Is it because the harsh truth makes you feel bittter?
If the harsh truth made us Atheist bitter, we wouldn't be Atheist
2006-08-30 15:36:00 · 17 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are not atheists but unbelieving sinners.
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2006-08-30 15:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by Pashur 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Some label themselves that way. See the column in the American Atheist magazine - "Angry old atheist". The columnist said himself that he is bittter and angry.
Harsh truth does not make me feel bitter. Does it make you feel the same?
2006-08-30 23:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how I would feel, I have yet to hear an atheist tell the truth about what I believe.
2006-08-30 22:59:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your truth isn't my truth. My truth is what I experience and research and benefit from. I'm not here to push that on you. Don't push your disbelief on us. I don't see your veiws as bitter as long as you're not being insulting. Your question is worded rather rudely, but I'm sure you wouldn't see it that way.
People often want to believe that those that don't share their views must be less intelligent or less educated, but you can walk into most churches and find many white collar, college educated, upper-middle class people.
Your life will never be my life. There is nothing you can say that would make your experience into truth for me. It's very petty to suggest otherwise.
2006-08-30 22:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's essentially a "hurray for our side". There are some costs to believing, and so religious belief systems need to convince believers that there are also benefits. There are two ways to do that - providing (or promising to provide) benefits to the believers
- convincing the believers that there are costs to non-belief.
Convincing believers that nonbelievers are "bitter" or that we "know deep down inside that there is a god" are ways that religious belief systems retain their adherents. Without systems like that, religions wouldn't last in the long term.
2006-08-30 22:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably because of the way that you say it.
Besides, what makes you think that you opinion about God ammounts to "truth"?
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...Second, the "presumption of atheism" demonstrates a rigging of the rules of philosophical debate in order to play into the hands of the atheist, who himself makes a truth claim. Alvin Plantinga correctly argues that the atheist does not treat the statements "God exists" and "God does not exist" in the same manner. The atheist assumes that if one has no evidence for God’s existence, then one is obligated to believe that God does not exist — whether or not one has evidence against God’s existence. What the atheist fails to see is that atheism is just as much a claim to know something ("God does not exist") as theism ("God exists"). Therefore, the atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence....
2006-08-30 22:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the truth of our beliefs is that we accept what we believe through faith. Faith is a funny thing; you can't prove it right or wrong. By definition, if you take something on faith it is because it cannot be proved right or wrong. Therefore, one of the truths about our belief is that it cannot be proved; it has to be taken on faith. You cannot disprove faith. You can disapprove of it, but not disprove it. The harsh truth is we can't prove that we are right, you can't prove we are wrong. Faith, my friend, is that battle ground in the middle.
2006-08-30 22:47:27 · answer #7 · answered by hisnamesaves 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christians don't believe in atheists ... and that's the truth.
2006-08-31 00:28:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel bitter. I'm a Christian.
However, I have examined both sides of the argument and found Christianity to be much more reasonable.
2006-08-30 22:41:34 · answer #9 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a Christian or an Atheist, but I'd have to say that offering your opinions on religions as "THE TRUTH" is presumptuous and rude. We all have our own path to walk and there's no excuse for indiscriminately peeing on anyone else's parade !
2006-08-30 22:43:24 · answer #10 · answered by wrennightwind 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Everyone really KNOWS, deep down, that atheism is correct. They just ignore that huge hole in their heart and they have to use drugs or alcohol or God to pretend they don't feel it. If they were open to the truth, they'd all be atheists, but they blind themselves because they don't want to be responsible for their actions.
Give them time, when they're on their deathbeds and feel death coming for them, they'll learn the hard way that that cold grip isn't going to let them go and that they're about to enter into oblivion.
2006-08-30 22:42:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋