I'm sure it would feel great.
2007-02-01 20:45:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
reginachick22, shut up. I didn't ask you your opinion. I asked fellow atheists. If I wanted an argument about atheism I would have posted some other question. But then again, I guess I am expecting too much from a person who calls John Lennon's 'Imagine' "stupid" and justifies what was done against him. You are the pest of humanity.
2007-02-01 23:20:21 · update #1
I don't try to convert people. That seems too christian to me. Though if I ever did it'd be sweet.
2007-02-01 20:51:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing to lose by believing in God. However, if God exists, atheists have everything to lose.
There's no reason why a Christian (insert religion here) can't live for the moment and have a great life here as well. Atheists often say they live for today. Uh...why can't you do that as a Christian as well and not take the risk of denying God? That stupid John Lennon song (Imagine) pisses me off. I wonder where he is now...hehe...
Anyway, I'm agnostic, and I have never tried to convince anyone to become an atheist, but I DID get my dad to stop following Catholicism (I think this faith has been too far corrupted by man to have any value anymore).
Religions teach you to spread the word. I don't get why atheists try to do the same. It ends up making them sound like they are trying so hard to convince others in order to prove to themselves that God doesn't exist. It makes them look bad. You know how the REAL smartest person in the room doesn't need to actually brag about it? Well, if atheists are right, they should take the same advice.
P.S. Props to those who clearly said they don't actively try to "convert" people.
2007-02-02 05:18:13 · answer #2 · answered by reginachick22 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No that would be silly. The way I became an Atheists was by example. I found the ones I met to be more loving and honest than anyone I knew. That's why I became an Atheists. Not because of any argument. As far as this page goes no one is going to be converted by anything anyone says on here. But they might get some Ideas that will help change their future.
2007-02-02 04:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have spoken to someone who called himself an atheist, them after pointing out the flaws of evolution, he told me he realizes that evolution is very improbable so he feels that we were put on this planet by aliens. It is quite weird what people will come up with not to believe in God. I'm not saying that other beliefs don't make more sense to others. But he would take any other answer but God. I'm sure christians have turned a lot of people away from God. I don't wish to start an arguement, it is just that this is what I believe.
2007-02-02 04:56:10 · answer #4 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually you cannot make anyone do anything they don't want to do. example: You didn't make me mad, I chose to get mad.
You may have shead some light on the topic (which I doubt you did) to convince them otherwise, but the choice was theirs.
I could probably convince you that you are a bigger idiot than you acknowledge you are.
Now troll, give your mommies computer back and go back to your room in the basement. It must be horrible to be 30ish and living at mommies house. Hit me with -10, I don't care looser, won't be the first time a troll got me because I gave him what he wanted, a smartalec answer.
Can't we have anything without butt wipes trying to mess it up?
Ignore this type of person, that's the best way to get to them. I'll take one for the team. I don't hammer you with my beliefs and I don't want to hear yours.
2007-02-02 05:14:14 · answer #5 · answered by Curious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that is not my desire or intention. I respect others' beliefs, though I may seem to ridicule now and then and that is only because I do have experience as a Christian (20 years of it in fact). I don't believe in trying to change people's beliefs, that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy a spirited debate though! Expressing my opinion is simply that, I am not trying to get others to believe as I do, that is arrogant.
2007-02-02 05:26:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never try as it is a personal choice although many have helped me get here. I think it would feel very good to know such a thing had been accomplished in full integrity .
2007-02-02 04:56:48 · answer #7 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, because that would violate my humanist philosophy. People are entitled to believe whatever they like, or whatever give them comfort or pleasure. As long as they understand they haven't the right to force their beliefs on the rest of us, that is, or subvert the rule of law to forward a religious agenda.
2007-02-02 04:55:52 · answer #8 · answered by link955 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't argue with them or make them atheist. They asked about it and I told them what it is (and isn't), and they made the decision themselves. It didn't feel great, it made me feel better about being around them because I knew they had finally come to their senses.
2007-02-02 04:56:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not possible. You cannot change someone's beliefs with a single argument. Maybe if you convinced them to research certain things and let them come to their own conclusion, but not simply by telling them.
Well, unless they're like 5 years old.
2007-02-02 04:50:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋