calling all atheists!?

Question

hi! im a roman catholic, and i want to know what kind of a mnd set atheists have... if you are atheist, please answer this suvey..

1 what do you do whe you feel scared or worried about something?

2. do you ever wonder how the earth started?

3. how do you think everything was started?

4. are you afended when people try to convert you
?

5. if you were to be converrted, what would be the best way for some one like me to convert you?

thanks! please email me!

Answer 1

1 what do you do whe you feel scared or worried about something?

I seek advice and support from family and friends. I try do actually do something about the thing that worries me. "The hands that help are better than the lips that pray"

2. do you ever wonder how the earth started?

Yes of course. Science has probably not even uncovered 1% of all there is to know. What we do know however is facinating and awe inspiring. We know much but there is much still to find out. This thought excites and inspires me. The search to real answers to life's question is far more fulfilling then the "god did it" way of explaining the universe.

3. how do you think everything was started?

That's the thing, I don't claim to know ! I think it takes an amazing amount of arrogance to claim to know how it all started, an arrogance found in many religious organisations. all with differing versions of how it all began, all believing that they alone posess some divine truth. Will science find the answer to this question. Who knows.... but at least scientists are trying to find real answers.

4. are you afended when people try to convert you
?

A little I guess, it implies that I am a less complete human being then they are, that i need their version of religion to be "whole". Agin I find ths arrogant in the extreme. I am a basically good person, I work hard, I do charity work, I try to make the best decisions I can..... I'm not perfect but who is ? Trying to tell me that faith in a god who slaughters millions in the bible.... will somehow make me a better person......... I don't think so.

5. if you were to be converrted, what would be the best way for some one like me to convert you?

Present me with real, hard, empirical, tangible evidence, not supernatural stuff that cannot be proved not assertations based on mere faith or personal conviction but real hard evidence.

Great question ! thanks for the opportunity to reply.

Answer 2

1. When I'm scared or worried, I first try to first try to figure what is scaring or worrying me. Then I try to come up with a practical solution to solve the problem. Some problems can be avoided, such as distancing myself from a difficult person, and some problems must be actively solved, like trying to find employment. In the event that the problem cannot be solved, such as the fact that I will die one day, I simply accept it as a truth and deal with it.

2. Sure, I wonder how the earth started. I've thought about it alot and I've come to the conclusion that it is something that I can't know and that the answer isn't all that important anyway. There is no way to actually know for sure how the universe came to be (Faith is an assumption not knowing. Scientific theory is an educated guess but still not knowing.) And no matter how we came to be, we are. Knowlede of the origin would not change current conditions. Only we can do that.

3. I don't know how everything started, and I don't really feel the need to know. I prefer to think about the present and the future.

4. I am not offended when people try to convert me. I am intrigued and I will engage a converter in a debate about what they believe and why they think its better than what I do or don't believe. Such debates usually include me poking holes in their theistic logic, them supporting such logic with unrelated anectdotes and vague metaphors, and neither of us changing our original stances.

5. Since you are a Christian, a Roman Catholic, you would have really hard time converting me. Before you even qoute scripture or ask me to read the bible, you'd need to convince me of the very existence of an onipotent and loving God, which is a concept that I find utterly ridiculous. I would advise you to appeal to rationality, since emotional appeals have failed many times, and offer me some type of evidence that what you believe is true (sorry, I don't count faith and old story books as evidence). That being said, if you could convert me, bravo!

Answer 3

I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, but am a non-believer now.
No 1 Nothing scares or worries me.
No 2 I believe the scientific explaination.
No 3 See no 2 above.
No 4 No
No 5 Not a chance.

Answer 4

1. Think over my problem and decide on the best solution.

2. Not really. I excelled in science, but I didn't want to be a scientist. Besides, I try to wonder about more important and practical things, like how to be a better person.

3. I don't and I don't care. See answer 3.

4. Yes and no. I really can't be bothered with telemarketers of any sort.

5. There is no way, let alone a best way. I have always been a thinker and I always will be. My belief system is transmutable though-I change my mind all of the time, when I learn new information.

You're welcome! My responses to you are supposed to be honest, not condescending or rude. I hope it doesn't read that way.

Answer 5

1. I bring my dogs inside to keep me company when I'm scared, and I have a handgun for added protection (the noise scares off the coyotes and bears, yes I live in the woods and I'm really only afraid of bears and coyotes). I tend to eat and/or fidgit when I'm worried.

2. Yes I wonder how the earth started fairly often.

3. I don't know how everything was started. That would include having answers to how this universe got started, and the universe that this universe is in, etc. My brain doesn't operate on enough GHz to allow me to figure this out.

4. I'm uncomfortable when people try to convert me. The feeling is the same when a salesperson pressures me. I'm not offended, just uncomfortable.

5. I need to see proof that I should believe the bible, and proof of God.

Answer 6

1. drink
2.BIG BANG
3.BIG BANG
4. Yes
5. The Geneva Convention outlaws the methods necessary to turn me into a Roman Catholic.

Answer 7

What is mildly amusing to me is that we atheists have thought way longer and way deeper than you about all the issues surrounding origins than you have, why on earth would you think you could convert us to something that is far less reasonable than all of the conclusions we have reached so far?

Answer 8

1. Freak out
2. Not since Earth Science in 9th grade.
3. Big Bang
4. Yes
5. Sex, if your really a girl

Answer 9

1) Pray to Darwin - is that what you want to hear? I try to deal with whatever is bothering me without asking any mythical beings for help they can't give.

2) No. I'm familar with stellar accretion discs.

3) By the normal working of the laws of physics.

4) Just disgusted that a stupid, ignorant person would try to dumb me down to their level.

5) LOL