Atheist seek the truth and Christians seek comfort. true or false?

Question

Atheists will read a bible with no problem but you coudn't even pay lots of Christians to even go to an atheist website. Debates can lead to who's right and who's wrong. Atheists are willing to debate but I've wittnessed lots of Christians back down from a debate with atheists.

Answer 1

i dont know about that. but i do think that many christians cant really handle hearing ppl talk about "god" in a way that implies there isnt one. i know plenty of christians that would argue it all day and night with you. and i bet you'll get a few that will answer this Q.

but when you boil it all down, you cant prove that god does/does not exist. just because ppl say he does, or a book says so, that doesnt give us any proof. i've read a book about a talking cat in a hat, and some green eggs and ham. that doesnt mean its true. and just because theres no proof that god exists, that doesnt disprove his existence. the absence of evidence is NOT, the evidence of absence. once upon a time everyone "knew" that the world was flat, because there was no proof otherwise. well, guess what, they were wrong. i've never seen a billion dollars. prove to me it exists. unless you can put it in my hands, i dont need to believe you. well, i bet you've never seen it either, but guess what, we believe its out there.

Answer 2

I don't think it's a matter of who is right and who is wrong.
Many Christians believe they already know the truth, so debating with a truth seeker isn't really necessary.

There are MANY truth seeking Christians. Some of whom will debate just about any aspect of their faith, but not if the other side insists that nothing they have to say is important because it begins with the belief in what you think doesn't exist.

I'm convinced that most athiests believe the way they do because the only "face" of God they have been presented with is the face shown by the worst of God's followers.

Anybody can discount the entire Bible because some of it doesn't make sense, but it contains a lot of wonderful, very old principals. It describes the human condition without apology and eventually explains the way to get beyond that human condition and enjoy the experience Adam had before the original sin. A personal relationship with God.

I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not about comfort, it's about spirituality. If many Christians don't get it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Answer 3

If atheists are seeking the truth, then why haven't they realized that there is, in fact, a higher power? How could matter, people, the world, have just appeared? I think they're seeking an affirmation of their beliefs (or rather non-belief in a higher power, or God). Christians seek comfort? I'm not sure what you mean by that. I think EVERYbody, regardless of religion or belief, seeks comfort or peace of mind, if you will. You're obviously coming from a different place than I, because I don't know any Christians who back down from a debate with atheists or agnostics.

Answer 4

It is ridiculous to believe that all Atheists or all Christians do or are anything. Atheists and Christians are large groups of people with a wide variety of beliefs, attitudes, and biases in each group.

There are Christians who love to debate and their are Atheists who don't want to get into it and vice-a-versa.

There are websites, and talk shows, and massive written apologist works that continue this age old debate over and over and over again.

So, False. Some Athiests seek the truth and are willing to debate, or pray, or read, or whatever to pursue it. Some Christians also. Some Athiests and some Christians are not interested in truth and some feel they have found truth and are not interested in wasting more time seeking.

Answer 5

Hummm...well then I suppose you have not been around too much. There are lots of web sites where Christians debate Atheists. Like http://www.equip.org or http://www.icr.org or http://www.wayofthemaster.com to name just a couple. A true Christian is never afraid to hear what any other person has to say, whether it is cults or Atheist. We ALL as human beings seek a source of comfort, it is our nature. However to have a relationship with Jesus Christ is more than comfort it is freedom from the oppression of fear.
To find out about the truth one must always keep an open mind.

Answer 6

There is no comfort in being a Christian. Hey where do I sign up for me and my beliefs to be the brunt of half the late night jokes, half the scripts in hollywood, ALL the videos on MTV and almost any college professor I could possible have. I want to live in a world where everything that I hold dear is presupposed by every possible public venue to be a lie, fable, or fantasy. Hey, unless you are dealing with a very mature Christian or a veteran of multiple debates, then you are dealing with a Christian, who like any one, doesn't like to take on a ten fold advantage in numbers and culture. Try being an atheist in Iran or Egypt and you will get the idea of shying away from certain settings. Plus most Christians were not born that way. It is not genetic. They use to participate in atheism and defend it. They already know what you have to say because they were the ones saying it.

Answer 7

Actually I think a lot of time is wasted on debating people who the Bible considers fools. I used to go to Atheist websites but found them to be boring with the same old Christian hate lines. So if you want to marvel at how dumb a person can be then DEBATE an atheist. If you want to LEARN then talk to a Christian.

Answer 8

Yeah, totally false. In my experience, most atheists haven't read the Bible. Many educated atheists have, and I applaud them, but most atheists aren't so well educated.

In my experience, most atheists simply want to live how they want to live (seeking comfort) which is why they reject God outright because then they might have to live for something other than themselves. At the same time, Christianity is hardly comfortable. We have peace and joy, but rarely comfort.

You're more than welcome to pay me to go to atheist websites. They don't indimidate me in the slightest. And I won't back down from any debate and I've never lost one with any atheist, educated or not.

Ever notice how all of them are busy talking about something they don't believe? Doesn't that strike you as odd?

Who's the greater fool, the man who believes in a God he's never seen, or a man who's offended by a God he doesn't even believe in?

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Answer 9

False. You can neither prove nor disprove of the existence of god.

While i think that all religions serve the purpose of comforting unanswerable questions regarding existence, it could also be argued that atheists seek comfort in not having to adhere to the discipline of religion. Einstein* said that he was studding gods creation and that "god does not roll dice." So, to some extent it could be said that through the study of physics we seek the truth of gods creation.

What if god does exists and all of the tenants of the bible are true? Then Atheists would be seeking comfort and Christians would be seeking the truth. It is all relative.

Science is theory that can be functionally applied to the world and has yet to be disproved. Religion is faith which cannot be functionally applied to the world, if could it would be called science and not religion.

*Of course Einstein was Jewish and not Christian.

Answer 10

The first thing I want to say is...you never win someone by debate. You might have proven something to them, but have you really convinced them? You most likely have just made them feel foolish and belittled. There is a saying, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." There is no need to debate. Secondly, most (I say most because there are some that don't)people seek comfort. It is just comfort will come in different ways for different people.

Answer 11

It's about being honest with yourself. You had to come to terms with your mother's death; I had to come to terms the death of my daughter. I'm sorry for your loss, but I can assure you that I was never tempted to entertain belief in an afterlife. It never even crossed my mind, and why would it? I knew any child of mine would be mortal, would someday die, and could possibly die before I did, before she was even conceived. No new information on the afterlife front was there, so my mind didn't consider the question. Losing her was painful beyond my capacity to explain...but there was little to learn from the event. "Emotional" and "irrational" are not synonyms. Being hearbroken has not diminished my capacity for discerning truth from falsehood. And, really, I don't see how a god makes any difference in having purpose. I mean, in that case, all one could aspire to is being a pawn in a cosmic game that a powerful being plays against opponents that are (by definition) unworthy competitors, without a reason besides the fact that he decrees that the game should go on, while he already knows the outcome. Frankly, that role for mankind--to be the best little game pieces we can be--is insulting. Instead, understanding that I declare my own purposes, and the meaning occurs because I assign meaning to things, and understanding this is my only form of survival, is not only more realistic, but much more dignified.