Dear atheists why so many questions to disprove?

Question

I thought you did not believe, and really hate the convert stuff, yet your questions seems to be trying to convert others. If you don't believe, why do you care so much? Is it a justification? I honestly don't get it., and am not trying to disrespect. What do you need to prove?

Sorry Chippy, never once in my life have I been asked or encouraged to go to any location and convert others, or hand out anything.

Answer 1

I used to be an atheist and in my heart I would think, "GOD I don't believe in you, now go away and leave me alone!" Then I had to go and say,"GOD if you're real, prove it. If you're afraid of the truth then whatever you do, don't ask GOD to prove HIMSELF to you. Cause if you mean it HE will. Don't ask me, ask GOD. OH! and there's a guarantee! A new and fulfilling life or your soul back. Oh Yeah. I asked Christians all those question cause deep down inside, even tho I didn't know it, I wanted to know the truth.

Answer 2

Not keen on converting, per se, but very keen on the question of truth.

And when one point of view is being presented as truth, and often absolute truth at that, then it does seem appropriate to question, and to air the alternate viewpoints.

And there is a world out there. How we think about it is an issue of some degree of importance. Some ideas HAVE to be closer to reality than others, so some degree of weighing them is, in practice, inevitable.


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Answer 3

Because we want you to think.

If you take the evidence you have available and come to the conclusion that there is a god and can acknowledge where you have acted on faith and where you have acted on logic, AND, allow others to do the same, you would find most of us to embrace you and allow you your beliefs. I once, as a year's personal project, started with the axiom, "Jesus is Messiah," and from that one simple statement was able to deduce the whole of Roman Catholic teaching. That logic is still valid, I just no longer agree with the axiom. If ever I could be convinced that it was true again, I would logically have no choice but to return to Roman Catholicism; it is the logical conclusion of Jesus being Messiah. That Jesus is Messiah must be taken as a leap of faith.

However, many fundamentalists refuse to think critically, they refuse to separate faith from logic or separate them so far they must choose between one or another. There is no more dangerous mindset in the world than one such as this.

It's not so much that we really care what you believe so much as we are desperately trying to end a dire threat to the human race -- blind faith and willful ignorance and intentional refusal to use critical thought.

Answer 4

God has placed in each man a desire to know Him and an innate knowledge of Him which they have to constantly stuff down. If they were secure in their beliefs they would quit asking and insulting Christians every few questions. Just look at questions addressed to Christians and you'll find the atheists right in there with rude comments. Sad but oh so true.

Let the thumbs down begin :-)

Answer 5

well as you can see by my screen name i'm not atheist anyway if you believers truly don't care about whether the atheists don't believe then why do you go around trying to convert them

Answer 6

I don't really hate the conversion attempts, they are just kind of annoying because I can easily dismiss them as irrational. If someone comes at me with a logical argument I will listen.

Answer 7

1) I hate seeing people ruin a perfectly good brain by filling it with dogma.
2) Whether or not I am religious, religion affects the daily lives of Americans.
3) I need to prove that my (lack of) religious faith is logical - which it is.

Answer 8

i'm not trying to convert anybody. I just point out interesting things like the fact that Moses had to beg God to not be evil.

Answer 9

I do not seek to convert anyone. I dont want you to beleive in ANY superstitious, Im-better-than-you, my-truth-trumps-yours religion. I want to teach you how to critically think and look at your own beleifs that you claim are TRUE, so that you can see the folly of your own thinking...

Answer 10

because christians roam around trying to convert people, and it annoys people who dont believe when christians come up and do it to them. this is simply showing you how it feels.

whats the matter u dont like it?

rule: "do unto others..."
can u finish it?

for instance i have never been approached in a mall, on the street, or at my house by an atheist trying to convert. however in all 3 places ive been approached by someone selling the word of their god.