I'm an atheist my girlfriend is a christian. We would like to know why you believe what you believe. What is your proof other than, "I just believe it." We want to know so as to give me, anatheist, more data on different opions. I am an atheist. I am always in search of a true belief but there is never anything (atleast not that I've seen) that proves anything.

And christians, make sure you know that atheism is not a belief but rather a lack of any in the first place. We belive in any religion or higher power so we contradict them. We don't believe we evolved from anything either.

So does anybody have any reasons why they "believe"

because i refuse to hit an intellectual brick wall by just deciding there is no god and staying with that (no offense)

there is something, but i refuse to believe all people who claim that god has revealed the true answers to him, in the old days those people wrote biblical stuff, today they're sent to a mental institution.

looking around at the wonders of the world its hard not to believe that something made this, it doesn't seem to have just come together

i am a man of reason, i apply reason to whatever i do, including religion and my reason dicates that religions such as Christianity do not make any sense (i'd explain further, but i'm sure others in the forum beat me to it hundreds of times) i've looked into other religions, but again they just seem like either good ideas/morals gone horribly wrong, or just stupidity taught to others

humanity has debased religion, they have strived to hard for foolish reasons, they have taken it much farther than it was supposed to. i have gotten basically every religious person i know to say that religion in human hands is flawed one way or the other so that they must become closer with god, i've done just that, i don't let anyone get in my way and teach me the "path" i am my own clergy/cleric/priest

i, my friends, am a deist

What, my friend (and I mean this in no sarcastic way at all), is your definition of a deist?

a belief in god, shown in nature, but lack of trust/belief in religous texts, authority, and prophets

along side the use of reason in religion