1. "god is your imaginary friend"
2. "Your god is just as fake as the tooth fairy"
3. "You think God sent his only son to get beat, tortured, and murdered just so you can commit murder and be forgiven?"
How are these attacks? These are comments that you happen to disagree with. Are you crazy?
2007-01-30 05:11:17 · 18 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are comments that are intended to be insulting to people who believe certain things. There's no attempt a rational debate or to make the other person question anything--they are simply namecalling.
It's no different to Christians who "answer" a question by saying all non-believers are going to hell, all atheists are immoral or all Wiccans are Satanists--there's no intent beyond insult.
2007-01-30 05:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
How are these attacks?
1. "god is your imaginary friend"
Ok, your opinion. My opinion of you is that you're hate-filled. Did I just attack you?
2. "Your god is just as fake as the tooth fairy"
Closer to an attack. You're insulting my religion. Try putting in "Buddha" or "Mohammad" or "The Wiccan Goddess" and see how fast you get yelled at for insulting them.
3. "You think God sent his only son to get beat, tortured, and murdered just so you can commit murder and be forgiven?"
Now that's an attack. You dare to presume what a Christian is and does and you slur against my God and religion.
Frankly, they are all insulting and show little intelligence.
2007-01-30 05:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by sister steph 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think 1 and 2 are attacks because of the wording and the implied tone. 3 is an attack because you are assuming you know what I think.
A neutral comment would be "I don't believe that God exists" or "I have a hard time understanding why some people believe in God."
Plus, when you are on the internet and you can't hear the person's tone of voice, it's hard to tell what their intent was. Still, the wording of 1 and 2 tend to suggest a sarcastic/condesending tone.
2007-01-30 05:24:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They're not attacks; they're your opinion. However, such comments could be viewed, by many people, as "baiting". You know full well that any believer is going to disagree with these statements (myself included), which is fine, but a comment like, "Your God is just as fake as the tooth fairy" is calculated to be offensive. Otherwise, your statement would have been worded with more neutral (and far more scholarly) language. It's not what you're saying, but rather, the way you're saying it. Am I crazy? Probably, but I'm also a straight-A college student who knows the difference between neutral and inflammatory language.
2007-01-30 05:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by solarius 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why are you here? What is it that you really want to know?
Your attacks are doing nothing. Nobody is going to get upset with you. Try to calm down, and pull yourself together. Obviously, you are very, very anxious - to the point of not being able to sustain self-control. But thats okay, you've found nothing in your life that makes you hopeful. Your frustration level must be staggering. Thats such a shame;
But I really do have to answer your question -
Am I crazy? hmmmm.....According to my brother, yep.
Anyway, God, my imaginary friend, who is friends with the tooth fairy and sent His son to get beat tortured and murdered, has this to say to you:
In this flesh life you have a choice to make. Thats why you are here. If you have made that choice, great. You have to sail your own ship - there is no Christian person or organization that can do that for you. And, God does not require me to beg and plead you into Heaven. The rest of us are going into the eternity for the long-haul. We do not want a repeat of this, so its best your choice has been made. Good for you. One-down, how many more to go??? Have a great life.
2007-01-30 05:29:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was born and raised in a Christian home. I have a faith in God, but I don't pratice any religion. People may see these as attacks because it's a personal insult on something so special to them. Picture this. Say you are close with you're parents, and someone comes along and says " You're parents are terrible parents. They only provide food and shelter for you because they have to. You're parents have pathetic jobs." -whatever...just some kind of insult. The person saying comments about your parents might not be saying them in a vicious or attacking manner, but strictly out of opinion. Wouldn't you take offense to something like that?
It's just something people do when something they love, care or hold dear to them gets criticized in a negative manner, whether it's about their religion, political affiliation, music, style of clothing...whathaveyou.
2007-01-30 05:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by paha4u 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, depending on the context, they are either: (i) leading questions (questions which presuppose their own answer); or, (ii) they are statements of faith being asserted emphatically as fact.
I think that you need to go and re-learn basic English composition if you do not think that most people will interpret these statements, the way that they are worded, as some sort of ridicule or insult.
Usually when someone asserts something emphatically, especially when they know that the people that they are talking too are very likely to disagree with them, it is reasonable to assume that you are a closed minded person looking for a fight.
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Let's put the shoe on the other foot for the moment.
If I said to you, "You are going to hell, you sinner"; would you consider that statement, the way that it is worded, as just an impartial opinion, or as an threat of some sort?
Is there a better way to word it that sounds less judgmental & less confrontational, perhaps?
2007-01-30 05:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by Randy G 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever seen one of those dreadful 70's movies where a group of concerned relatives seeks help from a professional "deprogrammer" and kidnaps a loved one (usually some stupid kid) from a cult? It takes the deprogrammer days to get the kid to return to any semblance of normality, but it happens. Before it happens, it's denial, denial, denial.
Yes, they're crazy in the sense that they are delusional, and they have each other to reinforce their delusions. They don't like atheists because atheists have never been as united as they are now. The Internet is a wonderful tool for bringing like-minded people together.
If they are perceived as attacks, that's unfortunate. I think that they are opinions, based upon evidence, and not liking an opinion doesn't make it an attack. Their fear is that they are wrong, and the more they suspect that they may be wrong, the more they insist that their beliefs are "the truth".
2007-01-30 05:19:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
* No, they do not know the difference, and Yes some of them are crazy. I had to change my profile settings to no contact due to a couple harrassing me many times a day just to tell me I was evil, of the devil and going to hell. They did this in the name of debate, but there was no debate because I used scripture to prove their belief system wrong and they could not debate me using the bible because they did not know the bible, so they just attacked and called me names and were pretty threatening. All because I disagreed with them and they insisted on contacting me agaisnt my will after many times being told I did not want them to, so that is why i do not allow contact at this time.
I may change it soon as the two who were doing this got frustrated with Y/A and left. Hopefully they will not harrass me anymore.*
2007-01-30 05:23:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not fair to lump all "god believers" together like this.
The points you are making are not attacks or even comments. They are opinions. People can disagree with you without being crazy.
I believe that there are lots of God and Goddesses. You disagree with me. Are you crazy????
2007-01-30 05:29:15 · answer #10 · answered by dark_firmament 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋