Questions for desi atheists

[Theorist]

Re: Questions for desi atheists

@Mirch

Once one does not believe in a higher power everything is meaningless to them. Read Jeffrey Dahmer’s biography , he was an atheist and is known to say that

“If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing…” [An interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, Nov. 29, 1994].

http://www.biography.com/articles/Jeffrey-Dahmer-9264755?part=0

It does not mean that all atheist are immoral , serial killers , cannibals or rapists. Religious people have those too. But I think those religious folks are religious for name sake , deep down they have denounced the religion and have a facade of religion to fit in or to hide their heinous crimes they do so.
**At one point I became an atheist too because I saw that very religious folks were involved in bribery , adultery, tax evasion , theft, lying , cheating and what not and I thought , may be these guys know there is no God and they are not sharing the information. They know something which I do not.
**My point is that once someone has taken a higher power out of the equation or lost the belief that one day he/she will be accountable for his/her crimes then what force will keep that person on the right track , to follow the norms and have high morals.

So It was the actions of the people around you that made you question your faith. I began with questioning the existence of God. What people did/do never had any effect on my understanding of God or religion.