Atheists... Do you really not believe in a Creator, or do you just not believe in the Christian Creator?

Atheism means lack of a belief in any deity.

The prefix a- means without and theist means belief in god.

True atheists do not believe in God, Allah, Vishnu, Thor, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or anything of that nature.

Do you truly not believe there is any possibility of an entity which is responsible for the creation of the universe?

Someone who wrestled with this would likely be an agnostic, but definitely not an atheist.

There is no Creator. That is pretty much that.

I lack the evidence to believe in any creator I’ve ever heard of or imagined to date.

I don’t believe in a personified entity creator.

How a christian creator any different from the other ones (please, don’t answer that)? I don’t believe in any creator in the god sense, for the obvious lack of evidence reason.

I guess by this definition then that I am not an atheist. I don’t believe there is no possibility of a creator, just that it is unlikely and that if there is one, it is not going to be like whatever human-created religions have described it as.

I belive in gravity…and my parents created me… I wasn’t here to witness anything further back. I’m more of a “Non-Practicing Agnostic”... So I don’t worry about things that I have no control over.

I object, your Honor. Asked and Answered. many many times

I think that @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard pretty much hit it on the head.

Personally, I don’t believe that humans can really know whether or not there is a Creator as we have limits to our abilities to perceive and comprehend. Then again, I am an Agnostic who feels that Atheists are jsut as foolish as those who follow a religion as both seem to think they know something that they have no way of possibly knowing.

If you allow for the possibility of any Creator figure at all, then you are not an Atheist.

I consider myself an agnostic atheist. I do not believe in the existence of any sort of god or “creator,” thus I am an atheist. However, I do acknowledge the possibility that I am wrong in my beliefs (or lack thereof) and that I cannot really ever know if there is or is not such a deity, therefore I am also agnostic.

The preponderance of the evidence has not demonstrated the existence of a Creator to me and I try not to believe in things that have no evidence. [Insert 50 posts of DNA coding debate here] :-)

Really? “An entity which is responsible for the creation of the universe” – it even sounds silly and unbelievable. And why would the Christian version be any more believable than Zeus, Gaia, The Sky Mother, or, hell, any of these

I am purely against organized religion, I don’t believe in the Christian creator at all, and I hate that that there is a fear of this awful, evil, hell instilled in us to make us behave. It’s a little ridiculous that we are being watched by this invisable entity, and this entity is responsible for everything that is and will be. Personally I enjoy the belief of just being the best person I can be, and that the answers will come as I look for them. Be good, and good things shall come.

I really just believe in something along the lines of big bang without outside assistance from a superior being.

I don’t believe in a ‘creator,’ per se, but I do believe in a greater spirit/entity but I have no belief whatsoever in its power to reward, judge or punish. We do that ourselves.

I do not believe in any specific creator, or that there necessarily was/is any creator. I confess I do not know, so I definitely hold open the possibility that there is or was a creator. I can see lots of problems with accepting the full account of the God of the Desert. There are a ton of direct contradictions in the books covering him. Since he’s supposedly is omniscient and omnipotent, I would have expected better editing. And I see no instances of direct intervention in cause and effect. So whatever deity may exist must act like the watchmaker, starting the instrument running then disengaging to watch.

I don’t believe in a sentient creator, but if it turned out to be the case I’d be fine admitting I was mistaken.

Don’t care about either, to begin with. But if I must choose, it’s the former.

As an atheist I don’t believe in a creator. If I believed in a god/creator, regardless if it was Judeo-Christian or not, I would be called an atheist.

I don’t believe in fuckall. God, Odin, Satan, Aztec gods, whatever. If it’s a deity I don’t believe in it, and I don’t believe in creation, either.
The Christian god is what is prevalent in our side of the globe, so maybe that’s why Atheism is often attributed to Christianity, but for me it’s a lack of belief in anything like that, and has nothing to do with Christianity itself. It’s just something else I don’t believe.

I firmly believe that man created God in his own image and gave Him all the powers man wanted Him to have, including creating the earth. Why? to answer the unanswerable questions of the time. The contradictions of the angry, punishing God of the old testament, the loving caring God of the new testament and the unchanging non-interfering god of the Koran has never been answered to my satisfaction, but all three versions were made to explain every unknown thing and to make rules by which to live.

I don’t believe in any deity, but religion is still a rich and interesting subject because it’s such a large part of our culture. Science hasn’t answered all the questions about the universe yet, and I’m fine with having unansweed questions. I would rather accept not knowing than put my faith in something when there is no proof. If we ever discovered objective, scientific proof of a deity, I would have no trouble changing viewpoints.

It isn’t about belief or disbelief in a god to me; it’s that I’m only willing to believe in things that have been proven.

I do not believe in any creator. I do not believe in any deity. I do not believe in any higher consciousness.

Show me proof and I might change my mind.

I don’t believe in any creator. I could be wrong.

I don’t believe in any creator because I simply haven’t gotten sufficient evidence for one. If there really is a god I’d like to think he’d understand that.

As an atheist, I don’t believe in any kind of deity, creator or supernatural force of any kind. I believe the universe’s creation was a natural scientific phenomenon.

There could be a god, he could even have a big robe and beard, and he could have made the universe, but it could also be the world of a creature that is half frog half speedboat.

So, I will grant you a very slim possibility that there is some kind of thing that could perhaps be called a god, that is responsible for the creation of the universe.

However, given that Mars, Apollo, Jehova and all these other gods all seem to be an invention of man, I would say that it is highly unlikely that there is a god. I just can’t see how a caveman’s shot in the dark at answering “why are we here?” could happen to be right, specially when considering all possibilities.

I do not believe in any ‘Creator’. We and the earth were not created by some being. Cosmology and Evolutionary Science are my gods, I guess you could say, but they sure are easier to understand and require less ‘faith’.

I believe about the same as @DominicX, and that is why I consider myself agnostic.

@poisonedantidote I like the idea of a frog-speedboat creator

I don’t believe in any sort of mystical sky wizard, whether it’s Jesus or Quetzalcoatl.

Really really.

I don’t see reality as being sans deity/creator,
I see reality without any unnecessary additions or explanations (id est, deities/creators).

Atheism for me is not actually subtractive, it is just not additional—do you follow? I don’t actively reject the idea of God by believing in atheism, I don’t see the need to assert my atheism that way… I just don’t believe in the concept of believing in God (personally). As to how the universe was created, I entertain my own negative capability, content with half knowledge.

I don’t think I really identify as an atheist, but I’ll throw my two cents in anyway.
I think there could be a creator. Probably (in my opinion) not a creator like the one in the bible. Probably not even a deity who communicates and has a certain set of morals and wants praise; just something that set the universe into motion.
Or there could just not be a creator. It sounds unlikely since the universe exists so there must be something that created it, but what about the creator itself? How did that come about? A creator of the creator of the creator? Never ending creativity? I could do for some of that. It’s all very fuzzy to me. I’m not sure what I think, and I’m not sure that the secrets of the universe are for me to know, just to speculate over.

There is no logical reason to think that any creator exists whether we speak of YHWH, Pan Gu, Brahma, Marduk or Izanami and Izanagi! Laws of science, not gods, explain everything in the vast Universe.

I believe that the universe came from a giant egg and the big bang is the hatching… and the suns are cells and the universe came from a bigger universe that laid us as an egg. Also I believe that we are in a alien zoo.

Most atheists refuse to believe in something for which there is no evidence. The God of Abraham as revealed in the Torah, New Testament and Qur’an is almost certainly a creation of primitive men driven by fears of the unknown and developing myths to comfort those fears. There is powerful and abundant evidence that such a being does not exist. Could there be a watchmaker deity who set the laws of physics in place and started it all? Sure. But I won’t believe there IS such a being till there is some evidence to support it. Till then, I am perfectly comfortable admitting the truth that I do not know what caused the Big Bang.