Fellow Atheists, do the christians just bait us to indulge their martyr complexes?

Question

It's the only reason I can come up with for some of the things I read here.....

Answer 1

Christianity without a sense of persecution doesn't work. This life has to suck, or the reward in the next one loses its appeal.

Answer 2

I know I'm not an atheists but I see where atheists come from. Your question is sadly the face that many believers of the supernatural, Christians or otherwise have given you. What jerks eh?

Atheists deny there is a God or something of the like for their own reasons. Who are we to judge and be the know all and see all just because we are Christians. The fact is, many people have distorted the view of Christ's teachings, and the historical references of the Bible.

They have idolized the Bible and say it basically IS God. That is far from what the ten commandments even say to do. Yet most Christians do it!

I don't think anyone should be baited for their beliefs unless they are harming others. And these Christians are indeed harming others by treating atheists how they do.

I may believe *myself* that even an atheist has a conscience, for that you have your own beliefs in you. As long as you have some meaning to life, humanism or otherwise then you can have a happy and fulfilling life.

I think each of us have our own rule set to abide by given to us through our feelings and that stomach gut sense we refer to as our conscience.

Though I am a Christian (of a different sense... I believe in Christ and the Father, the Holy Spirit, miracles etc.) Something could not have come from nothing is how I put it. And I do not condemn you. I wish others would feel the way I do.

The fact is we do not know entirely what everything means and is...Let's ask each other questions like this so we can understand one another better and maybe have something come of it!

I do understand where you are coming from.

~Matt~

Answer 3

Why do YOU have to bait the Christians like this? I've been a practicing Wiccan since 1971 and I have NEVER attacked anyone for their beliefs, be it Islamic-Judeo_Christian or otherwise. I have a LOT of very good friends who are Christian and ALL of them have shown my nothing but respect kindness and friendship. I treat everyone as friend until they show me otherwise. If the choose to be other than friendly, I simply go my own way and have nothing more to do with them. Plain and simple. There are Christians who are WONDERFUL people and there are some who are total jerks. There are Wiccans who are wonderful folks and some who are ALSO total jerks. I just choose to hang with the nice folks, regardless of WHAT their religion is, and ignore the rest.
The key here is TOLERANCE. I don't coerce them to believe MY religion and they don't coerce me to belive theirs. We simply agree to disagree when it comes to our religions and let it go at that.

Brightest Blessings, Raji the Green Witch

Answer 4

Do the atheist bait or do the Christians bait....that is the question...LOLOl funny sure waste a lot of time sitting around thinking up stuff like that!!! Go outside it's beautiful out...don't fret little fishy...

Answer 5

Why not ask a christian why we bait you? I ask questions of atheists to understand them better, not to stroke some martyrdom complex. I am not signing up anywhere for anyone to come and hunt me down and murder me or torture me in the name of christianity. I am asking because I don't want to be one-sided, with tunnel vision, brainwashed and with a complete and total lack of the other side's point of view.

Just like in politics, the best way to know where you truly stand is to take a look at the issues from every side, and not fear what your opponent has to say. That's why I ask you questions. Really.

Answer 6

I go for the "seperated brethern" label myself. Being as unaligned as I am, I enjoy the priviledge of not concerning myself with other people or what they think or believe. More often than not, I am at total odds with christians and atheists. They are both mirror-images of each other in their extremism and hatred for each other, so I just watch quietly and participate whenever I so choose. I might blast the christians one time, and the atheists another time.
They are exactly the same in their ignorance, just at opposite ends of the same spectrum, and it shows nowhere better than in here.

Answer 7

"each and every time I see an atheist asking a troll question, posing as a Christian (constantly a bigoted one), " or you merely want to think of that. because of the fact there are some very bigoted very idiotic persons on the Christian section. yet i assume that's extra handy to easily call them atheist trolls. "and not the Christians." Uh huh. "his question does not even sound like what a Christian might say." i've got seen Christians spout the main hateful drivel conceivable. human beings like NCWJ.

Answer 8

Well some may enjoy feeling persecuted due to a victim complex. However, some honestly have their hearts in the right place and do want to reach out to us sinners and infidels. If they ask kind questions and give kind answers, they are great additions to debates.

Answer 9

I think that is the other way round. It is the atheist that are provoking hoping to became martyrs

Answer 10

I think they do it to provoke a reaction, to hopefully hook us in to considering their absurd, bronze age religion. Then they can earn metaphisical brownie points from their murdering, genocidal, cruel sky-god. The great creator of the christian death cult who will doubtless reward them with a place in their sterile, sex free heaven.