A question for Christians AND atheists

[hmkpoker]

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So I'm against the world in which you live and breath

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This is why so many of us hate Christianity.

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Because unbelief is totally opposed in principle to God Himself Christians are totally opposed to the atheistic world view.

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Unless they're in need of science in order to survive. Very few Christians would be against the naturalistic/atheistic world view that allows medical science to cure diseseases and illnesses when they are the ones that are sick. Sure, they'll pray too... but probably not before going to the doctor (with a lower-case "d").

[Lestat]

<font color="blue">Atheism is hostility toward God, enmity with Him. </font>

That is one bold and incorrect statement. How can you be hositle towards something you don't even believe exists? I'm sure most people who ARE hostile towards God, were at one time believers. Do you feel hositility towards a mermaid?

<font color="blue">Because unbelief is totally opposed in principle to God Himself Christians are totally opposed to the atheistic world view. </font>

If God is so opposed to unbelief, why did He create man with intelligence and then leave him without any physical evidence or logical proof for belief? If it was so important that someone believed in you, wouldn't you provide a bit more evidence than unlikely stories based on heresay? So God appeared regularily to man thousands of year ago, but for some reason has chosen to remain unseen and unheard since.

It would be an easy matter for God to allow everyone to believe. But having some people write a book filled with unlikely stories that isn't much different than hundreds of other religious books, is not a good way to get an intelligent creature to believe.

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Atheism is hostility toward God, enmity with Him

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That's a rather sanctimonious claim. Atheism doesn't go around claiming God doesn't exist. It is healthily unconcerned with his existence or lack thereof.

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I'm against the death of the soul and for eternal life.

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And if I had a choice, I would be too.

[imported_luckyme]

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Atheism is hostility toward God, enmity with Him.

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If I wasn't an atheist I could answer, "If there were a god ... ". Atheism is merely a philosophical statement. Atheists, otoh, may have none or various hostilities. Those that have a hostility regarding their position tend to have it focused on things like bigoted thinking in the guise of religion, or some religion wanting to enforce compliance with their version of it, or if it gets personalized it'll be at narrow-minded, dogmatic bullies ( like a Falwell).

God is not something we can be hostile toward, by definition. Too bad, beause the flip side of the purpose the god-concept serves for religion could be a great tension reliever for atheists, it just doesn't work that way....darn.

[Lestat]

<font color="blue">So I'm against the world in which you live and breath and for the real, true world that God has created and will someday restore. </font>

I think Bin Laden feels the same way. Scary, isn't it?

[peritonlogon]

I feel so excluded..... Atheist born and raised.

[ZeeJustin]

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Atheists: (if you were non-atheist at an earlier point) What caused you to believe what you believe about theology?


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Logic and reason over time. There was no one epiphany that did it.

[evil_twin]

I very young in school. We were made to pray every morning and I never really gave it much thought. I vaguely visualised prayers going up somewhere near the moon. One day when I was ten years old a very good friend of mine said "You realise there is no god, right?". I was a little shocked, but over then next few days came to realise he was right, it was all utterly ridiculous. I felt the same about it as I had about the tooth fairy and santa.

[NotReady]

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I felt the same about it as I had about the tooth fairy and santa.


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I went through the same process at the same age. When I grew old enough to think I realized how silly the comparison is between God and Santa.