If you are an atheist why deni Christ why not any other religion?

Question

I always notice that atheists deni Christianity and they don't deni mormons or Jehovah wittnesses. I mean me being a Born again Christian I have always wonderd why us.

I think all your answers suck but thanks you I'm learning a little more a bout Athesists that I never new before.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses are themselves Christians. Please do not pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians.

Frankly, it is dishonest and insulting when trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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Answer 2

You forgot to mention Judaism.

So why don't Jews believe in Jesus?

As someone else stated in their answer to you:

It is important to understand that Jesus is simply not a part of Judaism. He is irrelevant to our religion. To ask a Jew, "why don't you believe in Jesus?" is like asking a Christian, "why don't you believe in Zeus?"

The first thing you need to understand is, we do not believe in the Christian "New Testament." It's not part of our Bible.

Many Christians find this confusing: how can you accept one part of a book without accepting another part of the book. But the Bible is not one book; it's a collection of books. Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Mormons each have their own idea of what books belong in that collection. You wouldn't accept another religion's idea of what belongs in your Bible, so you shouldn't expect Jews to accept your idea of what belongs in our Bible.

But assuming for the sake of this discussion that the Christian scriptures have some basis in fact: Jews had a rather clearly-formed idea of the messiah and a messianic age long before Jesus came along. That clearly-formed idea involved the restoration of the Davidic monarchy and a just and peaceful society throughout the world, as foretold by the prophets during the age of the Babylonian Exile.

The Jews of the Roman Empire desperately longed for that beautiful ideal as they suffered under Roman tyranny. See Moshiach: The Messiah for more about this Jewish idea of the messiah.

Jews don't believe that Jesus is the messiah because, quite simply, he never did any of the things that we expect the messiah to do, the things that the prophets proclaimed the messiah would do. See Moshiach: The Messiah. Christianity gets around this by saying that Jesus will come back to do all of those things. From a Jewish perspective, however, the messiah is identified by his tangible acts, and promises to finish the job in the future aren't going to convince us.

Anyway, I guess the answer to your question - in my opinion - I am an Orthodox Jew - not an atheist - and I DENY JC as being the Messiah. Nowhere in the old testament does it state that J. C. was the Messiah.

Answer 3

As a born-again Christian, I would say that the reason why we notice that atheists reject Christianity is because Christianity is very much focused on reaching out to others with the message of Christ. For non-Mormon and non-Jehovah's Witness Christians -- although calling Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses Christians is another debate altogether -- their method of evangelism, though it may look effective, is easy enough to sidestep for anyone, atheists included. They come knocking on your door, you look through the peephole, and you don't answer your door; it's that simple. And I know because I used to do it. It doesn't look like rejection if you don't answer your door.

But other Christians, as messed up as this may sound, can sometimes be downright annoying in their pursuit of evangelistic outreach. How many other faiths ask you to incessantly pursue the hearts of others on Christ's behalf? I'm not saying it's a bad thing -- on the contrary, I believe it's of utmost importance -- I'm just saying that it could be annoying to others.

As others have stated, atheists don't reject just Christians. They reject Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and any other theological religions. At least they're fair, and I think that deserves some respect.

In short, the message of Christianity appears to be more rejected by atheists than the message of other gods because I think Jesus is presented more to atheists than other gods. The more you present Him, the more they can reject Him...a game of mathematics for the most part.

Answer 4

Atheists deny all religion.

Christians are a focus, many times, because we believe that teaching others about Jesus (especially those who do not know Him) is our commandment from God. Thus, we appear to be "forceful" and it is often true. There is a fine line between preaching and teaching. Non-believers don't need a preacher. They need a teacher. Preachers are for people who "know" and teachers are for people who "need to know."

When non-believers encounter preachers they get turned off and many start to think things like "if religion were true, then you wouldn't be bashing me" and get "turned off". Thus, we end up with atheists and the need to ask such questions.

There will come a time that people will learn...

"that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:10-11 NIV

I just pray that it won't be too late.

By the way: Jesus Christ is God (his deity is defined). Jesus Christ died and resurrected both spiritually and physically. Salvation is by grace and not by works. No man earns himself into heaven. By these beliefs, Christianity is defined. NO religion that does not share these beliefs is a Christian religion irregardless of the book that they use as a guide. Personally, I love the door to door approach. It brings the non-believers to me and makes my job, as a Christian, much easier.

Answer 5

The only thing every Atheist has in common is the disbelief in any and all deities. Other then that it's pretty much a free for all. Atheism doesn't have any particular way of everybody has to agree and believe the same thing as one another. No two Atheists, Agnostics, Freethinker, or Humanists are the same. Some Atheists might like certain religions and some Atheists might just simply dislike all religions point blank period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
http://www.theopedia.com/Atheism
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Atheism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist.htm

Answer 6

Listen closely. We deny ALL religions equally.

It's just that the other religions don't get in our face like Christians (and to a lesser extent, the Muslims) do, so they don't present us with the same occasions to deny them by name.

P.S. If you haven't noticed us denying the Mormon and JW religions, you're not listening carefully.


It doesn't matter that you think our answers suck. (That's to be expected, actually.) What matters is that you are learning--and actually reading what we have to say about ourselves. That's actually a rare treat! Most of us respect Christians who listen, even if we don't change their minds.

Answer 7

We deny anything that doesnt have proof. And stick around on the forum a little longer you will see one of us bash joseph smith I am sure.

And to me a least: mormons, jehovah witness, southern baptists, seventh day adventist, catholics...its all the same thing. they all have a common denominator and thats jesus so they all fall into 'christianity".

now if you mean other religions like buddaism, or taoist or paganism, or wiccans....we dont believe what they believe in but they are a lot less.....forceful.

Answer 8

Of course atheism isn't a faith. That being clean, we could see in the journey that your question makes any journey in any respect. You seem to video show that Christmas develop into as quickly as before everything a Pagan opposition. It was once changed to an afternoon of observance for the Jewish Rabbi Jesus. thinking the Jews had sufficient holiday trips already, the gentiles took it over. besides there have been many calling themselves the Messiah, and the Jews weren't approximately to boost one among them in simple terms thinking his followers had to perpetuate his reminiscence. For between the main section, Christmas looks to have the reason for remembering Santa Claus, and endowing the youngsters with gives you. i'm no longer sure the area a ineffective guy comes into it.

Answer 9

You misunderstand the term Atheist. We DO deny those religions just as much as yours (that is, believe they are just as false).

Perhaps your confusion comes form the fact that you do not consider Mormons or JW's Christians (they do consider themselves Christians) so we lump them all together when talking about Christianity (after all, their faith-based belief is just as good as your faith-based belief).

Perhaps if you think about the reasons you deny their religions, or the Muslim religion, or the Hindu religion, you will understand why we deny yours as well.


EDIT:
That you think all of our answers suck will probably be taken as a complement from someone who has managed to misspell so many words in your question even when you have a spell-checker (not to mention your punctuation).

Answer 10

I deny all superstitions. Christianity turns out the most atheists, so I guess we just know that religion really well to pick on. That and it has a strangle hold on America.

Answer 11

What? Your poor use of grammar is making me wonder what you're asking, but I'll take a stab at it and assume you're indicating that somehow you separate yourself from those other two groups who claim that, they too, are part of Christianity.

Atheism is not believing in an omnipotent creator being, which is a concept wholly illogical IMO. I believe in Jesus, but not the mythological version that modern Christianity has turned him into. Atheism isn't about "denying" Christ.

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