen atheist at a young age, innocently professed it at school, where I was taunted, kicked, beaten, and generally mistreated by teachers and students alike.  I learned to hate Christianity and Christians and have only recently come to terms with the fact that Jesus had some good points, it's just his followers that are a problem.\n\nThis is just my experience, but perhaps it will answer your question.
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some people have a large amount of "brain" and "logics"\nthey don't believe what they couldn't see, couldn't touch, couldn't feel.\n\nand some people thing that even some atheist doesn't believe in god, that people is blessed also.
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Atheists are usually people who center themselves completely in reality and to the laws of science. They don't believe in the devil (technically there isn't really a religion of "satan/satanism") but they just don't have a belief system. They might believe there are powers around them or powers higher than them, but most likely, these are people who are mainly focused only in the world of logic they see in front of their eyes. \nThey might give a harsh response if you were to ask them if they believe in god and why they don't believe in a god; but then, how would you feel if someone asked you something and tried to convert you into something you really didn't believe? You can't just think that Christianity/Catholic is the only religion out there and that everyone should experience it.
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The atheists that I have sparred with on YA do not lie. I think atheists are just naturally tied to the physical world that they can confirm with their senses. The living God dwells in eternity which is beyond the physical. He has revealed Himself in scripture, but if you read with the attitude of not caring to find Him, He will not reveal Himself. It is very difficult for the atheist to accept the idea of God, so science is their key to understanding. Unfortunately, like all things physical... it will come to an end. And therein lies the rub. They must come up with a doctrine to explain the hereafter, and that can be quite disquieting.
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There are good people in all walks of life. Some of the most honest, trustworthy people I have known have been atheists \n\nReligion does not make you good unless you think you are bad already and need to change for the good.
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People get comfort from believing there is a reason for existence, that it's not all accidental or the product of a statistical probability. \n\nLook at it this way: if you are a believer and you die and there is no God, what difference does it make.  If you are not a believer and you die and there is a God, BIG SURPRISE!
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You picked a very difficult question to answer for the simple fact we have atheists that don't belive in God. The evolution of mankind lay's in the hand of the unknown, but it is simply a miracle of life period.
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"Atheism, in its broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of any deities."\n=> Wikipedia\n\nI suppose it's because atheists disbelieve in the concept of a god in any sense, so people think they are deluding themselves or something.\n\nAlso, as atheists do not have a comprehensive value system like Christianity or Buddhism, they are automatically deemed by some to be immoral - although this is an unfair accusation.
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Atheists are under represented in prison (i.e. they go to prison less), they divorce less, tend to be more educated.  Religion isn't the great thing believers make it out to be.
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as an atheist (former catholic) i think. and my thoughts lead me to the conclusion that they are all misled children who choose to believe in some sky-king instead of empirical evidence. their ignorance facilitates all of the social injustices you have listed and many others. their religions are just tools of social control. they are blinded by their righteous vanity and ignorance. people of sense and intelligence need to appeal to the children of these misled people in hopes of breaking this cycle of ignorance.