I don't know if you ever thought about this athiests/Christians?

Question

Athiests do you have something in common with us Christians?
I'll call it "denial". How? You deny your faith in the spiritual world and settle for the wonders of the natural world. And Christians? Many times we deny connection with the natural world and encase ourselves in a Christian world. So do we all just live in our little bubbles? and there's no hope of either side ever breaking out of theirs?

i said you deny your faith in the spiritual world- not that you deny faith.

Answer 1

How can we deny something that we don't believe exists?

Answer 2

"I'll call it "denial". How? You deny your faith in the spiritual world and settle for the wonders of the natural world."

I wouldn't classify this as denial. The natural world is more wonderful than any religious myth. There are hundreds of billions of stars and galaxies in our universe and countless things that we don't yet understand. Science is an attempt to find reality and to separate it from illusion.

Faith is about believing in something without evidence. All gods and religions have an equal lack of evidence, so why choose one over the other? Nothing makes Zeus or Christ or Persephone more divine than Mount Olympus or the Elysian Fields or Hades or Heaven.

P.S. have spirituality, meaning an emotional wonder at existence, but this exists without faith. EDIT: If by spiritual work, you mean belief in non-existent things that exist outside of scientific comprehension, then yes, I do not acknowledge them. Evidence is necessary to separate the real from the imaginary.

Answer 3

The first two answers I read to your question are ludicrous. You've made a great point. I'm reading a book right now that is just along those lines (The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker). Without faith we are lost in an overwhelming world of a nature that dominates us and cannot be understood, but with faith we deny reality in favor of an idealized world. Becker stresses that we should attempt to strike a balance between these two worlds. That we should come to understand that we are but creatures in this world of nature but that we also have something that nothing else in nature has. The ability to know that we are going to die and to have faith that there is something greater out there, whatever it is. Some kind of method to the madness.

Answer 4

I've tried to understand the Christian religion, and I like the morals, I like the ten commandments, for the most part, but I just wish people would practice what they preach. I'm not saying that you don't, I'm just saying from my own personal experience that the Christians I know personally are not the nicest people around. (In general. A few are my friends!)

I just find that I have a very logical, literal mind, and I have trouble believing what I read in the bible. I popped the bubble, but decided that I didn't really find what I wanted, besides knowledge.

And, thank you for asking such a nice question. It's not too often that I see a serious question that doesn't attack people for their religion, or make assumptions.

Answer 5

different than for those that merely ridicule, those individuals at right here to communicate do it for the comparable reason you asked this question, to open human beings's eyes. once I debate, i do no longer possibly think of of it as an option to transform an atheist, yet to help somebody on the fence comprehend my side extra useful, to optimistically help them see the coolest judgment in the back of what i think and to verify that no longer each and every theist is considered as stupid. Edit: Tao, via what authority are you able to assert what's right and incorrect? What ethical shape are you using? what's the source of your morality? could weapons be banned because of the fact some human beings use them for evil? for sure no longer, the everybody is inflicting the evil no longer the gun. In different words, it extremely isn't any longer Christianity it extremely is the subject it extremely is the individuals who lack understanding of what Christ taught that are the subject. backside-line, everybody is evil no longer the training. additionally, i could assume your accusations comprise info that God isn't real and additionally you will possibly be able to correctly say that Christianity could be brushed off. Questioner, the above is what i'm speaking approximately. His answer is an attempt to convince those that Christianity is evil. I merely won't tolerate it, it extremely is illogical.

Answer 6

Hmmmm....
I don't think Christians deny the natural world. We do, however, glorify God when we see the beauty of the natural world.
Think of that wonderful old hymn "How Great Thou Art"
Consider all that His hands have made,
and let your soul sing praises to Him.

If that means I am in a "bubble" as you say, may God never give any atheist or anyone else a pin!!

Answer 7

This question makes very little sense. The two things you talk about have nothing in common. Having a firm grasp on reality is in no way living in denial.

Answer 8

Never try to teach a pig to sing, it frustrates you and annoys the pig. Faith or lack thereof is not subject to logic, The very essence of faith is that it is belief in things that are not tangible and cannot be proven. So why keep arguing? Just be nice.

Answer 9

I dont understand how atheist go to a christian world

But I understand what you mean about christians, there are times, I am not afraid too admit, that my faith lessons or I forget to ask god. sometimes i wonder if he's there at all...but then something amazing always happens...exactly what i asked for or even better..or I just come to terms with what is...anyways...

Answer 10

I'm going to have to agree with you. Many christians and atheists, not all, seem to be really ignorant and oxymoronic. They always say don't be closed minded, our way if right. Theres something wrong with that.