ATHIESTS...why.....?

Question

are you so hateful toward Christians, I can understand that you are passionate about your beliefs, however the worst way to try to get someone to understand them is to lash out and be hateful, Christians are just trying to do what Christ taught them to do in the Bible, and that is to go and preach the gospel to every living creature, but they do not lash out in hate. I have learned that patience and tolerance are two of the most important characteristics people can have when trying to debate their beliefs.

Wow! so far you guys are just proving my point, hate, hateful answers, not one logical argument.

PS brother, use the whole statement, not just bits and pieces, the questioner was dissing America. "falling out of the vagina" were her words, I just told her it was sleazy.

Thanks Tao, for the LOGICAL argument and for not lashing out...much appreciated.

Answer 1

I am not athiest, although many consider me to be one b/c I do not believe in organized religion. No matter what a person believes, I do not think it is right at all to be hateful against anyone without knowing them personally. It is not about being religious, just about being a good human being...

Answer 2

Atheists are certainly no more hateful to Christians than Christians are to atheists. Surely you have noticed that it is the minority of atheists that are hateful as I have noticed that it is the minority of Christians who are hateful. We all have our trolls, ignore them.

As for why atheists are critical of Christianity, that is a very different question.

If Christians and other people "of faith" lived a secular life, I don't think there would be a problem. If their personal god was kept their personal god, who could possibly criticize?

The unfortunate reality is that we STILL have things like:

- governments wasting time debating the definition of marriage because apparantly homosexuality is a sin.

- an American Senator who says he doesn't care about the environment because good Christians like him will be raptured long before global warming will become a serious problem.

- a Canadian Jehovah's Witness couple who gave birth to sextuplets and refused the proper medical treatment for the babies on the grounds that blood transfusions were against the parents' religion. Two of the babies died.

- "faith-based initiatives."

- a poll done in the US that said Americans would rather elect an ex-con or a pedophile over an atheist.

- creationism taught in science class.

When people put more faith in bronze-age mythology than modern science, we have a real, serious problem on our hands.

Compare the things listed above with "Christians doing what Christ taught them to do in the bible."

Did Christ teach Christians that homosexual couples don't have human rights?

Terrorism is defined, amung other things, as the threat or promise of violence. Supposedly an eternity in hell is the worst thing that could happen to a person. So by definition, telling an atheist (or anyone else) they are going to hell is terrorism.

An atheist being an atheist does not violate anyone or anything. Christians being Christian (by your definition) do violate our human rights.

If Christians kept their personal god as their personal god, there would be no issue at all.

And no, my dear, this answer was not lashing out in hate, just much frustration.

Answer 3

They don't lash out in hate. I read some post that would tell you other wise. Right, you tell us about gods love and in the same breath tell us if we don't believe we are going to hell. You tell us that god is truth because the bible says so. Everything is because the bible said so but the bible was written by man. No it's not you say, god did, how do you know? because the bible said so! You say we sin, you implicate that we can't be trusted that we are lying to ourselves that we must of been really hurt by religion, If I only believed. I think us atheist have listened with patience and tolerance as you tell us this time and time again. Tolerance! Their is no room for tolerance when it comes to Christianity, Its your way or no way. I love my life, I know who I am, I know what I believe. I am an atheist and you can not change that. So please, enough with the preaching.

Answer 4

Why do you lump all Athiests into the same category? Whoever said all Athiests lashed people with their beliefs?

And do you seriously know how many times I've been told that I'd "burn in hell if I didn't except Jesus as my savior"?

Talk about bull f u c k i n g s h i t. And how was this poll not a logical arguement? Maybe not my answer but many other's seem to know how to have an intellectual conversation.

Oh, and you're just pissed because you got proved wrong...by Athiests.

Answer 5

Maybe you personally don't hate but there are alot of the Jerry Falwell types too who preach hate.

You ever hear the Christians, who say thinks like this is a Christian country. IT'S NOT. They want to make Christian laws. Even one of our own presidents say things like atheists shouldn't be allowed to be citizens. Wouldn't that make you angry? The Constitution was not written by or for Christians. Personal faith has no business in public policy, and I personally am quite tired of their agenda.

I guess I was wrong, giving you the benefit of the doubt. You are a Jerry Falwell type and do enjoy being hateful.

Answer 6

Both sides have people that engage in ad hominem attacks, which by the way are the weakest forms of argument and indicate you have no greater evidence for your position than the fact that you think the other side is stupid. This in itself is a stupid assertion.

So don't believe that either atheists or believers are either wholly without transgressions in this arena or are wholly victims. Neither side has an unblemished record.

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Answer 7

"atheists spread hate and intolerance. They are negative because they are afraid and do not understand God's simple plan of salvation. They fear what they do not and cannot understand, so they lash out in hate. And to prove my point, watch how many thumbs down I get."

Who is spreading hate? Who is telling lies?

Those words are YOURS. You have NO idea what I think. Yet you feel like you can tell me, a complete stranger, that I'm afraid. Your book tells you that you're obligated to tell me that I'm wrong and I'm supposed to jump up and down in gratitude? Sorry, honey, I've been there and done that already and it didn't work for me.

And no doubt you'll read my words as lashing out in hate. You'll hear a nasty tone because that's what you want to hear. Just like you find validity in a thumb down.

It's not hate, it's not persecution, it's just disagreement. And it's a lie to try to turn it into proof for your narrow-minded claims.

And trust me, Christians do lash out in hate. Every day. Lose your conceit, it's not winning you any converts.

Answer 8

I'm more hateful towards Christianity. Hate the sin not the sinner right?

Really I hate no one, I might say mean or spiteful things, but sometimes by ignorance tolerance is seriously tested on here.

Answer 9

In person I am extremely polite to Christians, because I know as you say they only have good intentions. I keep thinking I'd love to be rude but I can never bring myself to do it. I'm too empathic. And it's hard to be rude to nice people.

In this forum I give snarky answers only to snarky questions. If a Christian spoke to me in person like they speak here, I might just manage that rudeness someday.

Answer 10

I mostly avoid personal attacks, actually. However, I still make my attacks on the religion as harsh as I can because I want Christians to realize how silly their religion is. Sometimes it just takes a couple of ideas planted in a believer's head for him or her to let doubt eventually kill the entirety of faith. That's my goal.

One of the reasons I left Christianity was that I continually saw how poorly its apologists, even its best apologists, fared in debate against atheists. While I eventually worked out for myself why Christianity is bunk, I first needed to be convinced there was something to work out. I got suspicious when Christian arguments failed time and time again.