i am a catholic and when athiest friends argue with me over my faith, they attack me for not been properly religious. when i dont use the fundamentalist attitude to answer athiests they get angry, because they think that all christians are fundamentallists.
i have now come to the conclusion that athiests are the worst kind of extremists. what do you think?
2006-07-03 00:14:37 · 17 answers · asked by s21181 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree, and they also talk without knowing what they are talking about.
2006-07-03 00:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones who make the loudest noise get heard the most. You get fundamentalist Christians on TV more than you get moderate Christians. The ones who condemn and humiliate and spread hate are the ones who call themselves the only 'true' Christians. You should also ask why firebrand fundamentalists think that all other Christians are not Christian 'enough'...
I don't know your friends. I can't speak about them. I have respect for anyone who believes in God but doesn't shove it down other people's throats... I know and love a lot of theists, after all.
Maybe you just need new friends.
2006-07-03 00:23:54 · answer #2 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist and I know that all Christians are not fundamentalists. Stop being a bigot.
When I answer religious questions, I try to answer the real question. If I know the scripture, or have had the experience to be qualified to answer that is the information I provide.
When, however, people act as you have here, then all bets are off. Where in your bible does it direct you to be a bigot and a hate monger?
2006-07-03 00:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They brand all Christians as fundamentalists, because in a way all are. If the Bible is the word of God then it cannot be false, thus those of you who believe this are fundamentalists. But those of you who say that you are not fundamentalists believe only in parts of the Bible and there is the problem that most atheists have. How can you believe in some parts of the Bible and not believe in other parts? That would that some parts are false in your eyes and others true, but if some parts are false then why do you believe that the other parts are true?
2006-07-03 03:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by tisbedashit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think atheists have two reasons for acting in such a way. First, they do not understand how religious people come to think and feel the way they do, and refuse to try and be emphatic. Second, I think many atheists are actually quite afraid: like all human beings, they are uncertain about their life (and death!). If they encounter religious people, they might be confronted with the certainty and trust these people have because of their faith, which makes them envious.
2006-07-03 00:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by Aloys W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many atheists use "straw man" arguments; your refusal to be trapped into their way of thinking exposes the flaws in their fallacious arguments. They don't like that because it makes them think. Fundamentalists often do the same thing.
Most people don't debate issues very well, atheists or religious. Their arguments are weak and full of what are known as informal or formal fallacies.
2006-07-03 00:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
be careful now! you don't want your friends to judge you because you don't respond the way they "think" you will. yet here you are starting your question with "Why do atheists think." you've not talked to every single person that does not believe in God....have you???
i don't attack Christians...you believe in God, and choose to worship him? great, wonderful...i respect that. i don't belittle it, i don't want to "make you questions your faith". that is an individual thing. anyone who doesn't recognize that...has their own issues to work out.
not all of "us atheists" are horrible, nasty, heathens!
EDITED:
I've noticed a lot of ppl spouting off about how atheists "don't know about religion anyways"...well that's not true. I was raised in a Christian household. i went to church every Sunday, and Wednesday. i never "believed" in the things i heard. i found the stories in the bible interesting, as a child might enjoy fairy tales. to me they are just that...stories. however, i do understand that for believers..they are a very powerful message. so to the Christians that question my knowledge of your God, and your bible....i ask you this. I've studied your God...have you studied MY cultural beliefs? how can you generalize us..when you don't know us either. it cuts both ways!
2006-07-03 00:23:48 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an Atheist i don't have a 'field'. I purely haven't any conception in any god(s). yet I even haven't any dogma to adhere to, no guidelines of what i am going to eat, what i am going to placed on, who i am going to marry etc etc. No huge e book of guidelines and guidelines. No leaders barking at me to grovel on the floor to a lifeless individual and an invisible creature. i'm a free questioning individual, no longer a closed and submissive Theist.
2016-11-30 04:51:49 · answer #8 · answered by russek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have run across such people, and sometimes feel they rehearse their answers.
I point out the fact that I accept their atheism, so why can't they give me the same respect and accept my faith? I don't have the fundamental answers they're searching for, and I think it's cowardly of them to expect me to provide them, so they won't have to ask a pastor.
2006-07-03 00:21:04 · answer #9 · answered by Catowner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think terrorists are the worst kind of extremists,
and you have to remember not all athiests are like that
2006-07-03 00:40:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its because you are both arguing about it which means you are both sufficiently fundamentalist to care
personally im an athiest who can't be bothered to argue
2006-07-03 00:20:04 · answer #11 · answered by Ivanhoe Fats 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋