Any Athiests who now believe in God?

Please explain how humanism has no ethics or morality.

Humanism has no moral exemplars, like Buddha, or Jesus Christ. Additionally, it promotes excessive individualism, which is not good for the greater good of society.

I was agnostic for many years until I embraced Islam and it's answered a lot of questions I had about the meaning of life and the universe, couldn't be happier.

You're promoting religious belief on the grounds of fear and self-serving calculation, your God must be so proud of you.

Wow. You have just solved moral philiosphy in one fell swoop. Congradulations.

Humanism gets wound up in world views like socialism which are based on collectavism. There is certainly an element of humanism that is based on respecting the individual though and thier rights. Often as a moral response against what humanism seems as the moral failure of religion to respect individuality. Individualist morality is still a form or morality.

There is loads of moral philosophy that deals with morality in a godless context. To say that all athiest thinking involves no morals is beyond stupid. Like they are all nihilists that think you can do whatever the **** you want.

Yes, but Atheists don't have any moral exemplars who set a moral standard, like Buddha or Jesus Christ.

Atheists have morality.It comes from millions of years of evolution.All the great apes are social animals and will work together if they need to.The idea that we would all descend into anarchy without religion is baseless.Scandanavia is one of the least religious countries on earth and they don't seem to have succumbed to anarchy yet.In fact it's one of the best places to live.Compare with places that are extremely religious like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan,.Not exactly great places.

It's Christian morality that is largely responsible for child abuse in the Catholic church.If they allowed priests to marry and fulfil a basic human need a lot less child abuse would have gone on.And that stems directly from Catholic teaching.What about how Christians worsened the Aids crisis by teaching that condoms are sinful.Or how about the thousands of gay people driven to suicide by Christian teaching? Don't talk to me about Christian morality.Its not a thing.

As for Pascal wager you still have infinite loss if you choose the wrong God because most God's don't like you worshipping other God's.Not to mention wasting the one life you actually have on something false.

Atheists do not have any independent morality. Their morality is based on the religious and cultural environment in which they grow up in. That’s why the moral beliefs of Atheists in India, Indonesia and the United Kingdom are going to be completely different as they are shaped by three distinct religion and cultures.

Scandinavia is not that great, and certainly not somewhere that I would want to live, particularly with all the recent crime wave there. Scandinavia’s success is down to three things: It’s Judeo-Christian foundation, small population size, and abundance of natural resources.

The Islamic countries that you mentioned are not places that you would particularly want to live in. But, that’s because Islam has it’s own independent morality, and so in these countries the religion has too much dominance over the state and has not evolved. Yes, unfortunately people can still do evil things in the name of religion. But, they can also do evil things without religion too. Just because there are problems within religion it doesn’t mean that we should discard religion all together. We should instead evolve in our behaviours and try to eliminate the injustices carried out, and justified in the name of religion.

Blaise Pascal already addressed that problem. We know that Zeus, Odin and the Easter Bunny are not real. There is no infinite loss to be had if you believe in a creator. I don’t believe in Allah, because I have studied the history of Islam. There can only be four possibilities, from which I have derived that belief in a creator still gives me a higher chance of an infinite gain.

It’s better to take an exam and get a C, than to not try at all and end up with an F. And it’s not a waste of time at all, because it’s better to spend you’re life doing something that is meaningful to you, than to not try at all. So, in this sense being a Christian is a positive net gain in my life.

I'm not promoting anything. I'm just saying that according to Pascal's Wager it's more rational to believe in a creator than to disbelieve in a creator as you have a greater chance for an infinite gain. Even if you belief in the wrong conception of God you still have a greater chance for an infinite gain than if you choose to disbelieve in the existence of a creator, whatever that may be.

I was agnostic for many years until I embraced Islam and it's answered a lot of questions I had about the meaning of life and the universe, couldn't be happier.

I'm glad you found peace in Islam. I found a real sense of purpose in Christianity and couldn't be happier. Such is the beauty of religion.

Yes, but Atheists don't have any moral exemplars who set a moral standard, like Buddha or Jesus Christ. So, in Atheism it's anything goes really. What's considered immoral now, may be considered morally acceptable as according to Atheists morality is subjective, and merely down to the will of the people.

But for one of you, your sense of peace, happiness and purpose is false and will result in an eternity of unbearable torture.
I wonder which one it is?
And is each of you comfortable with the other's fate?

For the millionth time, atheism is just a lack of belief in gods. That is all.
It is not a belief system or a moral code or even a lifestyle guide.
An atheist can hold any moral or philosophical position as long as it doesn't involve the existence of gods.

Seriously, how hard is this to understand?

I personally don't believe in Islam. But, if it gives someone a sense of purpose in life then I don't see anything wrong with it.

I actually don't believe in eternal torture.

I think religions should evolve with the times.

In Atheism it's anything goes really as there is no objective moral code like in Buddhism or Christianity for example, which are based on the teachings of Buddha and Jesus Christ.

What questions about "the meaning of life" did it answer, and what were those answers?

But for one of you, your sense of peace, happiness and purpose is false and will result in an eternity of unbearable torture.
I wonder which one it is?
And is each of you comfortable with the other's fate?

Our purpose, why we're here, what the end goal is etc, I'm not going to go into detail about it here though.

Obviously I would prefer @Golden State to believe in Islam as that is what I feel is correct but each to their own and as long as he is happy and gets meaning and purpose from Christianity then I say to his religion him and to my religion me

That wasn't what I asked.

What you believe or don't believe is irrelevant. If Christianity as described in the Bible is true, then your god will subject NinjaSquirrel to an eternity of torture. How do you feel about that?

Me too. However, that somewhat makes a mockery of the idea of divine revelation.

It also means that your "objective morals" are actually "socially evolved morals" - which is what an atheists morals are. So you argument about morality fails.