Atheist

I like this quote, "If there were no God, there would be no atheists."

God's divine intervention (i.e. trials) goes BOTH WAYS. All circumstances can turn people to God. Scriptures reveals that no trial, no disease or illness, no accident or injury reaches us apart from God's permission. Christians can answer like Joseph to his brothers who sold him into slavery, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” There are some who seem to look on the gloomy side and never able to do respond in faith to life's problems, instead, they grumble about the trials that they forget God's powerful grace.

Everyone have their own definition of happiness. There is no dispute in that however if a person uses God for not having happiness, that's the reason of my post. There are people who are happy without God and in reality, the Scriptures have explained that. Therefore, there's no dispute in that matter.

People can be happy with God in their lives.

People can be happy without God in their lives.

There are people who are not happy simply because they are not happy for whatever reasons since there are sources of "happiness" which are from the flesh point of view or from the spiritual point of view.

From my personal point of view that the universe is beautiful and mysterious. I also agree there are people who don't need Jesus to see that. Christian faith is not optimism because it breeds false hope. I believe a Christian should not be either pessimistic or optimistic. If a Christian thinks of their future that caused them to fall back on unreasoning hope.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us "go." "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1, 2

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991