They deny responsibility and blame anything and everything but their own sinful nature. Do I make any sense, or am I just another stupid Christian asking another stupid question for highly educated atheists to scoff at ?
2007-03-25 02:05:55 · 19 answers · asked by Dirk Johnson 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't mean to generalize. I'm thinking of someone in particular. My apologies.
2007-03-25 02:22:24 · update #1
It is human nature to try and shift blame and responsibility for bad to someone or something else. Note that in the garden of Eden, after Adam and Eve sinned, they proceeded to shift the blame. (Genesis 3:12,13) Adam even implied that it was God's fault for giving him this woman in the first place!
2007-03-25 02:18:54 · answer #1 · answered by babydoll 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're right about crediting themselves for the good that they do or that happens to them. When it comes to blame, western secular culture has come up with a laundry list to blame, starting with the parents.
Read some trial transcripts and you'll see psychologists testifying in nearly every criminal case about the lousy childhood conditions that caused this criminal act. Then there's job-related stress, having been recently fired, etcetera.
Lots of YA people say Christians blame Satan for the bad that they do. I don't know what YA answers they've been reading, but every one I've seen or written has laid the responsibility squarely on our own shoulders. We say that we have free will and so when we sin, God is not to blame. We are to blame. I've never heard a Christian say, "The devil made me do it." Neither, I suspect, have they.
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2007-03-25 09:18:47 · answer #2 · answered by cmw 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well, I don't buy the whole "sinful nature" obviously ;)
In general, I think atheists are as likely to blame anything but their own stupidity as everyone else is. Thing is, we have one less god/devil to blame it on. Eventually we grow up and take responsibility for our actions, good and bad. This is called being a decent human being.
2007-03-25 09:31:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, for all things good or bad, atheist would have only themselves to blame.
People who deny responsibility are called irresponsible. People who blamed others are called scapegoat Shepherd. Atheist or Christians alike have the same tendency.
Now, let me ask Christian, when something good happen, you credit god, when something bad happens you blame Satan, and that is good? When do you take responsibility for yourself?
(For those Christian who said they never blame Satan for the bad things they do, you know deep in your heart you do ...... ok that is generalising too, but then isn't that your forte?)
2007-03-25 09:14:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I suspect that you've invented this notion, and as a result, you ought to be able to "get it." Or perhaps some over-zealous preacher gave you this misinformation.
A recent question about atheist and "good deeds" suggested that atheists are unlikely to trumpet their beneficial acts, but merely do them and move on.
As far as taking responsibility for their own actions, atheists have no devils or demons or "sinful nature" to which they can assign blame, but must acknowledge that anything that they do is a result of their own decisions. "The Devil made me do it" is not a cop-out available to atheists. Consequently, they are apt to be more likely to accept responsibilty than the average Christian with his defense of supernatural scapegoats.
2007-03-25 09:13:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well yes to the last part. I have no idea what you are talking about in the first part, as an atheist I take responsibility for what I do both good and bad, as do all the others I know.
2007-03-25 09:09:47 · answer #6 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Okay, if a christian does something good they take credit, but if something bad happens they blame it on god, what a hoax!! Say you have killed and eaten all of your neighbors for breakfast, but then you repent in jail, now you are going to heaven!!
2007-03-25 09:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by ♥willow♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if you told us what you were talking about specifically, you'd make a lot more sense.
Look at this question. It was a chance for atheists to "credit themselves" for doing something good. And nearly everyone who answered said they don't want credit. So your question/ASSumption holds zero weight.
2007-03-25 09:08:47 · answer #8 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not an atheist but I have never meant one who believed in the idea of sin.
I think you are a bit confused on this one.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-25 09:09:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe it was an Atheist who first used the defense of the "victim-perp", saying it was society that turned them out that way.
He was going to blame God, but when everyone found out he had already proclaimed himself Atheist, that defense fell through and he was forced to find someone else to blame.
But hey, don't generalize, everyone is unique.
2007-03-25 09:10:36 · answer #10 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋