athiests, what if you lived hundreds of years ago?

Question

and no one knew anything about evolution and modern dating methods and so on...do you think you might have become christian?

Answer 1

I believe that reason and common sense were present in those times as well.

Answer 2

Probably not the inconsistencies in the bible were still present 100-200-300- 400 even 2000 years ago..

I may not have believe in the Big Bang or that the world is 4.6 billion years old rather than 6,000 as the bible say... But I wouldn't be christian based on the inconsistencies alone..

Answer 3

One of the nicer things about living today is the freedom for thought we are allowed. Hundreds of years ago people weren't encouraged to 'think outside of the box'. Whether anyone did privately question religion I can't say as I wasn't there but I can be sure of the fact that if they did, they wouldn't have been applauded for saying so. Happily now we are able to believe what we want. I wasn't born a sheep and I like to come to my own conclusions about things. After much deliberation and careful thought and scrutinisation I have come to believe that the bible is the biggest pile of ********* ever to be taken seriously by the masses.

Answer 4

If it weren't for very patient friends, I'd still be a fundy. Yes, I'm pretty sure it was more difficult to be an Atheist, at lest in my country, a few hundred years ago. I would have also believed other wrong things that people believed back then. I probably would have been a racist. :( So would you probably have been.

Answer 5

well. wouldn't we have the crap kicked out of us if we weren't?.. or be burned as a witch?.
(assuming we were in the US of course)

i, however would have probably been in vietnam or china .. so i guess that my religion would have been buddism .. but that's a heck of a lot better than christianity

but im sure that there were some atheists back then.. just like there were gays.. it's just that they never said anything about it..(and pretended that they believed what everyone else thought was right) so most were not persecuted

Answer 6

Not by choice but by force. Given the choice of being tortured by the Church, during the Holy Inquisition, or being Christian, I would have chosen the latter. If coercion was not involved , no way I would have been a Christian.

Answer 7

Might have. Dawkins makes a similar point at the start of his book The Blind Watchmaker.

Personally if I could have avoided the peer pressure I think I'd be some sort of deist if not an atheist.

Answer 8

I am not an athiests, but I felt like inputting an opinion. Not believing in God that is a choice. He created us to choose because he is controls everything else he wants us to choose to love him. If you don't- I pray he have mercy. But thought I let you know that the devil believes. And he is working hard to make sure you don't believe now or then.

God created me and I am thankful.

The Bible is the inspired Word of God, giving a true history of the creation of heaven, earth, and humanity and containing a correct prophecy of the ages to come regarding heaven, earth, and the destiny of humanity. Moreover, there is no salvation outside of what is taught in its pages.

I choose to serve him and he has blessed me richly. But if not I would still praise him. I feel him and you could too....Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.

Resurrection
There will be a resurrection of all the dead, both just and unjust.

"Marvel not this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28-29).

"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God . . . and the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them" (Revelation 20:12-13)> (See also Daniel 12:2; I Corinthians 15:13-23.)
Judgment
"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). For this reason there will be a resurrection for everyone. "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad" (II Corinthians 5:10).

The eternal destiny of every soul shall be determined by a just God who knows the secrets of everyone's heart. "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .Then shall he also say unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal" (Matthew 25:32-34, 41, 46).

Bless you all in Jesus Name

Answer 9

Either that or be killed or put in a dungeon for life. No in belief I could never have accepted the supernatural as some pagans didn't accept the polytheistic god of mythology either.
peace

Answer 10

Just to fit in and survive, yes, i would "become" christian. Even though i would constantly have questions about the meaning of life and stuff.

Answer 11

No, but then if NOT being a christian then means you will be burnt on the stake and be witch hunted, most probably I would be a fake edition.