2007-02-02 14:19:02 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
By whom??? I didn't even know another atheist when I figured out that I was one.
2007-02-02 14:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by Alex 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Brainwashed? No. But I think they may be misled. Most atheist arguments seem to work by refuting certain fundamentalist Christian conceptions of God and then leapfrog to "no deities exist", or that if something has a natural explanation, God can't have a part in it. These is a totally uncalled-for leaps as there are far more conceptions of God out there.
2007-02-02 23:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by mike4ty4 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't exactly call them brainwashed. Evolution is their belief system,and atheists tend to follow only those scientists who use evolution as an excuse to deny the existence of God, Richard Dawkins as an example. But,yet they choose to ignore the words of other scientists who happen to believe in God,and I'm not speaking of creationists,either. I'm talking about scientists who not only believe in God,but also evolution,scientists such as Francis Collins,who is the Director of The Human Genome Project. Atheists won't listen to ANYONE who believes in God,no matter what their qualifications. Science can't prove God doesn't exist,and to outright say God is not real is totally irrational.
Self-deceived is a more apt word than brainwashed
2007-02-02 23:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Brainwashing only occurs when the person wishes it or allows it. Atheists believe what they believe not by force or persuasion but by what is in their hearts.
2007-02-02 22:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not this atheist. Who would have brainwashed me? I thought for myself and left christianity. I was brainwashed as a child to believe in god.
2007-02-02 22:22:38 · answer #5 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
No. Atheists are the ones unaffected.
Now for the Christians...
2007-02-02 22:32:18 · answer #6 · answered by Chipee 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
are christians brainwashed?
I do believe babies don't go for a magical sky pixie that created everything. So something must happen at a later date.
2007-02-03 08:29:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think christians are brain washed.I think atheist are wrong,because i believe in God,but they have the right to there opinions,but i think God is in and around us,not in a books view of God.
2007-02-02 22:43:03 · answer #8 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just free thinkers making a choice, just like those who choose Christianity, or Islam, or Buddhism, or any of the many approaches to beliefs that exist in this world of ours.
2007-02-02 22:40:56 · answer #9 · answered by irish1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not believing in God is a choice, the result of being given free will.
It shouldn't define who a person is or cause people of faith to hate them.
Christ loves the non-followers just as much as the followers. He died for all of us.
2007-02-02 22:26:28 · answer #10 · answered by Tony C 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't think atheist are the ones instilling their beliefs on their children from the day they are born. Sorry to burst your bubble but it's the other way around.
2007-02-02 22:24:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋