God believers, in a debate with Atheists, why are God believers always the ones to get angry and rude?

Question

In almost every debate. the God believers were the ones that got loud, told me I had no right to speak, refuse to listen and took it personal

Answer 1

Not always. I'm a God believer and I've never gotten loud or told anyone they didn't have the right to speak. Everyone has the right to speak and believe as they choose.

(I've probably been known to give rude responses to rude questions on both sides of the fence, but that's usually when it's late and I have little patience left for rude people.)

Answer 2

Well we do take it personal. Faith and religion is a personal thing, and for us (most of us anyway) it is not just about being right. We have a responsibility to spread our faith. If there is a time we are questioned and we speak in a way that turns someone further away from God it is a horrible thing, and we will be judged for it.

Believe me I know there are a lot of people on here and in the world who are not doing a good job. I have seen the posts where "Christians" tear a person down for asking a question. One of the questions I answered recently was Why would Jesus die for me. Once you got to reading the question it was really more, why is this such a big deal. Coming from the position that this person had not even been born yet, why should it mean anything. It was a good question. He didn't phrase it in a way that was meant to be disrespectful. He even ammended his question to say that, but WOW the Christians on here tore him up. Why? There are answers to this question. It is our job to answer them with respect and love. I have also seen the people who copy and paste so many bible verses that you hold the scroll down for five minutes. Why? Atheists don't recognize the bible as an authoritive text, what are they thinking they will accomplish? Don't get me wrong, I am impressed they know where all those verses are, but it would not effectively answer an atheists question. And of course I have seen the crazy people who say that dinosaurs never existed they are just a conspiracy that the atheists concocted. I am amazed at those people. I mean WOW.

But for me I don't get angry in a debate. Here is the thing an atheist goes into a debate with a background of non belief. They look at the evidence and say SEE, it is obvious that this is evolution. It proves billions of years. And I as a Christian will look at the same evidence and be incredulate at the even idea of that, because I come from a background of faith and belief that the bible is true. So I would think "How can they say that when CLEARLY it proves 6000 years, and intellegent design"

The only thing that will have me stop listening or stop talking is anger or bombardment from the other person. I refuse to be told I am stupid or undereducated because I disagree. I also would like the oppourtunity to answer one question at a time and stay on point. If we start talking about the reliability of the bible and then when we start to talk about evidences, switch to Noah, then jump to an old earth arguement. We don't get anywhere. It is pointless and we both walk away frustrated.

There is a LOT we disagree on, and we all have different backgrounds and books we have read. If we are willing to be calm, not expect a resolution in one conversation, just keep listening and talking. Take notes and write down questions or points and have a true give and take, we would all be better off.

I am willing to admit I do not have all the answers, for me I don't need them, but I am interested in learning them because I want to know, I want my children to know that there is an answer to these questions. We may never convince an atheist that Christ is the way to heaven. Heck we may not even convince them there is a heaven. They may hold firm to their scientific theories rather than ours, but that is ok. It is every persons choice to believe or not.

The only thing I would appreciate is after the whole thing is over for the other person to say, I don't agree with you, I am not becoming religious, but I see your evidence and I will acknowledge that since both yours and mine are theories built upon the same evidence, I will allow yours could be true. Not that it is, just that it is not built entirely on lies, that there is science there as well as faith. That would be nice.

Thanks for the question.

Answer 3

Why are most of the questions I see here from self-proclaimed athiests so rude? The answer is that they aren't looking for an answer or even debate, merely a fight. If you really are looking for a reasonable debate here, then you're misusing the site. But most such questions aren't looking for even that.

I answered an athiest's question by calling it what it was--bigoted. That's what it is when you generalize about a group of people, and that's what was done in that "question". Did he debate? No, he reported me for insulting him by calling him a bigot and had my answer removed, merely proving that he was a bigot that believed in censorship. I would have thought an atheist would be more open minded, and even supportive of personal rights, but I was apparently wrong.

This is certainly no excuse for a Christian to behave rudely, and very few of the Christians that I know behave that way. There will always be some. But there is apparently no ethical teaching that restrains athiests from behaving poorly toward others, with rather obvious results.

Answer 4

ok a quick question even nevertheless it desires an prolonged answer so we could commence What questions do you ask? some questions I definitely have heard or examine could be extra suited. could be ''in the adventure that your God is the marvelous one then why are there maximum of others'' ''Why does God enable suffering of harmless human beings'' stuff like that there is a lot extra yet just to many for me to checklist What questions does the believer say? Umm they dont ask questions they question atheists yet not the rest and you will many times make a come back surprisingly speedy what are your responses? See question one i will flow so as. ''God seems in many kinds'' Or ''they're only incorrect. ''human beings might desire to go through for there sins and whether they're infants its better than probable to punish there mothers and dads dont concern they are going to be provided in heaven'' not even kidding approximately that one examine it one time.desire this facilitates and only examine some questions and there solutions and learn some extra satisfied arguing!!

Answer 5

As a Deist I believe in a god and in science. For me they go hand in hand. I have debated with Christians who have gotten angry and rude, but I have also debated with Atheists who have gotten angry and rude. Lucky me, I get it from all sides. People get angry and rude when they feel that they must absolutely defend the dogma, no matter how strong a challenge to it may be.

Answer 6

Because it is way to easy to make valid points when questioning the Bible or a million other things associated with Christianity, and all other religions. And any rational sane person would agree with that. If there was a god and he is what everyone wants him to be- you couldn't possibly justify the amount of suffering in this world. Religion has caused too much conflict, pain, and misery for all people of every religion in every country on the globe. For anyone to possibly believe in any of it.

Answer 7

Some God believers are just that, believers. Their faith is based on their personal belief. You shake their beliefs and they take it personal.

There are a lot of us God knowers out there too. We don't know him like we know president Bush, we know him like we know our best friend or dad. We don't debate or get angry about it. God gave you the right to choose and you chose. That's cool. But don't ask me to prove God exists, it would be easier to prove to a land-lubber that the ocean exists, when they have been land locked all of their lives (No silly lady, that's just a picture of a lake). Not to offend you, God just happens to be outside of your realm of experience.

I'm sorry that you have experienced rudeness from people that believe in God. They give the rest of us a bad name and drive atheists deeper into atheism.

Answer 8

This is not a true statement. I do not understand why you are steo-typing fitting all Christians in the same xcategory. This is wrong.
I believe in back and forth conversations. Unfoertunately many do not have these skills. I witnessed to my friend years ago in High school and never pushed. It was he who kept asking to read literature I had. He eventually became a Christian though formerly professed to be an agnostic and atheist. I truly enjoyed listening to why he felt the way he did but was never swayed. Actually, I never was rude. Be careful not to misjudge please. Jesus really cares about you . Let me encourage you to at least explore WHAT jesus said about himself and there is a book called "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh Mc Dowell . He sought out to DISPROVE THE BIBLE AND CHANGED HIS MIND WHEN HE SAW THE EVIDENCES IN SCRIPTURE. HE IS ALSO A SCIENTIST i BELIEVE .
jESUS IS COMING SOON AND THEN THE TRIBULATION WILL START. i DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO GO THROUGH THAT

Answer 9

Black Atheist,
I would LOVE to have a discussion with you based on your beliefs vs. mine. But, so far, the majority of your questions work on "calling out" Christians by insulting the very basis of their faith, or making far out assumptions on our lives that have nothing to do with truth.
If you will stop baiting people, I think you will see much friendlier debates.
And by the way, one of my most favorite people in college was a devout atheist and I am a devout Christian. We could sit and chat for hours over coffee and we both learned alot about each other-- and it never got nasty. It only improved our friendship and we learned alot about "the other side".
Ask questions based on curiosity, not name calling and baiting.

Answer 10

I have seen atheists getting angry and Christians forgiving them, too, but you're right, unfortunately, Christians do get angry fast. Otherwise, how would we explain all the horrible crimes committed in the name of God? I am a Christian, you know, and I strongly believe in Jesus, but I think that atheists have the right to NOT believe in any god if this is what they want to do. This planet is (still) big enough for everybody.