If atheists are so content with their believes why are they ones who get most defensive?

Question

The majority of atheists I see here are a little antipathetic or "hostile" and seems they aren't satisfied with their system of believes. If you really were satisfied with your believes you would have forgotten about Christians long time ago. Instead of accepting and respecting other people you do the opposite. Isn't your system of believes helping you gain inner peace? Because you definitely are not showing it, and the impression that I get is that you are dissatisfied with what you believe and you need to make others look bad to fill that emptiness.

Is not an Opinion, is a Fact. Why don't you compare the number of atheists who are more insulting to others with the number of Christians?

Give your own personal opinion. I don't care.

This is like a tennis match were nobody wants to lose.

Isnt it funny that questions like this make me look good? Look at all the hostile atheists responding telling me to STFU.

Lol.

Be more intelligent and try to prove me wrong, Porfavor!!

Erik Lehnsherr, I think you are the one winning the 10 points.

Answer 1

These atheists and agnostics or etc.. on here have showed you that they are incapable of being nice people. There excuses are lame. They attack the small amount of Christians on this forum because other Christians come to they door and witnessed to them? I didn't come to their house nor did I email them and talk about my beliefs. The other lame excuse is government and politics. What makes them think that all Christians have their say or even vote? They attacking people on forum who they don't even know and that's sad. These atheists should not be in this section of this forum because they are not here for a discussion but to spread hate. God bless them

+j+ .

Answer 2

Because many of them aren't really atheists. They are disgruntled christians, who have no idea where else to turn, so they claim to not believe in anything- when in reality they are just pissed off at their god.

As an atheist, I don't really question a person's beliefs unless the situation is appropriate (like when they spout something off about homosexuality or people who choose not to believe in god or people of a "less privelaged" race or religion in the eyes of their god). I feel that I have a right to speak up- because there ARE people who choose to have their beliefs and their own life OUTSIDE of the church (I.E. they don't talk about it all the time- and they don't expect everyone in the world to believe in the same thing that they do- atheists, I'm talking to you too), and there are people who have a little respect for those around them. It is a part of their life- not their life. Atheists who have to brag and get defensive make the rest of us look like idiots- just as the christians do the same to eachother. But if you read these posts (and I really mean it- this isn't based on anything other than observation), religious people are doing so in the VAST majority. I have heard more racial, anti-semetic- and homophobic remarks from so-called people of god than from so called atheists. Do these people represent you? Do you really want to be associated with them?

AND BY THE WAY
We CAN'T forget about Christians- THEY WON'T LEAVE US ALONE! and THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!

Just a hint: There will never be an agreement between religious people and non religious people. Christians are too busy trying to recruit us, while we're just trying to make sense of everything left over after deciding that the simple provided answers to life just aren't good enough.

Answer 3

Antheism has never been the cause of war. Nor has it burned people at the stake for not believing in the same dogmas. Atheism has yet to do any destruction at all really, I think a little verbal abuse by some rogue people is unconsequential compared to the mass numbers of people killed in the name of religion.

This is also something that varies greatly among people just like everything else, both of my parents and the majority of my friends are Catholics I was raised a Catholic went to Catholic school for all my schooling and will be attending a Catholic college. I just believe that science explains it more than a story of God. I do not actively attack people because they have differing views. I am highly dissatisfied with what I believe since it leaves nothing for me after I die, but I believe that why I am here is explained by science.

Answer 4

Are you kidding! I haven't seen one Atheist on Answers try to convert a Christian to Atheism or even suggest it. The Christians are the defensive ones, so much in fact, that sometimes they are funny when they pull that Martyr crap and say God Bless you anyway so humbly.
Atheists don't care if you are Christians or what you are, you guys are the ones that have a cow over over anyone whose feet don't fit your limb. Give me a break. The inner peace I have is the sure knowledge that that you're full of hog wash

Answer 5

Well, dear, that's one of the most hostile rants I've seen in a long time. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. My, oh my!
We non-believers are generally quite comfortable in our nonbelief, but it does become quite annoying when we're the most discriminated-against people on the planet. If you fundies kept your beliefs to yourselves rather than getting in our faces, there'd be far less conflict between us. The Bible tells you that when you pray, you are not to do it in public where everyone can see you acting all pious, but to go to your room and shut the door and pray to your God alone, and that He will hear your prayer much more readily then. In other words, your God is telling you to stay out of our faces. Is it too much to ask, that you obey your God? Seems to me you do that only when it's convenient. I don't think your God is impressed with that sort of obedience!

Answer 6

You are either completely blind to the history and current political and social effects of your religion, or you are just another liar-for-jesus.

How can we just forget about Christianity when christian politicians are changing the laws of the land to conform to their dogma, regardless of scientific and public opinon to the contrary?

Why should we just sit back when false science is being pushed into public schools while real science is being continually slandered and removed from the US education system?

What good and decent person would stay quiet while bible-thumpers continually try to deprive minorities of freedoms and go to war with any one who isn't christian, under the guise of spreading democracy?

You are a hypocrite. Tollerance, and respect? Ha, you don't even know what that means.

Answer 7

The athiests here are all posers trying to look cool in the eyes of the Christian community. I'm a REAL atheist, and you don't see me going around attacking Christianity. Atheists should respect religion, even if it conflicts with their views. Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want.

Answer 8

Firstly, I'm not Atheist.

Secondly, I find it to be my personal duty to take down the stupidity of the idiotic, pointless, completely BS religion which is called xtianity.

Do some reasearch, stop being a sheep.

Oh, and as for the hostility and why we simply don't "ignore" the stupidity? xtians insist on pushing their views and moronic religion on everyone else. You don't like the response? Then STFU and use your damn brain instead of "believing" everything some idiot pastor tells your for sake of ease and control.

Answer 9

First, you are fuelling a reaction by emoting the same...defense that you are not athiest...this is not a spiritually productive attitude, is it?

You see how a slight lack of understanding, as well as the lack of acceptance that diverse need not mean separate, can lead to adding links to a chain that needs to simply end?

Answer 10

American atheists are concerned about Christianity because it's the belief system which is trying to (in some ways has succeeded) force it's way into our lives and government.