I was atheist but then I converted to the LDS religion. I used to make some of the comments I've seen on here to my friends about religion but now that I look at them they make it look like the person is ignorant.
So why do they seem closed off? Are they afraid to be proved wrong?
2007-06-02 06:33:26 · 21 answers · asked by mosquitoe_13 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well I'm meaning that some of the comments make them sound as if they've never read the bible.
Also I learned that by making atheists making comments about what is wrong with religion it makes the theists question it and ask why they do believe it and so all you're really doing is helping people build a stronger testimony of what they believe.
We're always told to ask God in faith (that we really believe He is there listening) the questions we have. So why don't atheists asks God? Can they not master the concept of faith or are they afraid they just might get an answer?
2007-06-02 06:54:56 · update #1
Also to add, I am very scientific (I was atheist because of "corruption" from my high school science teacher because he was the only person to show me a way to look at the world) and I have another friend who is also very scientific and we both believe the same things.
2007-06-02 06:58:12 · update #2
I feel most of them are young and dumb and fear what they can't understand. Your right they do seem ignorant, it's nice that you've opened your mind. Welcome to the world of the living.
2007-06-02 06:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
WTF you were an atheist but you decided to go mormon?!?!?!
Thats like up and deciding to do crack for no good reason.
I was raised LDS for the first 20 years of my life.
If you were an atheist,which i doubt you were.You would of done your research.I left mormonism cause i started doing my research,and discovered there was so much that contradicts it.
We're closed off cause we're the least trusted minority in america.We can't open up and tell everyone we're atheists cause we get threatened,I've been personally threatened once by a mormon missionary.
One more thing,how are you going to prove us wrong?Faith is pretty much knowledge without any evidence(which is not really knowledge at all)When atheists can back up their knowledge with factual evidence.
You know we have to respect these supernatural beliefs of others,but when it comes to atheists nobody has to respect us even though we have reasons,real evidence and science .
You tell me how is this fair?
2007-06-02 13:52:22 · answer #2 · answered by nerve34 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In my experience, all religions have an aspect of being closed off to other belief systems. This can make anyone seem ignorant.
I think all people should focus more on their common aspects and less on their dissimilarities. I am sure your LDS community can benefit from such an approach, too.
2007-06-02 13:39:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The heart is a very sensitive organ in man.
If man doesn't allow the heart to open, in time it can harden and it then becomes difficult to penetrate. It can become as hard as stone.
This what is happening in the world today, hardened hearts, with very little compassion.
This has been foretold in past times as to what would happen, and it has come to pass.
May God protect all those that have hardened hearts!!
2007-06-02 13:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The fact that you changed and became religious shows that you dont have fixed views, that you are mutable. You probably dont possess any real convictions, and have sucumbed to the herd mentality. Being ignorant/able to ignore indisputable scientific proofs like carbon dating also testifies to your wooly-headedness. Conclusion: Its not atheists who dwell in the dark, it`s you.
2007-06-02 13:40:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Nope they just believe what they believe. They don't look ignorant to me, and I don't share thier beliefs. Sometimes they get hateful, but so do people of any faith.
2007-06-02 13:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I find the opposite. Atheists seem to question more than the religious. To attribute the unknown to a deity is a sign of weakness. An Atheist would rather find an answer than to say something stupid like "he works in mysterious ways".
2007-06-02 13:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 2⤋
When you, or anybody else, are able to provide one iota of creditable evidence that God exists in objective reality (your own imagination doesn't count) then I will happily fall to the ground and grovel before your Deity. Until then, please keep your insults to yourself.
2007-06-02 13:55:17 · answer #8 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry. I am kinda close minded about faeries too.
Hey, if you got evidence, post it. But wishful thinking and good thoughts ain't going to do it. Nor is a book written by Bronze Age goat herders. So give it a shot.
2007-06-02 13:37:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 2⤋
It is not ignorant to lack belief in something there is absolutely NO evidence for.
Your beliefs are YOUR beliefs. When you can show one speck of evidence that your beliefs have any merit at all, then I'll believe.
2007-06-02 13:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by Jess H 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
That's just your impression based upon where you are now. Actually, we have emerged from the darkness of superstition and fear into the light of reason.
2007-06-02 13:39:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋