Should the atheist try to understand and educate the other less fortunate people or just ignore them?

Question

Could that be our God given mission:)?

Answer 1

We will continue to have to think for them, simply because they won't think for themselves however much we try to persuade them...

Meanwhile they will continue to threaten to pray for us!

Answer 2

Question is whether we want to be just like the less fortunate, or better than them. To go around spreading the word of atheism puts us on a par with the door-knockers (though I'd love to do that just once - go around and say "Hello, can I ask, have you let Logic into your life?". Guess really though we should lead by example, give them a state of higher enlightmenment to aspire to and reach out for. To ignore them just makes us ignorant, doesn't it?

Answer 3

I try to educate the religious people.. I mean, the less fortunate on a daily basis.

Answer 4

If the less fortunate and uneducated people in question are religious people, then yes, atheists should try to enlighten them.

Answer 5

I have a couple choices here. I can embrace your thoughts to "fit-in" with the status quo of non-thinkers who would believe man-made facts based on assumption and then lose favor with God.....OR, I can be ridiculed by unbelievers who scoff, and find favor with God. The way I see it, if I live to be 100, that gives you about 60 more years to make fun of me, then eternity to wonder why you did.
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Answer 6

No, to do so would be a violation of what they believe, that God does not exist, and evolution is real, meaning natural selection, and according to natural selection, might makes right and the weak die off to make room for the strong, so according to evolutionist, there is no right or wrong, might makes right, meaning, Hitler had it right, Stalin had it right and so on.

Answer 7

Yes, all people should discuss their understanding of the world with others.

If not for the sake of compassion, then do it because religion divides people, and is thus too dangerous to simply ignore.

Answer 8

AS I see it your the less fortunate, this old school(catholic) boy hopes you find Grace in GOD!

Answer 9

As you are wholly unenlightened and half bind why would you want to cause others to blind themselves?
That would be like some one in a wheelchair telling people they are uneducated and need to give up their legs.After all they don't work because his do not.

Answer 10

You can ignore us if you want to! You better not talk to us too much or we might begin to talk some sense into you.