My best friends dad was a paster of a baptist church and now he is an atheist . How can that be?
2006-09-17 21:41:39 · 24 answers · asked by Z ten 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
how can someone change so quickly?!
2006-09-17 21:43:14 · update #1
maybe he just came to realize how childish it is to believe in fairy tales.
2006-09-17 21:44:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Easily. Lots of people who have studied religion in depth and read their bible without rose colored glasses on become atheists. It's not hard at all. There is a large group of former pastors who are now atheists.
Just to name one Dan Barker, who is now an "evangelical atheist" after being a pastor for 19 years. He helps run the Freedom From Religion Foundation now http://www.ffrf.org and through his public debates and his book he has helped many break away from the shackles of religion.
"My preaching took on less hellfire and more evangelical love. Finally I became the sort of liberal Christian who redefines God right out of existence, as the 'ground of all essence,' or something like that.I had threw out the bath water and there was no baby there."- Dan Barker former evangelical preacher of 19 years.
"The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions." - Dan Barker.
2006-09-18 04:51:49 · answer #2 · answered by AiW 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Someone finally got through to him is one possibility and changed his mind, I forget where I heard this before but when all other things are equal the simplest answer(or most believable) must be true.
So that would point towards evolution, seems to be a lot more realistic then some god created all living things
2006-09-18 04:47:23 · answer #3 · answered by road_dawg_style 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe something happened that broke his faith or maybe he finally sat down and really read the Bible only to discover he had been preaching from a Book of fairytales.
2006-09-18 04:44:59 · answer #4 · answered by Tiacola Version 9.0 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that's the great part about religion, you can choose it, it is not imposed, and you do not have to care for it, even if you are born into one. In fact, it is mostly the only thing you get to choose in life, the reszt is determined by the environment and genes.
2006-09-18 04:43:33 · answer #5 · answered by Livia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how do you know it was quickly he may have been thinking about it for years and sudenly was laden with the last straw even the popes remarks or islams reaction could have been the final straw ??
2006-09-18 04:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
big big change , may be you need to ask him why. cause that would need some explaining if you asked me . unless he went Undenominational can understand"completely give up his beliefs is a big decision special if he spoke the word of God
2006-09-18 04:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by yoursuperman000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to know this too, since apparently once you "turn on the faith light switch", you'll never want to turn back. Yet somehow he did.
Also, nice to have you back to help question all the bible thumpers.
2006-09-18 04:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by ronintama 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Who knows. Sometimes people convince themselves they are one thing... when in reality they are the complete opposite. People never cease to amaze me.
2006-09-18 04:43:52 · answer #9 · answered by mrslang1976 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people get disappointed they change their minds. It's not what they expect from their religion, so when they get shock from something from their religion they turn their backs.
2006-09-18 04:50:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that is intended to be an argument it is really stupid.
It is a form of what is called in rhetoric, Ad Hominem Abusive, by extension.
You disagree with a particular creed or set of beliefs, and you use one person's disaffection from that creed or at least the claim of that creed as proof of your position.
The truth is that what is at issue here is one of two things.
If what is at issue is teachings in the Bible, then in as much as this was one man who claimed to believe something in name, his faithfulness is neither here nor there.
Yours is a lazy mind, that seeks to approve itself through attacks rather than arguments.
If you want to discuss the Bible, then you must go to the Bible, not to a Baptist minister.
When you want to explicate literature, while you may read critics and expositors, ultimately, you must go to the text and wrestle with it yourself, not dismiss the text because of someone who in word associated himself with that particular creed.
If your goal is only to tell yourself how good you are and attack religious people, then do whatever you want. You are an idiot and your belief or unbelief of a thing is irrelevant.
Fundamentally this one man's behavior in fact no man's behavior has any bearing upon a literary text and the validity of concepts articulated therein.
This same fallacy is manifested by people who discount Islam or any religion on the basis of other people's claim to affiliate themselves with that set of teachings.
Get real sh*thead, and quit patting yourself on the back for having a little avatar with a couple of funny red horns on it.
Greek philosophers believed in concepts that were very similar to Christian teaching and the Apostle Paul used much of their methods of expression to articulate his theologies.
In as much as you are not engaging anything at a truly intellectual critical level, you are just a self satisfied retard.
I won't speculate as to eternity and your ultimate destination, but I will tell you this. You live in Retard Heaven.
2006-09-18 04:50:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋