I know for me personally.. it has never been a conscious decision or choice.. I just know that through my life I have never seen or heard anything that made me believe.. but I have never shut it out.. I just never experienced anything that made me think there were gods..
So for me it was/is not about rejection.. just something naturally I grew to have no interest in knowing more about.
I still see, hear.. experience the beauty in the things around me.. (always) I still appreciate all of those things.. But to me.. they are there because of nature ... earth seeds water.. sun etc.. and not because I believe a god put them there.
I do my best to be the best version of me I can be.. I naturally live by own version of the commandments.. which really is just about being a good person.... and an Atheist I maybe.. and a non believer in anything already mentioned.. but it doesn't make me any less of a person.. in many ways.. I think it has made me a BETTER person.
(I know you didn't say I was a bad person.. LOL .. I was just rounding up what I was saying )
But for me myself.. my view encompasses all of those things.. I don't believe in ANY of those things. So I am not an Atheist who only believes there is no such thing as a god. I just don't believe any of that stuff mentioned above.
I only believe in the here and now thing.. and things I have seen as proof to me.
RE: Does the Atheist have a soul?
I know for me personally.. it has never been a conscious decision or choice.. I just know that through my life I have never seen or heard anything that made me believe.. but I have never shut it out.. I just never experienced anything that made me think there were gods..So for me it was/is not about rejection.. just something naturally I grew to have no interest in knowing more about.
I still see, hear.. experience the beauty in the things around me.. (always) I still appreciate all of those things.. But to me.. they are there because of nature ... earth seeds water.. sun etc.. and not because I believe a god put them there.
I do my best to be the best version of me I can be.. I naturally live by own version of the commandments.. which really is just about being a good person.... and an Atheist I maybe.. and a non believer in anything already mentioned.. but it doesn't make me any less of a person.. in many ways.. I think it has made me a BETTER person.
(I know you didn't say I was a bad person.. LOL .. I was just rounding up what I was saying )