Christians - Why do people spend countless hours attacking a God that's "not there", that "does not exist"?

Question

These SAME people erroneously profess "THERE is no God!, There is no God!"
People seem to spend endless hours on here attacking peoples religion and their God. It's as if they're possessed or something.

isn't that approaching something akin to say....insanity?

animal, They attack all religions even.

beta, I don't know.

rebecca, They're fightin' it I guess. They're fightin' something.

Mr., They're getting too.

atheism, You're not doin' such a good job.

ed, that's pretty stupid too. Attacking others? How ignorant.

Kutless, You have spoken well.

dave, everyone ELSE is answering. Feelin' a little left out?

sara, this ones for second shift.

foot, And like a "fool"; You answered it 20 times.

wanda, Cause Christians know them better than they know themselves.

punch, you know there's a God.

fire, the DO know.

rach, So true. Thank you!

Dagah, "Thumbs up for God"!

rh, Sure you can.

scoot, You THINK you're not. But you are.

No1, EXCELLENT observation! Exactly!!!

oldphylis, You'd have to "know" Him, to know where I'm coming from.

Answer 1

I don't understand why people spend time attacking God. If God doesn't exist, then there is nothing to attack. But then they will admit there is a God so they can say He doesn't exist. Of course I will get thumbs down for this answer, but then by doing so they will also agree with me.

Answer 2

The problem is, religion is a pervasive cancer. The current cause for most of the existing wars today is purely a "My God is better than your God" pissing contest. More people have been killed over religion than land, food, and general imperialism combined. If I can stem the tide of stupidity by even one person, I have done well.

Remember, it is you who speaks to an invisible voyeur in the sky who claims credit for all the good things in your life, takes no blame for the bad, and casts you into the pit of eternal damnation for not praising him. You can't see, touch, or hear him (and if you can you need medication) and you have not one shred of evidence that He even exists. Yet if someone asked you to die for your God I'm willing to bet you would. How is that any different from strapping yourself with a bomb and blowing up infidels to get the virgins and a life with Allah? It is the same story, just a different book and level of commitment.

Of all of the people on earth there is only one bunch that actually requires evidence before believing anything and that is the Atheists. Believing in a deity you can't prove and taking direction from him unquestioningly? That is truly insane.

Answer 3

Uummm nope.

I think you will find that most of the "attacking" isn't directed at your God, but at your belief in a God.

I wouldn't waist my time attacking Leprechauns, but would have fun trying to establish a dialog with people who believe in their existence. I might even make a joke here and there just to highlight how crazy believing in Leprechauns is, I might try and show the many inconsistencies in all the documentation about leprechauns, especially if it was clear that the belief in leprechauns caused people to hurt one another over differing leprechaun oppinions.

I wouldn't find that arguing against the existence of leprechauns was a waste of time at all, if I was able to show a few people how dangerous, believing in them was for mankind.

Natives used to throw virgins into volcanoes to appease the Gods, Christians convinced them that their beliefs were histerical and not founded in reality, but then substituted their Gods for Jesus and Jehovah. Was that a waste of time?

Atheism is the next step in human progression, away from savagery and promoting it is worth the time and effort.

Answer 4

Malice,to some extent. Logically it makes no sense,but then most of their "questions" - essay-diatribes,really - make no sense either. They just like to harass Christians. It doesn't matter what your denomination is,so politics - in particular the far-right politics of the evangelical - don't really play the roles you might think. Plus,they rarely attack any other religion. Properly speaking,they really aren't atheists (and many are "into" Eastern religions such as Buddhism); they are antiChristians,plain and simple. Why we as Christians don't use the word I don't know; we should,since it would clarify a great deal. But it also goes back to this tendency (in some cases)to personify the antichrist,even though it clearly says the antichrist consists of all those who oppose Christ.

Answer 5

I took a philosophy class that focused on proving the existence of God. Many of the argument though valid were not very strong. But also there were arguments to show that god did not exist that had flaws also. Ultimately I feel that religion is a very personal subject and to criticize someone's beliefs is wrong.

Answer 6

That's sort of a loaded question. Most atheists are not so much attacking God as they are attacking beliefs in or about God. I personally am not an atheist, but I find many of the ideas people have *about* God to be laughable, insane, bone chilling, or a combo of all three. I might ridicule the ideas, or even the God that these ideas present to me for my unquestioning belief, but I'm not ridiculing any God I would view as worthy of respect or worship.

Answer 7

I have never attacked god. I just have no belief in him. I mostly just answer some questions on what I believe. If people have a belief in god that is fine with me. I have been attacked more for my non belief.

But I must say, I hate when they say, deep in their soul they believe. Exuse me. But who gave you the right to say that you know what I feel and think? I know no such thing that there is a god.

Also we don't hate god. You can not hate something you have no belief in! I do have a problem with what people say and do in the name of god.

Answer 8

You only have to look at the poor souls who come on and say "I am descended from Adam and Eve!" or "The Earth is only 6,000 years old!" to see part of the reason. Those people need help.

Answer 9

I m not attacking GOD just the religious whackos destroying our earth(subdue the earth is in the bible!!)and life(once again, we are to hate this life as it is not heaven? UTTERLY INSANE.) R U one of them?
People subscribing to the abrahamic religions are by nature weak-minded degenerates incapable of an original thought of their own. Logic is a poison to them. I do not care what they do as long as they do not try to make be just like them. I believe in GOD, not religion as we see in the abrahamics
oh and no one attacks allah and his pedophile sycophant mohammed as there are so many whack jobs out there who will follow the crackoran and kill me just for calling those fools fools.....

Answer 10

No Christian can intelligently answer this, but I can: religion is a net detriment to society, being a waste and delusion for the practitioner and a net loss to society as a whole. Therefore, I urge people to apply analysis to the data, and thus conclude that there is in fact no evidence of the existence of any sort of god, and religion is a net loss.