Why do Atheists seem so bitter?

Question

Why is it that every time I post a religious question, Atheists can't do anything but attack me? And why is it that when Christians simply try to spread the Word and make people happy, Atheists automatically respond, "BRAINWASING BRAINWASHING!" It seems to me that they are the ones completely brainwashed and programmed like a computer (which has no moral judgement) to automatically respond this way. The whole point of Christianity is that one must WILLINGLY bow down to the Lord, not to be forced or scared into this thinking. Why can I not just talk about my religion without being shot down before I can even take a breath?

Again, notice how most of their responses label me as "uneducated," "ignorant," "uninformed," and "close-minded" when I am the one actually posting a question regarding this issue. They assume that I know nothing of Atheism when I do have many Atheist friends that I regularly talk to, and I have learned enough of their belief system to know that we are completely different, not all of this mumbo jumbo "we are actually connected" stuff. Their responses support my claim that many times they come off as bitter and that is why Christians don't like them, because they are the ones close-minded! As a Christian, I am all about accepting a person as a child of God and not attacking them for their individualism (even though you can still be a strong-willed individual and recognize a creator at the same time) like many sheltered Christians do. And no matter what, even if they hate God, they will never be able to change the fact that God will always love them.

Answer 1

Atheists betray themselves. For the most part they are pretenders -pretending God doesn't exist and that Christ is a myth as well despite evidence Jesus did indeed exist.

They insist (and hatefully so) that God does not exist yet they hate God with a passion. They get rabid about it - and I have yet to understand how they can hate someone they think is a non existent.

They are clueless as to what Satan is, clueless to the fact Satan (their father, god of this world) is seething from within them fueling their rage and anger.

When I point this flaw in their character out, they fail to realize the truth and get even more angry. Don't worry about it though. People were cruel to Jesus when he walked this earth - and he said they would do the same things to those who belong to him.

They hate us because we do not belong to this world - just as Jesus did not belong to this world. They are not really aware of why they hate us. They try to justify it by pointing out hypocrite preachers on TV and lumping every Christian in that same category.

Pray and ask God forgive them for abuses they heap on us and bring them to Salvation in Christ before its too late.

Answer 2

Atheist are so use to christians attacking and trying to force their beliefs and most christians for some reason find it necessary to think everyone must believe as they do or they are wrong. Many people have preconceived ideas of what on religion believes or doesn't believe instead of asking someone who might know. One idiot often is taken at his word. Do you know how many people think that any form of witch craft entail human or animal sacrifice, or that jehovah's witness can't wear pants. Stupidity is often the reason that many people are on edge about his or her religion, or lack of religion. And who is to say that a christian spreading the word is going to make anyone happy? Most atheists still have morals, if they don't believe in god that does not make them a bad person. If you want to discuss your religion, feel free, ignore the ones who attack you. Best yet, find a board for your religion and the chances of you finding someone to talk will be more likely. The bottom line, while I am not an atheist, I do not belive in god as a christian does. If I want to ever again become part of christianity I know exactly how to find it. But the next "Christian" that tries to spread the word and make people happy while I am trying to vacuum out my car at the car wash might just get slapped because I am so "happy". And last but not least in a way you are attacking someone elses beliefs just by your post by saying " it seems to me they are the ones completely brainwashed like a computer(which has no moral judgement) to respond this way. If you can't understand that in this comment you are saying atheist have no moral judgement I really don't know what to say. Where is the irony in this?

Answer 3

- And why is it that when Christians simply try to spread the Word and make people happy, Atheists automatically respond, "BRAINWASING BRAINWASHING!" -

They think you are doing the world a big disfavor.

- It seems to me that they are the ones completely brainwashed and programmed like a computer (which has no moral judgement) to automatically respond this way. -

Atheists are just as moral or immoral as everyone else. Your computer metaphor could also be applied to SOME Christians. Instead of posting their own opinion, they copy and paste a bunch of lines from the Bible.

- The whole point of Christianity is that one must WILLINGLY bow down to the Lord, not to be forced or scared into this thinking. -

Then parents shouldn't force their children to go to church and no one should be told that they are going to hell if they don't accept Jesus Christ. I would consider that scaring someone.

Answer 4

Edit: Oh, come on, stop playing the persecution card. Look what you wrote! You insinuated that atheists have no morals, and in your additional comments, you try to say that atheists have some sort of universal belief system, and you make the completely ignorant assumption that atheists "hate God," which is completely false because we don't believe in him. And then you end with a highly insulting and condescending remark. A bitter atheist is much better than an intolerant Christian.

Answer 5

I have a perfect answer for that. We as Christians are to spread God's Word. So Athiests are gonna do exactly the same thing that we do execept for Satan instead of God. Of course they are gonna seem bitter all of the time because God is love and if they do not have God in their lives there is no possible way that they can have love in their lives, and that would obviously make someone bitter.

Answer 6

I'm not an atheist, but I see this on all sides. Seems to me that when an atheist posts a question, religious people jump in there to use that as a chance to convert or at least advertise for christ while not really answering their question. So I guess they see it as Fair Play to return that favor and do the same to religious people, even if you had never actually done it to them.

Answer 7

Because some of us believe that, until people learn to think rationally, for themselves, without invoking some fairy in the sky who tells them what to do, what's bad and good and what'll happen to them if they disobey, the world will struggle to make progress in exactly the areas you seem to agonise over.

Doing what you're told because you're afraid of burning in hell doesn't make you a morally superior person. Far from it, it makes you a moral pygmy. Muslim women are forced to wear burqas because some superstitious fools think that's what their god wants.

Has it ever struck you why you follow your particular sect of this particular religion? It's because of where you were born, when and to whom. If you'd been born in Pakistan you'd be a Muslim going to prayers umpteen times a day.
West Belfast: a catholic with a distrust of the British.
India: a hindu believing in reincarnation and a plurality of gods.
Ancient Rome: you'd believe in bewildering panoply of gods, most adopted from earlier Greece, including some living and dead emperors who had been deified.

You have been indoctrinated throughout your life and now accept certain tenets without question, such as the existence of a god, heaven, hell, Jesus' resurrection etc. You HAVE been systematically and culturally brainwashed.

The bible is an evil book, full of tribal atrocities and genocide. What does the bible say about slavery? It tells you how to do it correctly!

Try living by rules which derive from a social ethos instead of what your ridiculous sky fairy tells you to do. That will be real moral responsibility. God told George Bush to invade Iraq? That's all he has to do to avoid censure isn't it. If I do something and claim that I was communicating with some supernatural being I'd be put in a padded room and given happy pills.

Thomas Paine must be doing somersaults in his grave!

Answer 8

As Jesus said to Peter in the Bible:

"Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." Matthew 16: 23 (NIV)

we pretty much have to do the same thing when it comes to the "nay sayers" (whether they're atheist, pagan, any other religious sect, or Christians who aren't in tune.) Let us learn by Jesus' example; and simply realize we are always in a Spiritual war.

Whenever, a truly sincere question is posed here regarding Christian faith, you know that Satan is going to get his back up...so he's gonn'a send in his 'troops' (Whatever 'category' they fall in...)

Don't give up. Keep praying. Besides it also gives encouragement in the book of James...

"Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him." James 1: 12 (NIV)

I hope this makes your "frustration, and irritation" all worth while. Know who you stand for, and know that He who is in you, is greater than he who is the world.


"I know that the LORD is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods." Psalm 135: 5 (NIV)


God Bless.

Answer 9

Perhaps you are posting to the wrong forum. Perhaps the atheist doesn't care about what your wish to spread. Do you care about what they have to say in return?

Atheists are not "bitter". Atheists, in general, don't give a damn about what the theists are doing. It's just that in the past decade or so, the religious right has really struck a nerve with forcing their belief systems upon others who do not feel this way, enticing violence , yet another global "holy war", and false information. To be more specific, Bush's holy war within our own borders. "In God We Trust" was not "always" on US money, the founding fathers were Deists who did not want what this country has become, atheists do not worship any supernatural being, including the misinformed "satan". Look it up. Inform yourself.

With the explosion of the Internet and world-wide knowledge, atheists are having their "coming out of the closet", so to speak. We are beginning to see that worldwide, we are many, not the few we once thought we were. Many atheists, such as myself, have felt this way for a long time, but have feared being persecuted by the religious right (sound familiar?) and being told to sit down and shut the hell up. Why?

Many atheists are free thinkers, not "anti-religion". We have a lack of belief of the supernatural and deities, we are not satanists, nor "evil" in nature. We are simply getting tired of being misrepresented, ignored and feared. Yes, feared. Many christians I know actually "fear" the atheist because they fail to understand, nor bother to care to understand. Why? Because to bother to attempt to understand the atheist goes against every doctrine christians and other theists have been taught to embrace. How sad.

Religion is taught. But to be a free thinker, you challenge what others tell you and question the medieval supernatural mythology. "We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us, just go one god further." (-Richard Dawkins, talking about "Teapot Atheists")

If only the christians were as open minded to read the atheist belief/lack thereof as much as they want the atheist to read theirs. Tsk tsk... such a double standard.

By the way... take a peek as to the wh's who of the rich and famous who is either an atheist or agnostic. Ever hear of that 'ole boy from Texas... ya know... the one who beat testicular cancer to win the Tour De France... several years in a row? How about the man who wrote "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? Or better yet... some Sci-Fi writer guy named Robert Heinlein... or George Carlin, or Jodie Foster, or John Malkovich, or Ms Hepburn, or Bill Gates (never heard of him, have we), or Henry Rollins, or Dick Cavett, or Rodney Dangerfield, or Penn Jillette, or new mommy dearest Angelina Jolie, or Joss Whedon, or our favorite martial arts guy, Bruce Lee. Look it up. All atheists/free thinkers. Many others... just look it up.

So tell me... are THEY bitter?

Answer 10

I am an Atheist and I have no idea what you are talking about. Sure there are bitter Atheists- and there are hateful, cult-like Christians. It doesn't mean they are all alike. You can talk about your religion all you want. We really don't mind. Don't stereotype anyone- there are bad eggs in every group.