God believers, can you imagine what it's like to be an Atheist?

Question

1. Imagine a world where 90% of the population believes the tooth fairy exist

2. Imagine millions of people believing a book that says you're a fool for not believing the tooth fairy exist

3. Imagine people in the streets saying, "get saved before it's too late. The tooth fairy's coming back"

4. Imagine a history of millions of people getting slaughtered in the name of the tooth fairy.

5. Imagine people debating about which tooth fairy's book is true

6. Imagine you telling people that the top scientists dont believe the tooth fairy exist trying to wake them up

7. Imagine people saying "I know the tooth fairy exist because I can feel her in my teeth"

8 Imagine people saying "somone hit me and my teeth didn't fall out. The tooth fairy saved my teeth.

9. Imagine people saying "even though you dont believe the tooth fairy's real, she still loves you"

10. Imagine you saying "These people have to be crazy

THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT'S LIKE BEING AN ATHEIST

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Answer 1

Problem: You've aimed this at all believers in 'God' when you are specifying by the details that you mean Christianity and perhaps Islam.
Here's some for you to consider:
1) Do all "God-believers" follow a book?
- NO
2) Do all "God-believers" Evangelise?
- NO
3) Do all "God-believers" feel their faith justifies killing 'non-believers'?
- NO
4) Do all Atheists truly believe all theists are crazy, or just have a different point of view?

Answer 2

Yeah I know...

When I was young I used to think the sun went around the earth and may be millions thought so before some wise guy took the pain to put his head on the line and tried to get the truth. Many gave up the inquiry half way through and started talking about tooth faries....

If u are looking for something you must look with the intention of finding it... If u search just to prove a point, you will only fool others and yourself....

God is not a Thing or a person.. God is an energy.. I call it GOD u call it nature....

Answer 3

12. Don't imagine, realize that life without god is better. You see I don't need to believe in the tooth fairy to have a life of meaning. I don't need to have a life with the tooth fairy to do moral things. My life is filled with beauty, and I don't need to have some fake deity to give reason to the beauty. My life has its bad times too, and I don't need a devil to give me cause for the bad things. I am comfortable with the fact that when I die, I die and that's it. I don't need the fake promise that I am going to live forever to give my life meaning. I don't hate people because the bible tells me to hate them. Just Imagine if all the things that were done to people in the name of god, where would we be? If I hate you, its what you have done to me, not because a book of fiction tells me too.

Basically I do not need some ghost, spirit, deity, or god to tell me to live a good life. I do because it right, not because I want to live forever.

Answer 4

Well if just looking at how perfectly designed all creation is proved to me that the tooth fairy was real then , I wouldn't be very smart to not believe.If people are wrong for believing in Jesus at least our lives are better because of it but if your wrong you will suffer forever.We only get a taste of hell here,just like we get a taste of heaven.Your just blind (spiritually speaking)I don't know what's blinding you pride, bitterness,listening to the world's views,your up bringing,it could be 100 different things but nothing compares to knowing the maker of all these things we take for granted.How did we get this set of standards for what's good and evil if there is no God or devil?There is no man that is truly good so it couldn't have come from him,man would say do whatever is easy and feels good.

Answer 5

What you are describing is in NO WAY equivalent to the mountains of evidence for the facts of Jesus.

I'm a thinker. I evaluate evidence and details as a way of life. It's part of my career and also my make up.

I have evaluated the Bible from cover to cover and considered the historical evidence contained there. Wiser people than myself have done the same.

The evidence is overwhelming FOR Christ. The fact that you don't know it is not a reflection on anyone else. The data is there for you.

But, I'll give you one: 10 of the original Apostles died defending their total conviction that they had seen and touched and eaten with the risen Lord Jesus Christ. I have never known anyone willing to be tortured, endure hardship and suffer loss for what they KNOW is a lie. They must have believed it to be true.
(the documentation for these people's existence and their teachings is extremely well established).

TEK

Answer 6

I was also an atheist, for most of my life. God has chosen to save and reveal his greatness to me. I used to argue all the time with believers. Tell them things like there is no proof, tell them there does not need to be a reason. And it is not about being right or wrong, because I don't care about being right. I know the gift of life is special, that the Lord is trying to give me something but I always want more.

Answer 7

Yea I was also a borderline atheist, ie; open to pursuasion. Well that ended ages ago. For instance this morning, my ensuite light bulb blew, and within 15 minutes my smoke alarm started chirping for only about a minute, as if the battery was flat... some would say an electrical 'surge' or something perhaps but nothing else played up and both were within 12ft of me. Trick is to perhaps consider it is something else, so when I shut my eyes and meditated I saw my now past Grandfather smiling at me, for a moment in my minds eye. At a quality and uniqueness not associated with memory. So yea I know how it can sound, but the flipside is true in regards to how atheists sound to believers.

Answer 8

Imagine believing the tooth ferry didn't exist - then getting onto tooth fairy message boards to talk about it. Then imagine wondering why you hear about it all the time.

"There's too many sports shows on TV."
"Why don't you turn off ESPN?"
"Then the sports shows wouldn't be on!"

Answer 9

To me before I was saved my life had no purpose only for my self-seeking desires. There was something missing in my life, a giant hole that needed something to fill it up. I tryed many things to fill this void in my life, made many mistakes and damaged my soul in the process. Then I found out who God was and that he would forgive me for anything, especially 1 sin that I carried around for along time. I felt as though a large weight had been lifted from my heart and happiness filled my soul. I cryed with tears of joy and the feeling and finding something that was the best high I ever felt. I never want to lose this closeness that comes from working on a relationship with God. When you hear God's voice speak to your spirit, you'll never forget the feeling and you'll long to get even closer to God so he can speak more to your soul. What hope does an atheist have in this life on earth?

Answer 10

Well, dear...if you don't like it, change it. If the feeling is gnawing at you so badly, maybe its Gods way of trying to show you to change your path? I'd certainly like to know why youre so anti-God though. I mean, I know why I'm a Christian...I'd like to know why athiests are so adamant that we're wrong. You all like to call us fools, but none of you ever actually set down to discuss anything with us. That really doesnt make for a reasonable argument in favor of being anti-God...you took alot of time on this though. I'm just curious though why you would want to live in a world like this...when a happier life can be had if you wanted it.