Why do atheist choose not to believe in any God...but especially Jesus Christ?

Question

This question is just something that i really just want to know out of curiosity, i don't want to offend people.

The other day i was at starbucks and a group of about 15 atheists were at a table next to me spewing out and saying the meanest, vilest things about people they know who are Christians and how stupid it is to believe in Jesus. I had never heard people so filled with hate and anger towards Christians as myself...I wasn't even upset, i was sad.

Also, would atheist think that all those who were affected by the Virgina Tech Massacre who pray together and are trying to pull through this to be foolish idiots because they of what they are doing...praying together, trying to get through it. If their faith is helping them so much, then why critizie them and think them to be idiots? I just don't understand.

Answer 1

Atheists do not accept Jesus because it is too easy. They believe that in order for something to be valid it must be infinitely complicated. Jesus is really very simple, especially compared to trying to justify and prove evolution and the Big Bang theory. Not even the most brilliant minds in the world can come to a final reconciliation on evolution or the Big Bang Theory.

Jesus requires only simple belief and faith---a person is not required to have multiple degrees and write thousands of pages of assumptions and dozens of books in order to justify his beliefs and faith. Everything that a person is required to know about Jesus is contained in one book---the Bible. In other words, all the work has been done for the believer. This confounds the mind of the atheist, thinking that there is much, much more work to be done to explain the origins of the universe and mankind and explain how everything operates. To put it bluntly, it is intellectual stubbornness that keeps the atheist atheistic.

Answer 2

First - I do believe that prayer is foolish, a waste of time, and does nothing BUT if it brings those people from VT mental comfort then why not.
Second - I do not believe in any god(s), christian or otherwise.
Third - if the event at Starbucks happened as you say then I could understand your reaction, that was unfortunate. I have experienced similar situations but with it being christians at a table bad mouthing not only atheists but anyone else that does not share their views. It does happen both ways.

Answer 3

Apologies for the stupid atheists. We're not all like that.
I don't believe in God because of much studying of the bible and church history, after many years of being a Christian. Other factors too, which made it a whole web of conviction, not just one simple argument.

I would not take prayer at Virginia Tech as the opportune moment to express my views.
The sense of community and shared convictions are helping them. That the beliefs are, in my opinion, in error isn't of immediate relevance to that.

Answer 4

That really wasn't appropriate for them to be saying mean things like that. People aren't stupid for believing in Jesus. That's what you were raised to believe, and at this moment, you don't feel that you have any reason not to believe in that.
I can try to explain from my personal point of view why atheists are more likely to think Jesus is even MORE unbelievable than God himself.
Think of it as if you're trying to convince someone who's an atheist, or has never even HEARD of the idea of a God or Jesus to accept Christianity. You'd have several different things you would need to convince them of.
First: You'd need to convince them that there's a God at all. To an atheist, the idea of there being some sort of invisible super-being is no different than if I was trying to convince you that there were fairies dancing on your lawn, but that you just couldn't see them. It's going to be enough to just convice them of THAT.
Now, if you even manage to convince them that there IS some sort of higher power out there, you ALSO have to convince them that this "higher power" sent Himself down to Earth, in the incarnation of a Human, for the purpose of being tortured and killed so that He could stop being angry at us for sinning. (?????) If it was a story that you hadn't been RAISED to believe, you would think the person telling you is insane.
Anyway, that's why the story of Jesus is so much more difficult to believe than simply believing in a higher power.

Answer 5

I think it is a lack of faith in the unknown. If you don't see it, then how can it be true, and if you can't prove it by science, then it doesn't exist. I know it is kind of stupid to believe that, but some people do. Also in another aspect, if there is a god, then why do bad things like the Va tech shootings happen in the world? Sometimes it is really hard to believe in a greater being when s h i t like that happens.

Answer 6

i individually think of it relatively is obtainable a properly-known guy might have existed who grew to become the template for the Jesus depicted contained in the bible.. i've got not got self belief he grow to be the son of any god, i think of if he did exist he grow to be a properly-known guy or woman who grow to be in basic terms noticeably charismatic.. and spawned exaggerated historic bills of his doings that have been included right into a mythological e book. even although there is not any concrete info that the Jesus contained in the bible relatively existed and any info stumbled directly to this point won't be in a position to be confirmed as info of THE Jesus contained in the bible. I do keep an open recommendations and that i do no longer less costly that which has no longer been fully disproven. I do even although fully disbelieve that anybody might desire to offer info of a supernatural Jesus, a properly-known one in line with risk.. i will keep my recommendations open to the two, yet I choose the extra probable clarification..

Answer 7

First -- yes, I do think the people praying are foolish. But if it works for them, as long as they don't insist I join them, I've got no problem with it.

Second -- I don't believe because it's trivially easy to prove every theistic formulation of deity wrong. That leaves only Deism and atheism, and deism is little more than atheism that calls the prima causa 'deity'.

Answer 8

Atheists can be morons too, I'm afraid. Generally we don't really care about Jesus or Mohammed or whatever though.

As for the Virginia massacre; praying may be fine, lobbying to restrict access to firearms would be better.

Answer 9

There are other ways to get through life besides relying on a made-up fantasy god. It is like praying to Santa Clause, it is nonsense.

People are choosing to remain ignorant of reality by continuing to believe in a fictional sky-daddy. The people may or may not be stupid, but the belief certainly is.

Answer 10

I don't care if people are christians, muslims, whatever. It doesn't hurt me any and it gives them peace of mind. It's when they feel they HAVE to shove it down MY throat to save my suol.

When people are praying, I stand quietly. I respect their need to pray. I just don't see how talking to myself with my eyes closed in front of a bunch of people is going to resolve anything.