Should we really thank god for everything we have or achieved?

God is imaginary, I agree. I also have achieved a lot and never asked or thanked a higher power for it. And though I am a non-believer I do abide the state and moral laws in general. But on the other hand I think religion and god are necessary in this world. Because most people don't think like some of us here and god is like an invisible, omnipresent and undoubted state leader. If you believe it means you feel like you are helped and also watched by him and you try to abide the moral laws. I think if religion didn't exist we would have a hundred times more immoral people in this world.

i would thankful to god because god let me live this long there are so much giving god give to me if god doesn't exist then who create the whole universe do you think it jusst happen like big bang theori but the choise is your

You are right. We should thank ourselves and our allies who have helped us. We should not waste our life giving credit to a being that, if real, according to the Bible, has killed so many people and has ignored the evils of the world, which he created, and is very quick to punish us for falling victim to, even though he knows what we will do before we will do it. If God does exist, which I very highly doubt, he is a jerk who displays every single one of the seven deadly sins he is so against. I would never worship a guy like that, or anyone at all. I am worth a lot. I am not a lesser being. My life is also worth a lot. I will not cheapen by using it only as a means to an end, which I can't even prove is there.

Hi Ferb! First of all, I respect your belief. As for me, I believe in a God even though he is unseen. I thank Him everytime i wake up as i believe that He is giving me a chance to be a better person. I thank Him for giving me very supportive family and friends. Everything I have and see all came from Him. I believe i am nothing without Him.

For me, I will always thank the Lord everyday no matter what happens. We believe Him because of our FAITH. But I would not argue with you if you don't believe in the existence of God. I respect your belief. If I have to argue with you, it will only give me stress. Although I'm poor materially, I have a lot of true friends who care for me and I believe that they are God's instruments. They accept me as I am and that's already a great blessing for me. For us Christians also, it is only God that satisfies our spiritual thirst and I experience that until this time. The happiness that I'm encountering now could not be explain. I also experienced during the past that material things were not able to satisfy that deep longing for something. ... I'd like to ask you these questions:Are you satisfied with your life or are you really very happy with your life now despite the material things that you own? Is there a deep longing, desire inside you that you really do not know what it is? You think and you reflect.

I do respect people and I think I like mylot so much because we can discuss anything in this way. So, I respect your decision to state that God does not exist and therefore you need not be thankful to God. I understand, so my next comment is not one of criticism but reason. I mean this sincerely and hope you believe me. To thank God is not a question for you; this is evident because I think you have made up your mind that God does not exist and will never change that view. My question back is why? I think your reasoning is based on atheism. Though we may not agree with each other I do respect your decisions and hope you will always respect mine. I believe atheism is a church less religion but a religion (false) just the same. I see atheism as a real identity and it does have a following. It’s message is (do not believe in God) and it does attempt to convince others to follow its reasoning and accept it as true. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsQ0xuwUx8TPClWSlfvpn5vsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20111102142542AAx88r1

As with many people, I find myself thanking God only when I get out of sticky situations, or when things I expected to go out badly turned out to be all right. But I also do recognize the fact that I got out of the problem because I also did a lot of things and worked hard. I was religious for many years in my life and have joined various Churches and did all that bible studying and preaching house to house. Then with more knowledge, more reallizations came. I still believe God exists. I still believe he will fulfill His promises. But I am not one of those who anticipate those promises anymore. Should we thank Him? That all depends on one's beliefs and faith. Normally I don't.

Personally, I think that no we shouldn't. Some invisible being way far away gave us something good, but it's always something/someone else's fault when something bad happens. The bad things mean you aren't being good enough for some reason. To me, that's a load of bull. I've never understood how it can be god's goodness when things go right, meaning exactly as we want them to, but when things don't go right, meaning how we don't want them to, it's the fault of the devil or outside forces. If god is all knowing and controlling, wouldn't he have us do things that we don't want to? Wouldn't he give us those challenges as well as the good things. Shouldn't we be thanking him for the challenges as well as the blessings? And why are the blessings and challenges so self determined. I could look at someone's life and say "that's awesome" and the person living it would say "this really sucks".

We need not thank God because he has done nothing for us. It is we who work hard an dearn for ourselves.

Besides of the fact I don't believe in god I don't see why we should thank him for everything we have or achieved. What I have or achieved is my own work. I worked hard for that, I payed prices for that and it was me who made my dream come true. I did not pray and sit down on my a.. and waited for help being too lazy to work for it myself. And if i should thank god for that, can I blame him for everthing bad happend to me in my life as well? Since it doesn't make sense at all that I need to thank someone who doesn't exist for what I gathered by working hard but can't blame him for all the bad things done to me. If you do the thanking you can do the blaming as well!

Of course you should thank God for everything you've achieved because man can do nothing without God. God is the sole creator of our universe and he provides his guidelines in order to provide blessings for you! Your abiding to his guideline yields rewards and blessings for you, in your case the achievements! God makes it possible for you to attempt and succeed and without him, you will undoubted fail miserably! *My views, don't flame me!*

I give my thanks every day to God for what I have in my life. I do believe that yes, God had a hand in everything I've accomplished and everything I have today.

I would never deny you the right to believe the way you do. It is not the way of God. However, I would like to say something since I believe that somehow you have been led to believe in a false teaching. God created everything. The very talents that you use to gain the things that you have were given to you. You did nothing of yourself to gain those talents. The every elements that this world are made of were created by God. This woeld was created as a proving ground that will allow us to go through trials tht allow us to return to that God that made us if we obey His commandments. Just for the very reason that if we mess up, Jesus came to earth to die for our sins that we could still return to Father In Heaven and have the opportunity to progress to become like God. That is a short synopsis of the beliefs I have and you can believe as you will. I would just ask that you ponder on the things that I have said.

It is very important to thank for each thing which he had done. The success in life comes because of the works of the god who is above us. So it is very important to thank him, who give all the success to you.

Your website suffers from the same failing as most other militant western atheists sites and pronouncements. It is an elegant but weak attack on the Abrahamic concept of a god but ignores all of the other gods and goddess that proliferate in the mind of the human species. I see nothing in it that proves or disproves the existence of my favorite god, Ganesha. Your atheism is not true atheism. It is only an unreasioned attack on the Abrahamic concept of a god and ignores the beliefs of the majority of the human species who live happily beyond the restrictive influence of the despotic god of the Bible.

Yes, we should always thank God for everything

I would agree with you that God isn't responsible for everything that we have in life, but to go as far as saying that God isn't real is a massive overstatement my friend. There are many things in our live's that we may be responsible for, but there are so much more things that we have had no part in. For example we did not create the earth that we live in, we did not create the big bang, we did not create the families that we are so lucky or unlucky to be born into, we are not responsible for all of the miraculous systems of life that seem to somehow work just perfectly throughout the world, we did not create water, plants for food, or the animals that we harvest for their meat. Man may have created some things that are considered good but they are mainly technology and other things that really aren't necessary to life. These same things that we have created have caused some of the biggest problems in the world such as global warming, infestation of invasive species, overpopulation, deforestation, extinction of species, and plenty of other ignorant moves on our part. So much of the so-called wonders that man has created are slowly and surely tearing this world apart. If we don't realize what we are doing sometime in the near future we will soon have no plants for food, will have killed virtually every other species in the world, with no plants we will lack the necessary medicine to heal the cancers and diseases in our lives that are generally self induced. We certainly don't have everything now from our own efforts. God has given us all the things that are necessary for us to survive in our lives, such as life itself. Man has simply given themselves conveniences to make life easier even though they may not be good inventions, some even ripping holes in the ozone layers and destroying our ecosystem. Some of us humans are so ignorant of the damage they are doing, and sin is something that shouldn't be ignored as well because sin does not make us good people. Some sin may be a bit too much but the basic ideas of it are good to make us each a good person. So yes I do think that we have a lot to thank God for whether you choose to except it or not, I used to feel the same way you did and then I started accepting a divine source into my life and my life is so much better, beautifuler, and I am no more pessimistic about things in life that I now see are all well in their own right. I hope you think of your religious views in the opinion and find something to believe in because our beliefs are what keep us fueled throughout life. Good day friend.

I do not get why people who have no faith in the lord post religious post I believe in god and I try and thank him for everything someday we will all die and you shall see I'm not disrespecting your beliefs I am simply stating mine