mormons jehovah witnesses,christians muslims what do you think of atheists?

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Answer 1

I'm perfectly fine with athiests, but I've never met a nice, respectfull atheist that is willing to discuss religion (or much of anything for that fact) without getting offensive, or offended.
Don't know why, but they always seem to be angry.
SMILE!
Jesus/Allah/Hecate/Buddah/The Flying Spaghetti Monster
ALL LOVE YOU!
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Answer 2

I actually like most atheists I know. I enjoy speaking with them. As a general statement, they seem to be more pensive and critical than most theists. And in a good way. They simply do not accept extraordinary ideas without reasonable proof or logic. I can understand that. When they do make a decision, it is often well thought out and has been investigated. Any day of the week, I would prefer to have a religious conversation with an intelligent atheist over a close minded Christian.

As can be expected, as a Christian myself (Mormon), I disagree with some of their spiritual beliefs, but by that same note some can't understand why I accept beliefs that I do, but - as others have mentioned - we simply agree to disagree. But as a generality, I like most atheists or agnostics that I know.

Answer 3

I think atheists, like many others are just lost people. They base their beliefs in science, instead of on faith in God. Like Christians, there are intelligent atheists and there are idiotic atheists. There are also very caring, kind atheists and there are mean, stubborn atheists as well.

I personally do not believe that there are as many atheists out there that claim to be. I believe a large portion of "atheists" are actually agnostics hoping that someone will give them a reason to believe.

Whether they believe in the same God as I do or no god at all, either way, I believe we were made by the same God. He loves them just as much as He loves me.

Answer 4

I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

I usually say to atheists - "I don't blame ya". Religion is behind so many hateful and wicked things, I would likely be one too if I hadn't found the one religion that doesn't get involved in war, doesn't solicit for money (weddings, funerals etc. that are held at Kingdom Halls are even performed for free) and generally does everything it can to manifest what Jesus told his disciples to watch for at John 13:35.

Look, we're all created with free will and it's a right that each person is given with their life. Obviously, I am interested in doing everything I can to help a person to know about the Living God, Jehovah - but if he/she really doesn't want to know, it's their choice and I treat them with the same dignity and respect that I try to treat everyone with.

Answer 5

As one of Jehovah's Witnesses I understand that there are many reasons as to why persons lean this way.

Some has to do with the hypocrisy of those who profess to be "Christian". I mean, Jesus did say that you would recognize those not doing his Fathers will by the fruitage of their dealings.

Others cannot reconcile belief in God with the suffering in the world. Simone de Beauvoir once said: “It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.”

The most shocking denial of God’s authority comes from Christendom’s clergy, who have substituted man-made traditions for pure Bible truths. (Compare Matthew 15:9.) Additionally, they have backed the bloodiest wars of the 20th century, thus rejecting the Biblical command to display genuine love.—John 13:35.

The clergy have also denied God by turning their backs on his moral standards—as evidenced, for example, by a steady stream of lawsuits against pedophile priests.............

The situation of Christendom resembles that of ancient Israel and Judah. “The land is filled with bloodshed and the city is full of crookedness,” the prophet Ezekiel was told, “for they have said, ‘Jehovah has left the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.’” (Ezekiel 9:9; compare Isaiah 29:15.)

Little wonder that many have abandoned Christendom’s churches altogether!

“Sometimes atheism refers simply to the practical rejection or ignoring of God,” notes The Encyclopedia Americana.
For this reason, The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives the following second definition of “atheist”: “A person who denies God morally; a godless person.”

Answer 6

As long as they are polite I see them as no worse and in some ways nicer than many "devout" people. I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I usually enjoy talking to Atheists as they are often more willing to admit that Christmas has NOTHING to do with Jesus.

Answer 7

This question is shameful in suggesting that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians.

Jehovah's Witnesses certainly *ARE* Christians. Sadly, trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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http://watchtower.org/e/ti/
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Answer 8

I think this question has been asked before. Basically I think atheists would come out on the far left of left and right-brained thinking - if you had a scale between the two. Have a happy day.

Answer 9

I hope you are asking this w/ deep sincerity. As a JW, anybody who can live here on our beuatiful Earth & see the wonders of life & deny that there is a Creator does not deserve to live , in God's eyes. He is so Loving that He accepts anybody to learn from Him. But anyway, watch a week worth of "Nature" or "Pbs" or "National Geographic" & tell me there is not a God. He wants us to know him & love him & is giving us a big chance but time is running out before he destroys those who deny him along w/ the wicked. There can be morally OK people of other religions or even atheist but they are definitly not Moral in God's Eyes.

Answer 10

I'm LDS and unlike Melissa I don't have any in my family but the ones I have met, we just agree to disagree and still be friends.

As our 11th Article of faith says "We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship(or not worship) how, where, or what they may." Parentheses added by me.

They have the right to their choices and we believe everyone will be judged according to their own.