Why do you think Atheists try to convert Christians with question for Christians?

Question

If there were really a God why does he let children suffer?
Isn't this like the lowest blow you can deal to a parent?

Answer 1

Interesting that some of the same people are giving you radically different answers than they did to the question "why do you think Christians are trying to convert Atheists with questions "for Atheists"" a while ago... Wonder why??? LOL

Answer 2

***Why do you think Atheists try to convert Christians with question for Christians?***

Convert ? I thought we were here to have fun, reduce stress and maybe learn something different.

***If there were really a God why does he let children suffer?****

So that thou shall put evil away from among you.

***Isn't this like the lowest blow you can deal to a parent?***

No,

Commandment #4
Honor thy mother and thy father.

The Penalty
Deuteronomy 21:19-21
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you;

Now that is the lowest blow for sure.
Good thing the religious of today ignore the dictates of their God.

Have a blessed day.

Answer 3

I don't think atheists are trying to convert Christians... they are hopelessly deluded, so there would be no point, really. Nope... what atheists are trying to do is intervene to protect vulnerable minds FROM Christians.

"A country without village idiots is not worth living in. Without them there is no way of knowing who are sane. ~ Oliver St. John Gogarty

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Answer 4

The same reason christians try and convert atheists with questions for atheists. Conversion is a stupid idea, especially on the internet, i dont know why people bother.

Answer 5

I don't think atheists believe they are trying to "convert" anyone; they're simply trying to get theists to actually THINK about their beliefs -- to apply the same amount of logic and skepticism to their god as they would to the human beings they interact with every day. You wouldn't hand over your life savings to some stranger who knocked on your door and asked for it, with no evidence as to the nature of his character or his ability or willingness to pay it back; so why would you devote your life to serving some deity you've never seen, and who offers no empirical evidence that his promise of life everlasting is on the level?

Answer 6

I think anyone who is susceptible enough to be converted by another person must have a reason to doubt their beliefs just enough to let them go in the midst of a doubt.

In other words, you should really think about the validity of your beliefs if someone else can somehow convince you to let go of them with a simple question.

Answer 7

Not trying to convert, defenitely not. SOME Christians do that. Its just a place to express veiws and get a feed back and not a place to convert which itself is absurd.

Answer 8

They don't try to convert Christians, they try to cast doubt. This probably works on weak Christians. It is like Satans' old M.O., "Yea, hath God said....?"

It's been going on for thousands of years.

Answer 9

Just trying to make the world a better place. One theist at a time.

Answer 10

I don't want to convert you. I just want to protect my right to be free FROM religion, something that is currently being threatened in the US.