What do my Christian brethren think the number 1 cause of atheism is?

Answer 1

I have yet to meet an atheist who had a logical reason not to believe. Excuses - yes. Arguments - yes. Reasons - no. All lack of faith is an issue of the heart, not the head. God never asked for people heads, but for their heart. He's get the heart and the head is no longer an issue.

Those who reject do so from fear, hurt, habit, ignorance, rebellion. That's not meant to be an insult. Most are intelligent, reasonable and even decent people. But because of wounds and abuses in their past, they find it hard to believe.

Someone who claimed to be a Christian did something abuse, or they prayed and did not get an answer (or at least not one they wanted or recognized), or they have been wounded so many times that they can't fully trust anyone or anything. Often, even growing up around the Christian faith the way most Americans do, they don't really know or understand what it means. So too often God pays the price.

God never called Christians to debate for him, argue about him , or defend him. He called us to love him and to live the kind of life that honors him, so that others will see it and want to know about him. When they ask, that's when we are to be ready to give them an answer about the hope that is in us.

Answer 2

From your tone, I'm assuming you are fishing for an answer like "all your Christian brethren think that the atheists are misguided/disillusioned/Satanic/etc". Of course as a very open-minded Catholic I think the problem is that most Christians like you and your ilk are hatemongers who forget the central tenet of Christianiy is to love everyone despite who they are. Who cares who is an atheitst? Or why? Should that matter?

If more Christians were less judgemental, you'd give less reason for people to become atheistic/agnostic through a justifiable event of mistreatment.

Answer 3

The athiest does not want accountability. He wants life and death and eternity on his own terms. So he chooses to believe that God does not exist and therefore he does not have to answer to Him for all the wrong things he does in life(even though in his heart, he knows it is wrong) . The scepticism that began in the mid-1800's started the intellectual minds thinking and their strait laced religious parents, some who were abusive, caused them to look for another way without God, without church, without judgement or criticism or abuse. It became athiesm. However, no matter how much we say God does not exist does not make it so. I lived in Newfoundland for a year after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The people there did not believe it happened. They were ignorant and unbelieving. However it still happened. You may not believe in God, but He still believes in you. And he will till the day you stand before Him. Then you'll know for sure!

Answer 4

Actually, it's from exposure to holy texts. There is a similar phenomenon in nature. Did you know that the #1 cause of death for beavers is falling trees?

Same thing.
-SD-

Answer 5

Being intelligent is the number one reason for embracing atheism. Being on the level of a moron on certain matters is the number one reason for embracing religion.

Answer 6

Lack of understanding...people are either afraid or stray away from what they don't understand. Being saved for 6 years, in the beginning it was hard to understand the word of God (bible) but as you grow in the Lord and get to know Him and spend time in his Word and with Him (prayer, fasting, reading etc) He reveals more and more to you.

Answer 7

I think it's a combination of their fear of consequences and their stubborn pride. Why recognize a sovereign God when an atheist can ignore Him and live however he/she pleases? And ALL atheists are such "intellectuals" that they are to proud to recognize the fact that there is something greater than any human, a diving God who raigns over us all.

Answer 8

Education.

Why the hell would you be asking christians why some people turned to atheism?

Why wouldn't you ask the atheists?

Answer 9

Advancing knowledge of the world around us. God is limited to those aspects of the universe which we do't understand. And the list of those aspects continually grows smaller and smaller.

Answer 10

number 1 cause of athiesm is devoutly religious people forcing their children to go to religious services as ac hild and not teaching them about the religion, just telling them they have to believe.