How many of you atheists believe in the Big Bang Theory?

[Nay_Sayer]

I don't believe in the big bang. I know all things were created by the mighty FSM.

Praise be Xis noodles.

[The Grand Nudger]

There’s nothing stopping atheists from being religious. There’s nothing in particular driving atheists toward any specific religion, either. While it’s often fun to consider what benefits a particular religion could have or religious thinking in general might provide (whether that’s practical/social/evolutionary), it’s not a very good description of why people are religious, assume a religion, or leave one.

We don’t think to ourselves “what can I get out of this” when apprehending our religious convictions. Thats a transactional superstition and if anyone thinks it’s compelling consider the inanity of trying to convert by bargaining. Or the misery of those who had very clear and existential reasons to assume a particular reason…and still refused.

There’s only one reason to be religious, no matter what the religion is. A deep and genuine conviction in whatever the religion is.

[Simon Moon]

the big bang theory seems to fit the available evidence so far (if you run the expansion of the universe backwards it goes down to a single hot dense point) but new evidence may change that, and what happened in the first few fractions of a second is not clear (things get a bit quantum and strange!) Still makes more sense than a god just "poofing stuff into existence"

right because the universe just poofed into existence it has definitely not been chilling for eternity in a static universe state, that is just to difficult for anyone to imagine, an infinite and eternal universe? God just thinking about it must hurt the poor wittle atheist brain.

Maybe you should actually study a bit on what the BB actually is.

Because your dishonest straw man is not it.

[Simon Moon]

wtf?

What are the benefits of not being religious, versus being religious?

No dogma, no doctrine, for a start.

I am completely able to follow where the evidence leads, whether it it disagrees with any religion.

I want my internal model of reality to map as closely as possible to observed reality. Not being biased by any religion gives me a big advantage in accomplishing that goal.

[Jackalope]

What an utterly bad faith poll.

Troll.

[The Valkyrie]

This obvious troll will be going bye-byes soon.

[Foxaèr]

So soon?

[Thumpalumpacus]

What would be the reasons that an atheist would want to be religious, non-theistically?

Community, moral support.....that's it, I guess.

Those are hardly a monopoly of religion.

[Authari]

There’s nothing stopping atheists from being religious.   There’s nothing in particular driving atheists toward any specific religion, either.  While it’s often fun to consider what benefits a particular religion could have or religious thinking in general might provide (whether that’s practical/social/evolutionary), it’s not a very good description of why people are religious, assume a religion, or leave one.  

We don’t think to ourselves “what can I get out of this” when apprehending our religious convictions.  Thats a transactional superstition and if anyone thinks it’s compelling consider the inanity of trying to convert by bargaining.  Or the misery of those who had very clear and existential reasons to assume a particular reason…and still refused.  

There’s only one reason to be religious, no matter what the religion is.  A deep and genuine conviction in whatever the religion is.

You are my favorite person out of this entire forum, if there were one critical thinker to be found, it would be you.

[Nay_Sayer]

There’s nothing stopping atheists from being religious.   There’s nothing in particular driving atheists toward any specific religion, either.  While it’s often fun to consider what benefits a particular religion could have or religious thinking in general might provide (whether that’s practical/social/evolutionary), it’s not a very good description of why people are religious, assume a religion, or leave one.  

We don’t think to ourselves “what can I get out of this” when apprehending our religious convictions.  Thats a transactional superstition and if anyone thinks it’s compelling consider the inanity of trying to convert by bargaining.  Or the misery of those who had very clear and existential reasons to assume a particular reason…and still refused.  

There’s only one reason to be religious, no matter what the religion is.  A deep and genuine conviction in whatever the religion is.

You are my favorite person out of this entire forum, if there were one critical thinker to be found, it would be you.

You're trying too hard now.    May FSM heal you.