What is so horrible and selfish about atheists and agnostics?

Question

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates...two agnostics. They've donated over 65 billion frickin' dollars!

Dear, Bernard G

Read my name.

Answer 1

I believe the Nazi-like Christians really need to get over themselves. I personally believe that a person's religious beliefs should certainly guide their own decision making, but I do not believe they should be forcing it down my throat. A person's religion belongs in their own hearts, homes, and churches.

Answer 2

I think you have asked a very intelligent question. Today's society have put a stereotype on anyone who does not believe in Christianity as "selfish, inconsiderate, or narcissistic". But, I believe that because someone who does not have a belief system is not the adjectives listed above. Most people today have no religeous tolerance what so ever, so they label those who have different belief systems. And Buffet and Gates have donated lots and lots of money to america, and I believe that they will continue to donate even after they are deceased.

Answer 3

You're using two very specific instances to try and prove a point. There are also a number of very charitable persons of faith. The creator of the Templeton Prize comes to mind.

Many religionists (and non-religionists, to be fair) have a hard time with the concept of tolerance. Some, unable to prove the benefits of their faith in a reasoned manner, will resort to name-calling and demonization of those who do not follow the same concepts. It is sometimes easier to shout down others. Look at some of the anti-Protestant propaganda the Catholic church published when Martin Luther and others were trying, in their own way, to bring the Christian faith back to what they saw as baseline.

Then, years later, the Protestants published their own diatribes about the Catholics and how the country was going to be turned over to the Pope. Atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers, pagans, etc. end up stuck in the middle because they don't ascribe to even the base tenets and so they must be especially evil .

Answer 4

To WHO, I'm still broke and struggling and New Orleans is still not back to where it should be!! Again 2 WHO! There are displaced people everywhere in this world and u act as if they've done some great justice! So frickin' what. Get a life!!

Answer 5

Nothing wrong with either. The people that find fault with others because they believe or think differently than others are the problem. Bill Gates is an independent thinker, that is why he is no longer with IBM. Many great people are like that. Both of these men are very generous with their money.

Answer 6

I do not think that agnostics are horrible or selfish people---they are unsaved. If they choose to remain that way, then that is their choice and they must live with it. Giving large amounts of money to charity does not validate the ill behavior of an individual, and I want to say right now that I am not calling Mr. Buffet and Mr. Gates immoral men. I really do not know what their moral standing in society is, I only know what their standing is with God---lost. On Judgment Day, God will not care how much money these two men gave away during their lifetimes or to whom they gave it to. He will ask each one this one question: "What do you think of my Son?" They will not be able to buy their way past it or lie about it. If they cannot testify about Jesus Christ in their live, God will say: "I do not know you. Depart from me and prepare for the devil and his angels." As I keep trying to tell everybody---but no one seems to want to listen---I do not make the rules, God does. Jesus loves you.

Answer 7

I think agnostics and atheists should be treated the same way as I or most people would treat other persons. If the individuals are deserving of personal criticism or censorship because the individual is a menace to society so be it. Each one of us have the right to include or exclude the people we want or do not want in our circle.
I do not feel that one's spirituality or lack of our belief in or lack of belief should be inclusive or exclusive.
And I am a Christian. My choice.

Answer 8

Nothing at all. Atheist and Agnostics are just human beings like anyone else. They have made an intellectual choice, which is absolutely respectable.

Pepper
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Answer 9

they do not believe in the exsistance of the supreme being. and as for bill and warren thats good that they were blessed with talents and bad that they can't give praise to the 1 who even allowed them to exsist. May God forgive them.

Answer 10

First of all, if you begin with the premise that atheists and agnostics are horrible, right away that is not an objective point of view. That's like Islamic fundamentalists asking why is it that women who wear skirts are such whores. What you are doing is beginning from the point of view that ONLY people who believe in God are not horrible. So I can't answer that question because the premise contained in the question is wrong. ....God help you if you think that only religious people are good. ;-)