You may not be able to CHANGE the stereotype but what would you like to correct?
2007-05-01 12:25:26 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That atheists "choose" to "deny the existence of God" so that we can live an immoral and unethical life.
That, or that we're all evil promiscuous baby-eaters.
2007-05-01 12:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by N 6 · 15⤊ 2⤋
That atheists can't enjoy life without experiencing the 'love of God'.
I have a perfectly healthy, normal life. Most of my friends would describe me as 'happy-go-lucky' or carefree, and have no idea that I don't believe in God. I enjoy many things, and I certainly don't take life for granted. Though I have my ups and downs, who doesn't? I have quite a few less problems with my life than a few devout Christians I know. I'm extremely close to my family (to the point that, even though I've dreamed of moving to another country for all my life, I probably wouldn't be able to stand living so far away from my parents).
Also, that atheists can't be moral without the Bible to guide them. I think the only thing I've ever gotten in trouble for is my grades, and the fact that I have a lackadaisical attitude towards school. I don't (and never will!) do drugs, or smoke, or drink...I don't believe or condone in 'casual sex', and I'm a regular blood donor. I really want to be a physician's assistant when I'm older, because I like to help people.
2007-05-01 12:38:03 · answer #2 · answered by Stardust 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Your just telling us where you are, and how you ratiocinate. In the world and of the world, buying the dream. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein The tricks of Maya lead us down this path forever, until such time that we decide to start asking the right questions. Time does not exist. When we judge or philosophize with the words we mindfully construe pertained to dualism, we actually tell others where we are. (This is not conscious) Also, what we subconsciously dislike or fear about our selves we often resent or try to change in others. (To judge others by our own standards) If we hate it's because we hate our selves, this can be due to being spiritually subverted by the evils of this world - lies, family and societal breakdown ECT. Some blame it on the selfish gene.
2016-05-18 04:12:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones about how because I'm an atheist I have no moral code and no values, how because I'm an atheist I only care about myself, how because I'm an atheist I can't "understand" the bible and have never read it....
There isn't just one. There are dozens, but those are tops on the list. I would love to strike up a friendship with one of the atheist-haters here so they could finally see that just because I don't believe in their God, I'm not a some horrible monster with no love in my heart. I'm probably a lot like them, just not religious.
2007-05-01 12:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm not atheist, but don't consider myself Christian either. Right now I'd kind of classify myself as "between religions," but I'd say that the one thing that Christians feel about anyone who doesn't believe as they do that I'd like to see changed is that they believe that someone who doesn't believe in God the way they do can't have any idea of morality.
2007-05-01 12:30:36 · answer #5 · answered by JenV 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really an atheist; I just believe that religion is useless. I believe this because I think the point of life is to improve the lives of others, not be greedy and just be nice to all. I believe religion is useless because it handicaps the mind. I mean to accept something without question, how ignorant could you be! Zounds! I pity the mind too small to believe what i hath now wrought!
2007-05-01 12:40:13 · answer #6 · answered by The Doctor 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That we don't know how to read the bible. If it's printed in plain english, why do we need a "Believer" to interpret it for us? And what about those of us who WERE believers before we became atheists? I read the bible the same way now as I did then, with my own two eyes.
2007-05-01 12:33:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
It really yanks my chain when a Christian tells me there must be SOMETHING I believe in. Nothing could be further from the truth. The words "faith" and "belief" imply accepting a proposition as true with abundant substantiating evidence, something I would NEVER do.
2007-05-01 12:43:27 · answer #8 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not an atheist but have a brother whose one though the following could also be applied to me by them:
"You are deceived by Satan"
2007-05-01 12:32:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say. A lack of a moral code would probably be on the list. Of course, such a notion is completely false.
2007-05-01 12:29:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
They think that atheists are mising out on something. They need to sort their own lives out. Praying to thin air hahahahaha
2007-05-01 12:32:02 · answer #11 · answered by . 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋