Why are atheists so focused on Christianity?

Question

Even if your question is directed to all religions or to theists the way it is phrased is almost exclusively to Christianity.

Is it because you only know their beliefs or do you have a vendetta?

Not sure why people think I am Christian, I am not

Answer 1

We aren't. It's just that Xianity is the prevalent religion *here*. A related factor is that if we have any religious experience at all, those on R&S are most likely ex-Christians.

And here we go again with the *hate-type* accusations... No there's *no* vendetta. This is another reason - why do Xians always come up with "hate", "vendetta" etc. - I've never heard this from any other religion. Do Xians like/love to incite?

Answer 2

Depends on the faith. Any religion that actively goes out of its way to receive converts is probably going to be a target. Islam, and Judaism are no exceptions. Religions like Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Paganism aren't quite so in-your-face, and don't seek converts. For this reason atheists don't bother them. Also, you can easily be a Taoist or Confucianist and an Atheist at the exact same time. They're not mutually exclusive. I personally don't have any problem with Christians, though, and whatever makes a person happy, peaceful and content is a good thing. Anything that inspires good works is also a good thing.

Answer 3

Actually it's the other way around: I know their beliefs and many have a vendetta to destroy secular governance and my freedom to live without following their religion:

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976

"There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution."
-- Jerry Falwell

How can you deny their own words?

Answer 4

Drink up!

Man, Christians are amazingly blind, aren't they? If we drink enough, will we eventually be this good at ignoring the obvious?

Kid, just look at your question and the answers you got: Christians don't seem to be able to say anything about atheists without spewing hate speech. On the first page of answers, at least, not a single Christian (out of 7 of them) was able to keep from making ignorant derogatory statements about atheists. There's another one right below me.

Show me another religion here that is so focused on lying about atheists. You won't find it. There are a few Muslims here who engage in that kind of thing, but it's predominantly what Christians do here.

Fix your own behavior, don't whine about "vendettas" against you.

Answer 5

Atheists focus mostly on Christianity because:

1) In our part of the world Chirstianity IS the predominant religion. If you were from India, the atheists there would be bashing Hinduism. If you were from the Middle East it would be Islam (although the atheist would be killed for disagreeing)

2) Therefore most atheists in here are former Christians and just like Christians were former non-believers trying to argue their point, sometimes very harshly, so too the former Christians try to argue their point, sometimes very harshly.

Answer 6

Well if Christians weren't so smug and arrogant and didn't always call out Atheists and all other non religious people and non Christians and insult them and condemn them to hell and talk to them in condescending ways then there wouldn't be so many problems on this forum. I'm not saying that all Christians do this, but even you have to admit that there are quite a few who do the things that I just mentioned.

Answer 7

'Atheists, have you accepted Jesus?' flies around here about 303837316261629 times a day. I don't blame atheists for being 'focused' on Christianity in their questions. Christians are focused on atheists, too.

Also, Christianity is the predominant religion in the US. We have never had a president who has publicly claimed to be anything else. It influences our lives much more than Sikhism or Jainism or Shinto might. If you lived in a country with another religion that was so predominant, you'd focus on it too.

Answer 8

Christians are the ones who generally give atheists the most hell (probably because they are the predominant religion in our culture).

In my state I can't buy alcoholic beverages on Sunday because of the Christians.

In my state, there is a constitutional amendment to keep gays from marrying. Because of the Christians.

For ages, stores couldn't open on Sunday, because of the Christians.

In many states, atheists cannot hold office, primarily because of the Christians.

I don't dislike anyone because of their religion. I do NOT like someone trying to force their religious beliefs down my throat, especially through force of law. Something a lot of Christians in my state and country have done.

Answer 9

I've come to the conclusion that they have had at some point in their lives, a negative experience with religion (not neccesarily Christianity) and have dedicated their lives to lashing out at us as a retort. I don't even think most are aware, they mask it by believing they are in some way intellectuals, but it's not intellect just arrogance to assume a higher power didn't create the world. They believe we have to "prove" God to them but will tell you that since you can't "prove a negative" they don't have to prove God doesn't exist. You can however prove a negative (ie... the world was proven not to be flat...). I think it's fascinating to read how they justify their beliefs. I've learned a lot about how people fool themselves and deny truth when it's right in front of them.

Answer 10

Because we live in a Christian society. This question again? Is it really that hard to understand? There's not much point, for most practical purposes, in complaining about, e.g., the Zoroastrians in 21st century America. They aren't the ones trying to force their delusions down the collective throat of secular society.

The best "Christians" can come up with is that "atheists are scared of the truth, are afraid of morality," etc. Can irony go further? Your canon of "truth" involves blind belief in the efficacy of the blood sacrifice of a 2,000-years-dead magical carpenter, which gets us all off the hook for the "original sin" of our 6,000-years-dead primordial ancestors. Your canon of "morality" is based on your selfish desire to get into God's Clubhouse when you die, and conversely on the threat of hell. Pardon me if I, for my part, refuse to credit you with the capacity for either truth OR morality.

Answer 11

Because I'm surrounded by it. It's the mainly held religious faith in this country, and it's infiltrating schools and government and legislation and social policy... it's everywhere.

Asking why I'm so concerned about Christiantiy is kind of like asking a drowning person why they're so preoccupied with water.